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I finally managed to translate my article for the conference proceedings of the NMI2006 conference from german into english. There are a few additions, which are not included in the german version.

The article is a description of our installation seidesein. It gives an account on our motivations for creating seidesein but it explains a bit also our motivation for other daytar works.

The article is for download >>here or directly via the seidesein page.

I am very grateful for any feedback on this article.

When Matthew Barney spoke on saturday (see last post) about screens in rooms and the attraction they emanate, I was immediately getting this eerie video by Guthrie Lonergan in my head. It displays empty work places/home entertainment centers, fake and cheap strings and the empty virtual world behind the screen.

It was posted last friday on rhizome (via Tom Moody) by Marisa Olson.

A new service from the viennese company systemone:

Retrievr lets you find flickr images by drawing rough sketches of them. Finding images on Flickr is mostly textual (tags, keywords) or social (contacts, friends, groups). Retrievr is, like images, visual. At the same time it’s our testbed for image retrieval algorithms, so that when you add an image to a page in System One, it gets you the potentially most similar pictures back in realtime.

It was not fair to test the retrieval with my above flower image (big one to the left) , as it bears a lot of fine structure….and consequently I got the above results back (images to the right)…:)

see also this related old randform post

via gizmodo

Via cosmicvariance (Clifford) I found this very nice podcast by radiolab.org at New Yorks public radio WNYC.

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The interested randform reader knows that we are always on the look for fancy
input devices.

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Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is computer software designed to translate images of handwritten or typewritten text (usually captured by a scanner or a digitizer) into machine processable text. OCR is e.g. commercially used in PDA’s However “handwritten” characters do not need to be constrained to letters or simple symbols but could also be more complex shapes, if necessary also in 3D. The recognition of such shapes can also be interpreted as gesture recognition.

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I was yesterday linking to a project which is carrying out a study into possible future cultural utilisation of the International Space Station.

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last night was trampoline night with our installation seidesein. seidesein (the above blurry Moire seidesein image is an artefact..:)) was installed in the hallway together with Aram Bartholls nice project “First Person Shooter”

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Just a reminder of an earlier announcement about a public appearance of our work seidesein (see also NMI 2006 conference) at the trampoline night of trampoline/radiator festival. I will guard the installation so this blog may be a bit slowed down for the upcoming days.

The Trampoline event takes place on
Thursday, 12. October 2006
20h
Hebbel am Ufer, HAU 2
Hallesches Ufer 32
10963 Berlin

12Euros/8 Euros

Unsolved problems in physics: What causes the apparent residual Sunward acceleration of the Pioneer spacecraft?

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