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PICNIC ’08 – Itay Talgam Interview

This is an excerpt of an interview with Israeli conductor Itay Talgam done by Markus Huendgen during Picnic ‘08. Talgam illustrates how conducting an orchestra can be a metaphor for the collaboration of people in general.

By marie-anne soyez on 09/29/08 4

PICNIC 08 – Locative Lab on Education

What: Locative Lab on Education and GPS-based programme 7scenes Organised by: Waag Society When: 24 Sept 08 14:00 - 18:00 Where: PICNIC Club (Gashouder)

By Sarah van der Land on 09/29/08 Comments Off

Picnic 2008 report: Surprising Africa

Citizen journalism in Africa ‘Bring the world to Africa and bring Africa to the world.’ (Gisel Hiscock, talking at Surprising Africa) Hiscock, one of speakers at the Surprising Africa conference, held a lecture about Google’s interest in giving information-access...

By Guido van Diepen on 09/29/08 2

Mediamatic at PICNIC 08

Mediamatic is a project partner of PICNIC. Excellent coders, designers and physical computers participate in this heavy duty camp to explore recent technologies, RFID, interaction design and social processes. The goal of the Camp is to realize multiple interactive...

By Cornelia Scripca on 09/29/08 6

PICNIC 08 – Outside of the Lectures and the Dome, a Critical Note

Inside the E-art dome were some interesting lectures too and ways of art meeting new technologies. Too bad we could not see all in there but outside were also activities we joined in after the lecture on nature versus...

By Hannah Biemold on 09/28/08 Comments Off

PICNIC 08 – Nike’s Michael Tchao and “Connecting Shoes”

Michael Tchao is the General Manager of Nike Techlab, a sports technology innovation group within Nike. Today at Picnic he presented Nike+ to show a few examples of how social and commercial networks interact. You may have heard of...

By Chris Castiglione on 09/28/08 3

PICNIC 08 – De Variegata Setup

When I was walking through the Picnic event area where the only free access tent (the E-Art Dome) was situated, there was nothing going there yet. So I walked through this big white tent and saw, between all the...

By Dorris de Heij on 09/28/08 Comments Off

Why is Africa Surprising You? Surprising Africa @ Picnic ’08

Picnic is Amsterdam’s new media event of the year. This is one of the few times when people come together to discuss developments, innovations and changes in the industry on this scale. As a result, this is also one...

By Ben White on 09/28/08 2

PICNIC 08 – The Future of Business Creation

Werner Vogels: CTO amazon The future of business creation Yesterday at 16.15, the last lecture of a three day picnic was given. Dr.Werner Vogels, now CTO of Amazon.com, took the mic and started talking on how to start a...

By Jasper Moes on 09/27/08 Comments Off

PICNIC 08 – Paint the World Orange

Marcel Wanders (our very famous dutch designer) has been appointed as chairman of a committee that is going to decide which one of us (all creatives) can promote the dutch identity across the border. If you can make it...

By saskia korsten on 09/26/08 3

PICNIC 08 – What will Google do?

On the last day of Picnic 2008, on Friday at Zuiveringshal West Gisel Hiscock, the Google’s EMEA business development director appeared with the company’s newest initiatives and strategies. Gisel Hiscock outlined company’s scheme of acting opposing the traditional approach –the...

By Maria Perevalova on 09/26/08 3

PICNIC 08 – E-Art & the 1st Captured Impressions

Short presentations, few both clickable art visualizations and physical artistic prototypes from presenters, and conglomerated art projects without neither explicitly separating lines nor accessible explications for the few curious ones is the best way to describe the first impressions...

By Alejandro Ortega Lozano on 09/26/08 2

PICNIC 08 – Just a Photocollage

For those who don’t have €1200 in the pocket and so aren’t able to get inside the Picnic sites that really matter, Picnic offered some free activities. I was enjoying the sun and a coffee, watching some homeless people fighting nearby, joining the...

By Arno de Natris on 09/26/08 Comments Off

PICNIC 08 – The Long Here, The Big Now, and Other Tales of the Networked City

Adam Greenfield talked at Picnic about how new technologies changes our perception and experience of cities. According to Greenfield the networked city is no science fiction anymore, it is becoming reality. We live in ubiquitous cities where information systems...

By Bram Nijhof on 09/26/08 2

PICNIC 08 – All Media

Today’s themes in the E-Art Dome, presented by Virtueel Platform, are ecology, online life/social networking and mobility. The second presentation of the day is All Media, by Mieke Gerritzen and Koert van Mensvoort, which definitely fits those descriptions. ...

By Annewil Neervens on 09/25/08 2

PICNIC 08 – YOUNG Seminar: Virtual Spaces

Amsterdam 25 September http://picnicyoung.nl/ The motto of this seminar is that bringing computer simulations and games into the classroom will have a positive effect on the learning abilities of students. For a new media academic this can’t be very shocking news. Modern...

By Alessandro Valente on 09/25/08 Comments Off

PICNIC 08 – Secrets and Lies

Genevieve Bell: on Secrets and Lies After the Clay Shirky speech there is no time for questions because it is time for Genevieve Bell, an anthropologist working for Intel (apology accepted), to talk about secrets and lies. She wants...

By Jasper Moes on 09/25/08 5

PICNIC 08 – The Sheep Market by Aaron Koblin

On friday afternoon at Picnic 08 Aaron Koblin talked about the visualisation of collected data in his art projects. The main project was the drawing of 10.000 sheep all done by collaborating volunteers. Koblin is not the only one...

By Hannah Biemold on 09/25/08 3

PICNIC 08 – Conducting Creativity by Itay Talgam

Through different examples of conducting an orchestra Itay Talgam, highly acclaimed Israeli conductor and founder of the Maestro program, explores some of the aspects that are related to the practice of collaboration. In his presentation he addresses...

By Stephan Barmentloo on 09/25/08 3