Forum discussion and exposition in De Witte Dame Library
14th February 19:30 – 22:00 hrs – Forum Discussion in Library – theatre on the 1st floor. For and with pioneers and specialists from the scientific, artistic, architectural and design faculties. Participants to the forum are Luk Sponselee, Hans Martin Don, Cindy Rath and Froukje van de Klundert. Moderator Nicole de Boer made it an exciting event… Free enterance. 14 – 28th of February Exposition Social Innovation projects in Library at the 1st floor. Library is open from mondays through fridays 9-20, saturdays 9-17, sundays 13-17 hrs, Free enterance.
“Social innovation refers to the new strategies, concepts, ideas and organizations that strive to provide solutions for serious social challenges – from job opportunities and education to health care, social engagement, and environmental problems. The urgency of today’s social innovation is being kindled by a network-driven paradigm of innovation and creativity, and mobilized by the innovation capacities of everyone in society, whatever their social role or function.” (Source: http://www.socialeinnovatie.net/en/ )
Social Innovation The Social Innovation conception is about necessary social renovation in the broader sense. The English Wikipedia features an interesting definition: “Social innovation refers to new strategies, concepts, ideas and organizations that meet social needs of all kinds — from working conditions and education to community development and health — and that extend and strengthen civil society.” Marleen Stikker from Waag Society has made an effort to define the concept on her blog: Creativity Is The Resource For Social Innovation
Through this exposition and forum-discussion we sought to demonstrate the movement from Eindhoven, the Netherlands and eventually cross bordering the big picture. A selection of examples, projects in development, cases and platforms. In the period of the 14th through the 28th of February ad hoc meetings occured with possibilities to present initiatives for organisations that like to reach a wider audience.
Paradigma The Eindhoven public library is a so called Plus-Library. Meaning they have extended their collection with extra titles to college level. The country wide network of Pluslibraries chose Eindhoven for in-depth collections and to maintain a digital display about Design & Art. In completion to regular service that provides educated people in easy access to knowlegde, Paradigma is aiming to connect curious, broadly interested and educated people with eachother for knowledge-enrichment and knowledge-exchange. In 2013 a new digital window arround innovation & technology has been made to see some of the technical achievements of the future. Next to it the library offers a platform for thematic meetings about design and innovation.
MAD Commissioned by the public library of Eindhoven MAD will format the project Paradigm in De Witte Dame building through expositions, workshops and lectures in the evening. In liaison to an earlier cooperation between MAD and the library during the Dutch Design Week 2012 (DDW2012) Play The Future. The purpose is to find cooperation with local and regional organisation and events to bring about a synergy.
Events for the coming months:
February: Social Innovation
March: Robotica
April: Mobility
May: Serious Gaming
June: Open Data
Any ideas to connect or contribute, please contact MAD: info@madlab.nl
Disseminating the theme ‘Connecting and Sharing’ the Platform Open Data Eindhoven organised the National Congress Open Data, concering the useful application of Open Data. Beside a few interesting keynotes there will be a variety of parallel programs with interactive sessions and workshops. Examples, visual and digital representations affect directly applicable knowledge, inspiration, dialogue and more insight in what parties play along. Read more
A nine-day exposition, ‘Play the Future’, transgressing the boundaries between science and the creative and artistic world. A multiannual event where design, art and technology gather and new “windows” to the future are being opened. The world is facing tremendous challenges concerning the ongoing global crisis on political, economic and ecologic level. The demands on society is being put under severe stresses; all activities behold the research for new concepts through arts and science within the themes Health, Energy and Mobility.
Exposition From the 20th until the 28th of October 2012 – An exposition of selected installations, presentations and a movie zone with relevant productions and applications. These elements serve as a baseline for an inspiring start of the exciting Play the Future project.
Hackathon Hack the Future is aimed at concepts for apps and webservices with Open Data from the themes Engergy, Mobility and Health.
Students, developers and artists convert to datasets to acquire working prototypes in a single day. During the event the results will be displayed on a screen supported by sheets. This makes the hackathon more like an agile-multidisciplinary-design-method. The results could be absorbed in running research at Play the Future.
Art Science Forum Scientists Robert Zwijnenberg and René van Zuuk and artists Joost Conijn and Geert Mul are being challenged by moderator Jacob Voorthuis to discus their visions, expectations and dreams.
