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Playable city – memes for cities

Maf'j Alvarez September 5, 2014 art theory, Arts Collectives, Blog, Conference Notes, events, Games, play theory, video No Comments
Playable city – memes for cities

Clare Reddington at dConstruct 2014 – Brighton Dome Listen back link: http://2014.dconstruct.org/conference/clarereddington/ Patrick Geddes Bristol Watershed Arts – Pervasive Media Studio Gordon Cullen Play theory Miguel Sicart – Why We Play Physical play creates longer and stronger social bonds Utrecht

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Unmonastery – Nadia El Imam and Edge Ryders

Maf'j Alvarez September 4, 2014 Arts Collectives, Blog, Conference Notes, events, Hacker Culture, Lighthouse, Networks, Open Source No Comments
Unmonastery – Nadia El Imam and Edge Ryders

Notes: Improving Reality – Sept 4th Brighton Dome Nadia El Imam is CEO of Edge Ryders A community of over 2000 people around the world organised online using open source technologies looking at systemic crisis. Unmonastery Monastery life was a

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Reaching out – showing and playing Rootbeans

Maf'j Alvarez November 21, 2013 Arts Collectives, Blog, Coursework, Games, Hacker Culture, Networks, Open Source, Research, Rootbeans No Comments
Reaching out – showing and playing Rootbeans

Here are some events that i will be hoping to talk about or play Rootbeans. Come along if you would like to participate. Art Schism – 29th November Art Schism is an artists co-operative Gallery in the north lanes area of

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An experience in the Aether: A hack of the hacker manifesto

Maf'j Alvarez October 21, 2013 Arts Collectives, Blog, Hacker Culture, Net Art No Comments

Taking a chunk of  A HACKER MANIFESTO [version 4.0] by McKenzie Wark readers were invited  to create a collective text based on it. You can read final text here Returning to the world of collaborative online performance with Furtherfield after

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Collaboration and freedom – the world of free and open source art

Maf'j Alvarez October 13, 2013 Arts Collectives, Blog, Furtherfield, Net Art, Open Source No Comments

By guest curators Ruth Catlow and Marc Garrett, Furtherfield Each element in this collection connects with some aspect of freedom and openness in the arts, in the age of the Internet. Freedom to collaborate – to use, modify and redistribute

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AOS | Art is Open Source

Maf'j Alvarez October 13, 2013 Arts Collectives, Blog, Open Source No Comments

AOS, Art is Open Source, is an international informal network exploring the mutation of human beings with the wide and ubiquitous accessibility and availability of digital technologies and networks. We move across arts and sciences, using technology, communication, performance, art

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