zeitkunst http://zeitkunst.org/blog Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:31:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 euromayday http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2009/04/27/euromayday/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2009/04/27/euromayday/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:29:01 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2009/04/27/euromayday/ euro mayday image

Some great logos and posters on the EuroMayDay site.

“Our struggles happens in everydays live. Our tracks cross the borders of nation, social contracts and gender. Our battles are visible. The social demands are obvious, or maybe not? We speak to Europe, we announce it to the world: we like to surf, and it is our turn to ride the wave. From the 30th April to the 1st of May, we will take the power back, we will regain our creativity and speed. We and everyone who wants to. The banks are everywhere, dominating life, even though they are not alive. The stock markets have shown that only one card needs to be pushed over for the whole castle to collapse.

For this mayday we know the targets!”

]]> http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2009/04/27/euromayday/feed/ Slides from CHI talk http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2009/04/13/slides-from-chi-talk/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2009/04/13/slides-from-chi-talk/#comments Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:47:03 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2009/04/13/slides-from-chi-talk/ Just a quick one to post my slides from my alt.chi talk entitled HCI for the Real World . The conference was rather disappointing: both the content of presentations, as well as the conduct of the presentations themselves, were not as high as I had expected. I’ve heard this from a number of attendees, but it’s too bad since this will likely be my only year of going to CHI.

]]> http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2009/04/13/slides-from-chi-talk/feed/ alt.chi paper review period: “HCI for the Real World” http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2009/01/16/altchi-paper-review-period-hci-for-the-real-world/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2009/01/16/altchi-paper-review-period-hci-for-the-real-world/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:09:53 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2009/01/16/altchi-paper-review-period-hci-for-the-real-world/ Update: 29 Jan 2008 I’m happy to say that the paper was accepted to alt.chi! Thanks to everyone who read and/or reviewed it, and I’m looking forward to presenting it in Boston.

Just a quick note to say that my alt.chi paper, entitled HCI for the Real World , is available for open review on the alt.chi website. I’m looking forward to people’s comments!

]]> http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2009/01/16/altchi-paper-review-period-hci-for-the-real-world/feed/ seasons greetings… http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/12/25/seasons-greetings/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/12/25/seasons-greetings/#comments Thu, 25 Dec 2008 19:06:18 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/?p=94 … from my weird puppet and doll friends:

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]]> http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/12/25/seasons-greetings/feed/ LaTeX version of the CHI Extended Abstracts template http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/12/21/latex-version-of-the-chi-extended-abstracts-template/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/12/21/latex-version-of-the-chi-extended-abstracts-template/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:54:47 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/?p=86 The alt.chi papers are due soon, but the template is only in Word. Since I refuse to write any papers in Word (and I dislike OpenOffice Writer slightly less, but just about as much), I decided to try my hand at creating a CHI Extended Abstracts template for LaTeX. Luckily it wasn’t too difficult to get something that works, for the most part. (See the example file for its namesake.) In order to use it, however, you should read the following:

  • You have to use xelatex . It’s just too difficult to deal with fonts with plain pdfTeX. xelatex makes everything so easy. You need to have Verdana and some form of Helvetica installed.
  • You have to have the memoir class installed. Like xelatex, memoir makes things so easy in terms of formatting. And it’s available quite widely now, especially if you use texlive.
  • There are some things that still don’t work; see CHIExtendedAbstracts.cls for details.
  • Follow the example file to see how things work.

Most importantly, however, are my use, distribution, and modification conditions. I am distributing this class file and its associated example file under the LPPL with the following provisos:

Definitions:

An EXCLUDED PERSON is any individual, group, unit, component, synergistic amalgamation, cash-cow, chunk, CEO, CFO, worker, or organization of a corporation that is a member, as of the date of acquisition of this software, of the Fortune 1000 list of the world’s largest businesses. (See this list for an example of the top 500.) An EXCLUDED PERSON shall also include anyone working in a contractor, subcontractor, slave, or freelance capacity for any member of the Fortune 1000 list of the world’s largest businesses.

