archive on jonas hansen

Global Dreams @ Unauthorized SFMOMA Show 2017

Sun, 30 Jul 2017 08:26:00 +0000

Global Dreams was part of the Unauthorized SFMOMA Show. Unauthorized SFMOMA Show was a series of solo shows that took place within SFMOMA’s public spaces from April 6th – July 2nd 2017 on a rotating basis, without the consent or knowledge of the institution. The only requirement to visit an Unauthorized SFMOMA Show was to be physically present at SFMOMA and have access to a device connected to the Internet.

UNAUTHORIZED SFMOMA SHOW Intervention by Lasse Scherffig, Enar de Dios Rodríguez and Ana María Montenegro Jaramillo

Paidia @ New Gameplay at Nam June Paik Art Center

Wed, 17 Aug 2016 09:57:40 +0000

Our installations Paidia Laboratory: feedback #2 and #6 are part of New Gameplay, a show at Nam June Paik Art Center in Yongin, South Korea.

The exhibition presents work by 34 artists and artist groups. The works range from art that has computer games as its subject to computer games designed by artists, putting these in dialog with classic video art. It is co-curated by Nam June Paik Art Center and ZKM | Center for Art and Media.

Duel42 @ play15

Wed, 16 Sep 2015 09:11:12 +0000

My game DUEL42 is part at this year PLAY15 festival from 15th till 19th of September. Under the topic of emotion the exhibition collected a fine selection of impressive games. For an overview of the selected titles have a look at the exhibition site or visit the festival in Hamburg.

DUEL42 @ Platine 2015

Mon, 06 Jul 2015 13:21:46 +0000

My game DUEL42 will be part of this year PLATINE festival from 3rd till 6th of August. An unique festival that takes place in Cologne-Ehrenfeld in local pubs, theatrical workshops and small galleries. It focuses on electronic media, from art up to alternative games.

Paidia @ GLOBALE: Global Games 2015

Mon, 06 Jul 2015 13:08:42 +0000

A video of our group installation/performance Rube-Goldberg-Lauf-der-Dinge-Electronic-Circuit-Feedback-Machine is part of the Global Games exhibition at ZKM, Karlsruhe.

Global Games is part of the massive 300 day GLOBALE laboratory, academy and exhibition at ZKM. The show can be visited from August 11th, 2015 until April 17th, 2016.

Rube-Goldberg-Lauf-der-Dinge-Electronic-Circuit-Feedback-Machine was built, performed and filmed in two days during Next Level Conference 2011, Cologne. It features instable arrangements of hard- and software translating between game worlds (on- and offscreen) by Paidia Institute/ Björn Theis, Jonas Hansen, Karin Lingnau, Lasse Scherffig, Sebastian Thewes, and Thomas Hawranke.

Paidia Feedback Lab @ Share Festival 2015

Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:32:37 +0000

Share Festival 2014/2015: Autonomous, Turin

Paidia Laboratory: feedback has been shortlisted for SHARE PRIZE 2014 and will be shown at SHARE FESTIVAL 2014/2015 with the fitting theme “autonomous”.

Exhibition: March 19th-29th Venue: Temporary Museum, Corso Verona 15/C, Turin, Italy

Paidia Feedback Lab @ Schwindel der Wirklichkeit 2014

Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:29:39 +0000

Three new works of the cycle Paidia Laboratory: feedback will be shown at the exhibition Schwindel der Wirklichkeit at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

Period: 17.09. – 14.12.2014 Opening: 16.09.2014, 19:00 Venue: Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin

Paidia Laboratory: feedback is a project I did together with Thomas Hawranke, Karin Lingnau and Lasse Scherffig

Solar Wind Aeroscope @ Strange Weather/Science Gallery Dublin 2014

Wed, 16 Jul 2014 20:16:10 +0000

The Solar Wind Aeroscope is part of the exhibition Strange Weather at Science Gallery Dublin.

