i recently switched hosting providers on a diy whim, this site now lives on a serf provided by the wonderful k0a1a.net - if you experienced trouble contacting me in the last few days it was because of the move, so shoot again..

a new version of nOtbOt will be presented at WORM as a new work by WORM T. Schippers in the 'Exposé Varié' exhibition [which is actually an ode to the work of dutch artist Wim T. Schippers]

also landed a new job at my favourite dutch academy, the AKI. I teaching a minor on art in public space, with a more specific focus on the blending between the virtual and physical realms in this. The academy had to deal with many structural re-organisations lately, which also led to a new naming scheme for all the departments...
I'lll be working mainly in the 'autonomous3D' department, which i think is pretty cool ;)

last update here is that i got nominated for a very nice two month residency at Hangar in Barcelona...
despite being crazy busy the coming time i so hope to get this, so more on soon!

just returned from the Avecom festival/exhibition, where nOtbOt currently resides..

nice show with some interesting selections, k0a1a and yugo are also there - there's some coverage on the VirtueelPlatform site, and Keith has a good set on his flikkr..



the exhibition is on from 3rd till 26th of oktober.

thrashmetal game-art [[q3aSocialLadder]] showing at Plimsoll Gallery, Centre for the Arts, University of Tasmania.


image by Nathan Menglef

Exhibition: 10 October - 31 October, 12:00- 17:00 daily EST.

Opening: Friday 10 October, 17:30 EST.

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added a page for my new work which is on show at the MediaLab Prado in Madrid till oktober,
check it out here or via the sidebar..

if you are around Rotterdam be sure to go down to Witte de Withstraat and check out the PZI_MDMA alumnishow at galerie Blaak10, which is on till the end of june.

on the 21st of june the Rotterdam Schouwburg area will host the Free Gaming festival; a one day event on gaming and gamers filled with activities, and there's also an art section where i be - together with ma moddr_comrades binary koala and FleshGordo...
all day from 14.00 till 23.00 - !free of charge!



at the moment i am in Madrid for the Interactivos?08 seminar and workshop, in the wonderful Medialab Prado.

[snip]
Interactivos? is a research and production platform for the creative and educational uses of technology. Its main goal is to expand on the use of electronic and software tools for artists, designers and educators, thus contributing to the development of local communities of cultural producers in this field.

Interactivos? events are a hybrid between a production workshop, a seminar and an showcase. A space for reflection, research, and collaborative work is created, in which proposals selected by an international open call are developed, completed and displayed. Theprocess is open to the public from beginning to end.

The theoretical seminar “Juegos de la visión” (Vision Games) does not aim to present a linear history but instead, open up for reflection several contemporary approaches that explore the meaning of images and perception thresholds in the contemporary world. It is possible however to give an overview of the ways that images have changed us.
[/snip]

more updates on my work here soon..

as of this weekend teh lab is finally getting some shape and form, we're done building tables, the studio is online and only waiting now for some fancy red carpet...



look out for multiplexed_microcontrolled_led_logo's, custom home-security-sys wif python2skype, Rotterdam's first shopwindow exhibition room for geeks, and our next public event will be a night on [t]error at moddr_mother WORM.

you can find us at WillemBuytewechstraat 188 - Rotterdam [NL], or in here at http://moddr.net/

worked on another pygame modification, this time the classic Pac-Man underwent some changes for sister0's exhibition 'Resist, she said' in the AIRBASE, located in quartier21, MuseumsQuartier Vienna [AT].



the mod is based on a PyGame which can be found here (thnx for putting that back up David, and thnx for troubleshooting Andy), and you can download the modified version here - the game depends on Python and PyGame being installed, and it will run on windoze and *nix systems...

got a feature in ANAT's (Australian Network for Art and Technology) Filter magazine.



you can find the online version here,
thnx Melinda!

giving a talk at the SUBOTRON 'electric meeting' on 'custom interfaces and gender'.

We'll be in 'Raum D', the lecture room of the Quartier für Digitale Kultur, right at the end of the 'Electric Avenue' in quartier21 - which is located in the Museums Quartier in Vienna [AT].