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It‘s almost two days ago that we launched the decoded conference, an event which will interconnect people from the field of design and programming.

The decdoded conference is focusing at the development process of interesting projects within the limits of design and code/technology. The projects should be inspiration and build a base for further discussions. At this conference we will online show projects, that have been done or which have been prototyped already. Ideas and visions have to be brought into reality. The conference will foster the cultural interchange between the fields of design and tech. Topics and projects about generative design, gaming and human computer interaction will be presented by the speakers.

Our featured speakers are:
Mario Klingemann – Schönes aus Code
Moritz Stefaner – Ästhetik von Information
Benedikt Groß & Hartmut Bohnacker – Generative Gestaltung
Tilman Reiff & Volker Morawe – Games, Art & Testosterone
Massimo Banzi – Tinkering with Arduino

Like the decoded concept itself the the organisation team is a mixture of the fields of code and design. we as envis precisely, a design studio for interface and interaction design, are organizing and hosting this event together with our nerdy coding friends from reppa.net. We are looking forward to see you there…

You can find more information about the conference and ticketing at
www.decoded-conference.com

At this years UK election, the results of the general election are to be projected on to St Stephen’s Tower, which houses Big Ben, for the first time, by the BBC. The idea behind projecting the results in this way is to provide a clear and simple source of information and to create an »arresting« image.

The results projection, which will be removed after dawn on 7 May, will feature a »winning line«, representing the 326 seats that any party will need to win to be sure of an outright victory. The idea was approved by the parliamentary authorities, responsible for the management of its buildings and the BBC is said to be »delighted« with the initiative.

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Balls go up and down, glowing blue, white, red…

Many balls seemed to float in space building up an infographic which explains the methodologies of cloud computing.

The user has the chance to pick some detailed information about it. Depending on which term was selected the balls begin to form a graphic.

This interactive installation seems to be inspired by the kinetic scultpure at BMW Museum by art+com (2008) and the classic ballon installation electric moOns by whiteVOID (2005-2007).

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After the interaction guys, the generative art guys took over the stage at TOCA ME 09. First up: Jer Thorpe from Vancouver, Canada.

He is part of the glocal project, which is an »immense, collaborative and multifaceted digital art project that examines the making, sharing and exhibiting of images in the 21st century«. In other words, they are figuring new creative ways of using and dealing with huge amounts of data. So he defined one big rule: »Collaboration requires many mobile people in a changing environment.«

The image breeder for example is an application for, well, breeding images – literally. You select two images to start with and the software finds images with characteristics of both of them. It is not only a nice toy, but also a serious tool for finding inspiration in images!

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After the first two talks we had a break which we used to explore the event area. What we found was an »interactive twitter application« where visitors could put magnetic letters at a blackboard which was filmed by a tracking cam…

…the camera picture was captured later on by a »human algorithm« (i.e. a guy typing the words) and send to the TOCA ME twittbrett were it was visualized by a bubbling bubble diagram.