›› Exhibition: July 18th – October 5th, 2014

The Aeroscope was built in cooperation with Lasse Scherffig and continues our Solar Wind Experiments that started with the Solar Wind Periscope in 2011.

Computerspielen. Perspectives of Play, 2013

Tue, 03 Dec 2013 23:45:05 +0000

On Friday, December 6th our exhibition Computerspielen. Perspectives of Play opens at Dortmunder U(U2_Kulturelle Bildung/ Museum Ostwall). The exhibition presents artistic positions from the past decade that analyze computer games and the act of playing. It is organized for Next Level Conference 2013 and is open until January, 5th 2014.

Artists: Anna Anthropy, Sebastian Blank, Karen Eliot, Mary Flanagan, //////////fur////, Alexander Gurko, Guillermo Federico Heinze, JODI, Karin Lingnau, Feng Mengbo, Molleindustria, Marnix de Nijs, Paidia Institute, Eddo Stern, Olaf Val, Bill Viola, weAREmedienkuenstler

PAUSE - Computer Games and Cultural Contingencies, 2013

Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:39:33 +0000

As part of PLAY! CGN and for the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, we present an exhibition about the theme PAUSE in games at the Temporary Gallery, Cologne.

›› pause. computer games and cultural contingencies

With works by: Pippin Barr (MT), Michael Bell-Smith (US), Karen Eliot (DE), Daniel Helbig (DE), Hörner/Antlfinger (DE), Miltos Manetas (UK), Kent Sheely (US), Jeroen de Stout (NL) und Yuk-Yiu IP (HKN).

Opening: November 20th, 2013, 7 p.m. with Concert: Annesley Black performs together with Theo Nabicht and Ernesto Molinari, playing live music and our computer game THIS FEELS GREAT

Seminar, Winter 2013/14

Wed, 30 Oct 2013 19:12:35 +0000

This semester seminar @ KHM:

KHM, WS 2013/14: open _lab _discussion _source _access _play An experimental communicative platform with a focus on interactive formats, games and experimental 3D.

Paidia Feedback Lab @ ZKM_Gameplay 2013

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:41:16 +0000

Paidia Laboratory: feedack #2 and Paidia Laboratory: feedback #6 out of the same series will be seen at the exhibition ZKM_Gameplay at the ZKM Medienmuseum in Karlsruhe.

Opening: June 21st 2013 Exhibition: June 22nd 2013 – Octobre 31st, 2014

zkm press release (PDF, german)

Paidia Institute is represented with Paidia Laboratory: feedback by Jonas Hansen, Thomas Hawranke, Karin Lingnau and Lasse Scherffig.

Seminars, Summer 2013

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:37:10 +0000

This semester I am teaching three seminars:

KHM, SS 2013: DREIxD - Introduction into three dimensional design

KHM, SS 2013: Open Lab - An experimental communicative platform with a focus on interactive formats and experimental 3D.

KHM, SS 2013: Contemporary Fine Games | join - A playful course with a focus on the correlation between games and art.

Infotext

Dislocations12 @ San Sperate (Sardinia)

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 08:00:08 +0000

Laboratory on revealing, scanning, expanted audio-visible making of environments, objects and territories

conceived and curated by Paidia Institute, Cologne

November 4 – 11, 2012

hosted and produced by Noarte, San Sperate, Sardinia

As an association of artists researchers focussed on the intereactions between virtual and material spaces and the possibility of action and creativity “in between” of them, Paidia Institute proposes a new laboratory with a strong vocation for field work. The choosen core location is a community in Southern Sardinia with an established tradition on artists residency and artistic intervention: a perfect (both logistic and cultural) pre-condition in order to produce a laboratory to be extended over a larger territory: the territory –the objects of architecture, pieces of landscapes and spatial facts–has to be seen as the experimental laboratory.

Paidia Laboratory @ CHAOS! Complexity in Art and Science

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:17:16 +0000

Paidia Institute will show two pieces from the project Paidia Laboratory: feedback at the exhibition CHAOS! Complexity in Art and Science organized by ERES foundation in Munich.

