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Hackers Camp Day 8
Today is the last day of Picnic. Willem had a run using ikRun with Monique van Dusseldorp, organizer of Picnic and Monique won.
Willem also presented Mediamatic Hackers Camp masterpieces at the conference.
ikWin! was a big hit today, Friend Drink Station was sold out and V-Bird collapsed yesterday after gloriously flying for one day.
Duck Race got a lot of attention, Breathylzer is a success, as well as Massage Couch and, of course, The Breedrs.
ikWiN project is a great success
27/09/08, Willem Velthoven Read more
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Hackers Camp Day 4
Day 2 ended @ 2 in the morning and Day 3@ 3 in the morning, the longest night so far.
Will Day 4 beat the record?
All projects are progressing and looks like our teams will meet their deadlines.
Last night after some spicy Indian take-out Marc Boon got his RFID-over-I2C-serial-interface, which is a component used by three different projects: V-Bird, Media Tower and RFID Racer.
Today locations will be finalized for each project.
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V-Bird team are looking for possible casing for their flying camera
Morning
Today another volunteer arrived. Welcome Silvia Janoskova.
Also a camera crew from Tvents came by to make a news item on Hacker’s Camp.The Breedrs, small personal creatures, are very close to getting their pond. The team still needs sand and a beamer. Luis is working on genetics and Neil on behavior of creatures and the project is coming together well.
Basic construction for Massage Couch is completed and now comes the technical part: LED signalization systems, speakers, and creating interfacing with Anymeta.
For Mario Carts=RFID Racer basic visualization will be complete today and IKWIN! project needs a bell to go “ping!” when you win and they are still looking for platforms.
Department of Information Security and Privacy project Media Tower needs horn speakers and program for streaming on screens looks great. It’s designed so if you swipe your tag, it will screen your image and your name will be announced through horn speakers. The team is convinced it will have a great impact on the audience.
22/09/08, Willem Velthoven Read more
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Hackers Camp Day 1
Mediamatic is going to kick start this year’s Picnic with a first live event, a Hackers Camp, a team of professional geeks and interaction designers with technical and creative skills who will use RFID and physical computing to realize the most creative and ambitious of ideas. Mediamatic has assembled a nerd’s paradise – a bunch of exciting equipment for participants to play with while questioning social interaction and identity.
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The Group
Morning
A brightly lit room of Oosterlijk Meterhuis is filled with shiny laptops, cords and strong smell of coffee. After a brief introduction, Klaas lists available equipment and seems like brainstorming is about to begin. The anticipation is high but there are still a few obstacles on the way - the participants have to familiarize themselves with the working environment, RFID tags, RFID readers, social interaction concept and the coffee machine. So in short the brainstorming will take place after lunch starts up the brains.
Afternoon
Semi-sunny afternoon weather is positively stimulating grey cells and the results are exciting.
Hackers Camp day 2
Here you can find the blog of day 2.
19/09/08, Deborah Meibergen Read more
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Mediamatic Travel
Boarding Call 2009
Aneta Szyłak and Rebecca Gomperts at Modelarnia in Gdansk, Poland -
Modelarnia was an independent art space on the old Gdansk Shipyards where Lech Walensa started the uprising against the Polish communist regime.
In January 2009 Mediamatic Foundation, in collaboration with Partizan Publik, will open the very first Do It Yourself Travel Agency. Mediamatic Travel will facilitate trips to the contemporary cultural scene worldwide. Contemporary Culture is produced in many places where the general audience just imagines civil war, pyramids, famine or cheese. Mediamatic Travel will connect local operators in the arts to professional visitors from abroad and peers. The goal is to enhance visibility and promote collaboration.
Suckling Pig Band in Guangzhou. -
Pigs are soo much more musical in mainland China
We’ll use 3 main channels: a global on line network, a shiny travel catalogue and an exhibition in Amsterdam, Mediamatics home base.
