Announcements & Calls For Things

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Thrilling Wonder Stories..London Edition

Thrilling Wonder Stories WONDER STORIES 3 Live in London and New York Oct 28th Created by Liam Young [Tomorrows Thoughts Today] And Geoff Manaugh [BLDGBLOG] In Association with the Architectural Association, Studio-X NYC, Popular Science We have always regaled ourselves … Continue reading

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Speculative Design: Blowup – The Era of Objects

Just a quick note to say — I’ll be at this event at V2__ in Rotterdam (V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam) Thursday September 29..so if you’re around, you should come. If you’re not — you should dial-in: ((This event will be streamed … Continue reading

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Design Fiction on Australian Radio / FutureTense

I had a fun discussion with the folks at this wonderful Australian Radio National’s Future Tense show on the topic of design fiction — “Fictitious futures, virtual development and visual language.” I suppose its a measure of things the degree … Continue reading

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Design Fiction Workshop at UX Week 2011

So — enough yammering. Time for some hammering. It’ll be workshops from here to fore. Getting to work. Shirtsleeves. Lab coats. Smocks. Aprons. Hammers. I’ll be doing a workshop later this summer — August 24 from 2-5:30, to be precise … Continue reading

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Quiet But Not Quiescent

<img src="“/> Judge not the less yammer-y state of the studio blog to indicate that there is nothing worth yammering about. It’s just that the clang of steel caressing code has been going on and that in great measure, too. … Continue reading

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And Another..

MDP Studio, South Campus Wind Tunnel Art Center College of Design is booting up a new track within the Media Design Program (MDP) called Media Design Matters (MDM). They’re looking for a *second faculty member with a background in the … Continue reading

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Art Center Summer Residency: Learning and the New Ecology of Things

Seems Art Center’s Media Design Program has extended its deadline for applicants for a summer residency — learning and pervasive/ubiquitous/thing-y computing. http://www.artcenter.edu/mdp/research/summer2011/ === Learning and the New Ecology of Things We are particularly interested in projects that explore learning in … Continue reading

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Action Sharing 2 Creative Competition

Ambling around Medieval Torino with @bruces during the 2008 Share Festival. The fine folks at Piemonte Share in Torino are doing a creative competition called Action Sharing 2! Here’s the Call for Participation. Deadline is November 30th! Winner can supervise … Continue reading

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The Urban Internet of Things 2010. An International Workshop

Coming up is an exciting sounding workshop on the “urban internet of things — programming the real-time city.” Some more opportunities to get this one right..or at least human. ** As more people move to cities, it becomes increasingly challenging )) … Continue reading

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iotaSalon: The City @ UCLA

This sounds like fun. May 6, 2010, 7pm Experimental Digital Arts at UCLA. iotaCenter’s mission is to inspire both new and existing artists in a historically dispersed and constantly changing technological environment. The theme for our next iotaSalon is THE … Continue reading

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Week Ending 04232010

Well, I missed the Week Ending last week so I’ll capture a couple of the things that happened then, now. There were a cacophony of tasks to be done, some fun, some that should’ve been fun, and all that tipped … Continue reading

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Award Category: Design Fiction

There are a variety of ways to measure the degrees to which an *out there idea becomes somehow normalized and convention: (in no particular order) (1) It becomes bandied about at conferences and lectures and so forth; (2) Someone writes … Continue reading