I still hate London. Tired but con­tent at pollyanna_n’s house after a superb dinner, nice wine and yummy homemade apple crumble. I’m up way later than I need be because I star­ted read­ing all the LJ posts I’d missed out on while I waited for my CD drive to burn the…

Me: Come in, 1988. This is 2003 call­ing. Hello, 1988, can you hear me? Shit, where’s the volume con­trol on this thing? Ah, there you are. Hi, Ros­anne? Me (looks up): Who are you? Me: I’m you from the future. Me: Cool. Where are you? Does­n’t look like Sydney. Me:…

Well, I’ve been trying to run into Heath Ledger or Matt Damon on this trip, since I know they’re in town for Broth­ers Grimm. I’ve got their pub­li­cist’s number but I’ve been told it’s a closed set. Anyhow, just ran into Rufus Sewell! Who is here to do Tristan &…

So, Tabor was nice but very quiet on a Thursday. All the nifty hip hop clubs and techno places looked like they would go off on the week­end but I needed to get to Prague. I’m fas­cin­ated by the idea of the Tabor com­mune which was around from 1420 till the mid-17th…

24/09/03 Cesky Krum­lov has been this amaz­ing inter­lude of peace­ful camaraderie. I met up with four guys, Scott from Sydney, Miles from Wel­ling­ton, Caibhan from Canada now living in London and Sam from Hamp­shire. They’re all really smart and into film and music and…

down to last dol­lars as not been paid by people who owe me money. can’t get into web­mail or net bank­ing to find out what’s going on as for some reason both sites are return­ing 404s. aaaargghhh. nice updates about cesky krum­lov soon when I’m feel­ing less grumpy.

What an amaz­ing idea. What a night. When you have a crit­ical mass of museums, evol­u­tion occurs. The emer­gent creature is an exper­i­ence rather than an exhibit. The Haus der Musik was great, very hands on and taught me things I did not know about chro­matic scales versus…

I just happen to have arrived in Vienna the week­end they have the Lange Nacht der Museen (the long night of museums) where for a €12 ticket, you can get access to all 40 of Vien­na’s museums so long as you see them between 6pm and 1am. They run buses between the sites…

All of you who just heard 80s synths in your head, I apo­lo­gise. Back in Aus­tria, sit­ting in big blue things in the court­yard of the Museums Quart­ier with free WiFi again. The rest of Venice was fab­ulous, not least because just as I was about to leave town and was…

Ah, Venice again… Trav­el­ling down the grand canal on a vapor­etti this morn­ing was amaz­ing and won­der­ful. I just kept grin­ning. This was the one Italian town I really wanted to see again. And here I am. Spent the whole day look­ing at cool art at the Bien­nale. Even…

(actual date: sept 11 for later back­dat­ing…) So, drag myself out of bed in the am (noti­cing a pat­tern here) to go to the last sym­posium, Soft­ware and Art II. While swal­low­ing the oblig­at­ory coffee and updat­ing the journal via the WiFi in the café, a couple of…

Spent the morn­ing writ­ing my art­icle and sub­mit­ting it. The after­noon was present­a­tions of digital musics and inter­act­ive art. the inter­act­ive art stuff was bril­liant. Maywa Denki again and Blast Theory from the UK, an amaz­ing game of real world run­ners chas­ing online…

The morn­ing sees the under-19s work at the OK Center. These kids are scary. The win­ning work is an anim­a­tion called Rubber Duck. Again, not enough time to see everything. I’m start­ing to feel the pres­sure. I spend a little time seeing the exhib­its at the OK Center…

Slightly insane day as I drag myself out of bed to get to the press con­fer­ence at 9 so I can get quotes from the Messa di Voce people for my story (should be in the Aus­tralian Tues­day). Then off the the Social Code sym­posium, to listen to Howard Rhein­gold talk about…

Dragged myself out of bed after a mere four hours sleep to make it to the first sym­po­sia of the con­fer­ence, “The mean­ing of code” and “The art of code”. An amaz­ing talk by Friedrich Kit­tler (PDF of the talk) on the his­tory of codes (Alberti, Morse, Tà¼ring), great…

33 hours from Kiev to Linz. In a train. Without a food car­riage. Nuts. Anyhow, apart from acco­mod­a­tion hassles, Ars Elec­tron­ica is excit­ing, exhil­ar­at­ing, huge. The fest­ival is to be spread out over about five build­ings. In the main square, a huge climb­ing wall has…