a2 mini maker faire
http://www.a2makerfaire.com/2010/
Submit your idea in our Request for Makers form and get your own booth! There’s still time!
Local and regional Makers will show off their creations at the second Ann Arbor Mini Maker Faire, held 10 am to 5 pm Saturday June 5, 2010. The event is free to attend, and is again at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds (aka “Saline Fairgrounds”). It is a local version of the major Maker Faires in the Bay area, and, new this year, at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit (July 31 – August 1) and in New York City.
Expected Exhibits
- Learn to solder (free!)
- FIRST Robotics Teams
- Amateur Radio
- DIY Laser Light Show
- Make Your Own Juggling Balls and Learn to Juggle
- Foam Model Planes
- Ferrofluid Magnetoscope
- Robots
- Medieval Book Production
- Nixie Tube Clocks
- Demon Barrel Jumper
- Ann Arbor District Library’s BITDRAGON sculpture
- Huge CNC Laser Cutter
- RepRap 3D CNC Fabricator
- Hacking the Wii Remote
- Using Brainwaves for Control
Admission, parking, and all activities are free!
The Faire is open to the public from 10 AM to 5 PM Saturday June 5, 2010.
Washtenaw Farm Council Fairgrounds
(a.k.a. Saline Fairgrounds)
5055 Ann Arbor Saline Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48103
For more information, email us at: tendrid@gmail.com
Live Performers Meeting
http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/
From 27th to 30st of May 2010, at Brancaleone in Rome, will take place the eighth edition of LPM – Live Performers Meeting: an international meeting of live video performers, visual artists andvjs, focused on live video performances.
Rome 2009 edition, registered the presence of 362 artists coming from Italy, Portugal, France, Germany, Canada, Hungary, United Kingdom, Poland, Spain, Uruguay, Latvia, Switzerland, Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Mexico, Greece, Denmark, United States, Austria, Australia, Turkey. During the whole four days, 289 performances, workshops and showcases, gave life to each area of the 900 square meters space of Brancaleone, enhanced with 15 projectors and as many screens.
For the second consecutive year, the edition of LPM settles in an exclusive location, the long-standing Brancaleone that with its structure, perfectly fit the growing needs of a meeting, that year after year has definetely enlarged its range of contents, artists and audience.
LPM once again, will use its 4-day formula, creating a truly unique event and granting a program full of workshops, project showcases, softwares and brand-new products.
Each of the 4 days, is characterized by a different theme and will proceed with the followingschedule:
15:00 – 21:00 Workshop
15:00 – 16:00 Lectures and conferences
16:00 – 18:00 Presentation of projects and products
18:00 – 04:00 Performances and VJ / DJ sets
Installations and exhibition stands will be active throughout each day and broad areas ofdiscussion and exchange will be available for the whole event.
LIVE VIDEO is obviously the main focus of the four days and each day is highly characterized by the different themes and scenes contributing to the event.
THURSDAY 27: DIGITAL FREEDOMS
Digital Freedoms is a day of meetings that will bring together the leaders and creators of electronic culture and digital Italian. The intent is to bring together theoreticians, ideologists, experts, activists and artists under a single date, to present and discuss the most significant sector. At the center of attention is placed to the essence of culture, politics and communication through new media, while remaining firm and the spirit of freedom that has characterized them for decades. Coordinators of the day a committee of excellence, Luigi Pagliarini (Artificialia), Simona Lodi (Piemonte Share), Arturo Di Corinto (FHF), Filippo Martorana (Linux club), Oriana Persico and Salvatore Iaconesi (Art is Open Source).
FRIDAY 28: BREAKBEAT
This first day is devoted to electronics tunes, the very root of performative video that, in different ways, links together all the participants at the meeting, conferences, projects, performances and VJ sets. It will be accompanied by the dense sounds and incessant beat of electronic club music, with the broken rhythms of breakbeat and drum’n'bass. In addition to the technologies available this year, LPM has to “offer at the mercy” to the participants vjs, a DJ of excellence:SHY FX.
