Monday morning I’m off back to Estonia to do another Neanderthal Electronics workshop. September I’m doing a TONEWHEELS workshop in Belfast, another one in October in Bulgaria, and another one in November in Kaliningrad (!!!). Finally, I’ve been accepted as a fellow at the KHM in Cologne to develop a new Tuned City project with students there for the ISEA 2010 taking place in Dortmund and surrounding areas.

The flipside of all this excitement is that I haven’t had any time to sort out the kinds of tax and health insurance crap needed to secure my next residence permit to stay in Germany. The appointment is in mid-September and I’m more than a little bit nervous. I suppose the alternative is moving back to the States and working at a truck stop in Texas, which is made all the more attractive when the nasally-voiced American girls from the debt-collection agencies ring up my German mobile asking when I’ll pay back the increasingly overblown amount of money I owe in student loans there. Sigh….

Anyways…TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

15. August 2009 / Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Berlin 16:00-22:00
presentation of the sommercamp workshop results

(find schedule here >>>) http://www.sommercampworkstation.de/press/timetable.pdf

///////////////////////workshop cluster A
World as Representation: systems and simulation.

1] Analog computers and numerical methods: Simulation of complex/chaotic systems in analogue circuits and software
with Jessica Rylan
2] Plant perception and patabotanical simulations: Overlap of systems simulation with plant sensing data and growth systems
with FOaM/Nik Gaffney and Dave Griffiths
3] Data forensics and urban EM interventions
with Martin Howse/xxxxx and Julian Oliver

///////////////////////workshop cluster B
Re:Discovering Sound — an Instrument-building Workshop

1] DEERHORNS with Ciat Lonbarde/Peter Blasser
2] HALLDOROPHONES with Halldor Ulfarsson
3] ACOUSTIC LAPTOPS with Tore Honoré Bøe
Facilitation by Derek Holzer

///////////////////////workshop cluster C
Ways of Doing.
Approaches, Manuals, Tactics, Strategies and the Operational Art

1] A Media Lab in Berlin (Keeping It Real) with James Wallbank
2] Culture Wars and viceversa with Jordi Claramonte
3] FLOSS Manuals. Ogg Theora Book Sprint with Adam Hyde
This cluster is organised by Medialab Prado, Madrid http://medialab-prado.es

SOMMERCAMPWORKSTATION – LABORATORY FOR ART AND MEDIA BERLIN
http://www.sommercampworkstation.de ///////////////////////

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