Inefficient Tools for Quantified Beings Hack Day

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Inefficient Tools for Quantified Beings Hack Day
Name Inefficient Tools for Quantified Beings Hack Day
Location NDSM Fuse
Date 2020/10/17
Time 13:30-17:30
PeopleOrganisations Hackers & Designers, Bibliotecha, Low Tech Magazine
Type Meetup
Web No
Print No

Join us at Fuse on our platform for a day of workshops and lunch talks! You can sign up for workshops individually (morning or afternoon) or register for the full day!

Nazanin.jpg Presentation by Nazanin Karimi during the opening program of the exhibition

Morning workshop with Heerko van der Kooij, Loes Bogers and Nigel van der Pol

Smart Spectral Sensing

In this workshop, we invite participants to unquantify the quantified body. We will reprogram the sensordata, pixels, and connectivity information provided to explore sub- and super-consicious, maybe even spectral connections between humans and non-humans. We use smart wristbands as a tool to engage the unquantifiable connections, flows and networks between us.

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  • from 10.00 to 13.00
  • max 10 individuals (duos from the same household can join together and count as 1)
  • Bring your own laptop
  • Bracelets will be provided
  • no previous skills required
  • Participation: € 15

Register here!

Lunch talks

We will host online talks, streamed into the space and accessible for people not in the space!

There will be lunch for the audience and workshop participants at Fuse!

  • 13.00 - 13.15 - Introduction by H&D with a summary of the morning workshop, a reflection on the summer school and the topic 'Network Imaginaries'
  • 13.15 - 13.45 - Online talk by Roel Roscam Abbing about Low Tech Magazine: a website powered by solar panel, which means it sometimes goes offline!
  • 13.45- 13.55 - Q&A with Roel Roscam Abbing

Intermission: Juliette Lizotte's Mushrooms musical!

  • 14.00 - 14.30: TBC
  • 14.30 - 14.40: Q+A TBC

Afternoon workshop with Bibliotecha

Bibliotecha presentation and install session!

Bibliotecha is a framework to facilitate the local distribution of digital publications within a small community. It relies on a microcomputer running open-source software to serve books over a local wifi hotspot. Using the browser to connect to the library one can retrieve or donate texts. Bibliotecha proposes an alternative model of distribution of digital texts that allows specific communities to form and share their own collections.

  • 15.00 - 18.30
  • 10-15 participants max
  • participants should bring Raspberry Pis B+ or later if possible
  • Your own laptop so you can connect to your Raspberry Pis
  • Pre-installed SD cards will be provided which can be re-sold for cost-price on the day.
  • Read the latest edition of the manual here https://manual.bibliotecha.info/#prerequisites
  • Familiarity with the command-line / Raspberry Pis would be good - if you want to dig into it, but totally optional
  • Interest in digital libraries, offline libraries, suffering the joy of technology, etc.
  • Participation: € 10

Register here!

Accessibility

The space is accessible for wheelchairs via an elevator, which is not immediately obvious to find. Please send an email to info@hackersanddesigners.nl if you need to access the space via the elevator and we make sure someone is available to show you the way.

Read more about the exhibition here!