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sonotone, le webzine musical suisse romand.

1st International Workshop on Standards and Technologies in Multimedia Archives and Records (STAR), EPFL, Lausanne.

A recent New York Times article talks about R&D in the film industry,

with a focus on the lab where I used to teach in Los Angeles.

24 heures dans la vie artistique d’une ville, ce week-end, à Genève.

Un parcours de 24 heures à travers les espaces d’art indépendants genevois.

I was wondering why Dutch artist Bas Jan Ader died so young…

Until I watched his films.

Some recent news about Bill Viola’s non-violent and introspective video game.

Where contemporary video art meets Electronic Arts (the company) and electronic arts (the discipline). This project has been made possible thanks to EA’s Game Innovation Lab at USC.

My thoughts go to the Polish elite, killed twice : by the NKVD in the Spring of 1940, and by an unfortunate accident in the Spring of 2010. That same morning, I was learning how to ride a motorcycle but I lost the group I was part of at the red light and they did not wait for me. I called the instructor on his cell phone and he said I should meet them. I was having trouble starting the engine, and I was afraid. After calling him again, I managed to start the engine, it accelerated too fast and out of control. I fell and broke my right hand, more specifically I broke a tiny bone at the base of my right thumb.

Evoke is a new kind of online multi-player game about social innovation and competing in intelligence to change the world.

The game will start on March 3, 2010 and last for 10 weeks.

Annonce d’une collaboration entre plusieurs laboratoires de l’EPFL, la Manufacture et la Chartreuse (CNES) à Villeneuve-lez-Avignon. A suivre…