studies

I got my BA from the Danish Roskilde University in the summer of 2000. I'm definitely not through studying, and I'm planning on going back next winter to get my master.

So far my studies have shown me not only how to write computer programs and websites but how to use technology to actively support and reform the areas of communication and education. As an example, read about the moon-room.

Courses

At Roskilde university courses are still centered about large lectures and long lists of literature. It's a good opportunity to get a common ground, a basic knowledge, and to ask questions about the course literature.

I've been taking courses in philosophy, lliterature education, multimedia-design, software-design, algorithms, target-group analysis, interview-techniques, object oriented programming and more. I admit I was a bit surprised to find out just how much of the knowledge and techniques aacquiredfrom the studies of lliteratureand philosophy could be directly transferred to programming. I found that I was faster to pick up new programming languages than my fellow students with a background in physics or chemistry. It must be a combination of the logic from philosophy and the analysis and understanding from lliterature

Projects

jamsynth

J.A.M.Synth is a software-synthesizer written entirely in Java, using the JavaSound API. It emulates a analogue modular synthesizer, allowing the user to build his or her own unique synthesizer, by choosing among a variety of components. Click on the title to fond out more, or go directly to the applet-version and try it right away.

step into the art

This is the title of a CD-rom production for the dDanishart-museum Arken. The product was used to give historical and art-historical as well as biographical information to support an exhibition of the most significant aAmericanand eEuropeanpop-artists. The target group was children at the ages 8-12.

The entire CD-rom is made entirely in flash (animations and sound) and html (longer texts and eembeddedvideo).

moon room

We wanted to work with motivation vs. barriers for communication. We had an idea that computers and video projectors gave new and unique opportunities for communication, specifically in the ssenseof motivation, inspiration and catalysation. We ended up giving ourselves the rather difficult task to create a room that would serve as an oasis of poetry in the middle of the hyped world of computer science studying at a modern university. The target group was our fellow students, on their way to the station, the library or just in the middle of planning ttomorrow'smeetings and courses.

We decided to iinitiallylet the room work in the same tempo as the observer, and then slowly take over, letting the poetry move closer and closer to the observer, and via both audiovisual and physical effects force the observer to make his or her own interpretations of the poetry. Sometimes the room is interactive, then it suddenly gives orders. Sometimes it all makes sense, then you have to really think hard to find sense.

We got a lot of ppositivefeedback. The room seemed to completely surprise and lock the observers to the focus: poetry. Even though the room was filled to the edge with noisy technology such as three computers, two video-projectors, dias-projectors, speakers and the lot, nobody seemed to notice it's presense.

the moon room