Speed Geeking
6 short workshops, for and by students. In this “speed geeking” session students teach each other in a short amount of time a technique, skill or concept. Multiple workshop tables are set up in the space, groups are made. The workshops take place simultaneously. Just like in speed dating, after 30 minutes a bell rings and each group goes to another workshop table. Workshops of all shapes and colours are welcome, from Processing in a nutshell to copyleft ashtray clay modelling. Exchange ideas and make new friends.
Date: Friday 5 March 2010
Time: 14:00 - 18:00
Entrance: free
Venue: het Paleis, Erlenmeyer zaal
The Workshops
Workshop "EAT IT! City simulator" by Selena Savic, PZI
EAT IT! City Simulator is, at it's current version, a board game that plays with elementary urban planning tools and harbors an awareness of the power structures involved. It is a two player game built on the confrontational conflict of public and private interests. While one player is representing micro economies side, securing space for open markets, the other one is trying to occupy all commercial zones with supermarkets.
Workshop "Ddump" by Loredana Bontempi, PZI
Ddump is a software that allows people to select part of their digital trashes and send it to an internet repository, where other users could use it. The software is going to create a second trash bin on the users machines, this is going to work as a folder frequently uploaded to the ddump server.
Workshop "Pickpic" by Emanuele Bonetti, PZI
Pickpic is a collaborative tool for visual researches. Using the Pickpic Firefox add-on you’ll be able to pick images from the internet and post them directly to an imageboard shared with your colleaugues. Everyone who subscribed for the same project get the same rights on the images being able to add, remove, tag and comment them in order to build a collective resource. During the workshop the participant will be ask to respond to a surrealcommission in order to test tool in an almost-real life case. The participant will have the chance to work either individually, in pairs or in small group in order to immediatly see the different results of different kind of collaboration.
Workshop by Lena van der Wal
More info soon!
Workshop by Peter O'Doherty
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Workshop by Lars van Nieuwenhuizen
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Workshop door Vincent Kranendonk
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Registrations
Limited places available. If you're a student of an art school (or university) and would like to participate in the speed geeking session, please send your name, phone number, where and what you study to Sign before February 7 2010.
Call for proposals
To propose a workshop, please send the following information to Sign before February 7 2010:
- Your name, email and phone number.
- Your workshop concept in min. 50 and max. 150 words.
- Where and what you study, and the URL of your website (for on our website).
- Promise us, scouts honour, that if you'll be using a computer, you'll only use FLOSS in your workshop, this includes the operating system (no OSX or windows). If you work with FLOSS but do use a proprietary operating system, you can use the Puredyne live CD to have quick and easy access to Linux without installing it, during the workshop.
