The night of the Berlin Wall

I remember when the wall in Berlin came down, for a short while it was not clear whether Germany will be reunited or a new country was born. In the east they created an interims government and it could have been sort of best of both worlds, I watched it carefully and even considered moving there.

But soon it became clear that Kohl wanted to write history as the man who caused the reunited Germany so they pushed it without really thinking about the consequences.

The celebration night in Berlin I perceived with some horror, it was odd with the reoccuring patriotism. I think it was videoartist Björn Melhus who did once a videowork with these pictures, mirroring my feelings of it. With the samples from that broadcast I did at least 2 songs as Notstandskomitee.

deStatic installation acting up

Damn, deStatic installation is acting up. It currently runs allnight at Einstellungsraum Hamburg in the shopwindow but it seems to freeze sometimes. Actually the software is still running but the interaction is gone, i guess it loses contact to the USB cam. Perhaps the electricity is a bit shaky there, causing the USB ports to be underpowerd? Tomorrow I insert an active USB hub, maybe that will do the trick. In Graz it runs on two computers in two different locations, one which is used here in Hamburg too, for weeks without problems.

Ikea and Hamburg

Ikea gets not much love by the local Hamburg art scene because a new big store by them means the loss of several ateliers and artspaces in Altona.

http://www.kein-ikea-in-altona.de

Meanwhile the city of Hamburg celebrates Ikea in a museum, what a coincidence, not.

exhibition 5.-27.november 2009 Hamburg

next exhibition with interactive electronic art by Malte Steiner is in Einstellungsraum Hamburg from 5.-27. November 2009, read on for the german invitation:

Vernissage: 05. November 2009 19h

Dauer der Ausstellung:

05. bis 27. November 2009

Geöffnet donnerstags und freitags jeweils 17 - 20h

und nach Vereinbarung

Sie und Ihre FreundInnen sind herzlich eingeladen

Diese Ausstellung ist die neunte im Jahresprojekt shared space 2009 des EINSTELLUNGSRAUM e.V.

http://www.einstellungsraum.de/archiv_news42.html

Mit der Ausstellung Verkehrsfluss präsentiert Malte Steiner seine neuste elektronische Installation. Zum ersten mal wird im EINSTELLUNGSRAUM mit 'Augmented Reality' gearbeitet, der reale Raum wird um digitale Informationen erweitert. Mit optischen Markern, die vom Computer erfasst werden, können die Austellungsbesucher mit einem simulierten Verkehrsgeschehen interagieren, welches projiziert ein animiertes Kunstwerk ergibt. Das Jahresthema ist share spaces und hier können im Virtuellen die Konsequenzen stadtplanerischen Handelns erprobt werden.

Malte Steiner arbeitet als Medienkünstler ausschließlich mit Open Source Software. Zur Realisation musste er eine komplett eigene Computerapplikation entwickeln, welche nur durch die Verwendung von quelloffener Programmierbibliotheken möglich wurde.

Malte Steiner, 2009

http://www.block4.com

EINSTELLUNGSRAUM e.V.

FÜR KUNST IM STRASSENVERKEHR

Wandsbeker Chaussee 11

22089 Hamburg

www.einstellungsraum.de

Tel./Fax: 040 - 251 41 68

U1 Wartenau

Bus 25, 35, 36

Gefördert vom Kulturausschuss des Bezirksamtes Hamburg-Wandsbek und der Behörde für Kultur, Sport und Medien der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg

tracks released on online compilation

Elektronengehirn and Akustikkoppler just released new tracks on the free online compilation placas on amencoma

http://amencoma.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/amn010-placas

Its under creative commons.

csound blog

a blog about csound can be found on the noisepages at:

http://csound.noisepages.com/

Geocities closing down

Geocities is closed down today by its owner Yahoo. I don't know if it is something that we will miss but certainly a piece of internet history is taken away. Archive.org tried to preseve as much as they could but Yahoo was very uncollaborative.

Anyway, here is a beautiful collection of 'under construction' signs taken from geocities pages, those were the times: http://www.textfiles.com/underconstruction/