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CyborgCamp Pictures are Up!

The following pictures are just a sample of the amazing photos at Mark Coleman took of CyborgCamp. The full set can be be viewed here on Flickr.

Reid Beels explains the unconference structure.

Ward Cunningham explains new ‘Ways of Seeing”.

Simon Walter-Hansen asks a question during one of the presentations.

Leah Hollander explains how insulin pumps affect sex lives.
Thanks [...]

CyborgCamp Wrap-up — Thanks For Coming!

(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 [...]

LiveStreaming Video Feed from #CyborgCamp

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).

Party like a Cyborg at the CyborgCamp Pre-Party at Vidoop!

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 [...]

@missburrows Does a Low Budget Ad for CyborgCamp in 3…2…1…

If you haven’t already heard, Lia Hollander @missburrows is going to be giving a presentation on “How Being a Cyborg Keeps Me Alive” from 11:45Am-12:30Pm at CyborgCamp.
She also just made this little promo video for it, which is pretty epic+adorable+cyborgian.

Lia will talk about the electronics that help keep her healthy and alive, the [...]

The reacTable - A Musical Instrument with a Tangible User Interface

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 [...]

Photographer Mark Colman - One of CyborgCamp’s Official Cyborgtographers

Humans 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 [...]

Where is the Future that was Promised to Us?

One of the topics for the unconference part of CyborgCamp is exactaly this. Every year, we’re teased by science and technology magazines, advertisements, and news shows. They tell us that in a few years, we’ll all live forever, or that we’ll all have flying cars. But when has a sceintific or technological prediction actually come [...]

Gesture Recognition Demo at the MIT Media Lab with Jamie Zigelbaum

A 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 [...]

New York and Portland Converge at CyborgCamp

CyborgCamp is gaining momentum as an intellectual, technical and exploratory event. Its existence is not limited to Portland area either.
Example: a fascinating individual flying out from New York to attend. Her name is Gennefer Snowfield and she was kind enough to answer some questions for us so that the Portland Tech community and [...]