Field Notes explores “The Heavens” in Sub-Arctic Lapland (1/3)
Field Notes is an art&science field laboratory organised from September 15-22 by the Bioart Society at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. First part of the logbook.
Dinacon, the maker camp at the edge of the jungle in Panama
The second edition of Dinacon concluded in Gamboa, Panama, after four very full weeks of August at the intersection of excursions into nature and experimental art-techno projects.
Soybean futures feed the debate at Ars Electronica
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.
Art Bike Relief at Burning Man: Festival (3/3)
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.
Paris commits to transient urbanism
On August 26, the City of Paris and public and private actors signed a “charter for the development of temporary occupation as a tool to serve the Paris area”.
She can see land! Cross the Atlantic Like Greta
While Greta Thunberg just arrived in New York on a sailing boat to attend UN Climate Action Summit 2019, Makery has investigated options how to "Do It Like Greta".
After Thailand, Dinacon showcases techno-nature projects in Panama
Following its first three weeks of creative activities and jungle adventures, this year’s Dinacon camp exhibited a cross-section of experimental projects in progress.
Art Bike Relief at Burning Man: Installation (2/3)
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.
Dirty Electronics: radical chips for a feral camp
John Richards, aka Dirty Electonics, shares his views on PIFcamp 2019, hacking and participatory projects.
Art Bike Relief at Burning Man: Preparation (1/3)
This year Makery experiences Burning Man from the inside with Cécile Ravaux of French Burners and Art Bike Relief. Part 1
Meet Majken Overgaard and Laura Beloff, initiators of Catch summer camp
Makery talked with Majken Overgaard from Catch and Laura Beloff from the Copenhagen IT University, the main organizers of the Summer camp 2019, happening between 12-16 August in Elsinore, Denmark.
At Comices du Faire, Britanny’s low-tech eco-camp
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.
At Nowhere, DIWO in the Spanish desert
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.
Meet the organisers behind PIFcamp in Slovenia
Tina Malina & Uros Veber are the two co-organisers behind PIFcamp. They share with Makery their experience and vision of hacking camps.
Days of DITOxication at PIFcamp, Slovenia
Another day at PIFcamp in beautiful Soča valley in Julian Alps. Today PIFcamp opens its doors for visitors in their traditional "Open Saturday" of demonstrations, installations and performances.
Hacking and Hiking in Triglav, Slovenia
Life is intense at hacking PIFcamp in pristine Triglav National Park, Slovenia. Makery is embedded until its final Open Day on August 10, in Soča village on the river of the same name. Days 3 and 4.
PIFcamp, a Feral Lab in the Slovenian Alps
International summer hacking camp PIFcamp is returning to the beautiful Soča village in pristine Triglav National Park for the fifth time on August 4–10, 2019.
When will we see the woolly mammoth 2.0?
A new exhibition in Tokyo spotlights the woolly mammoth—its genealogy, its fossils, its genome, its de-extinction. Panorama of the issues surrounding this extinct species of the Pleistocene.
Plateau Urbain : “Résorber la vacance, servir la création” (1/2)
Grand entretien d’été sur le thème des espaces de création et de la fabcity à Paris avec Simon Laisney et Paul Citron de la coopérative Plateau Urbain, qui œuvre au quotidien à la résorption de la vacance.
Scott Kildall: “Summer schools are hothouses for ideas and for connections”
Scott Kildall, new media artist based in San Francisco, works in the intersection between art and technology for more than 15 years.