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At long last, you can now purchase CyborgCamp tickets!
How much?
Just $10. That $10 covers breakfast, lunch, coffee and drinks. It’s a pretty excellent deal, and it’s made possible by our wonderful sponsors.
Note:
Ticket prices will go up to $15 starting Sept. 24th. They’ll also be $15 at the door. Space is limited – only 120 tickets will be sold, and the tickets will go quickly!
When? Where?
Saturday October 2, 2010 from 9:00am-6:00pm
Webtrends
Pacific First Center Building 851 SW Sixth Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97204
Get Directions
There’s been a great deal of interest in the idea of CyborgCamp recently. In fact, there will be three CyborgCamps this year. Each one will be completely different, with its own local or international crowd, sponsors and ideaset. If you can’t make one, there’s two more to attend!
CyborgCamp Brasil will occur at the end of May 2010 in Sao Paulo, Brasil.
CyborgCamp Seattle will occur in July 2010 in Seattle, Washington.
CyborgCamp Portland will occur in October 2010 at Webtrends.
Great News! The next CyborgCamp will be in October! That means its time to start planning!
This meeting is everyone’s chance to brainstorm on location ideas, sponsors and speakers. What kinds of topics are of interest to you? How has the idea of Cyborg evolved over the last year? What new kinds of technologies have arrived on the scene?
We’ll discuss volunteers and the wiki too. Come along, especially if you helped make CyborgCamp PDX ’08 so excellent in the first place. Bring snacks and drinks to share with others.
This planning meeting will most likely be followed by general networking and fun at a local haunt.
RSVP on Upcoming.org
Where:
AboutUs.org
107 SE Washington Street, Suite 520
Portland Oregon 97214
United States
When:
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 from 7–10pm
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What is CyborgCamp?
CyborgCamp is an unconference about the future of the relationship between humans and technology. We’ll discuss topics such as social media, design, code, inventions, web 2.0, twitter, the future of communication, cyborg technology, anthropology, psychology, and philosophy.
CyborgCamp’s aim is to have many communication channels, such as Twitter, Flickr, UstreamTV, Video and Audio recordings and live chats displayed on the screen.
Why May 2010? In March 2010, CyborgCamp will make its way to Brazil and back before landing again in Portland, Oregon for its second year.
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Questions? Contact Amber Case @caseorganic or MJ @mama_j.
You can also follow @cyborgcamp on Twitter for updates.
CyborgCamp has been quiet for a while in preparation for CyborgCamp Brazil ’10, CyborgCamp’s first international branching.
About the Brazil CyborgCamp ’10 event:
Date estimated: 30th March 2010
For information coming soon!
(Photo Credit: David Kominsky)
Session Notes
Lots of people took session notes and are wondering where to put them. We’ve created a place on the CyborgCamp wiki just for that.
{{Post your session notes here}}
If you’re unfamiliar with using Wiki’s, you can simply E-mail your session notes to caseorganic@gmail.com and I’ll post them for you.
Blog posts on CyborgCamp
Please let me know when you’ve completed a blog post about CyborgCamp. You can leave a link to it in the comments. I’ll link to it from here, and from my main site at http://oakhazelnut.com.
A Great Big, Enormous Thanks to:
Eva Schweber (@evacatherder) and David Kominsky (@rabbidavid) of CubeSpace, Mike Kaos (@drnormal) for audio and video streaming with Joe Christenson (@blazeit) of BlazeStreaming. Cami Kaos (@camikaos) of Strange Love Live for an amazing Pre-Party show at Vidoop (thanks, Vidoop!), Nate Angell (@xolotl) for pre-party supplies and Beer (thanks to Widmer for the donation). Thanks to Chris Pitzer (@chrispitzer) for accounting help and volunteering, and Reid Beels (@reidab) for helping the audience understand unconferences, as well as support on various iterations of everything.
Bram Pitoyo (@brampitoyo) ran the CyborgCamp Twitter account (@cyborgcamp) almost from day one, and provided needed support and awesomeness during the entire conference process. I must thank him a billion times over for this. Thanks to Alex Williams (@podcasthotel) for bringing out the blogger bus!
Thank you to all of the volunteers who met at CubeSpace at 7Am to help set up!
