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The Long Now Of #picnic08: Microblogging And Networked Social Awareness In Live Events

The Long Now Of #picnic08: Microblogging And Networked Social Awareness In Live Events

Rather than reporting on a specific keynote, I would like to focus on something that has been experienced behind mobile screens and not on in front of the festival stages. Such phenomenon can be approached both as an emerging...

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...

Come Have a Corporate PICNIC!

Collaboration...If there's one word I would suggest to compress PICNIC'08 into, this would be it. To be perfectly honest, the whole concept has gotten a bit hollow after three days of this greenly, grassy, commy conference. A small impression...
PICNIC 08 – E-Art & the 1st Captured Impressions

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...

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...

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...

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...
PICNIC 08 – Introduction

PICNIC 08 – Introduction

This is the first post in a series where the Masters will blog some lectures given at the Picnic 08 conference which is held the next three days at the Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam.