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Web2.0 Suicide Machine now online!

walter langelaar — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:45 GMT

Tired of your Social Network?

Liberate yourself and your 'friends' with a web2.0 suicide!
The Web2.0 Suicide Machine lets you effectively delete all your energy
sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and
completely do away with your web2.0 alterego. The machine is developed in
the moddr_lab at WORM (Rotterdam), and serves as a metaphor for the
http://suicidemachine.org website which moddr_ hosts; the belly of the
beast where the web2.0 suicide-scripts are maintained...

Our services currently run with Facebook.com, Myspace.com and LinkedIn.com;
simply enter your username and password for the required service, and our
machine will systematically login to your account, change your profile
picture, and then one by one delete all of your friends.

For more specific information on the Web2.0 Suicide Machine please have a
look at the videotour and FAQ on http://suicidemachine.org

'unfriending' has never been this easy,

Commit NOW!

http://suicidemachine.org
http://wormweb.nl
http://moddr.net

libs/convert.h:206 assertion failure :: NetRadiant

walter langelaar — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:13:12 GMT

made a small fix for the Netradiant package for *nixes, after a recurring "assertion failure" bug on machines with an Intel graphics board - so if your 'radiant.x86' fails to start with a message like so:

libs/convert.h:206
assertion failure: decode: invalid character: AE

you might wanna try the binary thats here instead. Questions and comments via here
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year's end...

walter langelaar — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:54:38 GMT

opening an exhibition space in the MQ in Vienna with moddr_ and WORM (i'm there from 9th till 14th of november btw!), first show holds new work by JODI - workshops @ moddr_ by TagTool crew, Derek Holzer, HOTGLUE and Julian Oliver - showing work at TENT. till end of November - and then off to Berlin to spend the holidays with old and new friends, and of course 26C3 !!!

presentation IABR : November 6th @ NAI

walter langelaar — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:46:11 GMT

i'm giving a presentation on my work and other activities at the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, November 6th - 20.20 at the NAI.
Since i don't really do slideshow-style presentations, i'm making a Pecha Kucha Bot ;)

Nacht van de Geschiedenis

walter langelaar — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:26:24 GMT

tonight i'm showing an installation at the 'Nacht van de Geschiedenis' in the lovely hotel Krasnapolsky, it's a shoot-em-up rendition of the famous wintergarden in the hotel, pic bleow:

オフに日本へ!!!

walter langelaar — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:27:37 GMT

coming weeks i'll be in Japan, first in and around Tokyo where i'll give a talk at the excellent Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory and to meet up with Alvaro...

... after that i'll head over to Yokohama with the 5uper.net crew for the Japanese edition of the CodedCultures festival. I'll be showing work and giving a presentation at the YCC, there's a symposium at the Tokyo Art Uni and there's one of the famous minimal tokyo nights in UNIT.

shaded >> [paralevel.real.shader] @ TENT.rotterdam

walter langelaar — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:24:04 GMT

gogbot09 >> atompunk...

walter langelaar — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:12:51 GMT

3 DVD's playing selected work gathered from different sources, while the machine on the left runs a modded Call_Of_Duty4 showing the Chernobyl/Pripyat area...

i must say it was real great to put up a show in a shipping container ;)
thnx kees!

starting 090909

walter langelaar — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:34:57 GMT

new works in BLURRR at TENT. Rotterdam, with Nina Boas, Iddo Drevijn, Sophie Krier, Walter Langelaar, Gyz La RiviÈre, Strange Attractors, Studio Spass, EsmÉ Valk and Volksrekorders - till 15th of November.

then on Thursday 100909 i'm showing a collage type installation at the GOGBOT festival in Enschede, with work by several artists and authors, revolving around a cultural thread inspired Andrei Tarkovsky’s "Stalker", to a more contemporary rendition in form of the videogame "S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl" and the ensuing "fan fiction" or fanfic's...
come look me up, i'm playing curator in a shipping container on market square ;)

then the next day (110909, yes it's another crazy week) i'm showing some /tmp projections outside in De Wereld van Witte de With:

"The World of Witte de With ushers in the cultural season of the dozens of leading arts centres and galleries located on the 'cultural axis': the Witte de Withstraat and the Museumpark of Rotterdam."

paralevel++

walter langelaar — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:37:37 GMT

Oscar just sent a link to a post on his blog, including the video below, showing the final moments of configuring the latest paralevel at Arteleku...

Basically what you see is the reddish cube controlling a custom gamelevel (projected on the ceiling) via camera tracking (using the excellent Gamuza), and additional navigation done via a 3D accelerometer (hacked Nintendo Nunchuck + Xbee's). I'll post some more detailed info on the build process and tech setup soon...

@Arteleku!

walter langelaar — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:26:57 GMT

currently working on a new project at the excellent Arteleku, in the Interactivos?'09 entitled "Mixed episodes in Hybrid Bases" ::

"Mixed/Hybrids – Episodes/Bases. Such transversal, permissive concepts allow us to prepare alliances and exchanges where the poetries of architectural spaces and of any situation. They provoke explorations and relations between what seems not to have a simulated purpose and those small minuscule narrative derivations between consumers and users. They provoke episodes, mixed chapters in hybrid bases stimulating a combination of devices and forces between what is intervened and the intervener, an interactive transit, a fugitive reading between what is contingent and its container."

