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, a welcome dinner, daily lunches and an arduino kit.

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

Public film screening

•  Underground Cinema by Jeffrey Babkock with Decoder (1984)

H&D Summer Talks

At the end of the Summer Academy Hackers & Designers invited cross-disciplinary speakers to take the participants and the public into a deeper conversation around topics, which have arose in our modern techno society and breached over the course of the Summer Academy. The speakers offered insights and diverse perspectives into their research, professional and artistic practices, all the while maintaining the satirical and humorous approach of Hackers & Designers.

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

Party

School's out for Summer! Hackers & Designers warmly invited for a summer night of talks, drinks, 'n tunes.

22:00-3:00: H&D Summer Party, music by:

• DJ Nudist Looters
• DJ Boris Becker
• DJ Toby

Organisation

• 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

Production

*a list of all articles containing content produced during the summer academy or referenctial articles that stand in relation to the summer academy

• Interview with Michael Murtaugh by Flaminia Fortunato

• Ad 1 Drone defense: Net launcher
• Ad 2 Drone defense: Wifi Blaster
• Ad 3 Drone defense: Bottle rocket
• Ad 4 Drone defense: Umbrella artillery

• Ad 1: for arduino's: Arduino/Genuino UNO
• Ad 2: for arduino's: Lily pad, microcontroller designed for wearables

• Ad 3: Raspberry Pie: Setting up a local network

• Ad 1: for Constant books:
• Ad 2: for Constant books: conversations (F/LOSS)
• Ad 3: Constant books literary mesh-up

• [[Glossary | HDSA 2015 Glossary]: More notes here: Github

• Review Jona Andersen
• Review Vincent

• Pizza ordering language
• Cocktail Generator (How to)
• Cocktail 1
• Cocktail 2
• Cocktail 3
• Computer language ideas (look for participant contributions)
• Chatbot scripts (link to Github)
• Chatbot results (look for participant contributions)
• ErrorLeaks manifest
• Error Message 'sad face'
• Error Message 'awkward'

• Movie bio-robotics
• Movie Drone Defense

• Computer language history
• Computer language design schema

• Bio-robotics scripts (Github link)
• Talking Plant scripts (Github link)

• DIY steps Theremin
• DIY steps Talking plant
• DIY steps bio-robotics

• Group pictures

• #HDSA2015 tweet collection

• Recipes Algorithmic kitchen (look for participant contributions)

• Essay Christian Greer (Royal Tombs)

• Quotes participants (look for different quotes)