check out the blurb below and head over to their site via  here

“The objective of the conference is to bring together young and senior academics, representatives from public organizations, companies, ngo’s and governments together with artists, designers and developers to discuss and create visions for online social networks in which privacy, security, and other user needs are addressed.

During the conference possible strategies for addressing privacy and security needs in online social networks will be explored by experts on these matters. Specifically, technical, social, educational and legal measures will be discussed that can be used to increase the accountability of social network sites in order to mitigate the “responsibilization” of end-users (SPION project) and to empower users (EMSOC project).”

great as it is already, we’re also in good company – with the likes of JODI, Constant Dullaert and Aymeric Mansoux&Marloes de Valk among others…

more info on the award and ceremony via here,

and about the ‘Internet Society’ :

“The Internet Society is a global cause-driven organization governed by a diverse Board of Trustees that is dedicated to ensuring that the Internet stays open, transparent and defined by you.”

w00t.

“The conference programme consists of expert presentations, across a range of disciplines and modes of inquiry, addressing examples of creative communities that have formed around various practices, media and discourses. Case studies, papers and panels, discussing examples arising from the ELMCIP project and other contexts will be presented. ”

more info via here, and we also have an entry in heir recently published e-book that you can find here.

“Hey all!

Everything still fine in Rotterdam? Thank you again for attending our
workshop!
We finally did it:

We proudly announce the new version of ExtendedViewToolkit – the
PureData/GEM abstraction library
for panoramic image/video creation and projection mapping.
It has been a long, but productive time since our last release. Tons of
new features and fixes wait for being discovered by you.
This new version was mainly done during a residency at moddr_/WORM in
Rotterdam.

Amongst other changes, you are looking on a completely re-designed
storage-solution, that enables you to create scene-based video-mapping
setups – with the possibility to add transitions between your scenes.
Within each scene, you can automate basically every parameter in every
module of the toolkit individually.
We made a small technical teaser, to show what’s possible with the
scenes: http://vimeo.com/51567993

In addition to our multi-camera panoramic content solution, we
integrated a module for creating 360-degree panoramic content made with
spherical, one camera based, lens- or mirror-systems.
Also, a new video player with instant and saveable controls for
in/out-points, fade-times and loop, waits for being used within your
performance.
On the projection-side we added a module with 5×5 cornerpoints to allow
more detailed settings when projecting on uneven surfaces with just one
projection module. Furthermore we implemented a function to adjust the
perspective distortion into the projection modules.

We sticked to our fear of externals and made the whole toolkit out of
plain PD and GEM without any other external libraries. For the usage of
the remote-control features we recommend the usage of mrpeach´s OSC
library. We tested the toolkit on different machines, and did not have
any issues on Linux, OSX 10.6.8, 10.7.1 and also on Windows 7. If you
discover any problems, please get in touch with us.

Thanks to all the people who constantly support the development of the
toolkit, especially Cyrille Henry, IOhannes, Seppo, Walter&Birgit of
moddr and Patrick Pagano.

Download it here:
https://github.com/extendedview/extended_view_toolkit

If you use it, we strongly encourage you to send us links, videos,
images, etc. of your projects.
We are amazingly interested to see what you create!”

Cheers,
Peter & Marian

http://extendedview.mur.at

you can find full details on the afternoons workshop via

here

and tickets

here

and the evening event features Baltimore’s DOPE BODY, Norwegian STAER, and Rotterdam/the Hague locals DROPPINGS

dope body

more info at the WORM site

join moddr_ and Dr. Markus Hafner ( aka Renfah ) on October 27th for

‘$$TM – Rotterdam’

A one-day workshop exploring the field of ‘participatory action research‘, this time focusing specifically on the current cultural landscape of Rotterdam, we will deploy tactics and strategies as described by the likes of Talcott Parsons, Niklas Luhmann, Pierre Bourdieu and Stuart Hall – investigating global enterprises and systems, the subject within, sociosoma and imagined communities.

The workshop consists of a short overview and lecture by Markus Hafner on the days themes and topics, to then move into the city “to gather evidences…and first of all to find out if theory is right – to see where we are using systems in our daily life, and how many symbols of them we ́re able to find just by walking in the city.”

For more info send mail to moddr@worm.org,

October 27th, 14.00 till 19.00-ish @WORM

damage to join = 10 euros (bring a student ID and get in for 7,50!)

bring your camera.

