At UrsuLaB in Bourges, the world is a forest
Antre Peaux hosted the second (post-pandemic) opening of its new UrsuLaB: an artistic biolab dedicated to living things and ecologies.
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How to draw with sound, opening-up the creative usage of laser projections
Projekt Atol was hosting Modul@rnice by Bernhard Rasinger (New Jörg) and Václav Peloušek (Bastl Instruments) in Ljubljana. Makery discussed the project with Tina Dolinšek (Projekt Atol) and Václav Peloušek.
Open Source Body: BadLab’s eco-feminist DIY art
For the Open Source Body festival organized by Makery, the Swiss collective BadLab will give a presentation on May 22 at Volumes Lab in the Oasis21 cooperative in Paris.
ART4MED: a 2 years program where “Art Meets Health and Biomedical Research”
5 partners from 5 EU countries formed ART4MED, a consortium to experiment and disseminate collaborations between hands-on medical humanities and investigative art methodologies.
Thierry M’Baye on makers’ mobility: “There is often a problem of equity in European projects”
MakersXchange: meet Thierry M’Baye, founder of m.e.u.h/Lab, musician, artist and community facilitator for makers and social entrepreneurs in Roubaix, France and Belgium.
Feral labs: interview with Stefanie Wuschitz from Mz* Baltazar’s Laboratory (2/2)
Stefanie Wuschitz participated in the Feral Labs Network’s artist-in-residency program this fall at Schmiede festival in Hallein, Austria. Part 2 of our interview.
Makers’ mobility: interview with Stefanie Wuschitz from Mz Baltazar’s Laboratory (1/2)
As part of MakersXchange, Makery interviews Stefanie Wuschitz, media artist, researcher and founder of Mz Baltazar's Laboratory, a feminist hackerspace in Vienna, Austria.
PatchXR opens the world of music to extended reality
Born one year ago from the fruitful encounter of three artists, PatchXR is an engine for creating musical instruments in virtual reality. We met its creators.
Mélodie Mousset: Projecting the body into virtual reality
During Ars Electronica 2020, the French artist Mélodie Mousset was presenting her work at the "Silicon Valley Garden" of the virtual festival. Interview.
MakAir, an open source ventilator in the making
Days after the lockdown began in France, makers and software entrepreneurs in the region of Nantes began to design an open source ventilator: MakAir.
Minimal Universal Respirator, frugally engineered
In Paris, a citizen collective is working to produce an emergency medical ventilator that is open source, low-cost and easy to reproduce.
Covid-19: Parisian textile makers sew protective gowns for the frontline
In early April, Makerscovid.paris received an outsize order for 8,400 protective gowns. Two labs and a library rose to the challenge.
Covid-19: MIT launches 2D cut, one-piece face shield
MIT’s Project Magnus has designed a model for a complete face shield that can be cut out in one (foldable) piece from a single flat sheet.
Adriana Knouf: “I launched fragments of my hormone replacement medications to the ISS”
On March 6, 2020, five research payloads from the MIT Media Lab’s Space Exploration Initiative were sent to the International Space Station. Among them, the Sojourner 2020 project, a payload of artworks selected by SEI’s arts curator Xin Liu. Adriana Knouf’s TX-1 is one of the curated projects.
JOGL launches a call to design an open source Covid-19 test
Designing an open-source DIY Coronavirus detection test! That's the mission the JOGL distributed research laboratory has decided to challenge.
Creating commons from a construction site in Ljubljana
Onkraj Gradbišča garden in central Ljubljana ia a loosely organized commons for gardening, woodmaking, performance arts, sound sculptures and biohacking. Makery met two of its founders.
Le CNES et Open Space Makers s’engagent pour une recherche spatiale collaborative et ouverte
Les 4 et 5 octobre le Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers accueillait le premier Forum Fédération de l’association Open Space Makers. L’initiative soutenue par le CNES vise à rapprocher le monde des fablabs et de l’open source de la recherche spatiale. Entretien avec Damien Hartmann, président de l’association.
Yann Minh: “Cyberpunks are far from dead” (2/2)
Yann Minh was on October 12-13 in Marseille at Couvent Levat for the second Technomancie festival. Part 2 of an in-depth interview with this prolific artist.
Distributed Design wants to localize production
The European network Distributed Design Market Platform met at Fablab Budapest to reflect on two years of collaboration and announce its new book “Design, Remix, Share, Repeat”.
Yann Minh, the cybersex technomancer (1/2)
On October 12-13, Yann Minh was at Couvent Levat in Marseille for Technomancie 2 festival.Part 1 of an in-depth interview with this prolific artist.