In its five years of exis­tence, the see con­fer­ence man­aged to bring quite a few of the most excit­ing speak­ers from design, art, archi­tec­ture and new tech­nolo­gies on stage to talk about their per­spec­tive on infor­ma­tion visualization.

This year’s con­fer­ence takes place on April 17, 2010 at the Kul­turzen­trum Schlachthof Wies­baden (Ger­many) and fea­tures the fol­low­ing line-up:

• Gideon Obarzanek, the founder of Chunky Move, an Aus­tralian dance com­pany known for “genre-defying dance performance”
• Joshua Prince-Ramus, Pres­i­dent of REX, a cutting-edge archi­tec­ture firm
• Nicholas Fel­ton (feltron.com), a New York based infor­ma­tion designer, co-founder of daytum.com and prob­a­bly best known for his per­sonal annual reports
• Hannes Koch from rAn­dom Inter­na­tional, a London-based art and design collective
• Kent Demaine from OOOii, who design future inter­faces for Hol­ly­wood and, among oth­ers, brought us the vision­ary inter­face design for Minor­ity Report
• and amys­tery keynote speaker. (I love mysteries!)

Some tick­ets are still left, but not ter­ri­bly many, so bet­ter reg­is­ter sooner than later. For those of you who can­not make it, there will be a live video stream of the event, and archived video record­ings later. The recorded talks of the past con­fer­ences are well worth a visit too, with speak­ers rang­ing from Casey Reas over Carsten Nico­lai to Stamen’s Eric Roden­beck, Ben Fry, Zachary Lieber­man and many more.

Last week, I gave a lit­tle pre­sen­ta­tion at the col­lo­quium of the media infor­mat­ics fac­ulty at TU Dres­den. Find the slides here. I would also like to use the chance to make you aware of the OUTPUT event on April 23, where stu­dent and research works are pre­sented and some inter­est­ing talks are planned. For read­ers of this blog, prob­a­bly the Tech­nis­che Visu­al­is­tik track will be most inter­est­ing, with talks about multi-touch, blended inter­ac­tion, touch­less inter­ac­tion etc.