Moises Mañas & David Cuartielles

coded cultures footage

walter langelaar — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:21:21 GMT

with a short bit on the new nOtbOt ::

blabla

via TAGR.TV

OA_NIMK2

walter langelaar — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:57:50 GMT

here's some shots from my work at the 'Fluid Architectures' show in the NiMK, a more detailed desciption is here, and a video will be up soon..

(camera + me on camera)

at the beach...

walter langelaar — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:00:16 GMT

yesterday i went to an amazing place to visit the beautiful MaaKali, which turned into a truly inspiring experience. The place is called Villa Ockenburgh and it's an old hotel-slash-youth-hostel which is now run by StichtingZ. The main building houses several artist studios and projectspaces, surrounded by gardens and a park, proper estate style...
oh yeah and it's at the beach too ;)

Next to the villa there's this excellent building by Frank van Klingeren which totally reminded me of my old academy, AKI.
The building has been empty for several years now and for some reason got completely trashed by dutch ME idiots, who apparently needed some target practice, and it then got further vandalized by local youth...

(solid steel trying to blend in...)

Since i'm in for a small 'retraite', i might just hang out there for some weeks come summer to work on projects, aaaahhhh

two shows

walter langelaar — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:31:35 GMT

quite a crazy week; flew off to Vienna last Tuesday to setup for the opening of the CodedCultures festival and symposium, first time showing the new nOtbOt hardware and casing (pic below). Press conference and opening on Wednesday, great times, and then flew back to Amsterdam Thursday evening to setup for the Fluid Architectures show at NIMK on Friday. Setting up there was no less problematic than usual, ended up recoding much of the work on the day itself (which turned out real nice actually) and more on that show soon...

the Coded Cultures exhibition is on till the 7th of June, the show at NIMK till 16th of August.

more talk

walter langelaar — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:54:23 GMT

last week we presented one of our upcoming projects, tentatively dubbed the 'Web2.0 Suicide Machine!', at the Urban Studio Symposium for the Hogeschool Rotterdam.

Tomorrow, Friday 15th, I'll be presenting a new nOtbOt and giving a short talk at the 'Digital Material' book launch, at Studio T in Utrecht.

dorkbot#7

walter langelaar — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:55:20 GMT

giving a talk tonight at Dorkbot Vienna, showing off the new hardware base for nOtbOt, which is kind of a project in it's own - but more on that later, and a brief intro on moddr_ and previous works.
Kindly hosted by monochrom and Coded Cultures, around 19.00 at Metalab.

LiWoLi09

walter langelaar — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 11:21:26 GMT

just got back from the LinuxWochen in Linz, which was quite amazing...

>> spot TUX ;)

went over to do the VGA Tester workshop with Arjan Scherpenisse, which was really great!
Despite a huge hangover from the great party the night before at OK, I still managed to cram this moddr_ logo thingie together like below - the circuit generating the image is in the lower-right corner ::

cheers to Arjan and workshop participants, and all the wonderful people i met over the last few days - and thnx dan for letting me crash ;)

résidence

walter langelaar — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:55:57 GMT

during the month of April I'll be resident artist at the MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, courtesy of Quartier21.

I'll be working on several projects and events leading up to the CodedCultures festival, so drop me a line if you're around or maybe see you there!

/tmp/411/*

walter langelaar — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:52:47 GMT

since my posting 'ere seem to stay somewhat sporadic anyhow, here's a whole string of new stuff i'm doing in coming times...

CODED CULTURES is a binational festival (Austria – Japan) in the year 2009 to explore new artistic practices and creative ability profiles within media integrated project-cultures and digital media related art, focusing on Japan and Europe.

I'll be showing work in the exhibition which takes place at Quartier21 in the Museumsquartier of Vienna - from 27th of may till 8th of june - and then later in the year in Yokohama(!!!) from 14th till 18th of October.

Also starting in May is an exhibition at the 'Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts' (or NIMK for short) on fluid architecture in which i'll be making a new site-specific work for the institute, and also i'll be giving a workshop.
The plan for this is to combine tech developments made in the nOtbOt and [[recursive]descent] projects into a new piece which deals with the NIMK building and context itself - let's say the working title is 'The Institute and it's Double'..

This show also features the excellent Pablo Valbuena and Mark Napier, and is curated by Susanne Jaschko.

On the 15th of May i'll be showing nOtbOt at a book presentation for the University of Amsterdam, i'll also be giving a talk there on my 'access' to digital media as an artist - which will probably entail me giving many kudos to all the wonderful opensource projects i've been able to base my work on.

For the 2009 edition of the GOGBOT festival i've been invited as a guest-curator for a videogame oriented part of the exhibition, where i'll also be showing new work made within the Fallout game series - that should fit nicely with the 'Atompunk'(?) theme i guess ;)

more on that here by BruceS...

then somewhere in the meantime some good friends and I are setting up a new studio+gallereh/parteh facility in Berlin someplace (so watch out if u see me crashin into stuff over there again), doing a lot of cool stuff with moddr_ at WORM, and re-working q3aSocialLadder with some Chlorgeschlecht tunes!

and surely there's more to add... soonish.