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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.
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CyborgCamp Wrap-up — Thanks For Coming!
Published by caseorganic December 7th, 2008 in cyborgs, fun stuff, news and volunteers. 3 CommentsLiveStreaming Video Feed from #CyborgCamp
Published by caseorganic December 6th, 2008 in cyborgs, fun stuff and news. 0 CommentsHere 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, My Professor of Cyborg Anthropology, to Attend CyborgCamp
Published by caseorganic December 6th, 2008 in cyborgs and news. 0 CommentsDeborah 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 [...]
Party like a Cyborg at the CyborgCamp Pre-Party at Vidoop!
Published by caseorganic December 5th, 2008 in cyborgs, fun stuff, identity, news and sponsors. 0 CommentsCyborgCamp’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 [...]
The reacTable - A Musical Instrument with a Tangible User Interface
Published by caseorganic December 1st, 2008 in cyborgs and fun stuff. 3 CommentsWhat 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 [...]
Photographer Mark Colman - One of CyborgCamp’s Official Cyborgtographers
Published by caseorganic November 26th, 2008 in cyborgs, fun stuff, identity and news. 0 CommentsHumans and cameras. The ultimate cyborgian relationship.
Machines helping humans to preserve memories. Humans helping choose settings that help a camera best represent reality. Beauty results when humans and machines operate in symbiotic harmony.
With that said, Mark Coleman is one of the most harmonious cyborgs I’ve encountered.
Mark is excited to help capture CyborgCamp on film, so [...]
Gesture Recognition Demo at the MIT Media Lab with Jamie Zigelbaum
Published by caseorganic November 24th, 2008 in cyborgs, fun stuff, identity and news. 2 CommentsA lot of times we wait around for technology to just “appear” like we see in films. But if we continue to do that, nothing will get built. Thankfully, people are out there filling in the gaps.
Zigelbaum showed me what he was working on during the first night of MIT’s Futures of Entertainment 3. When [...]
What Does CyborgCamp Look Like?
Published by caseorganic November 16th, 2008 in cyborgs, fun stuff, identity and news. 0 CommentsSometimes graphs are really fun to make. This one was especially fun and easy to make (read how to make your own below). It gives some info on topics that CyborgCamp may touches on.
To make this graph, I simply went to the ‘About Page’ of the CyborgCamp site and selected all of the text. Then [...]
Robot Tech | Best of the third Austrian Hexapod Championships: Dance Category
Published by caseorganic November 15th, 2008 in cyborgs, fun stuff, news and robots. 0 CommentsWe at CyborgCamp are interested in discussing things like the future of Robots. In our opinion, the future has to be fun, or humans won’t be interested in adopting it.
Hexapods
Sure they may look weird, but we’re all about embracing strange amalgamations of humans and computers. With that in mind, here are some dancing robots from [...]
