Cultivamos Cultura: down the bio-art rabbit hole
From July 1 to 19, Cultivamos Cultura held its bio-art Summer School in Sao Luis, Portugal. Roger Pibernat, Makery's resident columnist for the Feral Labs Network, was there.
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PIFcamp : drawing report from the favorite Slovenian Summer Camp
It's the beginning of August. All Europe is taken by vacation. All? No! The small village of Soča, in Slovenia, is taken by hackers, makers, artists and other techno-explorers.
Doing-It-Together with the Mountain Makers of Manzat
The Mountain Makers community opened their doors on August 8-13, bringing together 20 hackers/makers along with active members of the Vulca association.
In Croatia, Electric Wonderland wakes the mountain
On August 5-11, the Croatian makerspace Radiona hosted Electric Wonderland, a summer camp of DIY synths and creative circuits among campers and hikers in the Velebit mountains.
BIVOUAC#9: A poetic hybrid adventure in the Vanoise mountains (2/2)
Learning to be in a hybrid relationship with the natural environment, performing in high altitude, perceiving differently… Laurent Chanel offers all this and more during his cycle of Bivouac# open-air workshops.
BIVOUAC#9: A poetic hybrid adventure in the Vanoise mountains (1/2)
Learning to be in a hybrid relationship with the natural environment, performing in high altitude, perceiving differently… Laurent Chanel offers all this and more during his cycle of Bivouac# open-air workshops.
Memory palace, laser show, ghost radio… What are the PIFcampers making? (2/2)
What are 65 hackers, makers, artists, musicians and other techno-explorers doing in the middle of the Slovenian Alps?
Nature concert, potato synthesizer, drunk robot… What are the PIFcampers making? (1/2)
What are 65 hackers, makers, artists, musicians and other techno-explorers doing in the middle of the Slovenian Alps?
PIFcamp: a self-assembling community in the Slovenian Alps
From July 31 to August 6, the lush mountains of Slovenia once again set the scene for the 8th edition of PIFcamp: a summer camp for hackers, makers, artists and other techno-explorers.
Austria: Schmiede Festival in pictures, the Werkschau (2/2)
Makery went to Hallein (Austria), where the annual Schmiede Festival took place in the huge buildings of the city's former salt factory. Second part of our report in pictures.
‘Art as We Don’t Know It’: Against the Unbearable Whiteness of Bioart
The recently published 'Art as We Don’t Know It' catalogue showcases art and research that has grown and flourished within the wider network of both the Bioart Society and Aalto University's Biofilia lab in Finland during the previous decade. Review.
HackteriaLab ferments isolation in Okinawa
Oki Wonder Lab just may be the most remote un-disciplinary DIYbio camp going on in the world right now. Hackteria’s latest event is currently taking place in Okinawa.
Helen Leigh: “Art shouldn’t be only for those who can afford to make it”
In the early fall of 2019, Helen Leigh was the Feral artist-in-residency programme at Catch, Center of Art, design, and Technology. Leigh is a creative technologist with a focus on craft-based electronics and education.
Meet Hiroo Komine, the Ayurvedic biohacker
As the first Japanese man to be certified in India to practice Ayurveda, Hiroo Komine has more recently expanded his scope of interest to biohacking. Makery met him at Dinacon in Panama.
Schmiede, a maker camp of salt, wood and digital arts
Schmiede took place on September 11-20 in Hallein, Austria, where a former salt warehouse transformed into one of Europe’s prime venues for digital arts.
Electric Wonderland, Croatia’s bucolic maker camp
Croatian makerspace Radiona’s inaugural Electric Wonderland summer camp took place on September 1-7. Our Feral Labs chronicler in residence folded up his bicycle and jumped on a train.
Dinacon, the maker camp at the edge of the jungle in Panama
The second edition of Dinacon concluded in Gamboa, Panama, after four very full weeks of August at the intersection of excursions into nature and experimental art-techno projects.
After Thailand, Dinacon showcases techno-nature projects in Panama
Following its first three weeks of creative activities and jungle adventures, this year’s Dinacon camp exhibited a cross-section of experimental projects in progress.
At Comices du Faire, Britanny’s low-tech eco-camp
On July 15-28, the Comices du Faire micro-festival for makers tinkering with renewable energies and reclaimed resources was held in Nevez in western France. Makery went to visit.
At Nowhere, DIWO in the Spanish desert
The objective of Nowhere, the Burning Man of Europe, is to build camps that are totally self-sufficient in water, energy and food for one week. Our chronicler joined the Bababarrio camp.