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Streaming service Deezer commissioned Verena Dauerer to produce a whitepaper on "Podcasts in Germany". The booklet was handed out during re:publica conference with whom Deezer organised a podcast competition.

For German Qiio magazine, a collaboration between Berlin-based Blogfabrik and Deutsche Bank, Verena Dauerer created a series of five articles on "Bionics." It is exploring prostheses, cybernetic extremities and cyborgs throughout the millennia and how they dissolve our perceptions of gender. https://www.qiio.de/kompendium/bionik

In the recent years programming code has been the common denominator for Japanese media artists to create some astonishing works of art. For Japan Times Verena Dauerer explores contemporary artists, such as Daito Manabe, Yuri Suzuiki, exonemo and teamLab, who have defined the way the genre has evolved. The Society for News Design (SND) awarded the article series in the Combination Print & Features Digital category (Award of Excellence). www.bit.ly/1v1WGr0

re:publica in Berlin is one of the world's leading conferences on the topic of digital society. From May 6-8, 2014, the topic was expanded to Berlin's 3,800 underground train screens. As project lead for "Berliner Fenster" Verena Dauerer was in charge of coordinating all TV content, news and updates which were produced by students of Deutsche Journalistenschule (DJS). As part of this cross-media project they compiled a reader on each conference day that was published as epubli eBook the following morning. www.re-publica.de/en/news/going-underground-republica-tv-and-reader

In December 2013 Verena Dauerer was invited by the University of Technology, Business and Design Wismar to deliver an inspirational lecture on digital trends. The lecture introduced creative projects in visual storytelling, Augmented Reality, 3d printing, gesture tracking and NFC. The presentation is available here: http://bit.ly/1bfWeo4

From December 2013 the printed magazine "Globalisierung im Schatten der Überwachung" about the planned German-American transatlantic trade agreement (TTIP) among other is available at newspaper stands. The crowdsourced project was conceived by Bertelsmann Foundation and the Collaboratory organization. Verena Dauerer was in charge as both head of the editorial desk and managing editor. http://www.collaboratory.de/w/Globalisierung_im_Schatten_der_Überwachung

In the month before Berlin's IFA trade show, a web magazine by Deutsche Telekom was presenting the makers behind their products, accompanied by makers from the Berlin DIY scene. Verena Dauerer has developed the editorial concept and has coordinated all content as editor-in-chief. http://ifa-erleben.telekom.com

To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the HUGO by Hugo Boss brand, a RED NEVER FOLLOWS microsite presenting 20 digital artists working in the interactive/interaction/kinect area was created. In July 2013 these were exhibiting at London's Saatchi gallery. Verena Dauerer has been coordinating all written content in German, English and French for the site. www.redneverfollows.com

In May 2013 the newthinking magazine has been released at re:publica 13, Germany's biggest blogger conference. Each of the 4,000 attendees received a copy of newthinking agency's 10th anniversary issue. The one-time printed publication was available at newspaper stands. The magazine content was generated during a sprint process using crowdsourcing. Verena Dauerer was in charge as both head of the editorial desk and managing editor.

After last year's trend report published as free iPhone application, Verena Dauerer compiled the follow-up Trendexplorer report about technology & creation for DDB Tribal agency. It has been released as free web application in December 2012: www.bit.ly/VaSFY7

Verena Dauerer is the Executive Editor of a new platform, mooove.com. It consists of an editorial part and contextual search engine focussing on mobility. The online project was launched by Stylepark AG as part of the Audi Urban Future Award. www.mooove.com

Verena Dauerer compiled an extensive trend report with a focus on Japanese campaigning for Hamburg-based agency DDB Tribal. It has been released as free application for iPad in December 2011. Please download over here: http://bit.ly/UStAT6

Bjork's new album Biophilia is being released as series of iPad applications. Media artist and programmer Scott Snibbe tells German Zeit Online how he brought her concept to life.

French street artist JR is known for his oversized photo portraits in Brazilian favelas or on the Wall in Palestine. Recently he came to Tokyo to rally for his Inside Out project, a large-scale participatory project funded by TED talks. Verena Dauerer reports for Japan Times.

Twitter as a game platform: With more Twitter users in Japan than in the U.S., Japanese Twitter campaigns are taking off and show clever ways to market through the social networking service. Verena Dauerer reports for Japan Times.

Hong Kong is both known as a global centre of finance and the place where the world’s largest auction houses sell most of their fine arts. Only, what is the situation for emerging artists and spaces for low-brow art? Verena Dauerer reports for English-Swedish SPANA Magazine. www.gamla.riksutstallningar.se/Templates/ExtNews____37791.aspx

Cyberpunk veteran Bruce Sterling famously coined quite a couple of terms that have been seeking in our digital life, e.g. Augmented Reality or Vaporware. His interview in WEAVE magazine about his latest novel "The Caryatids."

Augmented Reality has been around for quite some time. But only recently, due to new software developments, it has been used for several smart campaigns; PAGE reports.

With his animated short, "Please Say Something", 23-year-old David OReilly just won the Golden Bear at Berlinale festival. Now the animation shooting star wants to redefine the genre with his manifesto.

No doubt, Tokyo is full of bits and pieces of playful architecture and lots of temporary installations that make clever use of the city’s crammed spaces. Time to gather our favourites that have amassed over the past year, for a little roundup on recent interactive architecture of several kinds! Amazing pieces PingMag always wanted to show you…

Australian Andrew Vande Moere digs deep in his information channels to gather the most interesting forms of data visualization on his blog infosthetics.com. For him this is a symbiosis between creative design and information visualization: form follows data and evolves in such unique graphs that you can call them art. Can you? PingMag talked to Andrew about infosthetics.

A report in German online portal SPIEGEL ONLINE on the recent netlabel movement.

Fear and loathing in the computer age – what eminent PC viruses and a Berlin art exhibition have in common; article in German daily Die WELT.