Mediamatic Travel will be an art project itself: utilising embedded tourism to achieve a global sensory network for creative innovation. Among our first batch of destinations are Cairo, Damascus, Novosibirsk, Tbilisi, Beirut, Kabul, Durban, Dubai, Nairobi, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Mexico City, Gaza City, Istanbul, Tirana, Prague, Kyoto, Detroit and Rio de Janeiro.
We are looking for key people around the world to work with us on this project.
If you live in a city so exciting worth showing off, there are a number of different ways in which you can participate in Mediamatic Travel. Linking into the global cultural underground, with a climbing level of involvement, you could become a friend, an agent, a guide or operator:
— Friends: Register to our site and make new friends using our social network tool.
— Guides: Conjure up city tours in you city, show people your work and / or the work of people you value.
— Agents: Advocate you and your city on the online network, make suggestions for people, places and venues to explore.
— Operators: Organise complete full package trips to the cultural scene of your city and region.
Obviously there are many more ways to collaborate and we would love to hear your input and suggestions. We want you to join the Mediamatic Travel ...08/09/08, Merel Matic Read more
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Mediamatic protesteert in stijl op Uitmarkt
"Minister en Kamer: houdt Mediamatic niet klein"
Protest van Mediamatic tijdens de Uitmarkt op 31 augustus 2008 met de Burka Big Band (van Sietske Tjallingii) en de lompen Fashion show (met Martin Butler en Andrea Crews). Inzet: zorgen dat het positieve advies van de Raad voor Cultuur door minister Plasterk wordt gevolgd. Geen zuur protest, want we zitten nooit bij de pakken neer.
Protest Mediamatic en Minister Plasterk -
Bij Paradiso kwam minister Plasterk zelf een kijkje nemen bij het protest. Voorafgaand aan het cultuurdebat in Paradiso waren we onze Guerilla fashion groep en de BBB aanwezig. Later tijdens het debat leek de minister te suggereren dat hij instellingen die een zeer goed advies hadden gekregen van de Raad voor Cultuur mogelijk toch niet laat terugvallen op hun oude budget. In het geval van Mediamatic gaat het om een terugval van 66% tussen het advies (666.000) en de huidige situatie (bijna 230.000 euro). Ruim vier ton minder voor e-cultuur.
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Op de Uitmarkt poseerden we onder de "Hoed van Plasterk" op de Piet Hein Kade. Het leverde mooie beelden op in het AD, de NRC en De Telegraaf. Zie ook de landelijke campagne www.waarbenjemeebezig.nl
Burka Big Band protest -
De Burka Big Band geeft tijdens de Uitmarkt een stil concert voor Paradiso in protest tegen subsidiebeleid van minister Plasterk. The BBB is een project van Sietske Tjallingii en konden we in juni al een keer inzetten bij een protest in de Tweede Kamer.
04/09/08, Michel Langendijk Read more
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iPhoneDevCamp
This weekend Peter Robinett from Bubble Foundry organised the first European iPhoneDevCamp. Mediamatic hosted the event. Around 80 people came on this nice and sunny day to hack their iPhones and make new apps. More details about the results will be published soon.
Picture taken by Marco Wessel from Flickr.
Peter Robinett (Bubble Foundry) is interviewed by Bright. Picture taken from Flickr by Matthijs van Abbe.
01/09/08, Deborah Meibergen Read more
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Kompromat Blog
Raving in Rags
@ ikikik (me me me!) opening
"Je kijkt zo zuur naar m'n haute couture" sings a popular Dutch band "Jeugd van Tegenwoordig". Mediamatic and Andrea Crews look down on high fashion too. We're done with Versace and Dolce&Gabbana. Thank god there are strategic clothing supplies of the Salvation army. Their second hand collection inspires poor artists and rich bankers alike.
Stripping on the 2nd hand clothes pile
26/07/08, Willem Velthoven Read more
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Mediamatic has moved
After a few lovely years in the Post CS building, Mediamatic is now located in Duintjer CS (the ABN AMRO bank building).
