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The Bijlmer Euro

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:38:34 +0000

The Bijlmer Euro is project by Christian Nold & Imagine IC with the Waag Society taking the form of a complimentary local currency for South East of Amsterdam which creates economic benefits for local people, inspires social connections and builds a complex network identity for the Bijlmer. The Bijlmer Euro will launch on the 8th July 2010 with 17 participating Bijlmer shops and 2000 special Bijlmer Euro ‘bank notes’. All the participating shops will offer unique discounts when you use a Bijlmer Euro. Each Bijlmer Euro note is tagged with a unique chip which will allow people to follow all money moving from shop to shop. via networked performance

Crash!

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:26:52 +0000

Crash! is an interesting 1971 film by Harley Cokliss with J. G. Ballard which predates Ballard's 1973 novel giving an insight into the thought process behind it. via

Pacific Star II : Colin Rich

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 23:38:41 +0000

Pacific Star II from Colin Rich on Vimeo.

An amazing project involving sending two hacked cameras reprogrammed to shoot 3 photos every 3 minutes, and shoot a minute of video every fourth minute up in a home made weather balloon when the balloon burst the cameras fell back to earth with a parachute and were retrieved through GPS tracking. via petapixel

Happy Bloomsday

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:24:55 +0000

Celebrate Bloomsday with a Joyce Walk in your city, http://www.joycewalks.com

Bloomsday QR tagging

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:21:20 +0000

Keep an eye out for Bloomsday themed QR tagging of Dublin for Bloomsday tomorrow. You'll need a QR tag reader to read them, I recommend the i-nigma reader www.i-nigma.mobi which is available for most phones a lot of other semacode and QR tag readers don't work very well.

Cities at Night

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:45:02 +0000

NASA Earth Observatory gallery of images of night time cities from space.

Mark Linkous RIP

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:58:00 +0000

Sad news of the loss of Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse at 47. Since I first saw him live way back in 1996 at VK's in Molenbeek in Brussels playing support for Mazzy Star his music has been a constant in my life. A rare talent, a great performer and a nice guy he'll be missed by those of us he touched with his music. PLAY IT LOUD!

DATA 8th Anniversary

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:45:53 +0000

Friday, 26th of February, 6pm The Joy Gallery at RedSpace, 2 Rutland Place, Dublin 1 With Anne Maree Barry, Matthew Talbot-Kelly, Jack from Redspace and after party featuring Fernweh, Push move click, DeFekT, 16 Hertz and Johnny Oakley and Lightyear. More information and map here

Tactical Sound Garden Workshop

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:47:16 +0000

I'll be leading a workshop of Mark Shepard's locative media artwork Tactical Sound Garden in Temple Bar Gallery on Saturday 13th at 2pm as part of the re:public exhibition program All welcome, hope to see you there.

Open Street Map Haitian response

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:29:56 +0000

OpenStreetMap - Project Haiti

A visualisation of the response to the earthquake by the OpenStreetMap community. Within 12 hours the white flashes indicate edits to the map (generally by tracing satellite/aerial photography).

Over the following days a large number of additions to the map are made with many roads (green primary, red secondary) added. Also many other features were added such as the blue glowing refugee camps that emerge.

A lot of these edits were made possible by a number of satellite and aerial imagery passes in the days after the quake, that were released to the public for tracing and analysis.

Gordon Pask Lecture

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:36:55 +0000

Gordon Pask lecture extract from 1979 speaking about the 'Colloquy of Mobiles' installation at the 1968 Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition

OSM a year of edits

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:07:38 +0000

The OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld shown by Richard Cantwell at the OSM re:public workshop on Saturday. The 2009 version is due shortly.

Open Street Map Workshop Temple Bar Gallery Sat 6th 2pm

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:26:57 +0000

As part of the re:public exhibition at Temple Bar Galleries I would like to invite you to an Open Street Map Mapping Workshop and Roundtable discussion I will be leading in the Temple Bar Gallery this Saturday 6th at 2pm. Open Street Map Workshop and Roundtable Sat 6th February 2pm, Temple Bar Galleries The Open Street Map (OSM) was established to create a digital map in which the underlying data would be free to use without restrictions. OSM uses a web based system with mapping tools, instructions and tutorials which lets people equipped with GPS devices, cameras and notebooks map their own neighbourhoods. With over 200,000 members and growing at a rate of 300 per day the results are hugely impressive and likely to get even more so with the introduction of OSM applications for mobile phones. The unique advantage of OSM is that the maps are made by locals so they are often filled with a degree of detail that is impractical for any commercial organisation, and are continually being updated. Most importantly all the data which underlies the maps is opensource. The workshop will be an introduction to practical OSM mapping starting with a brief overview and instructions. Groups will take to the streets with a portable GPS, cameras, notebooks and GPS enabled phones to map a section of Dublin. On returning to the gallery the new material will be added in real time to the OSM map of Dublin. The afternoon will conclude with a roundtable discussion on the OSM and opensource mapping with Blazej Ciepluch and Ricky Jacob from the SratAG Strategic research in Advanced Geotechnologies group at NUI Maynooth, Richard Cantwell a GIS consultant as well as Dublin OSM users. All are welcome, no prior experience necessary, equipment will be provided. If you have a GPS enabled device bring it along. Iphone owners download the free Mapzen app from the istore. More about Re:public, organised in conjunction with the GradCAM Arts Research Public and Purposes conference

Jonathan Zittrain on crowdsourcing

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law and co-founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard, dives into the ethics and issues surrounding cloud labor in this talk from the Berkman West reception at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

Paul Murnaghan : As Foreign as the Same Must Be

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:05:07 +0000

Evolving from a fascination with things 'known', Paul Murnaghan's projects exist within intersections of the spiritual, scientific and psychological. Ideas are delivered through a multitude of disciplines and forms that teeter between gallery and gimmickry. In 2008 Murnaghan undertook a utopian quest in an attempt to write a universal hymn. This involved over sixty video recordings in several European countries. For As Foreign as the Same Must Be, he re-made the project in his back garden using the same core concepts and none of the original material. Roscommon Arts Centre Jan 15th - Feb 17th