The objective of Nowhere, the Burning Man of Europe, is to build camps that are totally self-sufficient in water, energy and food for one week. And to create beauty in these extreme conditions. Our chronicler joined the Bababarrio camp.
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Ahead of the 2nd Digital Naturalism Conference in Gamboa, Panama in August 2019, Makery spoke with instigator Andy Quitmeyer about the origins of Dinacon, Dinalab and the whole DiNa movement.
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Field Notes was an art&science field laboratory organised from September 15-22 by the Bioart Society at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. Five groups worked for one week on questions located “above the ground”. Here are Friday's and Saturday's logs from the Second Order group.
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Field Notes was an art&science field laboratory organised from September 15-22 by the Bioart Society at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. Five groups worked for one week on questions located “above the ground”. Here are Wednesday's and Thursday's logs from the Second Order group.
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Field Notes is an art&science field laboratory organised from September 15-22 by the Bioart Society at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. Five groups work for one week in the sub-Arctic Lapland on questions located “above the ground”. Here first days in the logbook from the Second Order group hosted by Ewen Chardronnet from Makery.
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On July 15-28, the Comices du Faire micro-festival for makers tinkering with renewable energies and reclaimed resources was held in Nevez in western France. Makery went to visit.
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Croatian makerspace Radiona’s inaugural Electric Wonderland summer camp took place on September 1-7. Our Feral Labs chronicler in residence, Jean-Jacques Valette, folded up his bicycle and jumped on a train for this special report, between ecology and hacking, electronic music and paper shadows.
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The second edition of Dinacon concluded in Gamboa, Panama, after four very full weeks of August at the intersection of excursions into nature and experimental art-techno projects.
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International summer hacking PIFcamp is returning to the beautiful Soča village in pristine Triglav National Park for the fifth time on August 4–10, 2019. As a partner of the Feral Labs Network, Makery is reporting on location all week, beginning with days 1 and 2.
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On July 1-14, the inaugural edition of Nø School launched in the sleepy town of Nevers, France. Intrigued by Nø School’s no-frills approach, Makery took a field trip to the Burgundy region to catch Nø School on its closing days.
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Departed from France three years ago, Low-tech Lab’s dedicated catamaran is touring the world in search of frugal innovation. In Taiwan, the crew met the local maker movement and those advocating more sober, citizen uses of digital media.
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Schmiede took place on September 11-20 in Hallein, Austria, where a former salt warehouse transformed into one of Europe’s prime venues for digital arts. Our chronicler in residence reports on the Austrian avant-garde in situ.
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Makery talked with Majken Overgaard from Catch and Laura Beloff from the Copenhagen IT University, the main organizers of the summer camp for artists and curators happening between 12-16 August in Elsinore, Denmark.
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Tina Malina and Uros Veber are the two co-organisers behind PIFcamp. They share with Makery their experience and vision of hacking camps. Podcast.
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Scott Kildall, new media artist based in San Francisco, has been exploring intersections between art and technology for more than 15 years. Makery caught up with him during the first part of his PIFresidency in Ljubljana, before he joins PIFcamp, a Feral Labs Network summer camp in Soča Valley, Slovenia, August 4-10, 2019.
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From Summerlab in Nantes, France, to PIFcamp in the Soča valley of Slovenia, PiNG team member Mona Jamois shares her experiences and recipes for a successful summer camp.
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Since 2003, John Richards (aka Dirty Electronics) has been exploring the idea of “dirty electronics” through the creation of self-made instruments and interactive environments for composition. At PIFcamp 2019, he shares his views on camps, hacking and participatory projects.
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Life is intense at hacking PIFcamp in pristine Triglav National Park, Slovenia. Makery is embedded until its final Open Day on August 10, in Soča village on the river of the same name. Days 3 and 4.
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Another day at PIFcamp in beautiful Soča valley in Julian Alps. Today PIFcamp opens its doors for visitors in their traditional "Open Saturday" of demonstrations, installations and performances.
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Sustainable and easy to repair, Liter of Light lamps are a model of open source technology for human development. Low-tech Lab came to study this example on its world tour of frugal innovation.
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