Code, Dance and Draw Workshop at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague, Netherlands (12/14)

http://www.kabk.nl/newsitemEN.php?newsid=0921&cat=10 Under the guidance of Interactive Media teacher Lauren Alexander and professor / programme director of Art & Media Design at Gallaudet University in Washington (US), Max Kazemzadeh, the Graphic Design department of the Royal Academy of Art is currently giving an introduction to the possibilities of interactive open-source software and robotics. Workshop student blogs…

ISEA 2014 (ISEA.DUBAI) Dabarithms: Palm Wish

by Reza Safavi and Max Kazemzadeh “Dabarithms: Palm Wish” (“Daba”: Dubai “rithms”: Algorithms) is an interactive digital, kinetic, geo-location performance project, that uses algorithmic functions calculated in a custom GPS Tracking Android Phone App to direct a “wish-scavenger” around the man-made Palm Jumiera Island (Dubai, UAE) in search of wishes. The Palm Jumiera is named…

Submerge Art Fair DC – exhibiting both Antisocialbots and Jabbertalkey

I was invited to exhibit works at the 2012 Submerge Art Fair http://www.submergedc.com at 700 H St. NE, Washington DC this week, so I installed an older project called Antisocialbots, which are 3 little 5 inch tall robots that turn away and plays a sound sequence when someone approaches each of them. They also turn…

Silverlight: Microsoft’s answer to Flash/Director/After Effects/Final Cut

It’s microsoft, yay! Not gonna be open source, but neither is anything in the Adobe/Macromedia bundle? Processing and Pure Data still take the cake when your talking open source, but if you can get a freeware/beta version of Silverlight you can decide for yourselves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEUrQEj6Sd4 http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/default_ns.aspx

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Invited to be a SIGGRAPH 2007 Juror

Invited to Serve as a Juror – SIGGRAPH: 34th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, San Diego, California. August 5-7, 2007 http://www.siggraph.org/s2007/ http://www.siggraph.org/

Artechmedia (and Montse Arbelo) presented my work at the ARCO Art Fair in Spain

Artechmedia is a traveling symposium that was represented at the ARCO Art Fair in Spain. They presented a number of selected electronic media artists works in a symposium presentation there, and my work was one in the list. Their site is http://www.artechmedia.net They will be publishing a book with all of the included artists within…