Computing Culture

FEED(BACK)

Annina's eRiceCooker is feeding people in eyebeam's FEEDBACK exhibition in New York (03/13 - 04/19).

Open Prosthetics Visit

Last week Jonathan Kuniholm and Kevin Webb from the Open Prosthetics Project visited Computing Culture and presented their work on creating prosthetic designs for the public domain. How to grow the community more and streamline the contributing process was a topic of discussion. Check out their work and get involved.

First Airborne

The Director and Edmund Kwong's installation, First Airborne / Naturally Violent, is at Fringe Exhibitions in LA until the end of the year.

RÜST@RISD

Annina is venturing out to the Rhode Island School of Design to speak as a guest of the digital+media fall 2007 lecture series. The talk is happening on Tuesday, November 27 @ RISD Auditorium North Main Street 7 p.m.

Back To Reality

Annina's eRiceCooker project is currently cooking up rice in the exhibition "Sie nennen es Realität" (they call it reality) at Hartware MedienKunstVerein in Dortmund, Germany.

Seeing Yellow

A few members of the group have put together a new website: Seeing Yellow. The website discusses the little-known invisible tracking dots printed on ever color page printed from almost every color laser printer or copier. This is not news; the EFF has been talking about this for quite a while now.

However, when someone called up their printer manufacturer more recently to ask about how they might turn the tracking information in their printed pages off, they were paid a visit by the U.S. Secret Service who wanted to know why he didn't want to be tracked.

Computing Culture want to preserve the right to anonymous communication by fighting both printing dots and the government bullying used to sustain them. Seeing Yellow providers users of color laser printers with information on the topic so they may easy contact and technical support information for major color laser printer manufacturers. Stand up today by taking a moment, reading overthe page and calling your printer manufacturer. If we all stand up together, we'll raise awareness about the issue, put pressure on our manufacturers, and make bullying of those of us that demand privacy and anonymity much more difficult.

Mako has just announced that he has been elected to the board of the Free Software Foundation. The FSF oversees the GNU project (at the heart of the GNU/Linux operating systems), the GNU GPL, is active in campaigns against DRM, and much more.

1-Bit Groove Workshoppe at Leaf Crew Party

On Saturday evening, June 15th, 2007, CCG member Shifty a.k.a. Noah Vawter will teach a workshoppe on one-bit groovebox construction in Allston, MA. The workshop is part of the "Skill Share" segment of a massive party by the Leaf Crew. The party begins with a yard sale, then the Skill Share segment, then a dance party with 14 DJs on three floors! Shifty joins his buddy Andrew Hylynsky from Berklee School of Music who will be teaching a circuit-bending workshop at the party.

Mako On The Move

Mako is off to Europe where he'll visit three conferences to deliver talks:

• The iCommons iSummit (essentially, the Creative Commons conference). Mako will be talking about philosophy of free culture movement and continuing his pitch for a set of goals for free culture and the Definition of Free Cultural Works. The conference wil be in Dubrovnik, Croatia between 14-18 June and Mako will be giving a talk on 16 June.
• Mako will be at DebConf 7, this years instance of the annual Debian Conference. He'll be giving a an overview of academic work on Debian on 21 June and facilitating a round-table discussion among Debian derivatives. The conference is in Edinburgh between 18-23 June.
• For 26-28 June, Mako will be a guest of Eric von Hippel in Copenhagen for a small meeting/workshop of people interested in and working on issues around von Hippel's idea of user innovation.

csik@brock

The Director is giving a keynote on human rights, enframing, and new media at Brock University's Immersive Worlds conference today.