These confrontations and dialogues result in a stagering, directive argument as an off-set to research and experiment for Play the Future.
The 121212 UpStage Festival of Cyberformance will take place 5-12 December 2012 and consist of two parts:
>>> “Walking backwards into the future” – a program of 19 remounted cyberformances from the past five festivals (5-11 December)
>>> “Testing – 1 2, 1 2, 1 2″ – new works in UpStage and other networked platforms (12 December).
Marking a turning point in what has become an annual event, 121212 is the last year that we can use this date format, and also this year we hope to see the launch of a new engine for the UpStage platform, DownStage, extending the possibilities of what we can do.
We have opened up the festival to artists creating cyberformance in platforms other than UpStage, as there are now many other interesting platforms, and this has resulted in an excellent range of proposals.
The programme of online performances, which can be watched from internet-connected computers anywhere in the world, will be augmented by “real-life access nodes” in numerous locations. Here is the link to information about hosting a node and email zn.gro.egatspu@ofni if you are interested. The 121212 nodes will be announced later in the year.
Diagram for shows in Eindhoven
2pm BABBLE Platform: Second Life
2.30pm Shadows XXX Platform: Tap
3pm A plunge in the pool Platform: UpStage
3.30pm Good Water III: Synchronicity Platform: Tap
4pm Since the end of the World Platform: Tap
4.30pm BABBLE Platform: Second Life
5pm Merry Crisis & a Happy New Fear Platform: Tap
5.30pm Deltap: Nodes Welcome, hosted by Alberto Vazquez, Buenos Aires; with APO33 (Nantes), Bikeshed Theatre (Exeter) and MADLAB (Eindhoven) Platform: Tap
6pm Senses Places Platform: Second Life
6.30 Land Platform Platform: Tap
7pm ANGRY Platform: Mosaika.tv
7.30pm Excavating Desire – Fouilles pour le Désire Platform: Tap
8pm Moving Mountains Platform: Second Life
8.30pm a plunge in the pool Platform: UpStage
9pm Stratosphukic Storm Platform: UpStage
9.30pm Oceans Between Sound – Ethernet Orchestra Platform: Nicecast & Visitors Studio
Follow this link to the schedule and time converters. Download the media release announcing the schedule here.
During my visit to MAD this afternoon, I presented my problem with the Quick Time film and immediate action was undertaken. Fifteen minutes later I was all set and equiped with my film burned on a cd-rom. Your benevolent people are very relaxed and glad to be of service to others. The same matter applies to Richard and Eric at the WAVES project. Gradual but good and with serious attention. Yesterday Richard had put the finishing touch on the software for WAVES. I’d like to grand a big compliment to anybody that does anything at MAD for the way they deal with people. Which was the case yesterday as well when that artist came in with an issue on her computer. Priceless, Rene!!
From Augmented and Virtual Reality to Fantasy and Science Fiction
Traveling art- and technology fair from Breda via ‘s-Hertogenbosch to Eindhoven. BREDA October 26th until November 14th and ‘S-HERTOGENBOSCH November 23rd until December 2nd
EINDHOVEN December 7th – December 16th
Location: TAC, Vonderweg 11 Eindhoven
open: daily from 01:00PM – 05:00PM with an opening program the 7th of December at 8PM. SIDE-EVENTS Di 11 dec:Brain Battle, segment of Play the Future, 4PM-10PM. (puls.madlab.nl) Wo 12 dec: Upstage, 1PM-10PM (upstage) Do 13 dec: PechaKucha, 8:30PM-11:30PM. (www.tac.nu)
Nerdlab is recurring annually, a traveling festival focussed on art, science and technology. The Alternate Realities edition improvises on the rising demand for dreams, fantasies and utopian perceptions, as a reaction on the current consolidated and commercial society. The exposition shows pieces of art that move on to the territory of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Augmented and Virtual Reality.
The exposition shows (interactive) technological installations, videos, future food, surrealistic paintings and drawings from more than 10 artists. By means of art they offer an insight in the fantasy of artists and the alternative realities they create.
Organisation: Digitale Werkplaats (‘s-Hertogenbosch) in cooperation with the E-Pulsefestival (Breda) and MAD emergent art center (Eindhoven).
