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Entries from March 2008

Background processing, or why FluidNexus won’t run on the iPhone

March 28th, 2008 · No Comments

I haven’t been keeping up with all of the developments, but evidently Apple recently released the iPhone SDK. While searching for other things (regarding google android) I read a post that states that background applications are not allowed using the iPhone SDK. Since Fluid Nexus requires two background processes to be running at […]

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New Fluid Nexus Videos

March 27th, 2008 · No Comments

As part of a submission to the Prix Ars Electronica I created two new videos…well, more slideshows with narration than videos. The first one is about some of the critiques of network views of reality that underpin the project, while the second is about the technical details of the project.

Here are Ogg Theora […]

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Fluid Nexus Video

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

The workshop is over, but not the project—more information about it soon.

But here is the final video about the project that I showed at the end of the workshop.

Fluid Nexus Project Video from Nick Knouf on Vimeo.

And here’s the final presentation, in OpenOffice format.

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Final Presentation

March 14th, 2008 · No Comments

The video is available (but warning! It’s over 150MB; streaming version coming soon). Also, check out the public subversion repository, as well as the Fluid Nexus website itself.

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Election rallies

March 10th, 2008 · No Comments

I wanted to make it to one of the election rallies celebrating the victory of the PSOE in the Spanish elections that took place today, not only to see rallies in a different country, but also to get some footage of large crowds for my documentation video. I wandered about, looking and listening for […]

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Photos of the workshop…

March 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment

… should be available from the zeitkunst flickr page, the 2° Inclusiva-net flickr pool I created, as well as the Medialab-Prado flickr site.

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Fluid Nexus Update

March 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Just a quick update on FluidNexus after a week of the workshop…

I’ve got two wonderful collaborators, Bruno and Luis, helping me out on the UI and database, respectively. I’ve been hacking away at the networking part of the code, with much help on the protocol from Julian, Pix, and Luis, and have run into […]

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