Body Pixel

No, no! I haven’t’ forgot that I’m a blogger too. It’s just that this switch to pure practice takes some time. Well, my October was rather exciteful: visiting Granada and presenting Body Pixel at Campus Party Milenio, partaking Arduino Workshop with David Cuartielles there, then starting a season with I’MM_‘s first international workshop led by Hackteria, then putting some wearables into Mojca‘s Socialdress workshop in Zagreb,  lotza, lotza networking, etc, etc…

…And I apologize to lotza people I haven’t contacted or didn’t make stuff I promised during summer. I will! Now, when I’m getting again all of my pieces together I’m ready to finish all stuff, since the first phase – opening the lab, is over.

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Of course, you do remember my blog post about ‘Artduino presents you Arduino’ workshop from this May, do you?! Sure you do. Well, the thing I’m announcing here is that we got a space from the organizers of the workshop – The Culture of Change & Student Centre shortly after the workshop successfully ended.

During the summer we were quite focused on applying programs to various grants for the next year, as well as planing activities we will have till the end of this year. The core of people from the Arduino workshop stayed together around the idea of making, learning and sharing something.

Photo above: I’MM_ logo by Hrvoje Hirsl (c)
Photo bellow: Scene from the poolloop’s SGMK OpenLab – Swiss Mechatronic Art Society (cc),  on the photo workshop participant Claude Treptow, published with his permission

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This is the second part of the interview with Chris Sugrue. Read the first part here: Tangible Interfaces

Photo above: Decrypted Reflections by Chris Sugrue  (cc)
Photo bellow: Tempt1 wearing The EyeWriter
Taken from urban_data’s flickr

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Chris Sugrue is an interaction designer, artist, programer and lecturer. She took part in the team which created one of the most intriguing and awarded wearable technology project in 2010 – The EyeWriter.

It’s a low-cost eye controlled drawing tool for ALS patients (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease), a degenerative neuromuscular disorder that causes paralysis, initially created for cult LA graffiti artist and activist  Tempt1.

Chris spent this spring / summer as artist-in-residence in Ljudmila (Ljubljana, Slovenia), presenting her work also in Kibla (Maribor,) and netclub MaMa in Zagreb (Croatia). Her visit to Zagreb was organized by Center for Synergy of Digital and Visual Arts and Upgrade Zagreb! (both founded by Maja Kalogera).

Chris Sugrue: Delicate Boundaries (cc)

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This is the second part of the interview with Selena Savic. Read the first part here: On architecture and people

Selena Savic @Make Me Festival during DIY Solar cells workshop
Photo by Gordan Savicic (cc)

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Selena Savic is one the main forces responsible for organizing the Make Me Festival / Napravi me! jointly with Zene na delu/Women at Work organization. During the festival she led the workshop DIY solar cells. Selena is an artist and architect combining concepts of public spaces, open sourcing, new media, sound, programming and DIY.

Selena Savic leading Solar workshop @Make Me Festival
Belgrade, June 2011, photo by Gordan Savicic (cc)

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