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Browser Pong
Happy holidays from Stewdio. Today we are releasing Browser Pong, a collaboration with sound artist and musician Dominic Matar of Nine Cats Music. Best in Safari for Mac. Also supports Chrome, FireFox, and Opera. Enjoy it here: http://stewdio.org/pong/.
Update. We’re pleased to see our Pong blowing up on Twitter and bloggers taking notice. Browser Pong was even briefly on the front page of Paul Graham’s Hacker News. So thank you all for posting and tweeting over the past 19 hours since we launched. Keep it up!
Update. Add these to the list of sites recognizing Browser Pong: It’s Nice That, Boing Boing, Daring Fireball, and more. Thanks everyone. Your support garnered Pong over 100,000 visits within its first 24 hours. Well done.
Stewart to lecture at EMPAC
Next Tuesday, November 17th, Stewart will deliver a brief lecture at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, New York. His topic will be the Terre Natale (Exits Two) exhibition piece created by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, et al. His lecture is just one part of an evening of lectures under the banner Full Immersion: Art and the 360-degree screen, lead off by artist and scientist Bernd Lintermann of the Institute for Visual Media at ZKM, Karlsruhe. Be sure to see Eric Ameres, highly accomplished video engineer, and Thomas Soetens and Kora Van Den Bulcke along with their piece They Watch. The evening begins at 7pm in Studio 2.
Description from the Full Immersion page: An exceptional panel of international artists, engineers, and producers representing the evolving field of works created for the 360° panoramic screen. The panelists in Full Immersion – Stewart Smith, Bernd Linterman, Eric Ameres, and Thomas Soetens and Kora Van Den Bulcke of Workspace Unlimited – come from the visual arts, film, and data presentation. Some specialize in grand gestures, some write code. What they have in common is expertise in realizing works that surround the viewer, with effects that may be subtle, spectacular, or unsettling. In addition to talking about their field, they’ll also be showing up-to-the-minute examples of what’s been accomplished in it. The result will boggle not just the mind, but the eye and ear.
AIGA Legends Gala 2009 Table Cards
For this autumn’s AIGA Design Legends Gala, Trollbäck+Company designed an Eames-inspired deck of 100 unique table cards. The cards were built into sculptures that designated table numbers for the 500 creative luminaries that had gathered at the Waldorf Astoria ballroom for the gala. Larger cards were used as signage throughout the Waldorf gala space. Designed by Stina Smith; Creative director Jakob Trollbäck. See AIGA Presentations Gala 2009 Cards for additional photos and information.
Description from the AIGA website; hyperlinks added: The AIGA Design Legends Gala is an annual fundraising event honoring those whose work inspires designers of all ages, sets the bar for creativity and innovation, and defines the design profession as we know it. The sixth annual Design Legends Gala took place on Thursday, September 17, at The Waldorf-Astoria in New York City.
WindMaker updated
WindMaker is an ambient weather widget that applies the current wind conditions to (almost) any Web site. First it uses a United States ZIP code to grab local conditions from the Yahoo! Weather RSS feed. It then parses a Web site into individual pieces such as text blocks and images. Finally, WindMaker sets the pieces in motion according to the strength of the wind.
This weekend WindMaker received code updates to alleviate slow server response times under certain conditions. (Fast machines are still recommended for viewing pages with many elements.) Try WindMaker for yourself at http://stewdio.org/windmaker/.
Stewart’s Arecibo Message essay featured in “It’s Nice That” premiere issue
It has arrived! The beautiful premiere print issue of London-based It’s Nice That appeared in the Stewdio mailbox yesterday to much excitement. The release coincides with the refresh of their website, http://itsnicethat.com. The print issue was designed by co-creators Will Hudson and Alex Bec in collaboration with Joseph Burrin. And it is gorgeous, not to mention the hypnotic smell of fresh ink. Having engaged so fully in the RGB world, Stewdio rarely enjoys the olfactory spoils of CMYK production. (Stewart cannot stop sniffing the pages and going on about memories of Gus Mazzocca and Laurie Sloan’s Print Shop at UConn.)
The issue features Stewart’s essay Hello World Universe on Frank Drake’s 1974 Arecibo Message to aliens. It’s a humorous (and very loose) explanation of the message’s sophisticated design and how it inspires Stewdio. Also in this issue, a shout-out to fellow Yale MFA Ryan Waller whose work will appear in the It’s Nice That exhibition this September.
iQuit 2009
Today Stewdio releases a refreshed version of the iQuit resignation letter generator, originally published in 2006. This newly redesigned version consists of a visual overhaul and under-the-hood updates that ensure quality resignation letters will be delivered to your email in-box quickly.
iQuit generates a formal letter of resignation from its library of pointed, yet ambiguous, sentences. Perfect for quitting almost any sticky situation. The iQuit site is a satire artwork. No affiliation is implied between this content and the organizations being satirized.
Terre Natale opening tonight
The exhibition Terre Natale opens this evening at the Fondation Cartier in Paris. This program was curated by Hervé Chandes and features works framed by artist Raymond Depardon and cultural theorist Paul Virilio. Stewdio’s Stewart Smith has been deeply involved in the design and production of Terre Natale: Exits II in collaboration with Elizabeth Diller, Jeremy Linzee, Robert Gerard Pietrusko, Laura Kurgan, Mark Hansen, Aaron Meyers, Michael Doherty, and Hans-Christoph Steiner.
Congratulations to Ben Rubin and his Ear Studio for their work on Exits I and much gratitude for their contributions to Exits II. A very special thank-you to Bernd Lintermann for contributing his panoramic projection system and incredibly sharp eyes. And finally, we are in great debt to our Cartier counterparts Francois Gemenne, Ilana Shamoon, and Marta Niedzwiecka who assisted us above and beyond the call of duty to ensure Exits II told a cohesive and well-translated story.
See Stewdio’s Terre Natale project page at http://stewdio.org/work/terrenatale.
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