A Conference on the Future of Humans and Computers
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.
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.
Where:
107 SE Washington Street, Suite 520
Portland Oregon 97214
United States
When:
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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
Bill DeRouchey
Lia Hollander
Ward Cunningham
Hideshi Hamaguchi
We had viewers from all over the world, including Japan, Germany, and London. The live stream rocked.
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.
Friday December 5, 2008 at 8:30pm
You can RSVP here.
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!
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 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.
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.
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 true? Where is the future that was promised to us?
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.
