Honor Harger – now that’s the kind of Big Bang I’m talking about! #planets #pulsars #geekgirl

Artist-technologist Honor Harger listens to the weird and wonderful noises of stars and planets and pulsars. In her work, she tracks the radio waves emitted by ancient celestial objects and turns them into sound, including “the oldest song you will ever hear,” the sound of cosmic rays left over from the Big Bang.

http://tinyurl.com/675oupw

Venice: The Invisible Pavilion at the Venice Biennale #invisible #geekgirl

THE INVISIBLE PAVILION

The Invisible Pavilion [http://tinyurl.com/424yt54] is a non-invitation, experimental, hallucinatory augmented reality experience that will run for the duration of the Venice Art Biennale (1 June – 30 November 2011) as a squatted stage on which a performance flow of artworks will fill the whole area of the Giardini. Anyone with a smart-phone (iPhone or any other Android-based phone and Layar) will be able to move around the traditional pavilions in the Giardini area of the Biennale and see, through their phone screens, another immaterial/invisible exhibition.

1 June – 30 November 2011

BarCamp Geelong #barcamp #geektalk #geekgirl

SATURDAY 9th JULY, GEELONG

BarCampGeelong 2011 is happening from 9am to 5pm on Saturday 9th July, 2011 at Deakin University’s Geelong Waterfront Campus in central Geelong – a short walk from Geelong’s main train station.

BarCampGeelong exists to support the grassroots technology community in and around Geelong and Victoria by providing a laid-back, informal environment for knowledge sharing, open discussion and networking. Jeans and t-shirts, lots of gadgets and geek talk will be the order of the day. More details at http://barcampgeelong.org/

WHAT IS A BARCAMP?

“They are open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants”.
Come along to learn and teach others. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp  for more details

WHAT CAN I EXPECT?

What is on the program? That will depend on the participants, who can propose and vote on presentations before the conference. The schedule is finalised on the first morning of the conference. Suggested topics include hardware and hardware hacking, networking, programming, development tools and methodologies, business issues,… you name it- if it’s technical, it’s likely to be at BarCampGeelong! …. The list will totally depend on offers from participants.

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST?

BarCampGeelong attendance is $10 to help cover costs and there are limited places due to the size of facilities. Registrations are now open at https://register.eventarc.com/event/view/3679/tickets/barcampgeelong-2011

BarCampGeelong is made possible by very generous sponsors – so far we have Deakin University, Linux Australia and Duxtel on board.
 
AWESOME! WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO NEXT?

 1. Book the date in your diary
 2. Follow @BarCampGeelong on Twitter or Identi.ca or email info@barcampgeelong.org  for more information
 3. Think about how you will participate in the day – such as through giving a presentation, a lightning talk or leading a discussion

Library:/hack/ competition #hack #competition #mashup #geekgirl

Libraryhack is a mashup competition with great prizes designed to encourage the creative and innovative re-use of library data and digital content.

The competition is being run by the National, State and Territory libraries of Australia and New Zealand. (NSLA)

For the competition, participating libraries are making some of their collections and data freely available for anyone to mash up, remix and repurpose and create something new! This competition gives National and State Libraries Australasia (NSLA) the opportunity to collaborate with new communities of users and encourage them to use library content and other freely available data in inventive ways for research, creative or personal use. There are a range of competition categories to encourage people from a range of communities (developers, artists, digital content creators, historians, researchers and members of the public) to participate.

Libraryhack begins with an ideas competition that opens on 8 February 2011 and closes on 30 April 2011.

Entries in the mashup and apps categories open on 1 May 2011 and close on 31 May 2011.

LibraryHack events will be held across Australia in May 2011.

Many events will be scheduled to coincide with Library and Information Week: 23 – 29 May 2011.

You can find out about events by checking on the Libraryhack website in the coming months.

To find out more information, logon to http://libraryhack.org/

Invitation to Sprint on Internet Security #now #journalism #security #geekgirl

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Invitation to Sprint on Internet Security
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Basic Internet Security Book Sprint
April 28  – May 1 (2300 CET)
Open to anyone remote or real space (Berlin).

Help us write an introductory book on Internet Security!

Greenhost.nl have brought their staff to Berlin for a Book Sprint on Internet Security. It’s intended as a basic introduction and giving some attention to the needs of journalists.

The topics include Email Security, Browser Security, Personal Data Security, VPN, & Mobile Security. The sprint is happening right now and finishes Sunday May 1. You are invited to contribute and help write the book. Contributions can include any of the following :
* read the material and give us feedback (chat active on the edit page)
* write chapters or parts of chapters
* proof read
* provide illustrations
* add extra chapters / sections (discuss this with us in chat first
* technical checks
* language checks
* any other way you want

Contribute here:
http://booki.flossmanuals.net/basic-internet-security/edit/

We will be there waiting! If you wish to attend in real space (Berlin) please contact Adam Hyde : adam@flossmanuals.net
Thanks to Buro 2.0 for providing the venue for this sprint (http://www.buero20.org/).

Sprint facilitated by Adam Hyde.

Newstweek #remote #manipulate #news #geekgirl

New project by Danja @k0a1a.net whose started a ‘critical engineering’ movement with Julian Oliver.

Newstweek is a small, innocuous device allowing remote agents to manipulate the news read by other people on wireless hotspots.

