Noby Noby Boy

A friend of mine suggested that i should blog about this game for PlayStation3 called Noby Noby Boy.

Thinking about our Artistic Game category, it might be inspirational to check out the game, as it is done in a very original way in terms of its looks and gameplay.

Ok, to be frank, it can be seen also as very confusing, stupid and weird, but it has certainly delivered some good laughs because of it's wackyness.

Noby Noby Boy is a kinda physics-sandbox-like toy world universum, where you move this weird wormlike dude. You can eat things in the world and stretch the character and fly to space. Apparently the point of the game is to collectively stretch the character and unlock new levels to the game. So no one can advance in the game alone, but the worldwide community of players progress together.

The funness tough, doesn't come from the goal itself, but from the fun and weird gameplay and world.

Noby Noby Boy is available through PSN and costs about 5€.

Alternative Party, Helsinki 23-25.10.09

Turku 2011 deals out its 3rd Event Award, 3000 euros this weekend in Alternative Party, Helsinki. The prize is given to highlight the importance of demoart and the work of Alternative Party. Alternative Party is a Digital culture festival and demoparty that was first held in 1998 in Turku. The cyberpunk theme this year is called: "Man Meets Machine"

Three days filled with digital art, technology, business and science: developer of ARM Sophie Wilson, the crazy Commodore girl Jeri Ellsworth, cyberpunk rock by Dope Stars Inc, the amazing Super computer demo and other competitions, digital art and technology at the exhibition, mind-blowing visual effects and more.

The winner of Event Award (in this case Alternative Party Demo Competition winner) will automatically participate into one of competition category finals in the Live2011.com Grand prix.

Grand Prix: National Student Award jury members are

SONJA KANGAS



Sonja is specialised in digital games and youth media culture. She has studied computer science (from business perspective) and digital media (technology and design).

Currently she works as Head of GameLab at Paf, is an independent researcher at the Finnish Youth Research Network as well as independent game developer at Souplala. She is the Lead Chapter coordinator of IGDA Finland and in the advisory boards of Nordic Game Program and IGDA Women in Games Special Interest Group.


ANDY BEST



Andy Best was born in the South of England in 1963. He studied Fine Art (Sculpture) in Cardiff, Wales, before coming to Finland with a study scholarship in 1988. He studied sculpture at Kuvataideakatemia, Helsinki, for two years. His first one person exhibition was also the first exhibition to be held at the now defunct Vapauden Aukio gallery in the centre of Helsinki, which was on the site of the new Music House.

Andy has participated in numerous group and one person exhibitions in Finland and internationally. Andy is currently senior lecturer in Digital Arts at Turku University of Applied Sciences, and he has recently commenced his own PhD research at Goldsmiths, University of London, in Arts & Computational Technologies.



JARI JAANTO



The career of Jari Jaanto (born in 1978) is very colourful. Having learned programming at the age of eight, life carried him from the IT department of university to the digitalTV business during the IT bubble. Meanwhile, in the year 2000, Jari was one of the founders of Finlands most popular web community, IRC-Gallery. He has been active in the field of marketing and advertising.

Jari created the community marketing concepts in IRC-Gallery while working as the Business Development Manager of Sulake Dynamoid and as the marketing director of Alternative Party media-art festival. He has had the time to be the technological director of Relevant Point Oy and is currently working as a producer of IRC-Gallery.

Disturb Me Installation

I stubled upon this very nice piece of interactive media art.

A good example of something I personally would like to see in the Open or Participative Media categories in the Turku 2011 Grand Prix.

Artworks containing projections which interact some ways with the environment and the projection surface are not a new idea, but they are something that I think have a lot of unused potential within them .

“Disturb Me” is an interactive installation between human and his environment. It is to make perceptible the reciprocal links and often forgotten contact, that we maintain with our environment. The projection depends on the sound emitted by the spectators and creates consequently, a transitory and colored environment. The projected forms are revealed when in contact with surfaces of the room.

Kseniya Simonova - A Performance which Stunned Live2011 team

From a tip by our co-worker we spent a moment with an amazing Youtube video presenting a sand animation by an Ukrainian artist Kseniya Simonova. Simonova want her local Talent show with this stunning live sand animation on Ukrainian tragedy during the WWII. Although video is long (08:33), its worth of seeing.



Some viewers migh recognize Finnish heavy band Apocalyptica in a music line behind the animation.
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Turku is the European Capital of Culture 2011 together with Tallinn, Estonia. The Turku 2011 Foundation has been commissioned by the City of Turku to oversee the implementation of the Capital of Culture year.

Guests can follow the process of putting together the 2011 programme with its around 150 productions online at www.turku2011.fi – Programme and Projects.

The final programme is scheduled to be announced during the summer of 2010.
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The writings and stuff in this blog are personal notes of the Live2011 team at Turku2011 Foundation and do not represent an official view of the Foundation. We wish to bring up interesting things we have popped into in the interesting field of digital media, social media and media technology.