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POST DIGITAL PRINT
21/05/2012 to 02/06/2012 

A series of activities around the publication of Post Digital Print. The Mutation of Publishing Since 1894 by Alessandro Ludovico
A collaboration between Onomatopee, Baltan Laboratories and the Kenniscentrum Creating 010, Hogeschool Rotterdam

From 21 May to 2 June, Alessandro Ludovico will be working as artist-in-residence at Baltan Laboratories and Onomatopee in Eindhoven. During this time he will be exploring the distributed archive and tools for post-digital print, stemming from research presented in his new book. Working with local students, he will build a DIY book scanning machine. For the rest of the residency period he will undertake a number of social experiments involving the book scanner. Several activities have been planned while Alessandro is in Eindhoven, including a workshop on May 30th, and a conference and the launch of the publication at Onomatopee on June 2nd. See the full agenda below. (more…)

From the EMF Orchestra Workshop

Photo: Boudewijn Bollmann

On a hot, hot day in Eindhoven, BALTAN Laboratories and workshop leaders Wendy Van Wynsberghe and Peter Westenberg (Constant, Brussels, BE), with Julien Ottavi (APO33, Nantes, FR), hosted Angela de Weijer, Olga Mink, Danielle Roberts, Jan van den Dobbelsteen, Mini Smulders, Sarie Hermens, Sarah Matot, Niels Bergmans and Lucas van der Velden for a one-day Electro-Magnetic Field (EMF) Orchestra Workshop.

After a morning and good part of the afternoon spent building and designing and winding and soldering their own EMF antennae (and a number of trips to the electronics store to remedy a slight technical difficulty with the amplifiers), participants took to the city for a collective intervention on a walk between Strijp-S and the centre of Eindhoven.

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Funware Residency: Naked on Pluto by Dave Griffiths, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk

“You are 4.3 billion kilometres away from the nearest human, what would you like to do?”

Naked on Pluto is a text-based multiplayer game on Facebook. You are stranded on the planet Pluto, naked, alone. Your world is empty except for fragments of data, objects relating to your past life on social networks – but seen through the distorted lens of the game world. You can explore this world, at first alone and later in the game you’ll be able to invite and interact with friends. You can add and manipulate objects you encounter, interact with others and bots. Once you enter deeper into this world and web of data, you become aware of increasing complexity, characters appear you may recognise – are they friends or animated bits of data? Information is substituted and modified in subtle ways. Is it possible to remember what was ever real in the first place?

The game explores the limits and nature of social networks from within, slowly pushing the boundaries of what is tolerated by the companies that own them, carefully documenting this process as we go. Story and play are combined with an investigation on how exposed we are on social networks, and how our data are being used.

The project will be developed during a shared residency at NIMk, BALTAN Laboratories and Piksel, between June and November 2010, by Dave Griffiths, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk. They will be in residence at BALTAN Laboratories in October 2010. The project is licensed Copyleft. The research and development process will be documented and can be followed at http://pluto.kuri.mu

Naked on Pluto will be presented as part of the Funware exhibition at MU in Eindhoven in November, at HMKV in Dortmund and as part of the Piksel festival 2010. (more…)

BALTAN Session with Wendy Van Wynsberghe, Peter Westenberg and Julien Ottavi
30/06/2010 18:00 to 20:00 

On June 30th from 18:00-20:00, we will take a look at the results of the EMF Orchestra workshop taking place during the day, with workshop leaders Wendy Van Wynsberghe and Peter Westenberg from Constant in Brussels, as well as participants from the workshop. Julien Ottavi, from APO33 in Nantes, will also join us to reflect on this workshop in relation to his electromagnetic spectrum research, as well as participate in a discussion around copyleft practices with Wendy and Peter.

Location: BALTAN Laboratories, Glaslaan 2, SWA building, 8th floor, Strijp-S, Eindhoven, NL
Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Time: 18:00 – 20:00
Entrance: Free (more…)

 

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