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 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

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 http://www.soundcloud.com/neilakiosk
• 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 Michael Murtaugh by Flaminia

• Ad 1: drone defense mechanisms
• Ad 2: drone defense mechanisms
• Ad 3: drone defense mechanisms

• Ad 1: for arduino's
• Ad 2: for arduino's
• Ad 3: for arduino's
• Ad 4: for arduino's

• Ad 1 for Constant books
• Ad 2 for Constant books
• Ad 3 for Constant books

• Glossary

• Review Jona
• Review Vincent

• Pizza ordering language
• Cocktail Generator (How to)
• Cocktail examples
• Computer language idea
• Chatbot scripts (link to Github)
• Chatbot results
• ErrorLeaks manifest
• Error Message Basil
• Error Message 'awkward'

• Movie bio-robotics
• Movie Drone Defense

• Computer language history (slides Vadim
• Computer language design schema (slides Vadim)

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

• DIY steps Theremin electronics
• DIY steps Theremin scripts
• DIY steps Talking plant
• DIY steps bio-robotics: DIY microscope

• Groups gif

• #HDSA2015

• Recipes Algorithmic kitchen

• Essay Christian Greer (Royal Tombs)