Final Year Degree Show Exhibition 2008
Preview Night, Friday 13th June 7pm.

The University of Huddersfield
School of Art, Design and Architecture

http://studio309.org

Feltron Annual Report
Meticulously crafted, and interesting visual annual report of the doings of Nicholas Fenton a graphic designer who works professionally under the moniker megafone
Its no surprise that he also gets paid to do NYTimes work.

http://unrealart.co.uk/

yep that’s a glitch, (on a Nasa HD itunes podcast) that particular flavour of hi-def video apparently does painterly glitches and so long as we have consumer electronics we will have varied visual and audio glitches to examine and play with.

anyway the point of this post is, twofold:

1. I’m very pleased to announce that GLITCH: Perfect Imperfection ‘Designing Imperfection’ is to be published by Mark Batty and distributed by Thames and Hudson in Sep 2008. This is the book I’ve been working on for the past three years with Ant Scott and designed by the ever skillfull maestros Joe Gilmore and Chris Murphy. More posts as developments occur!
2. As though I hadnt had enough of glitches, I’m about to start my PhD on “Glitch Art” supervised by the brilliant Mathew Adkins. if any academics out there are interested in joining the supervisory team please get in touch with me at organised AT gmail dot com.

and we still havent changed that picture in the about section.

I wrote an article for it and now I write a plug for The Digital Artists Handbook

folly - the digital arts agency and charity based in England’s NorthWest - today announced the completion of the first edition of an important new project, the Digital Artists Handbook.

“The digital artist handbook has developed out of ongoing consultation with artists working with technology, which has shown a need for removing the barriers for artists to use digital tools. The project is supported by Arts Council England.”

“The artists and practitioners who participated in the first stage of writing the Handbook are: Kristina Andersen, Frank Barknecht, Tom Betts, Florian Cramer, Phil Chandler, Olga Goriunova, Kathryn Lambert, Olivier Laruelle, Thor Magnusson, Nicolas Malevé, Aymeric Mansoux, Iman Moradi, Jon Phillips, Tom Schouten, Marloes de Valk, Peter Westenberg, and Simon Yuill.”

“The Digital Artists Handbook is a new, up to date, reliable and accessible source of information that introduces artists to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art. The touchstone of this new compendium is free/libre open source software (FLOSS) and technologies.”

Happy 2008!

Good news. The lovely organisers of the Medialab Prado let me know that there is a fantastic opportunity to participate now in one of their upcoming events in Spain, titled Digital Networks and Physical Space by submitting project proposals and papers.

I’ve also been tipped that Layla Gaye, and Julian Oliver are the workshop mentors/teachers!

Its really quite an amazing opportunity as I experienced myself while I was there and Im sure if your project / paper gets accepted youll have a fantastic experience when you go there and get to meet lots of interesting people from all over the world. If your project doesnt get accepted, and youre still interested I think you can still enlist as a collaborator on one of the accepted projects.

*Medialab-Prado* issues a call to participate in the *Second
Inclusiva-net Meeting: Digital Networks and Physical Space, *directed by
*Juan Martín Prada*, that will take place *from 3 to 14 March* *2008*.

The purpose of this open participation meeting is to explore the
relationship between digital networks and physical space in the context
of the increasingly widespread use of portable technology and Web
applications in connection with the production and management of
geographic information.

Through and open call, projects to be collaboratively developed during a
production workshop and papers to be publicly presented will be selected.

Submission Deadline: *30th January * 2008
Notification of Acceptance:* 8th February* 2008

*More information and application guidelines at
http://www.inclusiva-net.org

So my two weeks in Spain are over and Ive spent my first few days back in sunny stormy Yorkshire recovering from mystery manflu.

I went to Madrid and the Medialab with very few assumptions about what Id end up doing. I was very excited at the prospect of spending two focused weeks on Miguel’s Humanflows project, and learning as much as possible in that time. It would be safe to say I wasnt dissapointed. In fact I was pretty overwhelmed by how good it was and what I learnt!

As well enjoying the fine company of my fellow group members, I felt quite humbled in the presence of some incredibly talented people who were working on other interesting projects. here are some of those who I spent time but I didnt get to mention in my other post about visualizar. Elie Zananiri (tweetpad), Irad Lee [other projects] (Spamology), who’s haunting live composition is still in my head. Not forgetting to mention the fantastic Julian Oliver and Ricard Marxer Piñón who were on hand to offer help every step of the way.
Although I’m very glad to be back and looking forward to exciting projects here and keeping in touch with a few of the people I met who werent from spain, Im longing to go back to spain soon and spend some more time there.

Nathan actually summed up the two weeks better and he’s kindly hosted the project, so here is the direct link to his post.

Three designers, a Statistician and Migration Inflows Data

and heres the project in action, its basically the kiosk app I put together for presenting the project, but it has the definitive why’s and hows! Thanks again to Nathan for hosting it, to Miguel for allowing me to be a collaborator on his project. The Medialab for being such good hosts and for my school, ADA at the University of Huddersfield for funding me to go.

Im currently in Madrid for a fantastic two week production workshop and symposium “Visualizar“, with Ben Fry and Adrian Holovaty, organised by Medialab Prado. The days start at 10am and end at 9pm. I’m very excited to be collaborating on the humanflow project by Luis Miguel Cabanzo. alongside Nathan Yao, and Monica Sanchez.
Here are some of the other interesting projects which will be in intensive production over the next two weeks.

The Humanflows project is about designing purposeful, playful interactive visualisations which offer thought provoking views of historic and current data on “Human migration flows, its causes and repercussions”. My personal interest stems from the fact that its a purposeful visualisation, with the potential to educate an audience in an engaging memorable manner. Im interested in designing and prototyping the visual notation system and thinking about the types of interaction which can be quite meaningful in this context
Ill be updating this post daily after the jump.

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I’m sure you’ve seen the new advert for the new Audi A5. The £5.2m campaign by BBH has an equally appealing website created by Good Technology in London. The “Rhythm of Lines” website uses good old Papervision3D. Read more on how it was created here.