Lev Manovich is brimming with ideas about ‘new media’ – he wrote the seminal ‘Language of New Media’ academic best-seller after all. But is the electronic arts emperor wearing no clothes? Let’s take his latest DVD offering for a spin, … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, September 15, 2005 4 Comments
It’s a snap today to publish movies online as .3gp files ( an export option in quicktime ), thereby making them accessible and viewable by anyone with a mobile phone capable of playing video. Similarly, with a few steps, movies … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, September 5, 2005 2 Comments
Experimental musicians, motion graphic designers and game-heads will love the possibilities suggested by Fijuu, an impressive 3D audiovisual performance engine and interface put together by Pix & Julian Oliver, Aussie ex-pats new-media slumming it in Europe. Fijuu allows dynamic manipulation … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, August 24, 2005 0 comments
It takes different strokes to rule the world, yes it does, it takes different strokes to rule the world. And if game culture is to be believed, theirs is an empire already larger than Hollywoods. However, the networked creation of … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, August 24, 2005 0 comments
Another notch along the dizzying climb of human evolution – calling the local multinational pizza parlour can now divert us to someone from another country, happy to recite a menu and take our delivery order. There’s a stoner sci-fi novel … Continue reading
by Sean Healy, August 18, 2005 0 comments