openMaterials

April 3rd 2011 @ Pavilhão do Conhecimento Lisbon, Portugal The AZ Labs Network is extremely happy to announce FabriCulture’s first event: FabriCamp Lx 1! That’s right, it’ll be a barcamp style unconference dedicated to digital fabrication. Several members and friends of AZ’s hackerspaces (LCD, altLab and xDA) will be demoing their 3D printers and CNC mills. If [...]

Last March I had the opportunity to teach an openMaterials workshop at the very special École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence (France). It was part of a larger event in which the school invited researchers and artists from several fields to lead a one week class for 2nd year art students. The goal was to show [...]

This Sunday altlab is holding its first Soft Circuits Open Lab at the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon (FBAUL - Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa). There is no predefined structure for the event. We will meet for the course of one day with the purposes of sharing knowledge, experimenting freely, advancing on-going projects, [...]

Thom Yorke 3D print by Tiago Serra: a 3D model/print created from the CC licensed original point cloud data of Radioheads’s “House of Cards” videoclip. Audiência Zero (altLab, LCD and xDA’s mothership) recently held a 3D Printing Workshop led by Zach Hoeken from MakerBot Industries. Sérgio Ferreira wrote such a nice post about it that I [...]

On December 12 and 13 Audiência Zero (AZ) will hold the first big meeting of its 3 labs: LCD, altLab, and xDA. We’ll all get together in Porto, at AZ’s headquarters, for 2 days of creative and fun hacking. The main goals for this hackmeet are to share knowledge, explore synergies, collaborate, research, and… (of [...]

SMART TEXTILES SALON September 25, 2009, Ghent, Belgium The programme is organised together with 80th Anniversary of the Department of Textiles at Ghent University and 6th International Conference on Textile and Polymer Biotechnology. The exhibition introduces the latest demonstrator and prototype developments in the field of smart textiles and intelligent wearable systems. The displayed items will [...]