SATURDAY 29: ELECTROPOP + TECHNO + ELECTRO
In the second day devoted to electronics tunes, the central role will be played by projects more sensible to different sub-genres of electronics: 8-bit electronics, and electropop. Rhythms and sounds generated by Nintendo images, unique softwares, samplers, mini-synthesizers and vocoders, for an entertaining and “light” atmosphere, ready to involve and drag audience and participants. From to 2 to 5 am, the area will be invaded by the pulsating tunes of Techno and Electro.
SUNDAY 30: VISUAL GENDERS
A full day of Queer independent culture, a summary of the several projects active at a national and international level to experience the language of representation in terms of gender, politics and sexual orientations, aiming to deconstruct stereotypes and ideological power relationships.
Background videos and music will be shown during dinner, and after dinner a dedicated AV performance and vjset will be set. As usual, at the end of the evening, an open time for VJs will take place: vjs can perform freely, taking advantage of the many available video consoles, beamers and monitors.
LPM 2010 keeps the spirit of a meeting, which has been its main characteristic since the first edition. It is conceived to be a place for comparison and exchange of information and ideas among vjs, visual artists, live-video performers and passionates. Experimentation is one of the founding elements of its philosophy. LPM is a non-profit organisation where any gained fund is invested in supporting the research and development of the live visual field.
Similarity of ideals and common roots has prompted LPM to join the Avit network, whose aim is toimprove and promote the culture of veejaying events worldwide. After the first festivals in England, the Avit network expanded worldwide, establishing collaborations as C23 in Germany (AVIT Berlin), Vision’r in France (AVIT France) and LPM in Italy. This partnership of “network” and “meeting” is possible thanks to a common cultural background and a strong affinity of spirit and purposes.
LPM is not a festival, it is an opportunity of meeting to get a glimpse of what visual-artists are creating or, even better, what they could create. Therefore, and in order to allow so many interesting artists to perform, the maximum length of a performance is 30 minutes.
The subscription to join LPM is FREE and is open from now until 10th of April, 2010. For further details on how to subscribe, see the “participate” section of the website.
LPM is produced and managed by Flyer Communication (www.flyer.it), Linux Club(www.linux-club.org), FLxER.net (www.FLxER.net) and FLV – Flyer Live Visuals(livevisuals.flyer.it), thank also to the cooperation of important international partners.
Kaleido
Kaleido is a tool that is designed to help visual-thinkers program. You can use Kaleido to create personally meaningful visuals for your code. Kaleido allows individuals to plan, organize, and navigate code in the idiosyncratic way we each think.
http://www.vimeo.com/11064303Detroit Maker Faire
Maker Faire is a two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. It’s for creative, resourceful people of all ages and backgrounds who like to tinker and love to make things. So much to see, you will need 2 days to see it all!
Open Clip Art Library
This project aims to create an archive of clip art that can be used for free for any use.
All graphics submitted to the project should be placed into the Public Domain according to the statement by the Creative Commons. If you’d like to help out, please join the mailing list. Also, browse the archives to review the project’s history. There are several ways to contribute to this project. The first is to simply create and upload your clip art!
Welcome to Flux Window!
I’m pleased to welcome you to this new blog, the third addition to Supraterranean’s blogroll. On Flux Window, Michigan resident Jacob Rendell will be discussing live media, graphic design and visual research.
Kaliptus, who runs the Prana Genius blog, introduced me to Jacob — which is funny, since we live in the same county… while Kali is in NJ. That’s the way things work in this Digital Age! Jacob’s work has appeared on the Tryptophanatic Netvision channel that Kaliptus runs on Vimeo.
Jacob will also be contributing work to Supraterranean, including on the Tryptophanatic Netvision podcast. For more of Jacob’s work, please check out his Vimeo page.
If any of you are interested in running your own blog on Supraterranean.com, you can find information on the Blogs page. And if you like what you find here, please subscribe to the Flux Window RSS Feed.
- Nick Meador, creator/admin of Supraterranean.com
