oF Syjunta is like a knitting circle, but instead of knitting we’re coding. We meet up, hack a bit on our stuff, chat, have a coffee, exchange ideas, tricks and code.
We want it to be an open place for anybody who use openFrameworks and wants to meet other people doing the same in Stockholm. You can come when you like and leave when you’re tired, there are no talks or lectures planned, but it’s totally ok to demo you latest work or hack.
We hope to have an OF Syjunta once or twice monthly starting on Thursday October 30th. We’ll be in Münchenbryggeriet, at Doberman (map) and we’ll be there from 18.00 to 22.00. It doesn’t matter if you’re up for some coding, or just have time to say hi, swing by!
Fringe has put together a workshop and an (almost) all inclusive weekend package from Stockholm to New Media Meeting in Norrköping (19th to 20th of September). It’s not too late to join Fringe and sign up for the package or the workshop yet (you don’t have to sign up for both). Drop a mail to Tina Finnäs if you’re interested. The package is at least half the price of what you’d pay if you’d pay for everything separately, and it’s more fun than traveling alone…
NEW MEDIA MEETING
In only two years NMM has become one of the most important media festivals in the Nordic Region – attracting an impressive line-up of renowned and upcoming international artists on the media art and electronic music scene.
This year NMM has invited around 50 international artists, hackers, DJs, VJs, researchers, media-activists, designers, movie producers, etc. from more than ten countries. Young and old, beginners and world-renowned. During one weekend concerts, installations, performances, workshops, lectures and seminars will be crammed under the same roof.
FRINGE NMM PACKAGE
- Buss-trip, Sthlm-Norrköping-Sthlm.
- Two nights of accommodation, 19th-21st, at the Hostel Above in shared or single rooms
- Entrance to the both days of the NMM.
Price: 600 SEK.
FRINGE WORKSHOP @ NMM
A one-day Introduction workshop in circuit bending with Olof Bendt and Magnus Gyllenswärd from Ergonomidesign in Stockholm.
Price: 300 SEK (includes all the required equipment for the workshop).
Contact Tina Finnäs for more information about the workshop and the NMM package.
I’ll be at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria September 4 - 8. In between the tremendous amount of art and technology sightseeing I plan to do with the Interactive Institute, I’ll be dropping by the OF Lab to finalize the Arduino class in cppGlue.
“The OF lab will focus on creating new works that come directly out of suggestions from the festival audience members, and over the course of the event, create a feedback loop between suggestions, experimentation, making projects, exhibiting the results and most importantly, exposing the process”.
Tomorrow, Saturday, May 31st, from 13.00-20.00 Michelle Teran, will preview the Parasitic Video Network she has produced during her artist in residency at The Interactive Institutes Art and Technology program.
The Parasitic Network includes twenty surveillance cameras and a special instrument that visitors can use to capture and record live feeds from the cameras with. Besides from capturing and recording live feeds the instrument automatically mixes different sound sources as visitors move through the space, a functionality I’ve been working on together with Yoshi Akai and Michelle.
When:
Saturday, May 31st, from 13.00-20.00
Where:
Interactive Institute, Electrum, Kista.
Kistagången 16/Isafjordsgatan 22
6th floor, elevator B
“Node.stockholm is a festival for art and mew media arranged in the Stockholm area 15 January to 15 february 2008. The festival is arranged by the node.stockholm association and will work as an umbrella for a number of different organizations, nodes, in Stockholm. Each node will arrange programs that connect to art and new media. The festival will consist of a wide spectra of events: dance, music, radio, fine art, performance, exhibitions, concerts, magazines, books, web sites etc”.
Update:
Regine Debatty who runs the fantastic art blog we-make-money-not-art.com will be lecturing about Biotech art at Mejan Labs on Thursday 14:00-16:00 (Location: Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Flaggmansgatan 1, Skeppsholmen) and about how Web 2.0 (?) has changed the art world on Friday 10:00-12:00 (Location: Hus 28 Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Skeppsholmen.).
“pixelVÄRK is a festival for electronic art and subcultures and the Swedish version of pixelACHE. The 2007 pixelVÄRK willl concentrate on seminars discussing aesthetic qualities and a club event with Vj and Dj performances”.
New Media Meeting 07 is getting closer. This years theme is “Digital Media and Arts in Urban Environments” - integration and the usage of digital media technology and arts in urban surroundings. I’m really impressed by the program, especially considering that this is just the second year the festival is running. Some of the highlights are a onedotzero showcase, installations and a workshop from Zach Lieberman and Theo Watson and the French VJ collective Play together with dAta. New Media Meeting is well on its way to become one of the most important new media events in Scandinavia. The dates are September 21-22 and the location is Norrköping, Sweden…
Last year me, Carl-Johan Rosén and Marcus Appelback held a Processing workshop at NMM. This year Zach and Theo will host an openFrameworks workshop. I’m sure it will be really cool and I would so much have liked to participate somehow. Unfortunately it collides with the kick-off of the Man Machine II project which I will be working with this autumn / winter (more about that later)…
On 1-2 December I will hold a workshop at the New Media Meeting in Norrköping, Sweden, together with Carl-Johan Rosén and Markus Appelbäck. The workshop is titled “Do It Yourself - Computation As A Creative Medium” and is arranged by NVIS, Norrköping Visualization and Interaction Studio.
During two intensive days we will be experimenting with video- and sound interaction in processing. The idea is to support artists with simple, inexpensive yet powerful tools that they can use to create interactive installations. We will be using Processing and computers with cameras and microphones and possibly also Arduino boards and sensors.
More information is available here (Swedish only).
oF Syjunta is like a knitting circle, but instead of knitting we’re coding. We meet up, hack a bit on our stuff, chat, have a coffee, exchange ideas, tricks and code. 
