Monthly Archives: July 2010
Reports
Making a better future
AFROPIXEL 2010 * JEAN KATAMBAYI MUKENDI * MAKER FAIRE AFRICA
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The Afropixel 2010 festival began with an event called ‘Le Laboratoire de Prospectives Singuleires Dakar’ (organised in collaboration with Les Ateliers de Rennes) which featured philosophers, artists, activists and organisers who gave their views on possible futures.
The starting point for the discussion was this [...]
Keywords: afropixel, jean katambayi mukendi
Reports
Buffalo soldiers
AFROPIXEL 2010 * VIYE DIBA
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I cannot claim to know much more about Africa after spending just one week in the city of Dakar in Senegal, but even this short visit forced me to reconsider what I imagine the African identity to be today. It was a challenging mental exercise to try to connect [...]
Keywords: afropixel
General
Consumer electronics industry and mining in Congo
Coltan mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is a rogue industry that produces financial profit for the various factions of the on-going civil war. This issue has been discussed in artist/activist circles for some years already, but there have been no signs for any solution to this problem.
This situation unexpectedly changed last [...]
Announcements
make art festival: in-between design
Call for submissions deadline: 31st July 2010!
The sixth edition of make art – in-between design: rediscovering collaboration in digital art – will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 4th to the 7th of November 2010.
make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art. make art [...]
Keywords: goto10, open source, software art
Announcements
transmediale: Open Web Award 2011
Deadline for applications: 31st July 2010!
transmediale festival has initiated a new award in collaboration with Mozilla. The Open Web Award is a new platform for radical, creative and innovative art works and projects that:
* are on the web and about the web
* use open and free technology
* incite participation and/or collaboration
They can be critical, celebratory [...]
Keywords: open source, transmediale
General
Nuclear energy vs public opinion
Yesterday, Finnish parliament granted the permission for building two more nuclear reactors, despite the fact that the currently on-going project to build the new Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant has overshot its budget and has been greatly delayed. In addition, the Finnish authorities have expressed doubts about the safety of Olkiluoto’s nuclear reactor.
On a Wikipedia page [...]
Announcements
Bacarobo – The 1st European Stupid Robot Competition
Bacarobo is a japanese competition for stupid robots initiated by Maywa Denki. Our friends in Budapest will arrange a European edition of this competition on 31 October 2010. Deadline for the open call is on 31 July!
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Keywords: kitchen budapest, robots
Announcements
Plektrum Festival 2010: Would you love a robot?