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

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.

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.

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…

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 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 ...

Here is something I really enjoyed playing with, the new Iphone app by Tilman Reif: Frankenface Take your Iphone make some pictures and shuffle…

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 :-)

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 :-) [vimeo]3349957[/vimeo] Welcome to a new metal-lennium!

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.