Aug 5 2011

Interview with Stefanie Wuschitz, part 1: On Women, Technology and Hacking Playground

Ladiez and Gentlemen, it’s time to start with a series of interviews I did during amazing Belgrade’s Napravi me / Make Me Festival in June. My first guest will be hardware hackin’ lady and artist Stefanie Wuschitz, the founder of Vienna’s Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory – Women and Trans hacklab.

 

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Stefanie Wuschitz, photo taken from F-book (cc)

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Jul 23 2011

Body cinema: Body, Motion and Liquids in the Eyes of Bart Hess

The use of different materials with dance movements combined then with the chemistry of nature is something that fascinates me a lot in artworkz by Bart Hess, as well as when he works in duo with Lucy McRae, under the name LucyandBart.

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Bart Hess: Slime (c)

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Jun 27 2011

Pocket cinema: Karakuri by Matthew Allard

Oh, I’m back to blogging, my dear friendz! Just had some cluttered weekz, and absolutely great echo after visiting Belgrade’s Napravi Me! / Make Me Festival in the middle of June. The input I’ve got there was so strong, so I needed the other way out to articulate thingz.

Short documentary Karakuri by Matthew Allard had been already widespread all around the web. It’s a movie I wanted to publish at the beginning of June, but then I had mini break…  So, it’s never too late for a good dox here! Karakuri is a traditional Japanese puppet craft, actually an ancient variant of robotics.

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Matthew Allard (c) shooting Karakuri documentary
Photo taken from DSLR News Shooter

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Jun 2 2011

Interview with Marc Dusseiller from Hackteria.org, part 2: Open sourcing with living systems

This is the second part of the interview with Marc Dusseiller. Read the first part here: On DIYbio and nanotechnology

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Marc Dusseiller, photos taken from private album via F-book

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Jun 1 2011

Interview with Marc Dusseiller from Hackteria.org, part 1: On DIYbio and nanotechnology

In April I went to Ljubljana for a one-day workshop ‘Du du kuglica sajica mavrica‘ led by  Boštjan Leskovšek, Bengt Sjölén, and Marc Dusseiler from Hackteria.org. It was a continuation of 10 days NanoŠmano series of workshops and events (initiated by  Stefan Doepner/f18institut and Marc Dusseiller/hackteria) dedicated to DIYbio and nanotechnology, or as more precisely Stefan Doepner pointed out: ‘The project started new explorations into the world of matter on the nanoscale by investigating its physical and aesthetic potentials. As an collaborative and open research based workshop by artists, hackers and scientists, we want to elicit methods to enable the creative use of nano materials in critical and playful artistic process.’

The authors of the concept are: STEFAN DOEPNER – MARC DUSSEILLER – BOSTJAN LESKOVSEK – BENGT SJOELEN – ERIK REIMHULT

You know, I’m very often on workshops: DIY, software or hardware based stuff, interactivity, wearables; but after Hackteria’s workshop I really had a feeling that I pushed my understanding on DIY cultures strongly, strongly forward. Priceless…

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Photo&Logos: Hackteria.org (cc)

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May 1 2011

Interview with Kontejner, part 2: Technology and conceptualism walking along…

This is a continuation of the interview with Kontejner. Read the first part here: Body norms in art and science

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DB Indos – House of Extreme Music Theater: Doors (c)
Photo taken from Kontejner

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