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moreAs soon as artists began to use the computer in the 1980's, they sought to dematerialize the physical and work within pure data, trading the real world or “meat space” for the "consensual hallucination" of Gibsonian cyberspace, the virtual world. Total immersion.
Jeff Knowlton's work and research has been in the opposite direction, bringing the virtual into the real world, the concept architect Marcos Novak refers to as Eversion, the turning out of the virtual into the real world.
It was a long trip, full of work and fun. Here it is, a mix from the travelogs of the participating researchers.
A comparing account of a journey performed in two different ways, as for our load on the environment: fuel consumption, air pollution and waste production. The unit of this account is the "ecological footprint". Some researchers of Kitchen Budapest traveled the distance between Budapest and Helsinki in mid-March. Some arrived in the festival Pixelache Helsinki 2008 by plane, others
by minibus. On the way they were documenting their environmental expenses, by taking pictures and making notes. For the birthday exhibition of Kitchen Budapest the project is summarized in a presentation.
"Visit to Kitchen Budapest", we-make-money-not-art, 7th March, 2008.
And here you can follow Regine's description with this comment "Kitchen Budapest Overview", MAKE Magazine: blog, 8th March, 2008
KIBU's six projects (Animata, Animobil, ArbourLight, autoCut, Mllamp, No copy paste) are invited by the famous european festival of electronic art and subcultures Pixelache in Helsinki between 13-16th of March.
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The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) are co-hosting a mini-summit on government support for new media arts practice. This event which takes place in Singapore from 24 to 26 July 2008, gathers high-level government participants, artists, researchers and policy makers for a three-day dialogue on designing a coherent policy framework and recommendation for New Media Art.
Luckily we are growing out ourselves. We get more and more invitation: now three of our lamp projects,Mllampot, Arbour Light and Moonlight have been invited to Next.5 Festival in Denmark.
It is a great honour for KiBu, that on the Next.5 Festival our Mllamp will be dancing during the presentation of the CEO of Pixar Animation Studio.
In the December issue of Doors of Perception newsletter we got a great review for our catalog by John Thackara. Here is the post.
Mllamp Gizmodo, Slashfilm, Upcomingpixar, Patent-cn; Landprint Douggreensgarden, Eikongraphia; Evil gingerbread man Craftzine
Kitchen Budapest is offering guest researcher positions for dedicated professionals, artist, engineers, interested in the convergence of new media and actual spaces, cultural experiences, new communities, and are highly motivated to create such projects in teams.
The spicy innovation lab
Kitchen Budapest, opened in June 2007, is a new media lab for young researchers who are interested in the convergence of mobile communication, online communities and urban space and are passionate about creating experimental projects in cross-disciplinary teams.
Gina Haraszti
From now on, from time to time we will choose one of our researchers, who personalise with his/her (group) work, collaboration skills and partnership with the others in the lab the aims that KIBU set at the beginning.
Our present ‘chosen one’ is Gina Haraszti, visual artist at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts.
She seeks projects which both have visual qualities and be interesting from a theoretical point of view. As an artist, she is interested in the experimental aspects of new technologies, and to explore these she would like to create installations and experiments that blend art, technologies and interactivity in a playful way.
Currently John Nussey is one of our resident in KIBU until mid-October.
He is a designer from the UK. He studied Product Design and Design Management. He enjoys electronics, prototyping and Interaction Design. He's recently been working with Tinker.it in London on Arduino tutorials. He's got a broad range of other interests that are all interlinked in some way, including graphic design, film, programming, photography, games development, architecture and storytelling.
Ramyah graduated as a Communication Designer from Srishti, School of Art Design and Technology, in Bangalore, India. Her works are a curious mix of Visual Communication, Film, Interaction design and Digital media. She is a researcher of KIBU from April till June 2008.
Roberto Pansolli
Roberto, as interaction designer, wish to focus on service and product design and their correlation with tangible or graphical interfaces.
David Boardman
David is a interactive media designer with transversal skills into graphic design, software programming, interface design and web applications development.
Christopher P. Baker
Christopher is an artist whose work engages the rich collection of social, technological and ideological networks present in the urban landscape. Baker creates artifacts and situations that reveal and generate relationships within and between these networks.
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