w3lab- Web 3.0 conference Santa Clara, California
- European Semantic Technology Conference 2009
- UbiComp, a Ubiquitous Metadata Scouter
- LeWeb Paris 2008
- NPOX 2008
- Harnassing the collective intelligence of the World-Wide Web
- Picnic 2008 - Create the Future with us
- Short-url rewriter API
- Google HQ Amsterdam : an Open Social meeting
- MoMo 6
Web 3.0 conference Santa Clara, California
From 23 january till 2 february I’ll be in San Francisco / Silicon Valley to attend the Web 3.0 conference.
Ten is the start of a new decade and the third decade for the Web. The third decade is often seen as and referred to the decade of the semantic Web. So I think that it’s a great way to start this new decade in 2010 by attending the Web 3.0 conference deep in the the heart of the information technology forest - Silicon Valley.
Filter by Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley from Manchester Art Gallery on Vimeo.
European Semantic Technology Conference 2009
From 1 till 4 december I’ll be in Vienna for the European Semantic Technology Conference 2009 http://www.estc2009.com/
James Turrell, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
The Wolfsburg Ganzfeld Piece – as this work of art has been named – is the largest installation ever implemented by the American artist in a museum. Encompassing an area of 700 square metres and 12 meters in height, the installation comprises two rooms that merge into each other, called Viewing Space and Sensing Space, both completely empty and flooded with coloured light that keeps slowly changing. Zumtobel provided the LED luminaires and projectors used in this exhibition.
From 24 October, visitors entering these rooms will experience unique sensory perceptions in this homogeneous visual field. While the light manifests itself, referring to nothing but itself, an interplay between surfaces, colours and space is produced, creating an atmosphere that completely encloses the audience and their senses. Viewers plunge into a mysterious, yet scenic world made of pure light. The artist himself calls this experience “feeling with one’s eyes”.
The culmination of the life’s work of James Turrell, who was born in Los Angeles in 1943 and is today considered one of the most important contemporary artists, is the Roden Crater, an extinct volcano situated in the desert of Arizona, which he has been turning into an artistic observatory since 1974. The Wolfsburg Project installed at the Art Museum relates to this cosmic “light observatory”, virtually turning the Roden Crater – which opens up towards the sky – inside out, as it were, thus creating an infinite interior space. For this extravagant installation, state-of-the-art lighting technology is being used, and the artist makes full use of all opportunities the building offers, which are unprecedented in Germany’s museum landscape. The Wolfsburg Project incorporating the Ganzfeld Piece as well as supplemental installations and documentations is the US artist’s largest exhibition ever shown in Germany.
The installation will be on display in Wolfsburg until 5 April 2010. The exhibition at the Art Museum will be accompanied by a large number of side events such as discussions with architects, among others.
http://www.kunstmuseum-wolfsburg.de/
New: Rancilio Silvia
Stockholm Jul09
From 4 till 9 july I will be in Stockholm again.
Papers: “Autotagging Facebook: Social Network Context Improves Photo Annotation.”
Great paper by: Zak Stone, Todd Zickler, and Trevor Darrell, “Autotagging Facebook: Social Network Context Improves Photo Annotation.” First IEEE Workshop on Internet Vision, 2008. (Best Paper Award.) [PDF]
Abstract
“Most personal photos that are shared online are embedded in some form of social network, and these social networks are a potent source of contextual information that can be leveraged for automatic image understanding. In this paper, we investigate the utility of social network context for the task of automatic face recognition in personal photographs. We combine face recognition scores with social context in a conditional random field (CRF) model and apply this model to label faces in photos from the popular online social network Facebook, which is now the top photo-sharing site on the Web with billions of photos in total. We demonstrate that our simple method of enhancing face recognition with social network context substantially increases recognition performance beyond that of a baseline face recognition system. ” [PDF]
New Camera: Lomo Fisheye 2
James Turrell: The Light Inside
Stockholm feb09
From 12 till 15 february I will be in Stockholm again.