From the Archives: Jonathan Harris - Man of the Hour
I have been promising that I would like to upload all of the articles I have written over the years so that they might be of use for people rather than them …
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20,000 Processing Particles
I’ve played with Processing a fair bit over the years, but never really got stuck into anything solid - most of my time has been spent fixing up my …
Podcast with Matt Clark from United Visual Artists
Following on from my last post about Hereafter, my podcast interview with Matt Clark from United Visual Artists is now online at Core77. We chat about a range …
Podcast of Creative Collaboration and The Future of Education
If you have been missing the sound of my voice (or have no idea what my faltering, mumbling sounds like) the podcast of my seminar at Urban Learning Space about …
Speaking at Flash on the Beach
I’m very pleased to have been invited to speak at Flash on the Beach in Brighton. FOTB runs from 4th- - 7th November and my session is on the last day. I …
Creative Collaboration and the Future of Education Seminar
I’m going to be giving a seminar called Creative Collaboration and the Future of Education at Urban Learning Space in Glasgow who have a number of really …
Another Antirom RGB performance
I was clearing out some old CDs and found a Videobrasil XII one with this Antirom RGB performace on it. I think Gisela may have shot the footage as there are …
A new set of design principles
The latest issue of Desktop is out with an article by me called A New Set of Design Principles. It’s based on interviews with Stefan Sagmeister and Milton …
Creative Waves 2
Omnium, the research group that I am part of (now online) in Australia, has just launched its next ‘Creative Waves’ global e-learning project …
Yahoo! Mail Championships
A few months ago I spent a very fun couple of weeks doing some work for the folks over at Poke where my friend (and ex-Antiromer) Nik Roope is one of the …
Antirom Performance
I love YouTube, it really is becoming the archive of the world. Here’s a bit of the RGB performance Nic Roope, Joe Stephenson and I did when we were at …
Bauhaus Blog
Not really a post that may be of interest to lots of you, but I have started a new blog for those of you who are/will be my students from the Bauhaus (or anyone …
Starting as Gastprofessor at the Bauhaus
I’m off to Weimar tomorrow to start a six-month stint as Guest Professor “Gestaltung medialer Umgebungen” at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in …
Online Educa Berlin 2006 workshop
My colleagues and I from The Omnium Project will be conducting a workshop at the Online Educa 2006 Conference in Berlin on the 29th November and it will be …
Re-imagining Higher Education
Recently I have been giving much thought to the structure and issues that most of us in Higher Education have been struggling with for several years. There are …
Launching the Omnium Creative Network
I am very pleased to announce the launch of the Omnium Creative Network (OCN), which is what I will be spending quite a bit of my time on from now on. The OCN …
Some thoughts about life as a creative individual
This is a piece I wrote and read out in a lecture a couple of years ago, just before I left my teaching job to move back to Germany. Lots of students have often …
My 'Time Sketches' on display at the Powerhouse Museum
I’m very pleased to announce that two of my interactive works are currently on display at the Powerhouse Museum thanks to the wonderful people over at the …
Ninja-Man hits the one million mark
Three of my ex-students, Adam Searle, Johnny Jei Le, and Jason Chow spent the last year re-building a Flash platform game called Ninja-Man that they originally …
Time Smear Demo
Along with the Flow paper I just posted I also showed a demo of my Time Smear piece, which uses a slitscan method that is rather popular in interactive circle …
The Flow Principle in Interactivity
The Proceedings of the second Australasian conference on Interactive entertainment 2005, Sydney, Australia November 23 - 25, 2005 have been released online. The …
Hours wasted improving productivity
If, like me, you are one of those people who is forever wasting inordinate amounts of (enjoyable) time searching for tools, tips and techniques with which to …
Interactive Entertainment 2005
I’m just here at Interactive Entertainment 2005 presenting a paper, The Flow Principle in Interactivity as well as a demo of my Time Smear piece. …
REFRESH! Conference - Lowbrow, High Art: Why Big Fine Art Doesn't Understand Interactivity
An archive of the REFRESH! Conference at the Banff New Media Institute is now online. You can download my paper, Lowbrow, High Art: Why Big Fine Art …
ACUADS paper - The Future has already Happened: Dispelling some Myths of Online Education
Recently the Australian Council of University Art & Design Schools finally published the papers from the 2004 ACUADS conference in Canberra. My paper, …
New Omnium site - an online haven of collaboration
My friends and colleagues on the Omnium project have just launched their shiny new site. It is the outcome of over six years of work and research and they have …
Snaps for my students
Nice to see one of my students, Tim Rudder getting some interest on Tween for the music clip, Alicia, he’s just finished for his final year project with …
Antirom at Videobrasil
I just got mailed by Videobrasil to say they have put together a database of all of their festivals. It was a very pleasant trip down memory lane to see the …
Fin Design Website (2004)
Creative/Interactive Director and Producer for HTML and Flash website for Sydney post-production company, Fin Design. Created in collaboration with Gestalt …
Dreamlight Imaging Website (2002 - 2003)
Flash website and back-end content administration tool for Sydney digital-to-film recording company, Dreamlight Imaging. The brief was to create a site that had …