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Next screenings: Nov 30 2008 -> Detour, Third International Video Festival, Cairo/Egypt. Dec 10 2008 -> Alternative Film/Video 2008, International festival for video art, Belgrade/Serbia. Update: SN works will be also part of the exhibition 'Soundscapes of Memory' in the Big gallery of SCCC, curated by Aleksandra Sekulic.

Hardware: Two thumbs up
Cameras, phones, music players ... gadgets merge all the time, mostly with quantity valued over quality. But this new photography and video convergence is for real, and from my own point of view as an artist working in this wide range of media and techniques the revolution can't arrive soon enough. I'm waiting for this for years. Many upcoming digital SLRs will have outstanding video capabilities and the line between the still cameras an their video counterpart was first blurred with the September announcement of the EOS 5D Mark II which is capable of capturing 1080p-quality clips. RED is supposed to announce its first DSLR on November 13 as well, although the company is more well-known for its high-quality digital cinema cameras.

Software: Two thumbs down
While it looks promising for the merge of DSLR, HD, and film cameras, DAM (Digital Asset Management) software is falling behind. There is no comprehensive solution available with extensive support for not only photography, but also video, audio, graphics, fonts and other types of digital media or documents. Combining a good cataloging/archival strategy with a production/post production workflow for photography, video and audio is a pain in the ass. Full Metadata support, tagging, stacks, and version management for any filetype should actually be built right into the operating system, but will this ever happen? Adobe Bridge lacks a database, Lightroom and Aperture both have a very limited support of filetypes (no video at all), Expression Media's future is uncertain, iMatch is good for images but lacks preview/metadata support for other media types and doesn't offer workspaces or RAW workflows. The list goes on.

Web: New developments arise
With HTML 5 replacing both HTML 4 and XHTML,

Various SN video works were selected for participating in the following festivals this October: Streaming Festival, The Hague/NL, 'HollyWould', 11th Festival of New Media Arts, Los Angeles/USA, and CologneOFF IV, Museum of Contemporary Art (MACZUL), Maracaibo/Venezuela.

After 12 years of this web presence's existence it's about time for this Redesign #5 - there you go! Over the next months the content and design will be further refined and some new features added. The relaunch is again based on the self-developed o0oo CMS which is released in version 5 at the same time - newly structured and for the most part completely rewritten over the last 12 months.

Event Note: The SOUND NOMADS performance/video work 'Luxor 22.145' is scheduled to be screened at the Rencontres Internationales in Paris, Nov 30, 2007. 9.30 PM, Entrepôt. An international programming between new cinema and contemporary art. This edition will take place from November 22 to December 1, notably at the Centre Pompidou, at the movie theater Entrepôt and at the national museum of Jeu de Paume.