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Amber Case
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Amber Case
CyborgCamp Breakout Session Videos are Live!
These videos are from the breakout sessions in the main room at CyborgCamp MIT 2014, Oct. 10, 2014.
1:00-1:40Pm: Life After Facebook?! Future of social and the end of persistent intent?
1:45-2:30Pm: Non-Human Cyborgs and Augmented Ecosystem
2:35-3:15Pm: Notifications, Filtering, Prioritizing
3:30-4:15Pm: Networked Mortality
4:30-5:15Pm: Beyond Time Collapse, living in the relentless now
Thanks to @aaronpk for livestreaming the event, and capturing these videos for posterity!
Schedule 2014 at MIT Media Lab
CyborgCamp is an unconference, so half of the schedule was planned on the day of the conference.
Oct. 9th, 2014 6:00pm-9:00pm CyborgCamp Preparty at Mead Hall at Kendall Square/MIT. RSVP to attend. Note: All talks in the main room will be livestreamed (including Unconference sessions)
Want more? Come to IndieWebCamp Cambridge a conference on the future of data ownership! It runs two full days from 10/11/2014-10/12/2014.
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Amber Case
CyborgCamp MIT Wrapup
Thanks to everyone for attending CyborgCamp at MIT Media Lab! We had a full room of people and a lot of great sessions. From Networked Mortality to hacking gender, quantified life to time collapse, there were plenty of interesting discussions for everyone.
CyborgCamp MIT Media Lab Amber Case Calm Technology Keynote photo by Chris Dancy
Amber Case gave a talk on Designing Calm Technology as part of the opening sessions.
3rd Floor Atrium of the MIT Media Lab was a great venue for the event.
Session on Networked Mortality Data and Death. Where does our data go when we die? Photo by Ben Werd.
CyborgCamp attendees take a break to build new architecture out of Legos in the Media Lab atrium.
Attendees add to and check out the unconference grid at CyborgCamp.
One of the Unconference sessions at CyborgCamp.
Deb Chachra gives an engaging and informative talk on Grinding and Citizen Science as part of the CyborgCamp morning session.
Another unconference session at CyborgCamp.
Chris Dancy gives a keynote on quantified life.
CyborgCamp participant Tantek Çelik computes through cyborg glasses while listening to an unconference session.
CyborgCamp organizers Willow Brugh and Amber Case close the conference.
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Amber Case
CyborgCamp at MIT Media Lab is tomorrow morning!
CyborgCamp is a hybrid conference/unconference taking place from 09:00 to 18:00 on October 10th, 2014. The majority of the conference will be created and scheduled by you!
Pre-Event Thursday Night Social
Meet other CyborgCamp attendees at Mead Hall in Kendall Square! We’ll have a cash bar and lots of interesting people to talk to. Make sure to RSVP for the event!
Date: Thursday, Oct 9, 2014, 8-11p.
Address: Mead Hall 4 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142Directions to the Venue
MIT Media Lab is located at 75 Amherst St., (corner of Ames and Amherst). Google Maps and Eventbrite seem to think it’s elsewhere. Don’t listen to the robot if it tells you to go elsewhere – it’s testing you for the robot uprising. 
Via the T
Disembark at the Kendall MIT stop on the Red Line. If your pre-Kendall stop is Central, be on the last train car, go up the stairs, to the tee in the road, look right. That big shiny aluminum and glass building is the Media Lab. If your pre-Kendall stop is Charles MGH, be at the front of the train, cross the street (you should have the MIT bookstore on your left), go to the end of that road, and look right.Biking
Bike Racks are prolific. You’ll be fine.Driving
Parking is sparse. It’s best to park at a distant T stop and take transit in, but if you need to drive, there are pay-to-park lots super close to the Media Lab.Venue Details
CyborgCamp will be held in the 3rd floor atrium.
Come up two flights of stairs, or use the elevator.
Main Event Schedule
09:00 Doors and registration.
Coffee and breakfast from Clover (light vegetarian fare)09:45 Conference begins.
