Annina's eRiceCooker is feeding people in eyebeam's FEEDBACK exhibition in New York (03/13 - 04/19).]]>
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Mako is off to Europe where he'll visit three conferences to deliver talks:
The Director, along with his colleagues Henry Jenkins and Mitchel Resnick, was just awarded a 5m, four year grant by the Knight Foundation to start a Center for Future Civic Media. We'll start work on the Center this summer, so watch this space for announcements.
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Mako's project Selectricity tries to take election technology designed for governments and make it available for for everyone else. It tries to use the state of the art from the more traditional election technology world to build tools both to help people make better decisions in their every day life and to, in the process, rework their own relationship to the tools and processes of democracy.
The project was just given a grant to fund continued development as part of the Digital Incubator initiative by MTV and Cisco. More on the project is on the weblogs of the Director and Mako and in the more traditional press as well.
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It's with joy and pride that we announce Kelly Dobson's successful defense of her doctoral dissertation, "Machine Therapy."
Kelly presented her most recent project, OMO, as well as the others that have made her an international phenomenon. At least one audience member was spotted crying from happiness with the presentation.
Video of her defense will be online soon.
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