Contemporary Fine Games @ Platine 2012

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 20:16:52 +0000

The Results of the Seminar Contemporary Fine Games will be shown at the Platine Festival in Cologne. The festival showcases electronic media ranging from art to alternative forms of gaming.

Unity Class

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:14:28 +0000

new Unity Class website: /unity

Teaching at KHM 2012

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 09:29:25 +0000

This semester I will teach two courses at KHM:

China 2011

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:48:39 +0000

Paidia Laboratory: Feedback at transmediale 2012

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:09:08 +0000

Paidia Laboratory: feedback @ transmediale 12 in/compatible

The cycle Paidia Laboratory: feedback examines computer games as closed feedback systems. In an ongoing series of artistic experiments the feedback behaviour of games is studied, by coupling their in- and output through modifications of hard- and software. The focus lies not on the usability of games, but rather on an archeology of interaction – determining the limits and boundaries of games in order to understand the media specific characteristics of computer games.

Paidia Institute @ Next Level Conference 2011

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:25:41 +0000

Paidia Institute is part of the exhibition and panel programme of Next Level Conference 2011. As part of the conference, Paidia Institute takes part in Cologne’s Long Night of Museums 2011 as well.

Paidia Laboratory: Feedback at Platine 2011

Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:18:21 +0000

Paidia Institute will be part of the Platine 2011 (Cologne, August 15th-19th) with the Paidia Laboratory: Feedback.

Weather Tunnel Project, Translife Triennial

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:12:00 +0000

July 27th - August 17th, 2011, National Art Museum of Chia, Beijing, http://mediartchina.org

As part of the Weather Tunnel Project at Translife Triennial in Beijing, China, two works from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne are shown: Blind Spots by Susanna Schoenberg and the Solar Wind Periscope by Lasse Scherffig and me.

KHM @ Beyond Festival

Thu, 19 May 2011 11:50:29 +0000

3D-Festival BEYOND, March 27-29th

CollecTic and Thumbs Down @ Platine, Cologne

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:08:35 +0000

From 16th till 19th of August two of my games ( CollecTic & Thumbs Down) will be presented at the PLATINE festival in Cologne.

Tom Russoti @ Lab.D @ KHM

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:17:10 +0000

From 14th-15th of June, we invited Tom Russotti at Lab.D at the KHM, Academy of Media Arts. Tom Russotti is founder of the Institute for Aesthletics:

Migrating Art Academies @ Angouleme, Bordeaux, Ryon

Mon, 10 May 2010 14:56:09 +0000

Point & Click Publication (german)

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:03:31 +0000

Just in time for the upcoming computer game conference NextLevel (20th - 21st of April, Cologne) we finished our small and shiny workshop publication:

Point&Click, Adventure als Spielprinzip

More info and a downloadable PDF version is available here.

Point & Click Workshop @ KHM

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:18:48 +0000

Last week, 8th-11th of march, we hosted an intensive workshop together with Aram Bartholl at the KHM, Academy of Media Arts. The workshop was dealing with adventure games and public space and was organized by Lasse Scherffig and me, its results will be presented at the upcoming computer gaming conference “Next Level“.

Reaction Machine @ Van Gogh Museum

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:10:29 +0000

On February 26th the Reaction Machine is presented at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam as part of the friday night program:

Eight+ & Ludic Sound Play @ Amaze Interact @ CTM.10

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:51:04 +0000

The two installations Eight+ & Ludic Sound Play will be shown at the Amaze Interact Festival at Club Transmediale 10 from January 29th till Februari 6th 2010.

Eight+ is an user-generated-content-post-new-rave-multiplayer-shooter, we developed at the play09 game lab in Potsdam last december.

Gaming Lab at Play09

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:11:31 +0000

After the great succses of last year’s play08 festival, there will be play09. A festival about the creative use of games and gaming technologies. From 3rd till 5th of December there will be an exhibition, workshops, presentations and a lab with six media artists in Potsdam/Berlin. For a detailed overview of the program have a look at play09.de.

