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

caseorganic — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:50:58 +0000

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

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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!

The reacTable – A Musical Instrument with a Tangible User Interface

caseorganic — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:39:15 +0000

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).

Where is the Future that was Promised to Us?

caseorganic — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:28:30 +0000

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.