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Sudan takes you down to his place near the river... and you know that he's half crazy, but that's why you want to be there.

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26 November 2010

Princeton University Press just published a book "Diversity and Complexity" by Scott E. Page. They used one of my Synesketch art pieces (itself an adaptation of Jared Tarbel's work) for the jacket of the book.

06 November 2010

Synesketch won the International Digital Media and Arts Association Award at iDMAa 2010, Vancouver, BC, Canada, as a part of the Graduate Student Showcase selected by the Simon Fraser University!

25 August 2010

Moving to Vancouver, Canada, to start my work, research, and grad studies at SIAT, SFU and Metacreation Lab.

22 April 2010

I am participating in the Dresden-Belgrade 2010 Exchange Forum "Perspective for Animated Film" of the Dresden Film Festival.

26 February 2010

Back from Africa! Home sweet home. However, blog is not finished yet.

05 December 2009

Big African Journey started! A long lowbugdet land trip from Serbia, via Middle East, to Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, D.R. Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, and Namibia. Follow our travelblog, Back To Africa (Povratak u Afriku), at the Serbia Travel Club Website.

29 July 2009

By cycling and walking through Paris, with a GPS receiver as a pencil, I've drown a 64 kilometer long logo of the GOOD OLD AI Research Network.

20 April 2009

New identity design for the GOOD OLD AI Research Network.

19 January 2009

I was awarded the Best Graduation Thesis Award – one of the 5 equal awards for the entire University of Belgrade – by the Belgrade Chamber of Commerce. The award was given for my BSc thesis: Textual emotion recognition and creative visualization (see the Synesketch project for more information).

11 February 2009

I finished a new poster design for the upcoming Creative Travel Workshop in Novi Sad, organized by Serbia Travel Club.

13 January 2009

A short animated music video, Mi Smo Majstori (We Are the Craftsmen), is finished, for which I am a chief animator, designer, and director. It represents the VojvodinaPut company crew as one crazy orchestra.

07 January 2009

The Synesketch Website has reached a number of 100.000 requests per pages, overall. The Website was launched at the beginning of October.

05 November 2008

BlogNot! published an interasting review of the Synesketch, in French.

03 November 2008

An article about the Synesketch is published in the November issue of the Creative Review – the world's leading monthly magazine for visual communication.

21 October 2008

Self-Portrait took part in La Boca Del Lobo, XI Internacional Festival de Cortometrajes, Spain, 2008.

20 October 2008

Blogosphere is embracing Synesketch, even in Hungary and Russia. The blog "Pointy Hair Dilbert" considered Synesketch one of the "5 Superb Visualizations of the Week".

Del.icio.us and Twitter talk about Synesketch too. Moreover, it is (currently, it changes often) a Google's first result for the following queries: "textual emotion", "textual emotion recognition", and "textual emotion visualization".

15 October 2008

Synesketch entered the selection of the Alternative Party's art exhibition in Helsinki, Finland. Alternative Party is an international festival of digital culture which gathers together creative people of all kinds: visualists, musicians, designers, programmers, researchers, and passionate enthusiasts.

09 October 2008

A post about the Synesketch was published on the Information Aesthetics blog, a world's major weblog for data visualization and visual communication!

01 October 2008

Thanks to this very generous Austrian scholarship, I'm spending this October in Hagenberg, Linz, Austria, working/playing at the Media Interaction Lab, Department of Digital Media, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences. It is a very cool place which glues art, technology, animation, and interaction together, and probably best of that kind in Austria.

30 September 2008

I participated in the marvelous three-days film and stop-motion animation workshop in Pančevo, Serbia, held by Miloš Tomić, our crazy award-winning filmmaker, animator, and a doctoral student at the FAMU Academy in Prague. Workshop film is going to be uploaded to YouTube soon...

25 September 2008

Website for Synesketch, my newest software/art project, is finished.

07 September 2008

I participated in BUSHO Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary, with the film Self-Portrait. You can see the photos here.

01 September 2008

The Two Minutes of Eclipse is finished. In a month and a half it had 20.000+ visits (350+/day) which makes it one of the most visited Serbian on-line travelogues.

15 July 2008

Mario's, Nenad's and my long solar eclipse chasing journey to Siberia and Mongolia started. Followed by a travel blog, The Two Minutes of Eclipse (Dva Minuta Pomračenja), with geotagged texts and photos.

10 July 2008

I have graduated at the Department of Information Technologies, FON – School of Business Administration, University of Belgrade, with First Class Honors – Award for the Best Student of the School, among all departments. My mentors were Jelena Jovanovic and Vladan Devedzic. My thesis: Textual emotion recognition and creative visualization (in Serbian).

30 June 2008

So far, Self-Portrait entered the official competion selection of the Red Stick Animation Festival, Louisiana, USA, and 10 other festival across Europe, from Greece to Russia.

8 April 2008

Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology, edited by Antonio Cartelli, was realised with an article by Milan and me about software agents. (See the list of contributors.)

7 March 2008

The Tale of a Town, my animated short, entered the HDFEST, digital cinema festival online.

20 December 2007

I participated in a five-days film workshop by Ljubomir Radovanović, where I made a mini stop-motion animation, aaahh. It won the Audiance Award at the InTresh Festival, Pančevo, Serbia.

21 September 2007

Self-Portrait, my animated short film, won the ASIFA non-official award for best young authors at the Balkanima, Europian Animated Film Festival.

21 July 2007

Talaria, a computer system by Milan Stankovic and me, was presented at the Summer School of Multimedia Semantics, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. It was also voted for best 12 poster presentations. We were the only non-doctoral participants of the school.

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