About the Brazil CyborgCamp ’10 event:

Date estimated: 30th March 2010

For information coming soon!

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 so much to Mark Colman for the pictures. His professional site is markcolemanphoto.com/, you can also follow him on Twitter (@Kram).

If you’re looking for videos of CyborgCamp, check out this post.

(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!

• AboutUs
• iterasi
• Lisa Rokusek
• Silicon Florist
• Inverge
• Pelotonics
• Makerlab
• EASCI

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

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

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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!

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 difficult decision to be attached 24/7 to an insulin pump and that “cyborgs” do in fact have sex.

There will be time for Q&A, open discussion on defining the role in medicine and actual insulin pumps and glucose meters for you to play with.

Anywho — it is a speech you will not want to miss.

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Want to learn more about Lia Hollander’s speech? There’s a full description here.

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).

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 that our memories of it will be highlighted by his own flavor of cyborg history.

If you’re not familiar with Mark yet, he is a professional photographer with over twenty years of experience. He works in numerous major markets including Milan, Italy; Madrid, Spain; San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and the Pacific Northwest. Mark’ clients include the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Adrian Belew, Jethro Tull, Warner Bros., EMI, Karl Kani Jeans, Zoom, Eyemazing and Face magazines (among others). His fine art work has been exhibited in the LA County Museum of Art’s gallery.

With that said, he’s one of the friendliest people you’ll ever meet — just like the rest of the Portland Tech community. Needless to say, we’re really excited to have him at CyborgCamp, and hope you are too! Thanks Mark!
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You can find Mark Coleman on Twitter @kram, and more of his professional work at MarkColmanPhoto.com.

M.T. Richardson of Vidoop (where we’ll be having the pre-CyborgCamp party) first suggested this as a topic at the Inverge afterparty. It’s been stuck in my head ever since.

But what about you all? What invention have you been promised that hasn’t panned out? For me, it is definitely awesome computer interfaces. We can’t even touch data today! I suppose we’ll be hearing all about it on Saturday, December 6th.

Zigelbaum showed me what he was working on during the first night of MIT’s Futures of Entertainment 3. When he told me about it, I knew it was the thing I had thought about before when the opportunity to visit MIT had presented itself.

All of this was apparently built off of the original prototype system used in Minority Report. What made me happy was that the UI was exceedingly smooth and enjoyable to use. It was a relief. A complete and total relief.

A tremendous thanks to Jamie for letting me take pictures and showing me the lab. He is a very interesting and awesome person and I highly recommend his existence to you.

These are new gloves (he said that eventually they wanted the gloves to not have to be worn, and for the device itself to be able to recognize gestural movement.

G-stalt – the rules for interacting with the system. A set of a new sign language for controlling movement from a distance. It was great to have these up on the wall when I tried on the gloves to interact with the system. Very intuitive and simple to learn. Especially with the rewards of being able to move things across the room without touching them.

Sensor/Cam: part of the set of twelve needed for the full control of the system. Less can be used, but the resolution of movement suffers with each lost sensor.

Here are Some Moving Pictures For You

And here’s the tiny amount of video footage I was able to get (in chunks, in between furiously deleting old videos from my camera to make room for the new. Hopefully it conveys the excellence of the system).

Zigelbaum also showed me something secret that I can’t say anything about (yet). Let us just say that it was very cool, and that it will be public soon enough.You can read more about Gesture Recognition on Wikipedia if you want. Or you could run into me somewhere and hear a lot of hot air on what I’ve been calling “8 bit haptics”.

Anywho, this stuff rocked. The Media Lab was ultimate. I can’t wait to go back.

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Jamie Zigelbaum is Ph.D. student in the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. His research interests include the social implications of physical interface media, frameworks for next generation interfaces, and tangible interfaces for abstract digital information. He received a B.A. from Tufts university working with Professor Rob Jacob. At Tufts he created a multidisciplinary major in HCI, drawing from neuroscience, psychology, computer science, and human factors engineering.

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Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist who also posts over at the Makerlab Blog, which is something you might enjoy reading if you enjoyed reading the post above. It’s about more experimental tech and activities related to pushing the limits of art and technology. If not, you can always follow her on Twitter @caseorganic.