Berlin's Media Art Community: A Female Perspective from Michelle Thorne Last month I was kindly invited by [Supermarkt’s](http://www.supermarkt-berlin.net/) founder and curator, Ela Kagel, to **speak about my perspective as a woman in Berlin’s media + tech scene.** We were asked to share our influences, mentors…
I was kindly invited to speak at the press conference for [Campus Party Europe](http://www.campus-party.eu/2012/index.html), a one-of-a-kind hack camp taking place in the former Berlin airport Tempelhof from August 21 – 26. Campus Party is truly a remarkable feat of logistics and organization, **with 10,000 participants…
A modded acoustic guitar snapped up the most recent [Awesome Foundation Berlin](http://awesomefoundation.org/chapters/berlin) grant. The €1000 cash was handed over in a brown paper bag to Rainer from [RobinSukroso](http://www.robinsukroso.de/) to further develop his **stringed axe meets drum machine, the [acpad guitar](http://www.robinsukroso.de/?page_id=43).** Rainer spent the last 3…
One of the joys of working out of [betahaus](http://betahaus.de) is that whirling, creative projects unexpectedly sweep you up into their world — even if for a second. Last week a few betahausers & I joined in for a scene in Diego Agullo and Dmitry Paranyushkin’s…
Inspired by [Joi](http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2011/11/22/iron-blogger–.html), who in turn was inspired by [Mako](http://iron-blogger.mako.cc/), my jacket-twin [Nicole](http://www.antischokke.de/2011/12/18/ich-werde-iron-bloggerin-echt-jetzt/) & I are tying ourselves to the mast and taking up the Iron Blogger challenge. The set-up? >Iron Blogger is a blogging and drinking club. The rules are pretty simple: > *…