Conference introduction and three featured talks. You can take a look at the scheduled speakers here http://cyborgcamp.com/schedule-2014Invite your friends to join in on the livestream starting at 9am EST Oct 10, 2014 at http://cyborgcamp.com/livestream/. Note that only sessions in the main hall will automatically be streamed.
11:40 Unconference session planning
The rest of the conference is in the hands of you, the attendees! We’ll go over the idea of an unconference and allow plenty of time for unconference schedulding. Please come with an idea of what you’d like discussed, either to lead or contribute. You’ll be able to write down your session idea and put it on the board.12:15 Lunch
13:00 Unconference sessions begin
Screens and whiteboards will be available in each breakout session in rooms 493, 393 and 370. It’s encouraged that people in the breakout groups create a video stream for remote participants, and link to it on the relevant session page.17:20 Conference closing and wrap-up.
18:00 Conference ends!
Twitter Hashtag
Want to Tweet or Instagram during the conference? Use #cyborgcamp. You can also mention @cyborgcamp in your tweets!
IRC Channel
Discuss across sessions and with remote participants via the CyborgCamp livestream page or at #cyborgcamp on irc.freenode.net!
Conference Notes
We’ll have etherpads ready for attendees to take notes on. You’ll be able to get to one for each session from the CyborgCamp schedule page on the day of the event.
 Wifi
MIT Guest is an open, speedy network. No hoops here.Media
CyborgCamp presentations and unconference sessions in the main atrium will be livestreamed, and many images will be taken of the event. If you prefer to not be photographed, please reach out to the organizers to make arrangements (which can be done anonymously).
Questions? Issues?
Reach out to either @willowbl00 or @caseorganic on Twitter. Livestream questions? Contact @aaronpk.
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Mark Simpkins
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Krisztián Tóth
@caseorganic @medialab Will every event from the main room be streamed?
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Amber Case
@selator Yes, every event from the main room will be streamed at cyborgcamp.com/livestream
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DesignCultureMind
@caseorganic YAY!
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Andrew Cowan
@cyborgcamp @medialab if a (pre-reg’d) live attendee needs to show up late, is that possible?
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Cyborg Camp
@BorealNemeton Yes! That should be okay. We’ll have a registration table set up and you’ll be able to set it up.
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Amber Case
Speaker Announcement: Deb Chachra!
Exciting news! Deb Chachra will be speaking at CyborgCamp MIT!
Grinding as Citizen Science
In this talk, Chachra will talk about some of the commonalities and differences between implanting and testing medical implants for commercial use and for individual use. She’ll cover some of the basics of biomedical materials, and some principles that grinders could use in planning and describing their experiences in order to help build a shared body of knowledge in the community.
About Deb Chachra
Debbie Chachra is an Associate Professor of Materials Science at Olin College of Engineering, outside Boston. Her research and teaching interests include biological materials, materials for implants, and design. Her favourite molecule is collagen. You can follow her on Twitter @debcha!
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jesse
@caseorganic YAY @debcha!
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Amber Case
Speaker Announcement: Chris Dancy!
I’m proud to announce that Chris Dancy, CyborgCamp 2012 emeritus, will be presenting at CyborgCamp MIT! Dancy came out of his “data closet” in Portland by showing a small unconference audience what he was doing with his own data. Wired writer Klintron Finley was in the room, and the rest is history.
Chris utilizes 300-700 sensors, devices, applications, and services to track, analyze, and optimize as many areas of his existence as he can think of. This quantification enables him to see the connections of otherwise invisible data, resulting in dramatic upgrades to his health, productivity, and quality of life.
Chris’s name and avatar are synonymous with the future of work, edutainment, technically-enabled external evolution, and his quantified life (existence). He travels extensively and speaks on these topics and more, and has been featured in Fox News, NPR, BBC, TechCrunch, Businessweek, Wired, Bloomberg TV, and The Guardian as the “Most connected human on Earth.”
You can follow Chris Dancy on Twitter @servicesphere.
Need a ticket to CyborgCamp MIT? Get one while they last or sign up to attend remotely!
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Amber Case
Announcing the CyborgCamp Pre-party on Friday, Oct 9th, 2014!
