Academic and Touristic Stimulation in Vienna
It's been a while since my last post and I have several excuses: still looking for promising jobs besides working on my PhD thesis, 36° centigrade, (I have no idea ho much that might be in Fahrenheit...) the World Cup of course, etc.
Anyway, I just spent 4 days in Vienna over the weekend for a colloquium held by one of Austria's (formerly Germany's) finest media and technology scholars, Claus Pias. Although ~80% of the time were spent on tourism, the academic part was quite interesting, presentations ranging from using WIKIs as a tool for philosophical thinking to the impact of cybernetics on and Wiener's response to Henri Bergson's concept of time... phew! :) We just stopped in time to watch the last 20 minutes of Germany vs. Sweden...
The rest of the days were mostly spent in castles, churches or museums and the evenings at the shore of the Donau at the Donauinselfest, Europe's biggest open-air festival. There were some nice bands, (Bloodhound Gang, Mel C ;), Reamonn as well as some German newcomers like Juli and Silbermond) food from all parts of Europe (Austria is quite conveniently located for that purpose) like Hungarian Langos (hmmm) etc. Even the organization was decent although most of the 3 million visitors from Friday to Sunday had to cross over to the Donau-Insel (the island between old and new Danube) over one bridge and come and go using the same subway line...
For those of you who haven't seen it already, Vienna is definitely worth a visit.
Best wishes from Bonn (again),
Stefan
P.S.: @Parmesh: Are you still in Cambridge or do you have a non-MIT mail address? And did you meet Doris Rusch by any chance? - she was a visiting scholar at CMS after me and I briefly met her in Vienna. Nice girl, and she looks 'different' from the photo on the CMS homepage ;-)
Anyway, I just spent 4 days in Vienna over the weekend for a colloquium held by one of Austria's (formerly Germany's) finest media and technology scholars, Claus Pias. Although ~80% of the time were spent on tourism, the academic part was quite interesting, presentations ranging from using WIKIs as a tool for philosophical thinking to the impact of cybernetics on and Wiener's response to Henri Bergson's concept of time... phew! :) We just stopped in time to watch the last 20 minutes of Germany vs. Sweden...
The rest of the days were mostly spent in castles, churches or museums and the evenings at the shore of the Donau at the Donauinselfest, Europe's biggest open-air festival. There were some nice bands, (Bloodhound Gang, Mel C ;), Reamonn as well as some German newcomers like Juli and Silbermond) food from all parts of Europe (Austria is quite conveniently located for that purpose) like Hungarian Langos (hmmm) etc. Even the organization was decent although most of the 3 million visitors from Friday to Sunday had to cross over to the Donau-Insel (the island between old and new Danube) over one bridge and come and go using the same subway line...
For those of you who haven't seen it already, Vienna is definitely worth a visit.
Best wishes from Bonn (again),
Stefan
P.S.: @Parmesh: Are you still in Cambridge or do you have a non-MIT mail address? And did you meet Doris Rusch by any chance? - she was a visiting scholar at CMS after me and I briefly met her in Vienna. Nice girl, and she looks 'different' from the photo on the CMS homepage ;-)
posted by Stevyie at 1:16 PM
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Hey Stevyie,
Still in Cambridge for now... enjoying the last few weeks here with Junri.... in total holiday mode. :-) My mit mailing address works and will continue to work.... yes, I did meet Doris while she was here. Very nice girl. :-)
Congrats on Germany making it to the semis!!! Are you excited? All my favourite teams are out already (Argentina, Spain, England, Brazil) so I might as well root for Germany from now on - hehehe!
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