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This three-day workshop ([WWW]InterAccess, Toronto, 1-3 May 2009) will explore the theme of E-waste and environmental data. Working in small groups, participants will be given the task of hacking some typical consumer e-waste to create reflective technological assemblages that incorporate 'nature' in some form while calling one or more of our basic assumptions into question.

The Information Ecology group (formerly the Physical Language Workshop) explores ways to connect our physical environments with information resources. Through the use of low-cost, ubiquitous technologies, we are creating seamless and pervasive ways to interact with our information—and with each other. We focus on projects that harness the ecology of consumer electronics and sensor devices—present and future—to more smoothly mediate the boundaries between the physical and information worlds we inhabit.

The key to the success of the workshop is making sure that relevant stories (or cases) are collected

Mediamatic organizes two RFID Sniffer workshops. On Friday March 27 or on Saturday April 4 you can assemble your own RFID Sniffer circuit, guided by the Sniffer designer Marc Boon

2nd International Workshop on Mobile Internet User eXperience

The presentations given that year

In this year's NodeBox workshop in Finland we beta-tested the upcoming release of NodeBox 2 (workname Gravital) which, as you may or may not know, has a graphical user-interface and is no longer Mac-only. It's almost ready to ship!

I find this extremely fascinating. In a way, the Japanese are looking at these products like pieces of abstract art. On the other hand, if you understand English and especially it’s cultural connotations, there is a good chance that these will look funny to you. In today’s visually over-saturated world, various brands compete in trying to produce striking graphics to influence the consumers. But free trade and competition in today’s global economy has made many of the products essentially the same in content. So in some cases, the only difference with those products is the packaging, or the form.

I decided to make coincidental art with NodeBox in ways that I have learnt, using parts from my paintings and drawings. I extracted little parts from larger very detailed works and coincidentally things came out that weren’t there originally!

"With the new Academy, we have created a museum that is visually and functionally linked to its natural surroundings, metaphorically lifting up a piece of the park and putting a building underneath." Renzo Piano

Here's a few shots of the recently-opened California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California by Renzo Piano Building Workshop. Photographs are by jiattison.

Across three days, the scrying workshop will explore and construct city-wide EM phenomena within the data space domain, examining techniques of digital forensics, of signal archaeology overlapping with contemporary artistic concerns. The scrying platform, an open hardware project concerned with the design and implementation of low power (enabling long-term, solar-powered urban installation) devices interfacing code and EM practice, will be used during the workshop.