Indie Games Article in New York Times

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:06:25 +0000

Can D.I.Y. Supplant the First-Person Shooter, New York Times

An article in the New York Times, about how indie game developers are making waves in the scene and drawing attention from the mainstream. The article offers insights on why games like Flower, Braid, and Blueberry Garden became successful ventures for their developer…

Migrating Art Academies: Sequence

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:09:38 +0000

04 - 07 September 2009, Migrating Art Academies at Ars Electronica, Linz.

Sequence, the third episode of the two-year pan-European project Migrating Art Academies, begins at the end of August 2009. Students from art academies in three countries, Germany, France, and Lithuania, will continue a process of nomadic living and creating “on the road.” This time they will migrate to Linz, Austria, the home of Ars Electronica, one of the premiere global festivals for contemporary media art and science.

Migrating Art Academies: Transgression

Fri, 15 May 2009 08:14:39 +0000

Migrating Art Academies with its laboratory II during May 5th – 22nd, 2009 seeks further for the ways to step beyond habitual artistic routines of the students in order to inspire their successful creative development. Started with regime in november 2008 in Berlin, Migrating Art Academies continues with ‘Transgression’, working in open spaces in Berlin, Vilnius, Nida and on the road including seminars and workshops.

www.migaa.eu

Public Presentation: May 16th 2009, 18:00, Contempory Art Gallery, Vilnius railway station

Weekend fun with Frankenface…

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:04:18 +0000

Here is something I really enjoyed playing with, the new Iphone app by Tilman Reif: Frankenface

Take your Iphone make some pictures and shuffle…

my personal 3 minutes of uniqueness…

Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:53:29 +0000

after three weeks of trying I made it to 3 minutes and some seconds:

what a simple but genius little game Heather Kelley & Jonatan Söderström developed during the Nordic Game Jam 2009: 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds of Uniqueness (inspired by John Cage)

also now with geographical visualisation:

this is definatelly the best game of the last month :-)

MoshPit

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 12:30:12 +0000

Tilman and Volker from Fur just finished their newest project the MoshPit an automata that converts headbanging movements into metal music. Just see for youself :-)

Welcome to a new metal-lennium!

Warum2.0 exhibition at V2_ Rotterdam

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:05:29 +0000

From the 21 January - 01 February 2009 V2_ in Rotterdam will turn into a media war-zone with the installation arena ‘WARUM2.0’.

WARUM2.0 is a public experiment where the visitors can explore documentary images and media shaped by YouTube, Second Life and surveillance cameras. Passively watching is no longer sufficient - instead we need to select, evaluate and choose. The installation features unique videos from Darfur, Afghanistan, Haiti, Gaza, Iraq and Kosovo by acclaimed cameraman Daniel Demoustier, as well as interviews with cultural theorist Paul Virilio. The installation can be seen as an ongoing investigation of media and the influence of mediated images that more and more determine our relation with the world around us.

Warum 2.0 is a production by CARGO and Stefaan Decostere, with Christian Decker, Edwin Uytenbroek, Jonas Hansen, Chris Devriese, Johan Blaeke, and with students architecture TU Delft/Media Studies.

‘Better than Reality’ documentation videos

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:14:20 +0000

Finally the documentation videos from the ‘Better than Reality’ residency are finished…

Better Than Reality Residency

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:51:41 +0000

I am currently participating at the ‘Better Than Reality, Augmented Reality Residency’ at V2 in Rotterdam.

new site :: from .org to .net

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:54:08 +0000

Because of changing my hosting server I changed from .org to .net. It sounds unnecessary, but it was the easiest way for me. So my brand new site can now be found under: pixelsix.net

From the outside not much is changed, but now it is completely build with wordpress.

