2006-03-16
Redesign of betacity.de with a focus on next generation web „web 2.0“ features – tagging, folksonsomy, and knowledge sharing. betacity is a collaborative calendar, mailinglist, blog and bookmark collection to foster the exchange of information concerning events, projects and initiatives organized within the field of art, culture, media and design. Local focus: Stuttgart, Germany.
2006-02-01
Webdevelopment and Content-Management- Integration (Typo3) for the new website of strichpunkt design. strichpunkt is an owner-operated, strategy and design orientated corporate communications agency located in Stuttgart. The agency operates internationally and is one of the most award winning creative agencies worldwide.
2006-01-22
19th Stuttgart Filmwinter — Festival for Expanded Media
Festival: January 19 - 22, 2006
Warm Up: January 12 - 17, 2006
Exhibition: January 18 - February 19, 2006
2005-10-27
«Wordnews» has been published as Centerfold in „Sonnendeck – Stuttgarter Kunstnotizen“ Issue November 2005.
2005-10-20
This Weekend: Media-Space 05 – Media in Space / Space in Media. Stuttgart, Oktober 20-23, 2005.
2005-10-11
Prof. Philipp Heidkamp mentiones «Wordnews» on the communication platform for the project „Dynamic Information Design“ at Köln International School of Design. Phillip van Allen links to «Wordnews» in his course „Interactive Design 1“ at the Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, California).
2005-10-12
«Wordnews» is now listed on eHub, a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media sharing. Thanks to Emily Chang.
2005-08-19
Editorial Meeting / Public Discussion with: Betacity (Stuttgart), starship (Berlin), The Thing (Frankfurt), subtext (Basel), JUNI (Karlsruhe). September 03 at 04.00 p.m. – Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe
2005-08-16
Call for Entries, Deadline: September 1, 2005. Contributions may be submitted until the 1st of September 2005.
2005-08-07
Extracts all keywords from the pages on this website and displays a list of keywords and links the page title to the keyword related page.
2005-04-20
I took part in a workshop with fontdesigner Luc(as) de Groot. Here are some of my Pixelfonts: MiniDidot, MiniTrade.
2005-04-03
Vvoi has posted another very substantial review of «Wordnews» at his great site «New Art» — notes on performance art, digital art, web art, installation art, and all the other categories.
2005-04-01
Alessandro Ludovico has written a extensive review of my latest work «Wordnews» on Neural.it — Italian daily updated site on new media art, electronic music and hacktivism, quarterly printed as magazine. Thanks a lot!
2005-04-03
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2005-03-16
Still having some charset problems with different outputs (html, txt, xml, ...) . Everything should be UTF-8. Please let me know if you encounter any problems.
Switched charsets back to iso-8859-1 as utf-8 had no benefits and caused small problems. Here are some different outputs: html, txt, xml.
2005-03-15
Finally managed to get the RealURL feature of Typo3 activated. If it's configured correctly it works just perfect.
2005-02-18
New RSS Feed! A tricky example of RSS Import/Export using XML Content Rendering.
2005-02-11
I have worked with Typo3 on several projects in the last years. Here is my entry in the Consultancy Database featuring most of them.
2005-01-11
The 18th Filmwinter revolves around the subjects «youth and age». There is plenty of film and media art. The centre of the festival comprises of different competitions for short film and video, media installations and on and offline media. January 12-16, 2005.
2005-01-05
my first solo exhibition at the «Galerie Oberwelt» in Stuttgart. An installation with material from my latest work «Wordnews». Like a seismograph the application registers amplitudes and eruptions in current world-news headlines. Opening: Friday 1/7, 7 pm. Exhibition until 1/16 2005. Images from the Opening, Thanks Wolfram Scheible!
2004-12-10
I'm off to Milan, Italy and will present «Wordnews» at the Conference on Generative art — Politecnico di Milano University. Organized by the Generative Design Lab, Department of Architecture and Planning. December 13-16, 2004
2004-11-30
Wand 5 e.V. presents William Raban at the «Festival for Expanded Cinema» 2004-12-03, 20:00, Kommunales Kino Freiburg, Urachstr. 40, Freiburg
2004-11-15
Invitation to a preview-evening of the upcoming 18th Stuttgart Filmwinter — Festival for Expanded Media, Tuesday, November 16, 9 pm Rocker 33 (former Molu-Musicshop), Kronprinzenstr. 6, Stuttgart
2004-11-12
Students of the «Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart» show their works!
