Well, it’s the last day and we’re about to break down the lab. It was so much fun spending the last 2 weeks with this group. I have a much better understanding of true “teamwork”. Thank you everyone for teaching me so much, I hope we can do this again.
Once the lab was finished we moved in just hours before the start of the festival. Most of us were up around the clock the night before the festival making sure everything worked correctly and looked the best it could.
The lab was exactly like the rendering. 3 floors inside the Bruknerhas
I helped Taeyoon and Tina paint the lab today. We taped off shapes and started painting. Taeyoon and Tina are a great team. They both have a clear vision of what they want the lab to look like. Can’t wait to see it. You can check out Taeyoons work here. I’d link to Tina but I don’t have a link. Let me know if anyone has one.
We spent a few days before the festival in the Bruknerhas Cafe preparing to move in. While the carpenters put the finishing touches on the lab we were painting, sewing, soldering, designing, coding, documenting, and collecting things to hack later in the week.
Festival for Art, Technology and Society
Linz Thu 4 – Tue 9 September 2008
Ars Electronica invites artists, network nomads, theoreticians, technologists and legal scholars from all over the world to convene in Linz September 4-9, 2008. Their artistic and scholarly investigations in the form of symposia, exhibitions, performances and interventions will transcend the confines of conventional conference spaces and cultural venues and pervade the entire city.
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Ars Electronica is going to be awesome. Can’t wait to meet the OF team.
This year, at Ars Electronica (sept 4 – 9) we are planning to make something pretty unique to represent openframeworks – OF LAB!
Essentially, it’s a laboratory space where a group of us will make artwork live during the course of the festival. The idea is to build a space where a dozen or so hackers, tinkerers and researchers will hang out and experiment, make stuff, create guerrilla exhibitions around the festival and document their progress and discoveries. The work that we do will come directly out of suggestions from the festival audience members — and hopefully, over the 5 days, we’ll create a kind of good feedback loop between getting suggestions, making projects and exhibiting the results.
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This was a great time. We met in Cambridge at noon and rode till 10:00. We rode all the way to Concord with a few stops: BC, Waldon Pond and a few other really nice places in Concord. I meet a ton of really nice people. I hope to do it again before it gets too cold.
My Father and Uncle are responsible for this hobby.
When you grow up with a garage full of tools and a meticulous mechanic for an uncle you learn how to take things apart and put them back together. Hoping what ever it is… works and looks better then it did before before.
I think this project is turning out pretty nice.
