MELBOURNE: MEDIA LAB MELBOURNE AND GERTRUDE STREET PROJECTION FESTIVAL SPRINT
Media Lab Melbourne will be running its fourth Sprint as part of the Gertrude Street Projection Festival. Working out of Seventh Gallery at 155 Gertrude St, they will be re-imagining the possibilities of projections and screens during the Antiscreen Sprint. This event will explore alternate methods of projecting light. They are interested in understanding and exploring the cultural effects of technology and will be breaking down the familiar and reconstructing it into a new form. Media Lab Melbourne will be leading an intensive nine day workshop on unconventional, novel and subverted light imagery techniques.
To apply send a single page .pdf of your concept by the 15 July to sprint@medialabmelbourne.com.au
Deadline: 15 July 2012
_Media Lab Melbourne :: Sprint #2: Unconstrained_
_Call for projects closes 12 December 2011_
Technological frontiers have expanded beyond the ability of an individual to comprehend their complexity. Yet, these frontiers permeate our everyday experiences. How does your smartphone function? How was your toaster made? What tools do you use to earn money? How many different forms of communication do you experience in one day? How well do YOU understand the technology in your life? How well do you need to? Media Lab Melbourne is seeking proposals for devices or services as statements on the complexity of our everyday technology and systems. Successful applications will work with Media Lab Melbourne and collaborators to realise these proposals during a sprint over 9 days beginning on the 21st of January 2012. As this is a collaborative sprint it is not important what skills you have but how effective your idea is! Media Lab Melbourne will support projects with technical and production support. Should a person live interstate and wish to attend, we are also able to provide basic travel and accommodation for the duration of the sprint. Selected participants will be notified on the 16th of December. At this point there will be a second call for collaborators to assist in the creation of the selected projects. Applicants who are not selected in the initial call are welcome to participate as collaborators.
http://www.medialabmelbourne.com.au/
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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.
