After this Drop Shadow Blog and the Drop Shadow Revolution, I am happy to announce The Drop Shadow Talks.
These talks will deal with current developments on our desktops – mainly from an artistic point of view. In the shades of evening lectures the Drop Shadow Talks will present art and projects influenced and inspired by the baroque graphical user interface. All talks will take place at Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule near Potsdamer Platz at 7 pm. The first three talks will be Tuesdays, the last two Thursdays.
On October 27, Lars Harmsen from Magma Brand Design, publisher of Slanted Magazine and expert for 3D fonts will give an introduction on techniques on how to create depth in a flat medium: “2d3d in Grafik-Design und Typographie”.
On November 10, artist Aram Bartoll from Berlin will give insight into his work dealing with the online influence to our offline world and culture and vice versa. His most recent work is called “Fuck 3D”, btw.
On November 24, Dragan Espenschied will speak about “Digital Folklore” and explain why glittering star backgrounds, photos of cute kittens and rainbow gradients are the most important, beautiful and misunderstood language of new media.
On December 3, Dutch artist Jan Robert Leegte will present his work in which scrollbars, selection frames from Photoshop and bevel frames from age-old graphical user interfaces play a significant role.
Next year, on January 21, Jay David Bolter from Georgia Institute of Technology will give a talk on the subject as well. He is author of several influential books on new media theory. For example my favorite interface book Windows and Mirrors — Interaction Design, Digital Art, and the Myth of Transparency!
P.S. There are even more things dropping their shadows: the Drop Shadow Talks are accompanied by the Drop Shadow Seminar at BTK in the sixth semester, accompanied of course by the Drop Shadow Seminar Blog. There is also a Drop Shadow Shirt…