Augmented Reality workshop

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:29:38 +0000

From June 2nd till 4th I will be teaching an Augmented Reality workshop at Mediamatic together with Julian Oliver and Klaas Kuitenbrouwer. It will be a 3 day intensive workshop in which the participants will design and construct a prototype of an Augmented Reality Game using the ARToolkit (with OAGART) Basic 3d modelling will be done with Blender.

For more information have a look at www.mediamatic.net/artefact-36632-en.html

Cube challenge

Tue, 06 May 2008 21:28:31 +0000

This Weekend Sterling Roth [mexicoxican] started a challenge over at Blender Artists: what can you make with just 10 cuboid shapes?The rules are:

use only cuboid shapes, you can scale them to long sticks, or squash them to flat boards, just keep them rectangular(or square) .
use 10 or less cubes.
the ground plane is free
you can rotate them any way you’d like, but they cannot intersect each other.
default grey materials only.
keep the lighting generic, AO and soft lights are fine.

3D Scanning

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:27:12 +0000

Today I started experimenting with different methods of 3D scanning.

The first tool I used was Friedrich Kirschners Mikscanner. It is a simple and genius way to scan objects by putting them in bucket with milk. What you need is a webcam, a Lego rig (or something else to attach the camera), a plastic bucket, a spoon, milk and the software. To scan you put the object in the bucket, put some milk in it and make a picture and so on. In the end the software generates an greyscale image with height information. The image you can use as a displacement map in Moviesandbox or in any other 3D APP. To see my result in Blender, download my Blend-file (to view it in the GameEngine press P to start). To see the Milkscanner in action have a look at the Milkscanner Intro.

MyBot at ARTEFACT, Belgium

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:25:16 +0000

Kinetic Life / MyBot will be exhibit at

ARTEFACT festival 2008 –> 12 - 17 February 2008 –> STUK kunstencentrum Leuven, Belgium

The installation will be part of Warom2.0 from Stefaan Decostere (CARGO) at the ARTEFACT festival in Belgium.

In my installation, a robotic hand plays the computer game Second Life. By pressing keys of a computer keyboard, the hand moves a virtual Avatar on the screen. The movement of the hand’s fingers is an automated ongoing routine. The routine will be interrupted, when a person stands close to the hand. But after a short while the hand, and with it the virtual avatar, will go back to their monotonous routine. The installation can be seen as a physical and virtual kinetic performance. In Second Life the avatar walks through a collage of photographs and interview fragments by Daniel Demoustier about war victims.

MyBot 2.1 :: work in progress

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:24:02 +0000

MyBot 2.1 is project I am currently working on. The basic idea is to have a robotic hand, that will play Second Life and creates an automated virtual and physical performance. The piece will be part of a bigger installation Warum 2.0 by CARGO. It will be exhibit in Februari 08 in Belgium (more info later on).

For the Robotic hand I used an existing toy (The Pianist) and put my own servos in. the Servos will be controlled by an Arduino board or the Parallax USB Controller. The Parallax Controller is very easy to use, programming simple routines over time for the servos is quiet easy. But using sensors to influence the routines, is not possible. In order to also use a PIR sensor to sense movement, I will probably go for the Arduino board.

Machinima Festival Europe 07

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:22:28 +0000

Today starts the Machinima Festival Europe 2007 in Leicester, UK. I was honoured to be part of review panel. You can get an overview of all nominees at the nominees festival page.

If you are a registered in Second Life have a look at:

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Innenstadt/186/208/25

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pixel%20Expo%20II/2/45/51

and

HatHead Incubators, a highly creative virtual experiences company, specializing in immersive environments and digital communities

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/HatHead%20II/250/161/313

Come Out & Play Festival 2007

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:21:05 +0000

In September CollecTic was played at the Come Out & Play Festival 2007 in Amsterdam. The Festival was part of PICNIC'07 and was a great platform to present my game and meet people who love to play.