Duintjer CS
From the 1st of July 2008
Our great new exhibition space is located in the old bank store on ground floor (Vijzelstraat 68).
And our office is located at Vijzelstraat 72, 3rd floor, suite 3.10.
Phone numbers and other contact details are unchanged.
Our mail address remains: Postbus 17490, 1001 JL, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.09/07/08, Deborah Meibergen Read more
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Dance Film in Space
Until 1928 all films were dance films...
The best subject for film is dance. Both are about image, movement and action.
The camera was the first tool to be able to preserve dance.
Dirk van Oosterbosch showing the possibilities of his hacked keyboard. -
Foto taken by Florian Thalhofer
participants enjoying electronics -
Foto taken by Florian Thalhofer
For the Interactive Dance Film Workshop @ Cinedans a group of 16 international film makers, choreographers and dancers met in Amsterdam for 5 days to get in touch with the latest edition of the Korsakow System. Korsakow is an application used to create databased interactive films, with huge visual possibilities. As film maker and trainer in this workshop David Hinton pointed out: Film is capable of complexity in time, but not in space. Korsakow is capable of complexity in time AND space!
To be able to contextualize the workshop project not only on the screen, but also in a wider physical context, Dirk van Oosterbosch gave an inspirational introduction on sensor based electronics on Wednesday. He showed different possibilities of input, working with various sensors connected to an Arduino and a hacked keyboard, that connected the input to the running Korsakow project.
On the first day lectures were held by David Hinton about the relations between choreography and film and the development of dance films. Simon Fildes discussed his HyperChoreography project, that explores the crossroads between dance film and hyper media. The latest project inspired by the notion of HyperChoreography is Move-Me by Simon Fildes and his partner Katrina McPherson. In a sort of video booth, users can select a little choreographic score of several well known choreographers, that they can than perform t...
09/07/08, Deborah Meibergen Read more
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Press release June 19th, 2008
We are liquidating our library
in protest of the cultural funding stalemate
Mediamatic will give away all its books. Our library will cease to exist in protest of the impasse between the Raad van Cultuur and Minister Plasterk on cultural subsidies. We call on the public to come collect the full book collection and to take care of the cultural capital themselves. Mediamatic can no longer do it on their own.
Melancholy in the Library (before distribution)
Rules for participating in the distributed library can be found here
“The deadlock between Minister Plasterk and the Raad voor Cultuur on the development of an infrastructure for the arts will lead to a step back instead of forwards. While we want to innovate and develop,” states Willem Velthoven, director of Mediamatic. “I do not want to revert to 2003. Though that is what the result of all this is threatening to be. We are not going to wait around and will concentrate on the core issues. Our own library will become a luxury we cannot afford,” according to Velthoven.
That is why Mediamatic is calling on the public to come and care for the library themselves. They are calling on everyone to come and collect the books, magazines and multimedia. That can be done on Saturday, June 28th from 16:00 to 21:00 and on Sunday June 29th from 12:00 to 17:00, in the office of Mediamatic in the Post CS building, Oosterdokskade 5, fifth floor. There will also be music and a book bar.
The only condition that comes with the free books is that the person needs to register (for free) on the Mediamatic website. And that he or she must promise to lend the book to another member if she or he requests it. Thus we create a distributed library. The books and the new owners will remain accessible through the Mediamatic website....
19/06/08, Michel Langendijk Read more
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Nan is Dood
Nan Hoover is op 9 juni 2008 in Berlijn overleden.
Ze was ziek.
We zullen haar missen.
Als kunstenaar. Als mentor. Als vriend.
Nan Hoover performance -
Picture of a performance that Nan did in Het Kijkhuis in The Hague in 1984
De crematieplechtigheid vindt op maandag 16 juni om 17.30 uur in Berlijn plaats, in het Haus der Begegnung, Fürstenbrunner Weg 10-12.
Op vrijdag 20 juni om 17.00 uur is er een herdenkingsbijeenkomst in het Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Keizersgracht 264, Amsterdam.
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10/06/08, Michel Langendijk Read more
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