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Geert Mul
Media Artist
Geert Mul's work includes music videos, installations, and performances at art festivals, pop festivals and nightclubs.
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Presence – Being Alive on the Network
Marleen Stikker, Laurin Herr, Tom A DeFanti and Naohisa Otha
Going to the movies is about to become an extremely intense experience. The newest generation of digital cinema technology, 4K cinema, is four times better than HDTV and vastly superior to normal...
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Make – The Revolution in Personal Fabrication
Neil Gershenfeld, Director, The Center for Bits and Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Neil Gershenfeld and his colleagues have created Fab Labs around the world. He shows how personal fabrication is possible today and how it’s meeting local needs. Children in inner-city Boston have...
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Hacking the Human Body
Regine Debatty, Adam Zaretsky, Michael Burton
Some of us already use advanced bio-augmentations in the form of pacemakers, cosmetic implants, and high-tech prostheses. Soon, advances in genomics and tissue-culture engineering will allow us to...
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Demo: Implementing Science Fiction
Pablos Holman, Founder, Komposite
Pablos Holman is a futurist, IT security expert, and notorious hacker with a unique view into both breaking and building new technologies. At Komposite, he consults on bizarre invention and design...
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Heroes of the Information Economy — the Makers
Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing
With the rise of the internet and digital technology, we have not only been given the power to produce and distribute digital content, we now have new tools to make things.
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Demo and Discussion: Recognition
Nikolaj Nyholm, Alexander Straub and Arnold Smeulders
After years of research on touch-driven computer displays, Jeff Han has created a simple, multi-touch, multi-user screen interface that could herald the end of the point-and-click era.
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China Language Bridge
Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
As China’s economy is growing rapidly, cultural exchange between the western world and China is flourishing. However, one of the largest barriers is language. New media technology provides us with...
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Design wonderful things
Chee Pearlman, Ben Fry, Shari Swan, Matt Webb, Bruce Sterling
Hosted by Chee Pearlman Director of Chee Company (United States)
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Future Technology Trends
Bruno Giussani, Jeff Han of Perceptive Pixel, Nikolaj Nyholm of Polar Rose, Alexander Straub of Pixsta, Arnold Smeulders of Multimedian
In this demo session, four industry leaders will show their technologies and share their ideas on the future of information interfaces.
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Creative Cities in China
Organized by Da-Tong China Desk Creative Industry
Interesting and conceptually compelling cases of building "creative cities" in China, debate about the role of the creative industry in the dynamic urbanization in China. Moderated by: Paul van den...
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Day of the Media Labs (invitation only)
Collaborative Innovation: Redefining the Media Lab and the Community
The Amsterdam based Media Guild is proud to be (co) organiser of the following events at PICNIC ’07.
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The Near Future of Pervasive Media Experiences
Julian Bleecker, Dennis Crowley, Febien Girardin, Nicolas Nova
Hosted by Julian Bleecker, Professor, University of Southern California and Researcher (United States)
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Augmented Reality for Advertisers
Ferhan Cook, Eduardo Dias, Ydreams; David Polinchock, Brand Experience Lab; Jeroen Mol, Total Immersion
Augmented reality is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real world and computer generated data. Most AR research is concerned with the use of live video imagery which is...
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Immovator Cross Media Cafe
Amsterdam as a European Digital Market Place
The Amsterdam region has excellent opportunities to become the Mediagateway to Europe. All elements are present: large national and international operating media companies, striking creative industry
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Keynote: The Game of Life
Katie Salen, Parsons School of Design
New forms of gaming, including collaborative alternate reality games, and games that blur the boundary between reality and fiction.
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Trends in Communication and Entertainment
Dr. Stefana Broadbent, Head of User Adoption Lab, Swisscom Innovations (CH)
Why people hate to talk, love to write, don’t skip the ads and still listen to the radio. For years, Stefana Broadbent has been visiting peoples’ homes and offices all around the world looking at how...
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Short presentations and Panel discussion: The…
Andrew Klein, Spotzer; Dominique Delport, Havas; Marko Ahtisaari, Blyk
One Show features Branded Entertainment, Spotzer offers a new scale for video commercials and Blyk thinks calls should be free. The advertising world is grappling for new models - in this interactive...
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Virtual Worlds
What do virtual worlds mean for brands
Once the stuff of science fiction, virtual worlds are becoming central to the future of marketing, technology, entertainment and brand-building. Consumers desire to be engaged in a dialogue with the...
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Transforming Media
Transforming Media The world of media is changing, we all know this. What are the real changes occurring and where are the forces for this change coming from? Come out to hear the truth about this...
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Keynote: The Cult of the Amateur
Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur (UK)
In ‘The Cult of the Amateur’, Keen aims to show how today’s Internet is killing our culture and assaulting our economy. The Web 2.0 revolution is delivering superficial observations of the world...
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PICNIC Green Moment
Woody Harrelson, actor and activist
The world needs to embrace a new greener lifestyle. One bright idea can make a big difference. Join us and help save the planet!
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IAM 2015
The future of the new media professional
In a future scenario workshop the Institute for Interactive Media (HvA) and her partners will explore the future of new media in 2015.
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RFID fantasies, experiences and creative…
Mediamatic RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp
During Picnic 07 ( Go play with your tag! ) you could experience the creative prototypes and experiments that were built around the unique opportunity of having a large crowd of tagged people present