HDSA 2015. About bugs, bots & bytes

About bugs, bots & bytes

The Hackers & Designers Summer Academy 2015 took place from 29 July-7 August in De PUNT Amsterdam. The cover charge was €350,00 per participant covering the 10 day program and daily lunch.

The call for application closed on May 30th 2015.

Academy

Workshops

• Toy Hacking by Selby Gildemacher, James Bryan Graves and Anja Groten
• Algorithmic Kitchen by Luis Rodil-Fernández
• Code, text and text-to-speech by An Mertens and Michael Murthaugh from Constant Association for Art and Media
• Language Design by Vadim Zaytsev
• Applied Bio-Robotics by Arjan Scherpenisse
• Error Messages by Daniël van der Velden from Metahaven
• DIY theremin making by Andrey Smirnov
• Domestic Drone Defence by Ruben Pater and Tijmen Schep

Excursions

• Waag Society
• Lava Lab with Mark Meeuwennoord and Klasien van de Zandschulp

Screening

• Underground cinema by Jeffrey Babkock with Decoder (1984)

Lectures

• The right to die digitally, digital euthanasia, image rights and more by Stëfan Schäfer
• Training and the problem of data: What would it take to adopt fugitive statistics by Ramon Amaro
• Gestural Interfacing by Jeremy Bailey
• The potentials of technological flaws by Roͬͬ͠͠͡͠͠͠͠͠͠͠͠sͬͬ͠͠͠͠͠͠͠͠͠aͬͬ͠͠͠͠͠͠͠ Menkman

Organizers

• Selby Gildemacher
• James Bryan Graves
• Anja Groten

Participants

• Flaminia Fortunato
• Maaike De Laat
• Eurico Sá Fernandes
• Minhong Yu
• Mark-Jan Tellingen
• Michaela Lakova
• Celia Rosa
• Jona Andersen
• Juriaan Boerman
• Vincent Hoenderop
• Linder Basil Lukas
• Lucian Blankevoort
• Vicky De Visser