Mission of Come Out & Play:

The Come Out & Play Festival seeks to provide a forum for new types of public games and play. We want to bring together a public eager to rediscover the world around them through play with designers interested in producing innovative new games and experiences. Oh yeah, and we want to have city-size fun.

ARS Electronica 2007

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:19:44 +0000

Picture and link collection of this year Ars Electronica, “Goodbey Privacy” event: Second City, collection of art works based on Second Life and other online worlds.

Machinima at GC 2007

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 21:18:40 +0000

In August I had been at the Games Convention Germany 2007 in Leipzig. It is one of the biggest consumer game fairs in Europe, so all known game companies are there and presenting there new titles.

Besides this commercial event, there is also a complete hall about Game Art and here was also a Machinima booth with machinima movies exhibited, workshops and talks. I was invited to give a talk about Games and Art. If you are interested what my talk was about, have a look at my powerpoint presentation.

V2 TestLab:PLAY

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:17:27 +0000

In July I had been at the Test_Lab : Play event at V2 presenting CollecTic.

TEST_LAB: PLAY! will feature a selection of the best European electronic-art graduation projects. The pieces have been selected according to originality and quality, and especially the way they use the concept of play - that is, the playfulness evoked by the work. At TEST_LAB: PLAY! these projects will be demonstrated, tested, and discussed among makers, audience and experts.

working at the KHM

Sun, 06 May 2007 21:15:53 +0000

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):

Physical Computing Workshop

Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:14:37 +0000

In the week from 29 January till 3 February I gave a ‘Physical Computing’ workshop at the Utrecht School of the Art. Together with Joris Wijdom, Marcel Dolman and assisted by Tim van Elferen we provided the workshop for the second year of the ‘Design for virtual Theater’ class.

In the workshop we focused on creating creative IN and OUTPUTS with the computer using Max/MSP, the Arduino board and electronics.

The workshop task was, to create an interesting chain response between the group computers, without connecting them with a network cable. Every group had to create at least one input and output plus an interesting processing of it, so that in the end a chain response between all computers could be made.

Cross Media & Alternate Reality Gaming Workshop

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:13:05 +0000

In 11/12 November and 2/3 December 2006 I participated in the ‘Cross Media & Alternate Reality Gaming Workshop’ part of the CARGO WORKSHOPS 2006 in Oostende, Belgium.

The results of the workshops will be presented at CARGO MEDIA SPACE on February the 4th 2007. http://www.cargoweb.org/

The workshop was initiated and coached by Jensen Dehaes (Wisper vzw). Participants of the workshop were Jo Cleykens, Jiri Heitlager, Walter Langelaar, Bruno De Bondt, Jeroen Neus, Edwin Uytenbroek and me.

During the workshop we discussed the topic Alternated Reality Games (ARGs) and the concept Wep2.0. Based on these topics we developed our own project ‘Chuba… ?’.

Machinima workshop No2

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:07:25 +0000

The second Machinima workshop was successfully held at the Mediamatic institute between 26th - 29th of October. Again the workshop was held by Friedrich Kirschner (Germany | machinima maker, editor Machinimag), Daniël van Gils (NL - interaction designer, machinima teacher), me and of course Mediamatic.

During the workshop Friedrich presented the tool moviesandbox, he is currently working on. We have already had the chance to experiment and make films with it. Moviesandbox is a free graphical movie scripting environment for the game Unreal Tournament 2004. You can simply script your own character animations, place cameras in a scene and lots more…

Dat-A Installation at Paradiso...

Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:11:17 +0000

Thursday October the 26th was the Dat-A installation by stichting z25.org presented at Paradiso in Amsterdam during the ParaPlay evening. The evening was about profiling, tagging and security. The installation was first shown last year in Utrecht at Huis a/d Werf. This time the self made technology was improved and worked for almost 200 people, that where tracked.

Here are some nice pictures of the evening, more at cpu-theatre: Transmitters, that handed out at the entrance.

Are Games Art?

