City Library / Gent, Belgium.

Deadline Extended till July 1st. Help saving the first world from itself!  You need to live a developing nation to participate and there is 1000 lollars price. You can support this project at Kickstarter too if you will

My friend Carolina invited me to be jury at the competition Design for the first World. The main goal is to offer solutions designed from a “developing world” perspective to the developed world:

What does it mean to be a devel­op­ing coun­try? Among other things it means that the future is to become devel­oped. We are on our way toward devel­op­ment, and we assume that’s a great thing, but let’s stop to con­sider for a minute whether devel­oped coun­tries are some­thing we want to turn into. Are peo­ple in devel­oped coun­tries hap­pier or health­ier? Do they live a bet­ter life? Do they have a bet­ter under­stand­ing of nature and live in a bet­ter equi­lib­rium with the envi­ron­ment? Do they live in peace?

We have been focus­ing our energy and resources on try­ing to solve our Devel­op­ing World prob­lems to become more like the First World. But per­haps it is time that we, the so called Third World minds, focused our energy and cre­ativ­ity on solv­ing some of the First World prob­lems. We will have a brighter future to look for­ward to, and per­haps this can help us rethink and approach our cur­rent prob­lems from a dif­fer­ent perspective.

Jace Clayton (aka) Dj Rupture and Regine Debatty from We Make Money not Art invite Magnus and me to Postópolis DF! If you are around, stop by for a bit of FAT, urban hacking, tunnels, Tepito and the internets!

The event organized by Storefront for Architecture, Domus Magazine and TomoMX is going to be hosted in the Museo Experimental El Eco in D.F. The talks include amazing bloggers and local crew from the city like Ehecatl Cabrera, El Proyecto Sonidero y Jose Antonio Macotela.

Go here for more details!

Electrified Summercamp!
June 17th -27th Gent, Brussels

Timelab invited me to their awesome fablab in Gent!

From june 17 till 27 the second edition of Summercamp Electrified will take place in Ghent. Summercamp Electrified is a ten day intensive encounter between 12 local and international artists with the city as a setting and timelab as a motor. Openness and exchange is at the heart of the summercamp. We are inviting artists with original ideas and an adventurous spirit who are open to collaborate with artists working in other fields. De backgrounds of the artists are very diverse. Whereas workshops for artists often attract people working in the same fields or niches, we are explicitly aiming for a very diverse group or artists.

There is not one specific theme for the Summercamp, but there are some red threads we would like to offer:

* the city as a lab, actions in public space
* the triangle timelab is working in : art, technology, society
* an important theme running through timelab’s activities in the next year : ‘re-spark!’ – the idea of re-ensouling, re-using, re-appropriating, upcycling ideas/objects/projects

Summercamp Electrified is a collaboration between timelab and Vooruit Arts Centre and is supported by Interreg in the context of Transdigital

Exactly one year ago, a bunch of internauts gathered online and offline to talk about the future of the internet. There were many worrying facts, but first and foremost, there was energy and joy.

The first issue to strike the internauts was the telecoms package, which was in the second reading in the European Parliament. Someone suggested “Lets hack our way in to the politicians, and tell them how to do it right!” That caturday night, one year ago, was the beginning of the #telekompaketet IRC-channel, which still exists as the main control room for activities.

Many features have since then been added to the Telecomix System. One day a wiki was added, another day a Crypto Munitions Agency was formed. Telecomix, working as an interface between humans and bots, was even upgraded itself with an operative Artificial Intelligence named Cameron.

Today, we level up our struggle to create a free internet. We have made an operating system, which is equipped with the strongest crypto munitions available to modern computers. It is called the Telecomix Cipher System, and the video on top of this message (download here) shows the reasons for why we give this to the world, as a free download. You may also buy a pre-installed USB-stick at our friends at Gnutiken.

Please join us online and offline in our celebrations. We begin today at 16:00 CET in Gothenburg, Sweden. Stay tuned to our channels for other parties and events!

From the bottom of our cipher hearts – Happy birthday!

/The Werebuild and Telecomix crew

Enter cipherspace.

Creating a Fractal Cipherspace.

http://crypto.telecomix.org/

F.A.T. Lab: Fuck Google Week Wrap Up from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

Now it’s your turn! Go out there and see what it’s like to be Google!

HOW TO BUILD A FAKE GOOGLE CAR.

Download the source to make your own in here.