MAD is transforming into a project based organization. In the coming years, we will search for collaboration with people, partners and programs to further enhance quality and results.
There are more than eighty unambiguous statements of support for MAD from artists, scientists, businesses, institutions directors, hackers and architects that demonstrate the value and quality of MAD which was collected after the negative advice from the ‘Post committee’ at the end of 2009.
On January 7, 2012- around the clock- you can enjoy Update 2.0.12 which is an event in one of the last untouched pieces of industrial heritage that is in Eindhoven.
Together with various artists and performers from Eindhoven, Dommelvallei, Zodiak Commune and Chris de Zeeuw starts the new year in the basement of the monumental Natlab at Strijp S.
Venue: Natlab / Strijp S. (The Kastanjelaan), Eindhoven.
Opening hours: 16:00-4:00.
You can register at: https://www.facebook.com/events/156689214431771/
Tickets:
The program is free from 16:00 to 22:00u, tickets for the program from 22:00 to 04:00u are 9 Euro.
Tickets are available in presale at Sterk Water (Ketelhuisplein 1 / Strijp S., 5617 AE, Eindhoven) and Doortje Vintage (Smalle Haven 2-14, 5611 EJ, Eindhoven).
See more information on the websites:
http://zodiakcommune.com/ws/showEventList.php?#190
http://dommelvallei.nl/
We need to hack the Internet of Things!
Fascinating and interesting advances in lighting technology are presented in this Hackathon, with workshops you are able to work in a team to create prototypes and test setups. What you can offer and what you need are matched so you can connect your knowledge with others.
Besides inspiring information experts you can find creative and technical people who want to work with you, do workshop projects or work on ideas. Programmers test their skills and collaborate with designers, artists and engineers. Professionals, students and companies form teams and challenge each other.
Light is increasingly controlled with electronic devices. This is the experience and functionality of the space in which we live, work and recreate with adjustable applications, remote sensing, etc.
• How does light work? What can you develop?
LED, OLED, Laser applications as well as holography, ionization, video, medical applications are discussed.
• What can you do with Open Data and sensor networks?
Apps for NL, Pachube, Internet of Things are responding to the current signal technology and grid computing. With Arduino, Processing and Apps, you can do magic with photons…
LED applications
Friday 15:00 – 24:00 pm:
presentations, workshops, teamwork.
Saturday 10:00 – 18:00:
presentations, workshops, teamwork, showcases the results.
Admission: € 5, – Students free. Register via email to info@madlab.nl
There is limited capacity, register your participation for one day or both days.
Bring your own equipment and tools along. We have only a limited amount of stuff available.
Food and drinks are included / pay what you want.
Sample projects to be worked on or that can inspire you:
Android Open Accessory Development Kit
Links to tools etc
Processing – Processing is a programming language, development environment, and online community that since 2001 has promoted software literacy within the visual arts. Initially created to serve as a software sketchbook and to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context, Processing quickly developed into a tool for creating finished professional work as well.
Arduino – Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It’s intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
Pachube – Pachube connects people to devices, applications, and the Internet of Things. As a web-based service built to manage the world’s real-time data, Pachube gives people the power to share, collaborate, and make use of information generated from the world around them.
In the week of November (5th-12th 2011), MADlab participated in the Glow to show its nice idea.
MadLab was on the route of Glow , so we made something interesting with a bubble machine and a spotlight. Thousands of people stopped to see what was going on and made pictures of it.
Conclusion: a success!! So.. who knows, next year, there will be another nice project from MADlab during Glow.
In the weekend of 5 and 6 November 2011 MADlab was at the T-Dose (Technical Dutch Open Source Event).
T-Dose is an event that is held yearly to promote the use and knowledge about Open Source software. It’s a platform for the Open Source Communities on which they can interact amongst each other and present themselves to their user base.
More information about T-dose, click here
During this event we successfully presented Open Data Eindhoven and MAD emergent art center.
Open lab space for demo coders, artists, dates, digital performers, game hackers, music / audio coders, VJs etc…
A day of live programming, hacking, circuit bending, app dev, data visualization, as well as performances Kinect Upstage screenings.
