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Tomorrow 14.2 Open Data Meetup. Policy issues: What changes when data opens?
The event is dedicated to open data and especially the societal impact of open data. The speakers will present a variety of macro level perspectives on open data. There will be speeches on how open data is changing the citizen participation, activism, journalism and business. After the presentations we’ll have an open Q&A session with [...]
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FREE CITY (VABA LINN) 26.-27. April 2012 in Tallinn
FREE CITY is an interdisciplinary series of events for young people, students and professionals targeted at highlighting specific urban space problems and finding solutions to them using freeware instruments and the underlying thought paradigm. FREE CITY showcases freeware instruments (in the field of IT and in other fields), the paradigm that links them and the [...]
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Suomenlinna Sound / Duration Map by Geoff Robinson
Geoff Robinson is presenting 2 projects and a sound performance next week 3-5 February on Suomenlinna. His work is based on research and documentation of Suomenlinna during his HIAP residency November 2011 -February 2012.
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Open lecture series in art-design-technology-science: HUMAN DESIGN or EVOLUTION?
4 lecture evenings, 9 international speakers discussing the future of the human! Mondays 5-7pm at Aalto Media factory, Arabia. Starting on the 23rd of January and continuing on the subsequent 3 mondays. Body enhancement, body modification, prosthetics, wearable and embedded technologies, mind uploading, memory-upgrades, biotechnologies and other nano-scale technologies are keywords in contemporary societys answers to [...]
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International Teletext Art Festival: Open Call
TAF is organised by FixC cooperative (http;//www.fixc.fi) in collaboration with YLE, the national broadcast corporation of Finland. The works will be shown on YLE Teletext pages 8.3.2012 -8.4.2012 and presented in the one evening TELETEXT event 8.3. Artists are welcome to participate with 24 -page animations (1 page + 24 sub -pages) or single image works (much [...]
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HACK THE CITY OPEN CALL
Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland is seeking proposals for an upcoming major exhibition and festival HACK THE CITY Call Opens: Monday 5 December Call Closes: Friday 20 January Exhibition duration: 22.6. 2012 – 7.9. 2012 Festival dates: 11-15 July 2012 Calling all hackers, makers, doers, data nerds, hobbyists, artists, citizen scientists, tech geeks, [...]
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FABLAB CITY HELSINKI 14.12.
Alternative Design Capital (ADC) arranges a meeting to bring together various emerging ‘fab lab’ initiatives and other related projects. Everyone who is interested in the topic is welcome to the meeting! Fab labs offer tools such as laser cutters and 3D printers which designers can use to produce prototypes or small sets of unique objects. [...]
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The Wearable Electronics -course presentation 5.12.
Electronics and sensors allow artists to create interactive smart garments that produce sound and images in reaction to movement. They sense and communicate with the environment and the user, and may react to them. In some cases the garment is in connection with the Internet and exchanges information based on the data it has measured. As [...]
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Open lecture by Artist Ursula Damm 9.12.
Ursula Damm (DE) is an artist working at the intersection of art, technology and science. She has developed installations on the relationship of nature, science and civilization which have been shown at numerous exhibitions worldwide. Since 2008 she holds the chair of Media Environments (Media Arts&Design) at the Media Faculty of the Bauhaus-University, Weimar. In 2010 [...]
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Urban Activism in Post- Socialist Cities Workshop in Tallinn, 14-20th June