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on creative engineering and new media art

Lecture at Physical Computing course - handouts

January 31st, 2008

Yesterday I spent two hours talking to the students at a physical computing course at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). I talked about what physical computing (i.e. the art of “sensing and controlling the physical world with computers”, to…

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Director

January 29th, 2008

Director 8.5 (click for larger image)

Adobe Director, formerly known as Macromedia Director (and before that as Macromind Director…) is probably not really Adobe’s best-selling product at the moment. I’m mentioning it here because so many media artists have used it.…

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How to drag an off-screen window back to the desktop (in Windows)

January 28th, 2008

This is a problem I just had (in Windows XP): My graphics card was set to force a TV display, even though I did not in fact have anything hooked up to my TV-out connection. Unfortunately my system chose to…

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Buglabs

January 22nd, 2008

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The buglabs platform consists of a small PC with a peculiar form factor (tripod mounted!) and a number of square addons (camera, GPS, etc) that just snap on to…

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How to switch on an iMac (sic!)

January 21st, 2008

OK, this is just plain embarrassing.

I just spent several minutes trying to figure out how to switch on an iMac. Seeing there is no power switch on it, I figured this was some sort of Apple design decision - probably…

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node.stockholm

January 11th, 2008

Node Stockholm logo

Node.stockholm is a one-month festival of new media arts-related stuff. Read all about it at the site - nodestockholm.se

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Man Machine 2 video

January 11th, 2008

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David Kjelkerud posted this video from the Man Machine 2 exhibition, now showing at the National Museum of Science and Technology (Tekniska Museet) in Stockholm. Enjoy.

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New site

January 11th, 2008

Tonight I finally got round to put the Wordpress-driven site online and remove all stuff from the old site.  Enjoy. If you can’t find what you’re looking for, just mail me.

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One of those days…

January 7th, 2008

I just heard John mumbling quietly to himself: “Today is one of those days when I’m talking to myself…”

No arguing with that.

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