Come with your laptop and plug into what’s going on. Show your code or check the code on the screen.
Simultaneous MADlab of 11-11 is a hub in the online Upstage Festival in 24 hours going around the world.
Animation + live online performances live chat.
The first 10 subscribers get free access, then just € 5 including data entry, drinks and bites. Consideration applies.
More information and registration: info@madlab.nl
11 AM Open
participation/ demonstration/ streaming/ experiment/ Kinect + hacks available / Arduino available
Mail your offers / wanted to info@madlab.nl
11 PM Closing
http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-live_coding
http://pixelist.info/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8221235.stm
http://vagueterrain.net/content/2010/06/openlab-interview
Kate Milberry:
‘I argue, tech activists are creating a model of social organization that is radically transformative, refusing the reductive limits of the neoliberal world order, and enacting the possibility of a better world now.’
Dan Stowell:
Geeks and Global Justice: Another (Cyber)World is Possible
‘I analyze how tech activists consciously design technology that embodies values of equality, freedom and justice. Their creation and appropriation of free software indicates a more general argument for open knowledge production as the basis for a new mode of work, and indeed, a new set of social relations. In reconstructing the Internet along a democratic model and through a democratic process, I argue, tech activists are creating a model of social organization that is radically transformative, refusing the reductive limits of the neoliberal world order, and enacting the possibility of a better world now.’
invitation MADbuzz
MOMA NY - Talk to Me
In the MOMA that was in New York until 7th of November there was an exhibition called “Talk to Me”. (see below)
“… Talk to Me explores (this) new terrain, featuring a variety of designs that enhance communicative possibilities and embody a new balance between technology and people, bringing technological breakthroughs up or down to a comfortable, understandable human scale. Designers are using the whole world to communicate, transforming it into a live stage for an information parkour and enriching our lives with emotion, motion, direction, depth, and freedom.”
http://moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/talktome/
MAD emergent art center has decided to organize a travel to MOMA NY for the people of Eindhoven.
In cooperation with the Dutch Institute for Study, there is a special package for a fairly low amount. For flight and hotel you can expect approximately 700 Euros. Additional costs are mainly transfers, meals, insurance.
Hacking the City is a 10 days exhibition on urban development, design, art and architecture. More than 20 national and international participants show their work. They are addressing urban interventions, street art, experiments and research.
PULS – hacking the city is a 10 days event in The Netherlands, Eindhoven, 22-30 October 2011.
The photos of the event Hacking the City are on the website! check them out on www.madlab.nl/puls/foto’s.
It is an exhibition around urbanism, design, art and architecture. Curator Tom Veeger and MAD selected a number of artists (22) and organisations to present visions, projects and installations focussed on urban interventions, street art, experiments and research.
The core message is: “Hacking the City – re-imagination of freedom. An investigation into the changing interpretation and shift of the notion of Public Space in recent years. Including formal and informal interventions”
The organisation is executed by the nonprofit MAD emergent art center. This is the third PULS event in a row. 2009 was themed sense of the city, 2010 was themed signals of a city.
The exhibition is part of Dutch Design Week (DDW) event, a 10-day festival on Design and related matters. The expected number of visitors is 150K.
PULS 2010: http://www.dutchdesignweek.nl/event.php?lang=en&id=1698.
DDW 2010: http://www.dutchdesignweek.nl/download/Presentation_DDW_Publication2011_LR.pdf
In the former research lab of Philips: “Natlab”, a stripped down old building, some 30 rooms are used as cabinets to show the presentations and installations of PULS.
Partly funded by the city of Eindhoven and a number of sponsors, artists and organisations are responsible for their presentation, facilitated by the organisation to meet basic needs.
Communication will be large scale to public and press, with possibility to have a special event or moment during the exhibition period. A live video conferencing session is maybe an interesting option, with optional live coverage on local TV.
Interactieve Workshop / Expositie
Naam: Tover Je Toekomst (het Internet der Dingen)
Duur: Max. 100 minuten
Doelgroep: kinderen 6 – 12 jaar
lees meer op: http://www.madlab.nl/TJT/