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 21:08:38 +0000

http://www.manifestogames.com/node/2481: Update: RESCHEDULED. Due to a schedule conflict for one of the guests, we’re rescheduling the chat–tentatively for the following week at the same time and day. I’ll update again when the time is nailed down.

Life Chat on Manifisto Games about “Are Games Art?” on Wednesday, Oct. 25 with on the subject of games and art with Henry Jenkins, Jesper Juul, Marc LeBlanc, and Eric Zimmerman. Network: irc.freenode.net Channel: #gamesandart Time: 6PM PST, 9PM EST, 2 AM GMT Participants: Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of nine books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including the recently published Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.

Cinekid festival Amsterdam

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:09:54 +0000

On saterday the 21st October ‘06 the 20th edition of the Cinekid festival started. Cinekid is an annual Film, Television and New Media Festival for Children that is held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

This year the installation Reaction Machine is also part of the New Media programme. This time we encourage the children to create a ongoing story by listening carefully to the previous recording and try to continue the story. The recorded films can be viewed back online.

Game Studies 2.0

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:06:51 +0000

Julian Kucklich wrote a resume about the last five years of game studies (since the year 2000, when Arseth announced the ‘year one’ of game studies) and now Julian Kucklich announced Game Studies 2.0:

So what I have called Game Studies 2.0 is really a phase of transition between colonialist game studies and postcolonial game studies. The outside interest in our little corner of the world, both academic and non-, draws attention to just how comfortable this corner has become. However, complacency is hardly the appropriate attitude in the face of ongoing change all around us. We like to think that we have developed theories and models that allow us to speak with some authority about a topic that is dear to our hearts. We still like to play, after all, even if the games are getting more derivative and lacklustre year by year. This might easily turn out to be a fallacy. In a world where prominent theorists are becoming increasingly aware of gaming culture, playing games might just not be enough.This is the reason why I look hopefully toward signs of change such as the development of MMOG studies, steeped in jargon as it may be, spearheading a renewed interest in the diversity of gaming cultures…

Ubiquitous Play and Performance…

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:04:07 +0000

Avantgame’s Jane McGonigal recently finished her dissertation and she’s now posting chapter after chapter as pdf files at her site. As you may know, Jane research deals with ubiquitous games and she’s lead game designer at 42 Entertainment (of I love Bees fame). When she’s not making or playing games, she writes down Camus’ essays with cookies (that enough should drive you to read her dissertation!

via: ludology.org

Since I am interest in game studies I often came across Jane McGonogals writings. I think she really has very interesting ideas about gaming. I especially like here focus on performance in game activities and the way how she interferes the real world with her own games.

Manifesto Games

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:03:32 +0000

There is hope for young independent game developers:

There has been alot of complaining - some constructive, some not - about the relative plight of Independent Gaming in the face of towering production budgets, IP gorging producers and guarded distribution monopolies.

One of the most active voices, Greg Costikyan, has actually done something about it, along with other industry activists behind the Scratchware Manifesto. It’s called Manifesto Games, an alternative distribution and publishing context for developers with small teams and budgets, and especially those teams with the kinds of risky game designs (read ‘innovation’) the videogame industry believes it can’t (ironically) afford to make.

Participatory Design Conference

Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:02:52 +0000

In the week from the 1st to the 5th of August 2006 I had been to Rovereto (Italy) to exposit the installation reaction machine in MART Museum of Modern Art together with Klaas Jan. The exposition was part of the ParticipART art track during the Participatory Design Conference.

Other exhibiting artists were: Natacha Roussel, Mauro Annunziato, Nell Breyer, The Sine Wave Orchestra, Daria Loi, Pekka Ala-Siuru, Victoria Vesna, Martin Mairinger, Peter Edmunds, Gruppo Làbun, Stijn Ossevoort, Susanne Schuricht.

for a overview of the works have a look at http://www.participart.org/

Collectic @ Media Technology

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 21:01:41 +0000

My graduation project CollecTic is finished. I presented it on 30th of June ‘06 at Media Technology, Leiden University. Since August 2006 it is available for download at http://www.pixelsix.net/collectic

Here you can also find the paper and some more documentation material.

