The 2023 map of summer camps in Europe (and beyond)
Where to go this summer? Makery has made a selection of summer camps and universities in Europe 2023 edition.
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“To become a live coder you need to practice, practice, practice”: interview with Giovanni Mori
Makery met with Giovanni Mori, author of 'Live Coding? What does it mean?', an ethnographical survey on an innovative improvisational approach (Arcane, 2020).
Are hackathons just cons?
Are hackathons a new form of exploitation? Does the hacker culture serve as a consent factory as suggested by two American sociologists? Makery investigated.
Invisibility on the networks. Lesson by Julian Oliver
We attended the counter-surveillance boot-camp led by the hacktivist coder artist Julian Oliver at the Geneva Mapping Festival.
Hackoustic, the London network of sound hackers
Hackoustic brings together ten or so sound artists in London. Circuit bending, DIY lute-making, 3D printed records... these maker musicians share their knowledge and exhibit their talents.
Maker Express: hacker tribulations in the land of the Pharaohs
Police raid, building collapse... Dodging destiny, the Cairo Hackerspace team took to the road as nomads, driving a microbus through Egypt to meet the country’s makers.
Slovenia: hackers take off to nature!
The PIF Camp took place this early August in the pristine nature of Trenta, a spectacular Alpine valley in the Triglav National Park in Slovenia.
Michel Lallement: “At Noisebridge, he who does is legit”
Interview with French sociologist Michel Lallement, who writes in “Maker era” his one year immersed at Noisebridge, a hackerspace in San Francisco.
McKenzie Wark: “You don’t just need to hack to be a hacker”
Author of “A Hacker Manifesto” and “Gamer Theory”, McKenzie Wark has responded to our questions post-Transmediale on his hacktivist theory for the Anthropocene.
Transmediale, the great worldwide game
The 2015 Transmediale, from January the 28th until February the 1st, in Berlin, brought together the planet of media studies, artists, theorists, hackers around the theme "Capture All".
WYHIWYS 3: 36 minutes of silence for Charlie
For his third WYHIWYS (What You Hear Is What You See) column, hacker artist, created a mash-up of 36 videos in homage to the victims of the January 2015 attacks in Paris.
“Digital craftsmen”, extract “to read whilst keeping a watch on generalised hacking”
Makery offers you an extract from “Digital Craftsmen” e-book. Johan Söderberg, researcher in information technology, questions intellectual property in the fablab era.
One week throughout Brussels open labs
Makery pushed the door of four open labs in Brussels, meeting the users.
Artists and hackers titillate innovation at the first Art Hack Day in France
48 hours to tackle innovation through artistic prototy