Category: digital culture

Communia @ Barcelona

The 6th Communia workshop convened in the historic Universitat de Barcelona to sink its teeth into memory institutions and the public domain. Communia is a thematic network of over 50 members (universities, libraries, NGOs, and even companies), fueled by the generous public funding of the…

atoms&bits: what’s happening this week?

(from antischokke) Da wir inzwischen viel mehr Events im Rahmen des atoms&bits-Festivals ankündigen können, als wir zu wünschen gewagt hatten, ist die Kalenderansicht auf unserer Website etwas unübersichtlich geworden. Stefie hat sich die Mühe gemacht, eine kleine Zusammenfassung der Events am Wochenende in unseren Locations…

Doctorow’s Makers Reading in Berlin

“For the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things.” Join us on Sept. 22 for a public reading of Makers, the new serialized novel by hacktivist and BoingBoing author Cory Doctorow, as part of the Berlin festival Atoms & Bits. What happens when hardware hackers…

Open Up! Creative Commons Case Studies for Design

Open Up! Creative Commons Case Studies in Design on Slideshare Last month, John and I gave a presentation about Open Design at the DMY Symposium in Berlin. It was a bright and welcoming audience of young designers from the International Design Festival DMY. We were…

Art + Arduino = Artuino

If you haven’t yet played with Arduino, the low-cost open source hardware that’s captured the imagination of geeks and artboys alike, then you should really try one out (Berlin retailers: Tinkersoup and Fritzing). The chip is incredibly versatile and easy to use, and you can…