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This is “old” news. There is an archeological site in Iran called “Burnt city” – a settlement which dates back to 2000-3000 BC. There a goblet of 8 by 10 cm was found on which a goat between two plants is depicted in various jumping positions. If one takes the positions together, it is clear that the movement of a goat was to be displayed.
The researchers put the images in a timely order…so one can see the 5000 years old animation in modern fashion.

The original post was I think from Irans’s Cultural Heritage news agency . However their link to the animation is broken (at the moment their whole site unfortunately doesn’t work properly) but I found another link here.

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Inspired by chinese shadow plays and the works of Georges Méliès young …
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Plasma again. This time Pictoplasma though. A conference on contemporary character design and art will take place from Oct. 11-14 2006 in Berlin. It is organized by Pictoplasma. The conference fee is 190 Euro. Early bird registration until Aug.1 2006 140 Euro. If you still have some money left after registering you can sponsor the upbringing of a character orphan, which means to help a little, flatfaced character to step out into the real (?) 3D world (for already sponsored characters see image above).

Yes we did it: Finally there is a public jReality release (BSD license). jReality is a 3d graphics library written in Java. It is developed at TU Berlin, University of Munich and Citty College New York at the moment. it has already been used in several of our daytar projects like seidesein, ADDeye, or vitruman.

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I’m in Melbourne right now and since my luggage (with my jacket) will take another day to arrive I had to find me a gentle and warm place to escape the australian winter. What I found is the acmi. Read the rest of this entry »

There is going to be a short conference on Film, TV and Computer at the academy of sciences in Berlin from July 19-21. Website (in german) here.
It is free for students, 100 Euros for everybody else.

The conference is about the interaction between film and computer science and how the two areas merge into something new. There will be a conference gaming lounge and we will show there our installation “seidesein”.
The conference will also host a videoconference with the digitalcinemasociety

via vvork.com.

Carpet invaders was shown in Bucharest in 2004.

Janek Simon can currently be seen in Berlin in the new gallery called ZAK in Berlin, Linienstr. 141. with his work “Departure / Take off”: –a video where all the church towers of his hometown Krakow are becoming rockets which go off into space, leaving Krakow churchtower-naked.

We put a new processing applet with the title “Mahrzipanien” on the daytar art page.