This semes­ter I will teach two courses at KHM:

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July 8th-10th, 2010, Leuphana Uni­ver­sity Lüneburg

Hyper­kult is an annual workshop/symposium on com­puter sci­ence, cul­ture and soci­ety at Leuphana Uni­ver­sity Lüneb­urg. This year’s theme is “Mobiles – You Are Now Here”. The KHM par­tic­i­pates with a talk/performance enti­tled “Con­text Aware Devices – Con­text Aware Users” pre­sent­ing artis­tic strate­gies for mobile devices and data spaces. The pre­sen­ta­tion is given by Jonas Hansen, Thomas Hawranke, Laura Pop­plow, Mar­tin Rumori and Lasse Scherffig.

Sinds April I am work­ing now at the Media Art Acad­emy in Cologne as a teacher and researcher in 3D ani­ma­tion and games. It´s a great place to work and to get inspired by all the peo­ple and cool projects, that going on here.

Two weeks ago we did a very cool work­shop, the Ludotronic work­shop together with Tilman Reiff and Volker Morawe from Fursr. Dur­ing the work­shop we played with Wiimotes, Arduino boards and Elec­tron­ics. In the end we devel­oped paper pup­pets con­trolled by Wiimotes (MaxMsp, Arduino boards and Ser­vos):


Cur­rently I am focus­ing on learn­ing the open source soft­ware Blender, to inte­grate it in ani­ma­tion and game design classes.
“Blender is a very flex­i­ble, rapid mesh-modelling, ani­ma­tion and audio-visual stu­dio. It also includes its own small game-engine, per­fect for use as a pro­to­typ­ing tool or for export­ing 3D projects as a ‘Blender Web Plu­gin’ to share with oth­ers.” selecteparks

I also started again to work with Sec­ond Life. There is a com­pe­ti­tion going on to build spa­tially inter­est­ing and aes­thet­i­cally inde­pen­dent pieces of archi­tec­ture in Sec­ond Life. The best projects will be pre­sented at the Ars Elec­tron­ica fes­ti­val 2007 and pub­lished in a book (http://www.sl-award.com). So I hope I will find enough time to participate!

I bought a small peace of vir­tual land, where I am going to build:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/culturegion/124/21/68/

If you are into SL, a place you should really pay a visit is the grad­u­a­tion exhi­bi­tion of Flo­rian Kuhlmann ‘MY mul­ti­ple hybridSPACEs’.

http://slurl.com/secondlife/culturegion/189/54/111/

http://www.myspace.com/floriankuhlmann