CollecTic is further discussed online at:

Pasta and Vinegar
Pspupdates.qj.net download Collectic at dl.qj.net
Kotaku.com
YouTube
Dcemu.co.uk (1) Dcemu.co.uk (2)
Techeblog.com
Awayfromkeyboard.org
Numberless.net
Homebrewhowto.com
Blinklist.com
Ownage.nl
Atocorp.free.fr
Unmediated.org
Bashers.nl
…

Wanderer goes Dublin…

Sat, 20 May 2006 21:00:50 +0000

In the weekeend of 09-05-2006 I had been in Dublin at the pergames workshop and presented a poster about the GPS game Wanderer, that I developed together with Jiri last year. The workshop was full with a lot of different project presentations about using the physical space and environment in games. An overview of the program can be found here.

Animal Controlled Computer Games

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:59:13 +0000

Animal Controlled Computer Games is the graduation project from Wim van Eck, a study college and friend of mine. In his project he build a Pacman game, in that the player can play Pacman against real crickets, that controls the ghosts in the Pacman maze. By doing this he analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of real-time behaviour of live animals in comparison to behavior-generating code in computer games.

Interesting about this idea in my opinion is, that through the use of real life elements in a game, the game gets unpredictable. It happens once to him that during playing the game one cricket piled his skin. Because of the new and white skin of the cricket, the color detecting system of the game could not detect the cricket for certain period. During this period the cricket was a real ghost for the system.

Machinima workshop

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:58:27 +0000

From 14-17 march ‘06 was the Machinima workshop at Mediamatic. Together with Mark Meadows (US | artist, 3D animator, game developer), Friedrich Kirschner (Germany | machinimamaker, editor Machinimag), Daniël van Gils (NL - interaction designer, machinima educator) and of course Mediamatic we provided the workshop. The main tools we used for the workshop were Machinimation 1 & 2 and Sims2, but also any other game was possible to use.

What I really like about machinimas (making films in games) is, that it is a development out of the fan culture, where gamers stopped playing a game and started creating their own content. The shift from consuming to creating makes it interesting. To get an idea of machinimas have a look at films at the official machinima site, check out the online readers or have a look at wikipedia.

Crystalpunk wokshop

Mon, 06 Mar 2006 20:55:47 +0000

In the weekend of 11-12 March 2006 was the Crystalpunk workshop for soft architecture in Utrecht (NL) with a lot of cool speaker: Mario Campanella, Mirjam Struppek, Adam Somlai-Fischer, Pablo Miranda Carranza, Nicolas Nova, Jelle Feringa and me with z25.org :). I presented the RFID installation Dat-a, that I developed together with z25.org.

The slides from my presentation can be found here: dat-a_pres.pdf

To get a good overview of the lectures, have a look at Nicolas Blog.

Profile Intermedia

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:50:46 +0000

Reaction Machine presented at the Profile Intermedia 2005

In the weekend from 09 - 11 december ‘05 my installation Reaction Machine was presented at the Profile Intermedia in Bremen, Germany. Profile intermedia is a international conference on the crossover in design, art, architecture, film, video, photography, digital media, sonic art, revolution, visual effects, music, fashion, protest and performance.

Here some links of interesting artists and designers that presented their works:

Boyle Family (GB) is a family of collaborative artists based in London. They uses all different kinds of media, like performances, film, sound, photography, drawing, assemblage, painting, sculbtures,…
Michael Saup (GER) “Maybe on the other side of the World lies the answer to your own local situation”
Wally Olins (GB)
Andy Symanowski (GB) from Aardman, key animator of “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit”
Troika Design Studio (GB/F/GER) is a multi-disciplinary art an design studio with a background in graphic and product design
Olaf Arndt & Andrea Sick, TROIA (GER) about “Demons and non-lethal strategies”