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Digital Calligraffiti is doing a special performance tonight (Monday) at re:publica! We’ve got a big Berlin crew lined up for lighting up re:publica with some live projected Calligraffiti! XULI, Mhanna Letters, Kadir Memiş, YAT, Naok Write, Susa Pop, Don
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I had the pleasure of meeting one of my favourite synth designers at Superbooth. Tats designed the original Korg Volcas and Monotron that were some of my gateway synths! I got to try Korg.berlin’s latest prototype of acoustic synthesis and geek out a bit
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Berlin - I’m inbound! Who’s going to Superbooth? Any tips? I’m looking forward to @somasynths @moogsynthesizers @korg_berlin and lots more!
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“8hands” on stage at Mutek AE as part of the Performance Lab @mutekae. We met during the weekend hacklab for one performance only. NYUAD meets @analogroom! @mangtronix @tacitmusik @aacarcrash @twstd__
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Epic to have the chance to perform at Mutek AE with some new friends as part of the Performance Lab. It’s a rush to perform live as group! Thanks to @pkirn and @serwithme for hosting! @mutekae
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Excited to be joining the Performance Lab with @pkirn and @serwithme at @mutekae this weekend! Can’t wait to do group a hacklab with a performance on Sunday! The festival line up looks great!
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Great day in the dunes with @ad4x4club. I completed three training to start Advanced dune driving (thanks Roy!) Looking forward to driving in Liwa and some overnight trips!
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Fascinating talk by AI pioneer Yann Lecun about the limits of current machine learning models and research towards machines that can learn their own representation of the external world and make their own plans. Some choice quotes: We think we have gener
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Working on the circuitry for the next version of the String Thing. Each side will have a 3D printed pickup pod with volume/tone control and there will be a bus connection between the sides so you can get individual L/R pickups or a mix on both sides (the
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Abu Dhabi sunset with some rare clouds to catch the light #nephology
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Out desert exploring with the AD4x4 club. The glowing rectangle in the sky is a solar power plant! @ad4x4club
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Some great projects from my Desert Media Art students this year! Here are a few behind the scenes shots from their desert installations. They’re working hard on their documentation videos and getting ready to show the works at the Interactive Media End of
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Congrats to Diaa Allam on the opening of his solo calligraphy show in Dubai! We first performed together with Digital Calligraffiti for the Festival of Tolerance in Abu Dhabi a few years ago and then again at the Louvre Abu Dhabi on their fantastic walls!
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Scenes from the end of the road. Geologic time in fast forward in grains of sand blown by the wind #desertmediaart #scouting
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Saturday scouting mission. Let’s see what it looks like on the ground! #abudhabilife #desertmediaart
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My keynote at Festival X is at 3pm. Come check it out! @festivalx.ae @nyuad.im
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My keynote at Festival X is at 3pm. Come check it out! @festivalx.ae @nyuad.im
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Philip Glass Ensemble performing a live score of Koyaanisqatsi. Wow!!!! We’re still accelerating @nyuadartscenter
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Doing some scouting on Google Maps. Particularly interested to see more star dunes. All within 3 hours of my apartment #abudhabilife
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Had to bring @nathanfluteboxlee and @blackkchronical from @asian_dub_foundation out for a taste of the Abu Dhabi desert that I love so much. @soultrotter just happened to have his new 4x4 so Mango Lassi had a new friend! And with a filmmaker in the convoy
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And that’s a wrap! On behalf of our participating recent graduates (who unfortunately couldn’t be here to the end) and the NYUAD Interactive Media program I’d like to thank @festivalx.ae and @arselectronica for having us in the Campus exhibition in Linz!
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YOU ARE NOT HERE By Sarah Al-Yahya (JO) Ars Electronica 2023 YOU ARE NOT HERE is a durational interactive installation that explores misrepresentation on typical maps. It encourages audiences to engage in counter-mapping by pinning locations on an unlabe
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The NYUAD Interactive Media installation at Ars Electronica is on the top floor of the Postcity building inside the Campus Exhibition / Festival X Next Gen. Hope to see you there! @arselectronica @festivalx.ae
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NYUAD Interactive Media is proud to participate in Ars Electronica this year with two student projects as part of the Festival X Next Gen inside the Campus Exhibition. We’re featuring Desert Media Art and a work inspired by Gulf identities. Let me know if
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Kicked off the new semester with an Off The Stage arts chat with visiting artist (and former classmate!) Andrew Schneider @helloandrewjs His incredible N O W I S W H E N W E A R E (the stars) theatrical installation is making its Arab world premiere at th
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Latest addition to the studio - a 2011 Jazz Bass. It’s a bottom of the line Fender (Squier) but sounding pretty good after a tune up! I massaged some jojoba oil into the fretboard and it’s nicer than it ever was! Sounds coming soon… #jazzbass #diy
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The materials test for a new piece I’m working on was a success! Can anyone ID the mushrooms? A year ago I marked up some birch pieces and re-placed them in the forest in Quebec. One of the pieces has an exuberant flush of mushrooms bursting out of the cu
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Awestruck and excited that one of my students’ projects “The Oasis” has been selected for Ars Electronica! Congrats to Dhabia, Joseph, Maitha and Salama! The project was from the first session of my Desert Media Art class at NYU Abu Dhabi Interactive Medi
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Digital Calligraffiti is featured in the new Media Architecture Compendium Vol 2 just launched at the Media Architecture Biennale! Congrats to the whole DC team and crew - nice to see our work archived in print! @susa.pop @don_stone1 @el.7mz @moestr._ #ma
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Im doing a special indoor session of Digital Calligraffiti for the Media Architecture Biennale Gala Awards ceremony in Toronto on Friday. If youre at the Biennale come share a thought about the future of media architecture! Pics are from our latest sessio