Additional conditions:

  • In direct contradistinction to condition 1 of the LPPL, you are not allowed to use nor run the Work if you are an EXCLUDED PERSON. If you wish to use or run the Work you must contact the Maintainer for a negotiation of a license fee.
  • If you are currently not an EXCLUDED PERSON (i.e., you are student, staff, or faculty of an academic institution), but you are using the Work in order to write a paper whose topic and content were created while you were an EXCLUDED PERSON, you are not allowed to use nor run the Work and are, for the purposes of this license, considered an EXCLUDED PERSON.
  • You may not Distribute nor Modify the Work if you are an EXCLUDED PERSON.

If you are in the category of an EXCLUDED PERSON but are interested in using the class file, please contact me at nknouf at this domain.

If you are not an EXCLUDED PERSON you can download the template and associated files .

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Shell Oil and the Privatization of the University

Pouissance in Malaysia

]]> http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/10/21/blogs-on-hastac/feed/ Post Singapore/Malaysia Update http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/08/11/post-singaporemalaysia-update/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/08/11/post-singaporemalaysia-update/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 06:17:47 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/?p=79 Just got back last week from a great vacation in Singapore and Malaysia, the police-state nature of Singapore notwithstanding (more on that in a later post). ISEA was most definitely a mixed bag, with most of the bag holding bad, with a few good here and there. Look for a review of the conference in the next month or so. I’m now at the Values in Design workshop at Santa Clara University, returning to Ithaca next Sunday/Monday.

For the moment, here’s a copy of the paper I presented at ISEA, entitled Reinterpreting networks of people as fluid for political purposes . I hope to expand upon this paper by the time this year is out.

]]> http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/08/11/post-singaporemalaysia-update/feed/ First view of Fluid Nexus on Android http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/04/11/first-view-of-fluid-nexus-on-android/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/04/11/first-view-of-fluid-nexus-on-android/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:18:52 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/?p=78 I’ve been working on porting Fluid Nexus to the Google Android platform, partially, yes, because of their challenge, but also because I want to support a platform that aims to try and open up the world of mobile phones. Here’s a short video with some of the interface features I’ve developed so far. I still have to write the code that deals with Bluetooth sending and receiving; this is more complicated than it should be, because the emulator doesn’t support Bluetooth yet :-(


Fluid Nexus on Android, early test. from Nick Knouf on Vimeo.

]]> http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/04/11/first-view-of-fluid-nexus-on-android/feed/ Article about the Goldsen Archive http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/04/02/article-about-the-goldsen-archive/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/04/02/article-about-the-goldsen-archive/#comments Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:24:30 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/?p=77 I’m happy to say that my first freelance article ever is now up on the Ithaca Times website. It’s about the Rose Goldsen New Media Archive and titled Archiving the Present. The format on the website is a little wacky, but I think you get the point. Definitely check it out in print as well, if you can!

]]> http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/04/02/article-about-the-goldsen-archive/feed/ Upcoming and ongoing calls http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/24/upcoming-and-ongoing-calls/ http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/24/upcoming-and-ongoing-calls/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:57:47 +0000 nknouf http://zeitkunst.org/blog/2008/03/24/upcoming-and-ongoing-calls/ Interactivos?’08 · Juegos de la visión: Convocatoria de proyectos

Medialab-Prado convoca a la presentación de proyectos para su producción dentro del evento Interactivos?’08: Juegos de la Visión, que se llevará a cabo en Madrid entre el 30 de mayo y el 14 de junio de 2008.

http://medialab-prado.es/article/convocatoria_interactivos08_juegos_de_la_vision

Call for Artist in Residence Programme 2008 at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial is calling for proposals from artists to develop a research and production project at LABoral for two months during 2008.

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial is an interdisciplinary art centre created in Gijon, in the north of Spain in 2007. Its main objective is to become a research, educational, exhibition and production centre in the area of art, science and technology.

http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/

Kitchen Budapest: 08 Return of the Periphery

Kitchen Budapest is offering guest researcher positions in 2008 for dedicated profesisonals, artist, engineers, interested in the convergence of new media and actual spaces, cultural experiences, new communities, and are highly motivated to create such projects in teams.

Beyond personal skills we are very much interested in team work and collaboration skills, as all projects at our lab have to be produced in teams. It is the task of the researchers to raise interest within our community and get others on board.

http://www.kitchenbudapest.hu/en/2008-residency-calls

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