Wednesday, December 16th at 5 p.m. the legendary Lab3 Christmas party with tabletop soccer tournament is held - in the renovated, newer and better Lab3. Because of the KHM involvement in next years ISEA2010 in Dortmund, the traditional Ruhrgebiet dish Currywurst will be served.

The winner of Share Prize 2009 is Andreas Muxel with › CONNECT. Ralph Baecker received a honorary mention for › Rechnender Raum. Congratulations!

The new issue of off topic, the KHM magazine for media art, will be released on Friday, November 6th. Under the title “aufräumen” (clearing up) it features several Lab3 related projects and topics. Among these are an article by Andreas Muxel about his piece › CONNECT, an interview with Severin Hacker by Ludwig Zeller dealing with “human computing” and the idea of a net-based “aesthetic measure”, and a report by Stefan Göllner about the relation of software development and urban planning in the project › Unortkataster Köln.

The exhibition lab30, the 8th Augsburg Media Art Laboratory, will feature “Test arrangements in an Electro-Biotope”. Two recent works of Lab3 will be part of the biotope:

› Sensobotanics (a real plant plays a first person shooter)

› I am scared, but i love… (an instrument based on your hopes and EEG).

Ludwig Zeller is nominated for the “Kölner Designpreis 2009″ with his diploma thesis project Cognition On The Edge / › CubeBrowser.