Under Vine, the latest collaboration between Robert Gerard Pietrusko of Warning Office and Stewart Smith of Stewdio will premiere this evening at the VIP opening of SFMOMA's autumn 2010 exhibition How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now. Read more about this data visualization piece here.

Next Wednesday, November 10th, Stewart will give a short lecture titled Code Play: The Value of Play in Coding at the Creativity and Technology conference in London. The theme of Code Play will be illustrated by way of some favorite projects from around the web as well as some Stewdio work--primarily Browser Pong, Jed's Other Poem, and a sneak peek at a new collaboration with Robert Pietrusko titled Under Vine which opens at the SFMOMA later this month. Stewart was interviewed by Creativity Online last March in a piece called Face to face with the brains behind iQuit, Browser Pong and other experiments in digital fun.

Here's the schedule and a list of speakers for next Wednesday's conference. If you plan on attending drop us an email (just replace the "A.T" with "@" in the email address) or come up and say hello after the lecture.

Bobby and Stewart are currently revising new data visualization animations of the global wine market for inclusion in SFMOMA's exhibition How Wine Became Modern opening next month in San Francisco. The two are building out the graphics using Bronson--their custom animation framework originally created for the Exit piece in 2008 and now two years evolved. Also next month, Stewart is giving a talk about Stewdio at the Creativity and Technology conference in London on the 10th. Further down the road? More collaboration with ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany. A workshop for Sara De Bondt's students at the Royal College of Art by Jürg and Stewart. And perhaps a holiday present for the Internet to follow up last year's Browser Pong. There's always more around the bend.

Hello World. Again. We've rebooted a bit. Update your bookmarks to the new http://stewd.io. Double website all the way. So intense. This is our first major overhaul of the internals since 2008--when we replaced the Google Showcase (Beta) hoax. Some features and content are temporarily offline while we clean up and rebuild (where did those old blog posts go?), but these will certainly return in time. Felt it's best to launch the scaffold early than to wait indefinitely. You can still catch Stewart on Twitter and watch Stewdio videos on Vimeo. Cheers from our new studio in London (just a door down from the old one) with special shout outs to our space mates Jürg Lehni and Nazareno Crea.

1. Wolves. Phosphorescent.
2. Figure 8. Elliott Smith (covering Blossom Dearie).
3. Paranoid Android. Radiohead.
4. Going to Georgia. The Mountain Goats.
5. Everytime I'm with You. Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse, featuring Jason Lytle.
6. Drift. John Larsen.
7. Falling Man. Blonde Redhead.
8. So. Central Rain. R.E.M.
9. Hated Because of Great Qualities. Blonde Redhead.
10. • For the Damaged Coda. Blonde Redhead.
11. World Leader Pretend. R.E.M.
12. Hairshirt. R.E.M.
13. Tonight. Sibylle Baier.
14. Lizzy. Ben Kweller.
15. Soothe. Smashing Pumpkins.
16. Two-Headed Boy Part 2. Neutral Milk Hotel.
17. Famous Blue Raincoat. Leonard Cohen.
18. Mill Town. Bob Martin.
19. Do Re Mi. Nirvana.
20. Figure 8. Blossom Dearie.

Today we are very happy to release the video for Tomas Halberstad's new single The Pendulum Swings Again. Have a listen as you journey to the far reaches of the universe to meet some new (non-human) friends. Inspired by The Last Starfighter, WarGames, the original Tron, various others.

Stewart and Robert are currently at ZKM (The Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe, Germany developing a new data visualization project.

Last week Stewart gave a small talk titled Code Play at Wieden+Kennedy’s London office. They’ve posted a short text and images about it on their blog here: Code Play with Stewdio

The Setup has just posted an interview with Stewart about hardware and software. But the actual content veers off topic a bit. (Easily distracted?) See for yourself: http://stewart.smith.usesthis.com.

Stewart is speaking about Stewdio today at renown branding agency Landor Associates in London at 4pm

Because there's really something to listening to the same songs over, and over, and over.

1. Up the Down Escalator. The Chameleons.
2. Like a Fool. Superchunk.
3. Travel as I Wait. Tomas Halberstad.
4. Lessons Learned. Matt & Kim.
5. Milk It. Nirvana.
6. Oh Messy Life. Cap'n Jazz.
7. Two-Headed Boy. Neutral Milk Hotel.
8. A Chicken with its Head Cut Off. The Magnetic Fields.
9. NYC's Like a Graveyard. The Moldy Peaches.
10. Tightrope. Yeasayer.
11. Sleepless. The Decemberists.
12. Running up that Hill. Kate Bush.
13. Hounds of Love. Kate Bush.
14. Time. David Bowie.
15. All My Friends. LCD Soundsystem.

Stewart will be speaking about Stewdio at the Regent Street store.

Monday, 28 June at 19.00 Apple Store London http://stewdio.org/apple

The Scriptographer team has just released version 2.8.050 which is compatible with the all new Adobe Illustrator CS5. (And previous versions too.) Description from the Scriptographer site: Scriptographer is a scripting plugin for Adobe Illustrator™. It gives the user the possibility to extend Illustrator’s functionality by the use of the JavaScript language. The user is no longer limited to the same tools that are used by most graphic designers around the globe. Scriptographer allows the creation of mouse controlled drawing-tools, effects that modify existing graphics and scripts that create new ones. But Scriptographer is also a webpage on which users can exchange scripts and ideas. Scriptographer gives the tool back into the hand of the user and confronts a closed product with the open source philosophy.

If that sounds good to you, download it today.

Tonight, Exit (also known as "Terre Natale") opens at the AlhondigaBilbao in Spain. If you're in Bilbao don't miss this opportunity to experience the immersive 360-degree data projection. Exit (Terre Natale) is a 45-minute immersive visualization of human migration data divided into six narratives. Our historical focus is primarily from 1990 through today, augmented by occasional older data points or forecasts into the future. Humans migrate for various reasons. Political turmoil may create refugee migrations. Environmental disasters create refugees of a different sort. Some people migrate to wealthier economies sending micro-transactions, or remittances, home to their native land. We have recently crossed a threshold; 50% of humans have migrated from rural areas into cities. As of 2007 one out of every two people is now an urban dweller. See the Exit (Terre Natale) projection description and links to videos at http://stewd.io/w/exit.

Today also marks 30 years since Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis hung himself.