This is a little preview of one of the personal projects we are working on here at our office at the moment. A visualization of our Skype log files of the last 3 years. The image above is a visualization of all written words and sent files between Julia and myself in the year 2009. Just to give you some hard facts, we wrote a total of 1.002.203 chars during that time. 38% were written by Julia, the rest, 61% were written by myself. We are currently working on some more stats including the year 2008/2010 and a more complex printed poster version.

Together with Media Artist Baruch Gottlieb from kimgottlieb, a Montreal/Berlin/Seoul based design studio we are currently working on some generative media content for the permanent media facade of the GT Tower which is built in Seoul, South Korea at the moment and will be done by the end of the year. Garak Tower is a fantastic office building with a wave-like glass facade designed by Dutch architects Peter Couwenbergh / Edgar Bosman.

Some more images and information about the tower can be found on the website of ArchitectenConsort.

We are happy to welcome Jesse Scott, a new media artist, coder and designer from Vancouver, Canada, here at our office who will spend the next few month working with us on all different kinds of upcoming projects. Under various aliases and operating within several artist collectives, he produces work for live performance, for site-specific actions, for listening, for viewing and for reading. Alongside with Mirae Rosner,he is also the co-founder of the memelab, an interdisciplinary project collective as well as co-founder, alongside several others, of both the Canadian and German Chapters of Graffiti Research Lab. We are really excited to collaborate and work closely together with him and hopefully come up with some new ideas and concepts along the way.

We are keep adding older projects to our website. Next one is »Growing Data«, which is part of a research project started in 2009 together with Christopher Warnow, dealing with questions like “Does a new graphical systems reveal other information than classical statistics?”, “Do they distract from data?” or “How much graphical abstraction is allowed for the sake of a certain visual style?”

More details about the project can be found at the »Growing Data« project page.

Julia is talking about Generative Design and the book »Generative Gestaltung« in Wiesbaden at Hochschule RheinMain

Tuesday, December 14nd, 2010
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Hochschule RheinMain
Room 002 (Altbau)
Unter den Eichen 5
65195 Wiesbaden

Before we will launch the main portfolio section of our website, we are going to add several projects to the blog first.
We are starting today with a detailed project description of our Network Data Visualization Tutorial we made for Weave Issue 3.2010.

Weave Network Data Visualization

Starting this winter term Cedric will teach the principles of generative art and design at the RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden.

Beside that he is also going to teach at the Interaction Design department of the HAWK Hildesheim – University of Applied Science and Art, starting with an one week workshop this November.

Because of the recent launch of our website and blog we are giving away some nice prizes. You can win a new copy of Ira Greenbergs Essential Guide to Processing for Flash Developers and two shapeways 3d printing coupons, 25$ each. Ok, to be honest the main reason to do this is the fact that we always wanted to program some creative random generator to pick the winners like Jer Thorp and some others have done before. We are going to pick the 3 winners after 24 hours. Good Luck!

Update: Time is over and we picked the 3 winners out of 40 participants. Thanks for taking part!
Was fun and pretty sure not the last time we did it.

Watch the video on vimeo to see if you are one of the winners.

Picking the winner