Man depletes energy, requires food and needs space. The necessary resources tend to run low by our expansive drive for growth. What happens if we shrink instead of grow? The Incredible Shrinking Man is a continuous, speculative research after the possibilities to shrink the human body to 20 inches.
Bram Snijders / DEFRAME Collective Sensible1.0 is an interactive media installation, making virtual layers touchable. Entering the installation one is besieged by a second skin of lines. The virtual layer is a representation of x y z coordinates captured real time in a physical environment.
Fremithi makes black-and-white drawings of machines that appear to have come from the future, or yet from the past? Behold a random collection of technological and organic forms, left out a direct meaning; an anatomical study from the universe.
The film of The Flying Dutchman – did it work out? Can man fly? - attributed to a tremendous excitement in the media during the course of 2012. Floris Kaaijk made a documentary about the project Human Birdwings and his alter ego Jarno Smeets, that offers a peek behind the scenes.
Life-sized, colourful paintings of Jakob de Jonge offer a disorienting panorama of reality. His paintings are a fabrication of the tension that excists between opposites like hope and fear, ideal and reality, faith and cynism, honesty and hypocricy.
In the video Evolizer black-and-white shapes move through a futuristic town. One of the postures wears a mystical box and leads you into a building. The box opens and reveals its own laws of physics. Onward a violent struggle for life is the next experience. Who’s the strongest?
Joris Strijbos Vindauga stems from ancient Norwegian which translation gives ‘wind eye’, one of the first words describing the concept of what we today call a window in a building. The video Vindauga is inspired by the notion of a window giving sight on an abstract, imaginary landscape. The installation contains of three different approaches to enter this world.
Julian Oliver LevelHead is a spatial memory game and uses a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen it appears each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors. Players have the goal to move the character from room to room, cube to cube in an attempt to find the final exit door of all three cubes. If this door is found the character will appear to leave the cube, walk across the table surface and vanish.. The game then begins again. www.julianoliver.com
Michal Brezinski NANODISCO is the real time construction of musical instrument based on feedback between microbes and voice-music performance. On the stage the music performance artist will connect his human voice with output of the music created by the microbes movement and we can hear the same as what the microbes do.
Sander Veenhof en Victor de Vries The Augmented Reality (AR) application Powerpoint360 connects the geographically attached data-world in which we live accessible through the smartphone. This application allows the user a glance into the future, when Augmented Reality applications will be more integrated in our daily lives.
18th October 2012: eXtreme Agile Cafe ‘Self Organizing’
Thursday October 18th we organized a very eXtreme Agile Cafe ‘Self Organizing’ event in the centre of Eindhoven! This time in cooperation with internationally active XP trainer Marcin Czenko a.k.a. ‘Mr. Red-Green-Refactor’!
Marcin just finished this conference in Poland when he mailed he would like to do an enjoyable XP workshop about Self-Organization. Self-Organization is the process that emerges from chaotic systems into good cooperations. Succeeding the amusing workshop, everybody could self-organize Open Space sessions! The relaxed atmosphere was accompanied with special beer, named MADSpace beer!
THE-RED-GREEN-REFACTOR Marcin Czenko is our 1st international ICT expert, mainly working in the UK and a recent speaker at ABE2012! The session of Marcin Czenko: “My XP talk is about self-organization- but from slightly different perspective. It is more about principles than about practices. It looks at the history of management according to sciences of certainty and then looks at it again from the perspective of the sciences of uncertainty. The talk is much influenced by the work of Ralph Stacey and some other famous complexity writers. I also use my own analogies and illustrative explanations. For the workshop I will prepare with some open questions which I would like that we try to answer during the meeting: a self organizing activity!”
How to transform a dull course into an exciting roll-playing game?
Commit your qualities as a programmer or designer and use them in a roll-playing game for sustainability education. The game was represented and developed within the context of the EPT (European Permaculture Teachers) partnership program.
The hackathon was about conceptualizing and executing a storyline, that could be instantly playable as a boardgame. The ambition of the second track was a module for Neverwinter Nights (Aurora engine). We target to have this game ready at the end of the event. (EDIT: To be continued…)
Some of the most important challenges were to determine classes, objects and interactions that make the understanding of ‘permaculture ethics’ as well as ‘designing principles’ possible.