2004-10-21
The upcoming media-space attempts to connect microutopic practises with city planning. On the same time media-space questions and tries to revitalize the term of «Kunst am Bau» and is looking for a way out of the cul-de-sac of VJ-culture.
2004-09-10
all betacity.de contents can now be accessed as RSS/XML files for easy syndication: News, Articles, Links, Mailinglist.
2004-09-01
join and create MS-City 2004 please upload information on existing void architecture and dead buildings in your city.
2004-08-30
betacity.de series of lectures. 14/15/16 September 2004 - Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Reuchlinstr. 4B, 70178 Stuttgart
2004-08-25
i'm trying out gmail - pretty good web mail experience. I'm using it mainly as mail archive. Mail me at benjamin.fischer@gmail.com
2004-08-01
Klasse Cluss is one of three classes in the main course of studies of communication design at «Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart»
2004-07-29
submit your work for the IBM Award for New Media and the dasding-audience award Internet at the 18. Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival
2004-07-06
i just got the new P900 smartphone from SonyEricsson — it's amazing! My new mobile number: +49 160 94 73 68 38
2004-05-10
Iman has published his dissertation on Glitch Aesthetics at the University of Huddersfield. «Neuordnung» is featured on a few pages in it.
2004-05-05
The Media-Space Design received an if-design award 2004 by Industrie Forum Hannover and a bronze DDC award 2003 by the German Designers Club. The Media-Space «Flyer-Poster» is one of the «100 best posters 2003» in Austria, Switzerland and Germany. Good to work with buero diffus!
2004-04-03
my work is featured as «Focus On» in Pleasezine — italian webzine about web and graphic design and illustration. Thanks Domenico
2004-04-03
guests at «Freies Radio Stuttgart» in the programme «satokii» talking about betacity.de, netaudio, content filtering and moderation.
2004-03-26
Lecture on betacity.de, Content Filtering, Moderation and Mailingslists at an multidisciplinary workshop on globalisation at the «Institut Culturel Franco Allemand, Tübingen»
2004-07-28
this might be a nice job in Los Angeles. Funny that they are using a project that I made as their reference...
2003-03-01
The Lounge72 crew selected me to become new contributor at their site. Watch out for updates and links!
2003-08-14
the 17th edition of the Stuttgart Filmwinter is looking for innovative, critical, and unknown posititions in media art and film culture. Internet-projects may be submitted online on the festival's website. Entry forms and regulations for submissions in the field of film, video, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, installation, and performance can be downloaded as PDF-file.
2003-04-26
«Neuordnung» is featured on Neural.it: new media art, electronic music, hacktivism.
2003-03-20
4 pages of my project «Neuordnung» will be printed in issue 20 of the swiss graphic design magazine. soDA magazine is a high quality magazine dedicated to extraordinary graphics and innovative contents. soDA aims to connect specialists and find creative positions, which lead beyond ordinary opinions. The theme for the issue will be RISK.
2003-03-16
Big thanks to all the nice people reporting about the launch of my site...
Cheers go out to: Broken Wrist Project, Clubsandwich, Creative Behavior, CR, deformat, Designer's Hub, Designers Network, Digitalthread, 4EFX, Elvtr, FlashMX Pro, gouw, Halfproject, Kaliber10000, Linkdup, Lounge 72, Neozine, Nervousroom, NWYH, Phirebrush, Projectneo, Towar, Untitledlab and even Yahoo! has placed me in the right category!
2002-08-23
The second edition of the media-space-event deals with the relation between New Media and the stage and its transformation. At presentations, lectures, and workshops international artists will talk about aesthetic strategies in the field of theatre, electro-acoustic music, VJ-ing, and architecture. For detailed information on the programme, supporters, cooperation partners, and hosts please visit http://www.media-space.org
2002-07-01
I just finished the implementation of XML/RSS feed output on betacity.de. You can get fresh content and resources on your own site. I also wrote a scripts were you simply copy a line of JavaScript code in your HTML and a box with betacity contents appears!
2002-07-01
betacity photographers watch football fans in Stuttgart's Streets. Semi-Final and Final match
2002-05-14
betacity - build your own city. A small contest for the architects of today. Thank you erational!
2002-06-10
we went to the Documenta11 in Kassel, Germany and made some nice pictures and a review.