Upgrade! Eindhoven 16/9: Floris Kaayk

On Thursday evening 16 September Floris Kaayk is the guest artist at Upgrade! Eindhoven, where he is interviewed by nobody less than Wiepko Oosterhuis. The location is TAC, Vonderweg 1 Eindhoven, and starts at 19.30 hours.

The first Upgrade! Eindhoven happened in 2008. Upgrade! is a meeting of people who share an interest in art and technology. Upgrade! International is a network of nodes spread over the globe. At Upgrade! Eindhoven meetings people come together to see one or more artists present, and have a discussion.

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Upgrade! Eindhoven

8 march: The Secret of Dick Verdult

31 may: Michelle Teran
Danielle Roberts
Anja Hertenberger

28 june: Holly Schmidt
Daan Roosegaarde


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Brains Award to Transit Mantra

Céline de Waal Malefijt has won the first prize with her idea and prototype of Transit Mantra. The professional jury decided to reward her with the first Brains Award. The development of Transit Mantra is realised during her Artist in Residence period atMAD, Spring 2009.

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It was a huge succes


Creative Challenge Call

The value of ever more products en services is determent by the creative component such as the shape, the meaning or the experience it gives. That demands cooperation between creative companies and other enterprises. The can benefit from each other. Still they can’t find each other that easily. The new subsidizer program ‘ Creative Challenge Call ‘ will stimulate that creative and other companies will work together to use the full economic possibility of culture and creativity.


Workshop Ambient Art

Anticipating on the growing quantity of technology and products which relate to the ‘Ambient Intelligence’ concept (AKA distress homes, Ubiquitous Computing), its many artists, designer and architects are curious forr what that could mean to them. This workshop gave a unique update of the state of the art. Artists: Eolwin van der Heide, Elmo Diederiks, Alex Vermeulen.