Ars Electronica: Missed
Theo Jansen was awesome. At least that’s what i’ve read as i was sitting through a panel discussion on digital radio of surprisingly litte relevance and interest to me when he gave his talk. The only thing i took away from these two hours is that drm’s not just an acronym for digital rights management, but also digital radio mondiale. At least the afternoon session on copyright issues was more interesting, you should soon be able to download it here.
Know how a dominant theme can impose on the vocabulary of an event? That’s been going on here with the term “hybrid”, everything is hybrid or hybrisomething and we should all think a lot about hybridity, really. It’s getting a bit unnerving and it’s sad to see a word that i previously associated more or less exclusively with fancy japanese cars for treehuggers turning into “the dreaded h-word” within two days. Gladly i won’t have to further expound on this as Jan Zuppinger already did – funny how his overload happened at precisely the same moment as mine.
Later in the afternoon, prix forum #3 with the prize winners in the computer animation/visual effects category. Golden-nica-winning fallen art is awesome – go digging online, tomek mentioned that the version he’d show was some pirated near-0-day bootleg copy as he didn’t have the short on dvd with him, so apparently it’s out there.
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