Big African Journey started! Lazar Pašćanović, Marko Đedović, and me — a Serbia Travel Club crew — are traveling to Africa, from Belgrade, via Middle East. Follow our travelblog, Back To Africa (Povratak u Afriku), at the Serbia Travel Club Website.

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By cycling and walking through Paris, with a GPS receiver as a pencil, I’ve drown a 64 kilometer long logo of the GOOD OLD AI Research Network.

It shows how our footsteps, as meaningless as they might seem on the ground, can turn into a fantastic visual pattern understandable only from the sky perspective, making this modern geoglyph a giant symbol of research.

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Blogosphere is embracing Synesketch.

“Pointy Haired Dilbert” considered Synesketch one of the “5 Superb Visualizations of the Week”.  It is even the subject of some Hungarian and Russian blogs.

Del.icio.us and Twitter talk about Synesketch too. Moreover, it is (currently, it changes often) a Google’s first result for the following queries: “textual emotion”, “textual emotion recognition”, and “textual emotion visualization”.

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Synesketch entered the selection of the Alternative Party’s art exhibition in Helsinki, Finland, October 24-26.

Alternative Party is an international festival of digital culture which gathers together creative people like researchers,  programmers, visualists, musicians, and designers.

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A Website for Synesketch, my new artistic software project for textual emotion recognition & visualization, is finished. There you can find a downloadable code, documentation, gallary, info, new logo design, and a community portal.

Moreover, a post about the Synesketch was published on the Infosthetics blog, a major weblog for data visualization and visual communication!

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Thanks to professor Michael Haller and this very generous Austrian scholarship, I’ll be spending one full month, October, in Hagenberg, small place near Linz, playing/working at the Media Interaction Lab, Department of Digital Media, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences. It is a very cool place which glues art, technology, and interaction together, and probably best of that kind in Austria!

Also, the lab is connected with the world-famous Ars Electronica in Linz, a global leading platform for digital arts and media culture. I’ve missed the festival – Prix Ars Electronica, world’s premier cyberarts competition

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“The Two Minutes of Eclipse”, a travel blog by Nenad Morača, Mario Janković-Romano, and me, about a 23 day eclipse chasing trip to Siberian and Mongolian never lands — is finished! All texts (unfortunately, still in Serbian) and 500+ photos, both geotagged on the interactive map, and more — could be found at:

http://sibir.krcadinac.com

So far (during last month and a half), blog had 20.000+ overall visits, or 350+ visits per day! Thank you all for reading!

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Nenadov, Mario i moj putopisni blog o dvadesettrodnevnoj avanturi jurenja pomračenja Sunca po nedođijama Sibira i Mongolije je završen! Sve tekstove, više od 500 geotagovanih fotografija, interaktivnu mapu sa rutama i još svašta možete naći na:

http://sibir.krcadinac.com

Blog “Dva Minuta Pomračenja” je do sada (za oko mesec i po dana) imao preko 20.000 poseta, tj. preko 350 poseta po danu. Hvala vam svima na interesovanju!

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Did you ever wonder how the emotion hidden in words could be transferred into the one caused by a picture? How do reading impressions look like? Is there a synesthesia-like abstract connection, hidden code, thread or a string, between poetry and painting? If yes, gather around, and let me tell you more about a new project of mine, about Synesketch.

Synesketch (Synesthesia + Sketch) is a bridge between words, images, and code. It is a computer program, free software library, interactive animation, and a creative open project for textual affect sensing and creative visualization of it.

Integrating several rather divers

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I was in a bus, sweating, a bit nervous, late for a discussion about the future of Web, about formal semantics, ontologies, and knowledge representation in general (my friends and colleagues from the Good Old AI research group organised it) and not prepared for it at all. The night before, I was reading (again!) a wonderful travelogue from Central Asia and it just didn’t seem important to gather information about microformats and RDFs and Tim Berners-Lee viewpoints…

So, the only thing left for me was to take out a book – Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino –

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After a screening in Moscow, Russia, in official selection of the Golden Knight (Zolotoy Vitiaz) Film Festival, film Self-Portrait will take part in NAFF, Neum Animated Film Festival (July 28 – August 04), Bosnia and Herzegovina, and BUSHO, Budapest Short Film Festival (September 03-07), Hungary.

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