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new host, new bot, new job, new ...

walter langelaar — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:08:29 GMT

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!

nOtbOt@Avecom

walter langelaar — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:39:13 GMT

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.

q3aSocialLadder@encoding_experience, Hobart - Tasmania

walter langelaar — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:25:05 GMT

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.

encoding_experience

[[recursive]descent]

walter langelaar — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:04:48 GMT

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..

~[current]~

walter langelaar — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:33:52 GMT

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 visi�n� (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..

moddr_eve on [t]error

walter langelaar — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:30:16 GMT

moddr_

walter langelaar — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:09:45 GMT

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/

punkrockpacman, she said

walter langelaar — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:45:27 GMT

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...

/pub/Filter67_WEB.pdf

walter langelaar — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:36:24 GMT

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

you can find the online version here,
thnx Melinda!

tonight@subotron!

walter langelaar — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:42:58 GMT

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 f�r Digitale Kultur, right at the end of the 'Electric Avenue' in quartier21 - which is located in the Museums Quartier in Vienna [AT].

Dorkbot Gent

walter langelaar — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:44:51 GMT

this friday [22nd of feb] i'm talking at the Kunstencentrum Vooruit in the first of a new series of dorkbot meetings ,organized by dorkbot Gent, on the how and why of nOtbOt...

the event takes place in the 'Emiel' space at Vooruit and starts at 8.30pm.

killzoneDeSingel#2

walter langelaar — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:32:42 GMT

currently in Antwerp for the GameZone fest; added a new part to the killzone, showing the expansion of the Arts Campus which is to be completed somewhere round 2010 - however already to 'played' (or should that be fragged?) right now..

travel mode

walter langelaar — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:34:09 GMT

next week i'll be in Antwerp for the second edition of the GAMEZONE festival, which runs from 7 till 10th of februari, and where i'm showing nOtbOt, a new version of the 'KillZone' for de Singel, and a lil' PyGame called pigInvaders...
<<< btw you can get a windoze version of this game including the sourcecode here - if you would like to compile it on linux, which is a bit trickier, drop me a line via here. >>>

then, after a brief stint in London, i'll be in Vienna for a while at the SUBOTRON SHOP for some 'hands on electronic game culture' - with the illustrious sisterO.

i'll spend some time doing codework for the Daedalus project, and there's also a lecture...

...but first off to transmediale.

# cl_avidemo 25

walter langelaar — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:25:54 GMT

been playing around with ioquake3's added support for capturing video...expect some more updates on older projects and maps soon. Other new features include the use of OpenAL for [surround]sound, and Ogg Vorbis support.

here's an example rendering of q3aSocialLadder:

footage from iMAL opening Brussels

walter langelaar — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:54:25 GMT

here's a clip showing works in the inaugural exhibition at iMAL (where i showed nOtbOt), featuring Jonah Brucker-Cohen, HC Gilje, Antoine Schmitt, Yannick Antoine, Thomas Isra�l, Yves Bernard, Sascha Pohflepp, Domenico Quaranta, Second Front, and me..

nOtbOt video game system?

walter langelaar — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:43:09 GMT

:-)
this on make:zine

> thnx Jonah !

nOtbOt at it again...

walter langelaar — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:21:43 GMT

just got back from Brussels where nOtbOt was in the inaugural exhibition of the new iMAL space.

pic by Sascha !

There's an excellent article about the show on WMMNA, and French newspaper Lib�ration posted a review and even a feature on nOtbOt ... (both in French tho :)

Daedalus_ex_Machina - Ariadne and the Labyrinth

walter langelaar — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:30:50 GMT

"A Labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne." - Nietzsche

initial sketch of the Daedalus_ex_Machina project at InteraktionsLabor_2007

cam2_Tue_Jul_24_22:31:56_2007

walter langelaar — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:37:03 GMT

here

WTF?

walter langelaar — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:53:56 GMT

???