Investigating how interfaces affect the relation between the public and the private the installation “Atmosphere – the sound of CO2” will, as part of COP15 activities in Copenhagen in December, monitor the quantity of CO2 in the air at three different locations in Copenhagen and transform these data into an audiovisual expression that varies in accordance to the measured quantity of CO2.

As such the installation presents itself as both an artwork and as an interface that in a subtle and peripheral way presents to the public information on non-sensuous aspects of the environment. Aspects that relate to private activities like e.g. car driving and heating of houses. From a research perspective the installation relates to interface design/ interface aesthetics, sonification – the auditory equivalence of data visualization, and to a broader philosophical discussion concerning representational vs. computational aspects of space perception.

Tags: CO2

On August 6-7, DUL, CAVI and Martin Professional held a workshop on media facades at Danish Design Center (DDC) in Copenhagen. The aim of the workshop was to develop visual and interactive experiments to explore the potentials of large media screens in public space. The experiments were conducted on six large screens – making a total of 24 square meters – installed in the windows at DDC in the center of Copenhagen.

Tags: architecture | media facades | workshop

In connection with the submission of his PhD dissertation "Designing Engaging Interactive Envi-ronments: A Pragmatist Perspective" to the Faculty of the Humanities at Aarhus University for the award of a PhD degree in Information and Media Studies, MA Peter Dalsgaard will publicly defend his research in open forum on Thursday June 25, 13-16 in ”Det lille Auditorium", IT-Huset, Åbogade 15.

After the PhD degree there will be a reception in room 026, Wiener Building, Helsingforsgade 14, 8200 Århus N.

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Shanghai Science and Technology Commission together with representatives of Shanghai based businesses and research institutions visited Center for Digital Urban Living and CAVI on May 27. The visit was organized by Central Region Denmark in connection with a one-day seminar the day before where Center for Digital Urban Living was presented as part of the theme Urban Computing.

Digital Urban Living, CAVI and The Department of History and Area Studies, all from Aarhus University, have made a virtual version of the Danish National Exhibition from 1909.

The exhibition has had big succes in Denmark, and has now also made it to Russia on the television channel TV Kultura. Read the article on tvkultura.ru (translated to English by Google Translate) or watch the clip (in Russian).

See the site of the exhibition at: www.byhistorie.dk/landsudstillingen (in Danish).

Tags: 3-D | aarhus | cultural heritage | virtual world | web

Aarhus Municipal Library, Gellerup's Café Perlen and Skive Beach Party are the next confirmed location of the

2009 Talkaoke Jutland Tour

Here are the dates:

·    Talkaoke, open-mike-talkshow
·    2. June 2009, 15-18, The Municipal Library/Hovedbiblioteket, Mølleparken, Århus
·    4. Juni 2009, 14-17, Café Perlen, Gellerupparken, Brabrand
·    5. juni 2009, 11-14. Skive Beach Party

Tags: cases | digital aesthetics | interface aesthetics