Mead Hall by Adam Gerard
Mark your calendars! The official CyborgCamp Pre-Party will be on Thursday, October 9, 2014 at Mead Hall at Kendall Square/MIT.
Want to meet fellow CyborgCamp attendees before the unconference on Friday? Come down to Mead Hall and enjoy friendly libations in a warm atmosphere with other interesting humans.
Location:
Mead Hall Kendall Square
4 Cambridge Ctr
Cambridge, MA 02142RSVP on EventBrite to Attend:
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Amber Case
Sponsor Announcement: The Mindful Cyborgs Podcast!
We’re proud to announce Mindful Cyborgs Podcast as our first sponsor for CyborgCamp 2014 at MIT!
What is Mindful Cyborgs? Mindful Cyborgs is an audio podcast featuring topics such as mindfulness, cyborgs, contemplative computing, bio/lifehacking and unhacking, frictionless existence, quantified self netocracy, robotics and digital duality.
Mindful Cyborgs started because of a CyborgCamp event! Klint Finley, TechCrunch and Wired writer, and Chris Dancy, known as the “world’s most connected human” met at CyborgCamp Portland 2012 and got along so well that they decided to start this very interesting podcast! We’re excited to have them on board in support of this event!
Tune in!
Interested in listening to Mindful Cyborgs? Check out some recent episodes here!
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Amber Case
CyborgCamp hits MIT Media Lab on Oct 10, 2014!
At long last, we’ll be hosting CyborgCamp at MIT Media Lab all day on Oct 10, 2014! Join us for a full day’s discussion on the future of humans and technology!
MIT Media Lab Annex by The Knight Foundation
What is CyborgCamp?
CyborgCamp is an unconference about the future of the relationship between humans and technology. We will discuss topics such as futures of identity, privacy, surveillance, hardware to wetware, drones, 3D printing, cyberpunk, human augmentation, constructed reality, the second self, ethics, robot rights, sexuality, urban design, and anthropology.
Join us October 10 from 09:00 to 18:00 (6p) on the 3rd floor of the MIT Media Lab for a one-day unconference on the future of humanity and technology! This is the very first CyborgCamp at MIT Media Lab and one of many CyborgCamp events.
Tickets
RSVP on Facebook
CyborgCamp MIT Media Lab on Facebook
Scholarship Tickets for Students
CyborgCamp aims to be an affordable unconference, but we also aim to provide a number of scholarship tickets to current students. To apply for free conference admission, please fill out the form here: CyborgCamp MIT 2014 Scholarship Application Form.
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Amber Case
Announcing this year’s @cyborgcamp 2014 at MIT @medialab! All day: Fri, Oct 10, 2014. Attend! cyborgcamp.com/2014/08/cyborg… #cyborgcamp
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Ben Werdmüller
Really looking forward to CyborgCamp at MIT Media Lab on October 10: http://cyborgcamp.com/2014/08/cyborgcamp-mit/
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bobby dresser
@caseorganic @cyborgcamp @medialab looks awesome! but the scholarship application form seems broken? -___-
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Amber Case
@b_dresser Oh! Thanks for checking! I’ll get that up and fixed shortly, then will let you know when you can apply!
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bobby dresser
@caseorganic amazing, thank you!
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cameron mulder
@caseorganic @cyborgcamp @medialab seriously tempting
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cameron mulder
@caseorganic @cyborgcamp @medialab so how cheap can I get PDX to Boston?
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Amber Case
@mulderc @cyborgcamp @medialab Google Flights says $412 roundtrip. If you stay the weekend you could also attend #indiewebcamp at MIT!
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Amber Case
@b_dresser @cyborgcamp Hi Bobby, try docs.google.com/forms/d/142leX…. Does that work?
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angelday
@caseorganic are you Cameron Howe
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Tomás Insua
@caseorganic @cyborgcamp @medialab The form for student scholarships is not working. Can you please let me know when it’s fixed? Thx!
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Amber Case
@tomasinsua @cyborgcamp @medialab Very sorry to hear that! Try this? docs.google.com/forms/d/142leX…
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@caseorganic @medialab yay, signed up to join in remotely #elegantcyborg