Artists Maxime Berthou and Mark Požlep have just returned from their 50-day journey down the Mississippi river on a steamboat—crossing 10 states, collecting corn and distilling whisky.
Croatian makerspace Radiona’s inaugural Electric Wonderland summer camp took place on September 1-7. Our Feral Labs chronicler in residence folded up his bicycle and jumped on a train.
This year, the Ars Electronica festival celebrated its 40th anniversary in Linz, Austria. Makery was there, and this first report follows discussions around the “Soybean Futures” workshop at Stadtwerkstatt.
This year Makery experienced Burning Man from the inside with Cécile Ravaux of French Burners and Art Bike Relief. The third and last part of this series looks back on the festivities on the playa.
This year Makery experiences Burning Man from the inside with Cécile Ravaux of French Burners and Art Bike Relief. Part 2 is reported directly from the unforgiving conditions of the desert playa.
This year Makery experiences Burning Man from the inside with Cécile Ravaux of French Burners and Art Bike Relief. Part 1
On July 15-28, the Comices du Faire micro-festival for makers tinkering with renewable energies and reclaimed resources was held in Nevez in western France. Makery went to visit.
The objective of Nowhere, the Burning Man of Europe, is to build camps that are totally self-sufficient in water, energy and food for one week. Our chronicler joined the Bababarrio camp.
Visiting the BigTorrent exhibition, July 4th on the Rhone river, on the occasion of the opening of the 73rd theater Festival of Avignon.
Interweaving digital fabrication, textile design and open science, Fabtextiles in Barcelona is a pioneering fablab for biomaterials.
Departed from France three years ago, Low-tech Lab’s catamaran is touring the world in search of frugal innovation. In Taiwan, the crew met the local maker movement.
Makery spoke to the organisers of the Train Camp that goes by train this week to the Green Culture festival in Montenegro.
Hack The Earth 2019 took place on April 19-22, organized by the Catalonian colony of Calafou—where liberating fantasies weave desirable futures.
Sustainable and easy to repair, Liter of Light lamps are a model of open source technology for human development. Low-tech Lab came to study this example on its world tour of frugal innovation.
Does watching ice melt help us talk about the climate emergency? A critical view on artists commitment at the end of COP24.
On the eve of COP24 in Poland, the role of artists in thinking long-term about the future of the human species on this planet, alongside a new surge of scientist-led activism.
The Laboratory Planet collective is currently studying systems theory, collective resilience and stories of regeneration. They develop their research hypotheses for Makery.
The 15th edition of Schmiede summer camp in Austria was held from August 29 to September 7. A cooperative prototyping festival mixing arts and maker culture.
From September 16-23, 30 artists, scientists, biohackers and ecologists explored the isolated region around the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in northern Lapland.
The fourth edition of PIFcamp in the Slovenian Alps congregated this year around the neologist theme of “nerdture”. A hackfest of nature, technology, art and knowledge.
