/ Interview
With his “Cloud Harp”, Nicolas Reeves explores clouds by making music. He spoke with Makery at Garden the Sky Water conference in Paris.
/ Voices
Visiting the BigTorrent exhibition, July 4th on the Rhone river, on the occasion of the opening of the 73rd theater Festival of Avignon.
/ Interview
Adelin Schweitzer and deletere labs in Marseille premiered their mixed-reality narrative #Alphaloop at BigTorrent, opening the 73rd Avignon Festival.
/ feral-labs
Ahead of the 2nd Digital Naturalism Conference in Gamboa, Panama in August 2019, Makery spoke with instigator Andy Quitmeyer about the origins of Dinacon, Dinalab and the whole DiNa movement.
/ Voices
Interweaving digital fabrication, textile design and open science, Fabtextiles in Barcelona is a pioneering fablab for biomaterials.
/ feral-labs
Before the first ever Electric Wonderland summer camp next september in Croatia, Makery interviewed Deborah Hustić from Radiona, the Zagreb makerspace.
/ Events
At ”Garden the Sky Water”, an event organized from 12-15 June by Paris Region Arts&Sciences Chair, various disciplines discussed the burning issue of alternative water sources.
/ News
Gathered for a day at Tama Art University in Tokyo, seven professors and researchers in arts and sciences shared their perspectives on life, from biosemiotics to extraterrestrial agents.
/ Voices
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.
/ Events
Representing Taiwan at the 58th Venice Biennale, artist Shu Lea Cheang tackles the issues of incarceration for sex crimes and the “digital prison” of our smart technologies.
/ News
Awarded at Shenzhen Design Week 2019, Maxime Aumon’s “Porte Nef” is a surrealist, even dadaist, human adventure, in the form of a plurimedia work.
/ Voices
Makery spoke to the organisers of the Train Camp that goes by train this week to the Green Culture festival in Montenegro.
/ feral-labs
Where to go this summer? Makery made a selection of summer camps&schools in Europe for 2019. 30 summer destinations from South Portugal to Subarctic Lapland, from West France to Istanbul.
/ Tidbits
The Prix Ars Electronica is the oldest award in the field of electronic, interactive art and computer animation and is being bestowed since 1987.
/ feral-labs
Makery was in correspondence with the main organizers of the Catch Summer Camp 2019, happening between 12-16 August in Elsinore, Denmark.
/ Investigation
This year, the radically self-reliant Black Rock City in the Nevada desert will face a new challenge: top-down, tone-deaf intervention. Yet, inner passion still prevails in the voices of Burning Man past and present.
/ Events
At the 2019 Venice Biennale, whistleblowing artist Marko Peljhan’s System 317 calls attention to the rise of hypersonic weapons.
/ feral-labs
We discussed Schmiede with Rüdiger Wassibauer, one of the festival's co-founders, who announced this year's open call and presented FeralAIR, their new residency programme.
/ Proto
The buzz around the legendary sound synthesizer EMS Synthi 100 of former Yugoslavia is still going strong since the instrument was restored in 2018. Svetlana Maraš shares her experience with Synthi.
/ Voices
Hack The Earth 2019 took place on April 19-22, organized by the Catalonian colony of Calafou—where liberating fantasies weave desirable futures.
