“Unconferences”
Ever been to an “unconference?” Camp Pixelache, which I attended a couple of weeks ago in Helsinki, Finand was organized in a unconference style. I had never been to an unconference, but I quickly learned at the opening session where an overview of an unconference was given. Unconferences came about because people felt that a formal conference that usually has [...]
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Kbaumlier Food Images on a Billboard in the Detroit Metro Area until June 24th, 2012
Yesterday the Digital Billboard Art Project went live - a project where artists can submit images to be displayed on a public digital billboard. I have 45 images that are showing startinh yesterday, May 28th, and will run until June 24, 2012 in the Detroit Metro area (Macomb County), MI. I submitted slides about food – and made a series [...]
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Utopian Reality – Art and Research @ Camp Pixelache
One of the opening activites at Camp Pixelache was led by two members of the Utopian Reality research project, a project based out of Helsinki, Finalnd. For the exercise – everyone was asked to stand up and head to the front of the room. We were then asked to look at other people and make eye contact and smile – [...]
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Cheap, Fat and Open – an Open Source Synthesizer Project
One of the sessions I attended at Camp Pixelache, an event that I attended in Helsinki, Finland a couple of weeks ago, was the Cheap Fat and Open project presented by Jacob Sikker Remin, from Copenhagen, who created a small open source synthesizer project called Cheap, Fat, and Open. Cheap – because it only costs 60 euro – or 75 [...]
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Smog Tasting With Egg Whites: The Center of Genomic Gastronomy
Ever get a mouthful of smog? In big cities, people breathe it every day. The Smog project by The Center for Genomic Gastronomy explores the taste of smog – by whipping up egg foams in cities with lots of smog, like Bangalore. Why egg foams? Egg foams are 90% air – so in making an egg white, you can actually [...]
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