music, audiovisuals, media arts
Archive for March, 2011
Blog · March 2011
Between 11/3 and 19/3/2011, I attended the SXSW Interactive (11-15/3) and SXSW Music (16-20/3) festivals in Austin, USA.
SXSW Interactive
The scale of SXSW is impressive, in terms of number of talks/panels, trade show, parties, attendants. The atmosphere is truly exciting and inspiring, as SXSW becomes during that period “the world capital of the Web” (Bruce Sterling). The energy and effort put into promoting new (or existing) digital services is enormous. Not surprisingly, mobile apps seemed to be the most active area.
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Teaching · March 2011
From 2007, I’ve been teaching at Media Lab Helsinki (Aalto University, School of Art and Design), where I am also a doctoral student.
I have set up a blog for teaching at Media Lab: http://mlab.taik.fi/mediacode/
Here is a list of courses taught, with links to course materials:
2011
Multitouch Interaction – Nov/Dec
Software Studies (partially) – Oct
Multimedia Authoring – Apr/May
Kinectic Jam Sessions (organizer) – Feb/Mar
MediaBizLab (partially) – Jan/Feb
2010
Software Studies (partially) – Oct
Designing Interaction with Electronics (partially) – Sep/Oct
Multimedia Authoring – Jan/Feb
2009
Multimedia Authoring – Mar/Apr
2008
Multimedia Authoring – Mar/Apr
2007
Rich Internet Applications – Sep
Multimedia Authoring – Apr/May
Presentations · March 2011
On 23/2/2011, I had a presentation on audiovisual art and my work as Video Jack at Satta club in Vilnius. It was organized by Bangos, the first of a monthly series of talks entitled Teorija.
One Lithuanian blog wrote an accurate post about the event (in Lithuanian):
http://dubauskaite.lt/731912/blogas/sssss-portugaliska-teorija
During my stay in Vilnius, I had the chance to attend two very interesting exhibitions:
Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto) @ SMC
Žilvinas Kempinas @ Galerija Vartai
I also had two additional DJing performances there:
http://www.codensound.com/vilnius-tour-23-25-february-2011/