Danja and Julian are pleased to announce a new video about Newstweek, outlining the project’s technical and tactical extents.

The Newstweek project page is here:  http://newstweek.com

You can find it here: http://vimeo.com/21707290

A Public Lecture from Ted Nelson #Melbourne #xanadu #geekgirl

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The Institute for Social Research in conjunction with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation are delighted to present a public lecture from information technology pioneer and visionary Ted Nelson.

Monday, 4 April
Time: 7.00 – 9.00 pm
Venue: State Library of Victoria, Village Roadshow Theatrette

This is a free event but Bookings are essential. Contact isradmin@swin.edu.au indicating the number of tickets required.

The computer world could be completely different A Public Lecture From Ted Nelson

Fish, they say, aren’t aware of water. Most people, including computer scientists, don’t notice the hidden assumptions and traditions that have structured today’s computer world and digital documents. These assumptions push the real problems into the laps of users and programmers.  Almost nobody notices the consequences of this locked cosmology.  While there is no right or wrong computer world; what is wrong is that there is only one computer world, with no other choices.

We will consider some alternatives.

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Theodor Holm Nelson is an American designer, generalist, and pioneer of information technology. He coined the terms “hypermedia” and “hypertext” in 1963, and is also credited with first use of the words micropayment, transclusion, virtuality, intertwingularity and dildonics.  He is the most important computing visionary of our time.  The main thrust of his work has been to create a different kind of electronic document which allows many forms of connection, instead of the “paper simulation” of Word, PDF and the World Wide Web. Nelson founded Project Xanadu in 1960, a project that has inspired a whole generation of computer programmers, hobbyists and developers. The effort is documented in his 1974 book Computer Lib/Dream Machines and the 1981 Literary Machines. He has just published an autobiography, Possiplex.

For a video snapshot of Ted Nelson’s challenge to computing norms see:

Ted Nelson on Pernicious Computer Traditions: http://bit.ly/LlmpI

Ted Nelson demonstrates Xanadu Space: http://bit.ly/FM0qu

www.sisr.net
www.apo.org.au
www.creative.org.au
www.inside.org.au

Ted will also be giving this lecture in Sydney on Wednesday 6 April:

http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2011/ted_nelson.shtml

Low Lives 3 – International Call for Proposals #performance #geekgirl

Deadline: March 20, 2011

About Low Lives:
Now entering its third year, Low Lives is an international exhibition of live performance-based works transmitted via the internet and projected in real time at multiple venues throughout the U.S. and around the world. Low Lives examines works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performance practice presented live through online broadcasting networks. These networks provide a new alternative and efficient medium for presenting, viewing, and archiving performances. Low Lives is not simply about the presentation of performative gestures at a particular place and time but also about the transmission of these moments and what gets lost, conveyed, blurred, and reconfigured when utilizing this medium. Low Lives embraces works with a lo-fi aesthetic such as low pixel image and sound quality, contributing to a raw, DIY and sometimes voyeuristic quality in the transmission and reception of the work.

Important Dates:
March 20, 2011: Submission deadline
April 1, 2011: Artists notified on selection
April 29, 2011: Low Lives 3 Exhibition- Day 1 – 8:00pm – 11:00pm (U.S. EST)
April 30, 2011: Low Lives 3 Exhibition- Day 2 – 3:00pm – 6:00pm (U.S. EST)

More info & Updates
For additional information please see www.lowlives.net

#Melbourne: Free Digital Light #Symposium #geekgirl

The Genealogies of Digital Light ARC Discovery Project [] presents Digital Light: Technique, Technology, Creation, a free symposium to be held at the University of Melbourne in March. This interdisciplinary symposium invites a number of leading international and Australian figures working with digital light-based technologies, including two artists previously commissioned by Experimenta, Lynette Wallworth and Van Sowerine.

Digital Light: 18 – 19 March 2011

Ada Initiative launches to promote women in open technology and culture #opensource #adainitiative

Open source activists Valerie Aurora and Mary Gardiner announce the launch of the Ada Initiative (http://adainitiative.org/), a not-for-profit organization to promote women’s participation in open technology and culture.

Open technology and culture, including open source software, open content, and related communities, suffer from a dearth of women at all levels.  ”Open technology and culture are shaping our future and must reflect all people.  Involving more women in the creation of our
future is a critical step in building a healthy Internet world,” says Mitchell Baker, chair of the Mozilla Foundation.  The Ada Initiative will concentrate on focused, direct action programs, including recruitment and training for women, education for community members, and working with corporations and projects to improve their outreach to women.

The Ada Initiative’s first sponsor is Linux Australia (http://linux.org.au/), which promotes the development of free and open source software. Sponsorship funds will allow the Ada Initiative to retain expert staff to focus on major projects which are beyond the capacity of purely volunteer organizations.  The Ada Initiative is currently seeking additional partner organizations and sponsors.

About the Ada Initiative

The Ada Initiative is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing participation of women in open technology and culture, which includes open source software, Wikipedia and other open data, and open social media.  Co-founders Mary Gardiner and Valerie Aurora each have 10 years of experience in open source software, open social media, and women in computing activism.  The Ada Initiative is advised by a team of experts from open technology and culture fields including open source software, open government, Wikipedia, hacker culture, social media, remix and fan culture, and online activism.