- Cameron Mulder
- Alex Williams
- Chris Pitzer
- Ramona W.
- Anna W.
- Kathleen McDade
- Nate Angell
- Reid Beels
- Mike Kaos
- Joe Christensen
Thanks to Tyler Sticka for the incredible logo that made everything look awesome. And thanks to Reid Beels for making the sweet hashtag aggregator (view it in action at http://cyborgcamp.reidab.com/).
And our wonderful sponsors! You guys made it happen!
Thanks to the incredible speakers, unconference and conference.
Bill DeRouchey
Lia Hollander
Ward Cunningham
Hideshi Hamaguchi
International Attendance
We had viewers from all over the world, including Japan, Germany, and London. The live stream rocked.
In Conclusion
Portland is an incredible place. Thanks for making it even more incredible this weekend.
Sincerely,
Amber Case
Here is the live stream of what our conference looks like right now. You can also tune in at http://www.mogulus.com/pdxjoe (this option allows chat).
Deborah Heath, professor of anthropology at Lewis and Clark College,
participated in midwifing cyborg anthropology, attending the Cyborg
Anthropology seminar in Santa Fe, NM that led to the book Cyborgs &
Citadels.
After several years of following the human and nonhuman
alliances involved in genetic knowledge production [cf: Genetic
Nature/Culture, Univ. of California Press], she’s currently captivated
by the techne and technoscience of food and drink, including the
science and rhetoric of the foie gras controversy.
CyborgCamp’s Pre-party will be graciously hosted at Vidoop, our local Portland Open-Id provider!
Come partake in drinks and festivities before the conference in the morning! Special guests Cami Kaos and Mike (Dr. Normal) will be live-broadcasting Strange Love Live.
They do an extremely incredible, awesomesauce, sweetopian podcast live-streaming Portland tech conversational media event every Friday night at 10Pm.
If you’ve never been able to tune in before, you’ll be able to see it LIVE tonight!
There will be great conversations and some seasonal ale donated by Widmer brewery. Plus wine, snacks, and a live DJ to whip up some Cyborgian tunes.
His name is Alain Bloch, and he’s a sweet Rails developer too.
When Does it start?
Friday December 5, 2008 at 8:30pm
You can RSVP here.
And Where is Vidoop?
Vidoop is located right above Backspace (a regular haunt of the Portland tech community)
117 NW 5th Ave, Suite 210
Portland, Oregon 97209
See you there!
P.S. You might want to go to Beer and Blog first. I hear there’s going to be some very interesting things going on there!
What does data feel like? What if cables that were formerly solid became liquid, and capable of being modified in a dynamic, liquid state?
This musical instrument evaporates the lines between data and then brings them back together on the surface. This is visual programming — visual synthesizing. Something that we will perhaps have at a CyborgCamp preparty in the future.
The reacTable was covered in Wired Magazine, which says:
“Each block has a different function — like changing a sound wave’s amplitude or acting as a metronome — that is denoted by a unique hieroglyph. Players move, rotate and flip the blocks, run their fingertips over the tabletop’s surface and alter the blocks’ proximity to each other to control the music produced by the machine. Pulsing visuals that light up the tabletop come courtesy of a projector beneath the reacTable’s translucent Perspex surface, making the instrument interesting to the eyes as well as the ears”.
Björk also uses this instrument. And why wouldn’t she? It is one of the most instruments I’ve ever seen.
By the way, we’re going to have a CyborgCamp Pre-party at Vidoop on Friday, December 5th, 2008. Come to the official CyborgCamp pre-party and partake in drinks and festivities before the conference in the morning! Special guests Cami Kaos and Mike (Dr. Normal) will be live-broadcasting Strange Love Live. There will be great conversations and (hopefully) drinks!
RSVP on Yahoo! Upcoming
Venue Location
Vidoop is located directly above Backspace, which is located at:
117 NW 5th Ave, Suite 210
Portland, Oregon 97209
Our DJ: Alain Bloch. Bring your Cyborg music to him and he’ll play it (or you can send it his way via alainbloch@gmail.com (put CyborgCamp preparty in the subject line).
We’ll have data visualizations, music and merrymaking, but nothing like the reacTable (yet). 
