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h a c k t e r i a & l a b h a c k i n g with Marc R. Dusseiller & Kaspar Koenig Saturday 30 May - Wednesday 3 June 2009, 12.00-18.00 daily Location: eNKa / ElsenStr. 52 (2.Hof) Berlin, Germany Telephone: +49 (0)176 20626386 Course Participation fee: 100 euros Registration is required for this workshop and [...]

Interactivos?’09: Garage Science was an intensive project development workshop (January 28 through February 14, 2009) and a seminar that explored practices where art, science and technology meet. Participants were invited to turn the Medialab Prado, Madrid into a garage laboratory where low-cost, accessible materials were used to develop objects and installations that combine software, hardware [...]

Medialab Prado initiatives are always great and we highly recommend that you attend as many as you can. This weekend they’ve started two very interesting materials/bio-related workshops: Rescued Circuits is a set of 3 mini-workshops dedicated to exploring new ways of reusing electronic materials. The series is organized by the Obsoletos project: Obsoletos is a project [...]

Royal College of Art students Becky Pilditch, Matt Johnson, Isabel Lizardi and Bibi Nelson took the concept of skin-as-the-new-interface to a new level with “Bare,” a body paint that conducts electricity. The non-toxic ink transforms skin into a highly conductive surface, providing a low resistance contact between the surface of the skin and an electrode. [...]

Philip Ball in an interview with Jennifer Leonard (for the book Massive Change): “It’s about moving away from the classical idea of materials – inert stuff that serves a structural role – toward the more contemporary notion of materials. More and more, materials are active and respond to stimuli in their environment. Materials can light [...]