Public program: Summer talks and summer party

Template:Events H&D Summer Talks: About Bugs Bots and Bytes – H&D Summer Talks & Summer Party

An international group of engineering, programmers, designers and artists will congregate in Amsterdam for a 10 day summer academy hosted by native Amsterdam community Hackers & Designers (H&D). The program is intensive and workshop based and will include additional public components for which also non-summer academy attendees are invited to attend.

Friday 7 August, 18:00–22:00, About Bugs Bots and Bytes – H&D Summer Talks Friday 7 August 22:00–03:00, H&D Summer Party

About the Summer Talks In addition to student workshops, Hackers & Designers has invited cross-disciplinary speakers from around the world to take the participants and the public into a deeper conversation around topics, which have arose in a modern digital society. Anyone and everyone, not just students, are invited to join the H&D Summer Talks on Friday, 7 August 2015, an evening of discussion around algorithmic work, life and death. The speakers promise an informed evening offering insights and diverse perspectives into their research, professional and artistic practices, but all the while maintaining the satirical and humorous approach of Hackers & Designers.

About the Summer Academy This summer, 29 July - 7 August 2015, H&D has broadened their meet-up concept and has invited an international group of ambitious participants for a 10 full-day immersive program of longer, in-depth workshops which focus on learning, researching and discussing all by creating. Students will be representing BE, BG, DE, NL, US, UK, ES, SK, TH, ZA.

About Hackers & Designers Hackers & Designers is a non-profit cross-disciplinary community of programmers, engineers, designers, and artists. Hackers & Designers began two years ago and has mainly been focused on helping working professionals from tech-oriented fields connect with professionals from the creative sector, and the other way around. Hackers & Designers has, up until this point organized monthly meet-ups where collaborative and inclusive workshops (1-3 hours) are given. Hackers & Designers is initiated by Anja Groten, James Bryan Graves and Selby Gildemacher.

Program H&D Summer Talks – 7 augustus

18:00 Welcome

18:30 Presentation H&D Summer Academy 2015

19:15 Short break

19:30 Stefan Schäfer about the right to die digitally, digital euthanasia, image rights and more

20:00 Jeremy Bailey on Gestural Interfacing

20:30 Short break

20:45 Ramon Amaro on Training and the problem of data: What would it take to adopt a fugitive statistics

21:30 Rosa Menkman on the potentials of technological flaws

22:00: H&D Summer Party, music by:

- DJ Nudist Looters - DJ Boris Becker http://www.soundcloud.com/neilakiosk - DJ Toby