“In contradiction of classical schemes of individual identity formation, people all over the world use – due to the factof globalization – the same things and form their lifestyle and subjectivity by the use of these things and the impliedconnotations of global corporation systems. In this workshop we ́re heading into the field of globalized systems andfluid, temporary communities that emerge by the cultural exposure with these. The influence of global corporationsitself can be seen either as a matter of dominant-hegemonial communication, or as an act of coping with the factscaused by this circumstance, or as a negotiated form of existing, or otherwise as a guerilla artform in a way ofoppositional reading. Repetitive elements referencing the corporate communication are therefore showing up all overthe world, through the adapted use of logos and slogans. This may occur in the form of a recirculation or anadaptation of these signs and furthermore can be seen as a marker that gives you examples in a way of a visualsociography in globalized communities. action research is here to make an exploring expedition through rotterdam –i.e. a workshop, where we will find out if this certain viewpoint is a possibility of analyzing these circumstances – whileliving in these global systems.”

http://renfah.net

workshop outline:

14.00 – meet up at WORM to get a short overview about the themes within the workshop.

1.) what are global Systems: structures, enterprises: examples, appearences, influences, symbols

2.) what is a system: based upon the ideas by Talcott Parsons AGIL scheme and Niklas Luhmann system theory

3.) what is with the subject within: here we use the habitus concept by Pierre Bourdieu and the encoding/decoding model by Stuart Hall to develop a system of interrelation for global communities

4.) what is an imagined community: based upon Benedict Andersons theory about nations and gemeinschaft by Zygmunt Bauman

5.) what is symbolic culture: this is where we outline Clifford Geertz concept of culture as “a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life”

6.) what is a sociosoma: here we go into the detail, where we sum-up the points above to this new model of a temporary positioned, fluid and most of all global community – where people within use a system (f.e. given by a multinational enterprise) and therefore become part of a community – temporarily, fluid, and in their own manner

7.) which is when we´re heading outside ( approximately at 15h ) to start researching our field (i.e. Rotterdam)

…first of all to find out if theory is right and to gather evidences – to see where we are using systems in our daily life, and how many symbols of them we´re able to find just by walking through the city.

Mag. art. Dr. phil. Markus Hafner

Initiator of international, mediabased projects and transdisciplinary society – and systemchallenging concepts.

After one week of drilling, coding and tinkering in our lab they will present the new toolkit in a 2-day-hands-on-workshop at WORM Rotterdam on September 1st and 2nd: On the first day workshop participants can build their own 360°-panoramic-camera-fixture and experiment with the panoramic image capability of the Extended View Toolkit. The second day is dedicated to the video mapping capabilities of the toolkit and the creation of projection environments.

So to all video artists, PureData enthusiasts, panoramic image geeks and everyone else who wants to upgrade their own camera with 360° capabilities and/or wants to learn about advanced video projection mapping: Book your tickets >>HERE<<
Questions? Send an e-mail to moddr@worm.org mentioning “extended view”

The Extended View Toolkit was released first in February 2011 and presented at the PureData-Convention 2011 in Weimar with a paper and workshop.
Links:
Extended View Toolkit website
Extended View Toolkit at PDCON

Instead of rocket-science we hosted a “Networked Orienteering and Data Recovery” workshop in the form of a freestyle forensics walkthrough to create, or better yet, reverse engineer existing urban legends and digital mythology to create our own narrative.

Besides the myths unraveled by the participants we continue to develop our own narrative of which you can be part of! The raw resources to create your own story can be found here!

Workshop Website

Official Festival Website

Blog

[vimeo 44650566]

The first arcade cabinets feature the games Karoshi by Jesse Veenbrux and Seven Dimensions by Marries van de Hoef.  The Cyborg Arcade Cabinets are on show and playable during select events at WORM, with more games added every time. So check www.worm.org for more indie game dates in Rotterdam….

During our visit to L.A. in May 2012 we paid a visit to the local hackerspace Crashspace and took part in Thomas Edward’s workshop on DIY-holography: “3D is all the rage in Hollywood, so now here is your chance to make your own 3D hologram!” After a short introduction on holography theory we were ready to make holograms in the makeshift darkroom and assemble hologram-holders cut on the in-house laser cutter.

Holography requires a lot of patience but in the end we were happy to bring home in total four fine holograms. Since the magic of 3D holography does not work on photos that well we will soon host a workshop in Rotterdam for you to make your own stunning holograms as well.

Crashspace LA