Paidia Insti­tute is part of the exhi­bi­tion and panel pro­gramme of Next Level Con­fer­ence 2011. As part of the con­fer­ence, Paidia Insti­tute takes part in Cologne’s Long Night of Muse­ums 2011 as well.

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In the week from 29 Jan­u­ary till 3 Feb­ru­ary I gave a ‘Phys­i­cal Com­put­ing’ work­shop at the Utrecht School of the Art. Together with Joris Wij­dom, Mar­cel Dol­man and assisted by Tim van Elferen we pro­vided the work­shop for the sec­ond year of the ‘Design for vir­tual The­ater’ class.

In the work­shop we focused on cre­at­ing cre­ative IN and OUTPUTS with the com­puter using Max/MSP, the Arduino board and electronics.

The work­shop task was, to cre­ate an inter­est­ing chain response between the group com­put­ers, with­out con­nect­ing them with a net­work cable. Every group had to cre­ate at least one input and out­put plus an inter­est­ing pro­cess­ing of it, so that in the end a chain response between all com­put­ers could be made.

The project idea was inspired by ‘Lauf der Dinge’ by Peter Fis­chli and David Weiss (CH 1987, YouTube: The Way Things) and and the work of Rube Gold­berg (1883 – 1970, http://www.rubegoldberg.com/).

To see the work­shop results have the work­shop wiki.

In the week­end of 11–12 March 2006 was the Crys­talpunk work­shop for soft archi­tec­ture in Utrecht (NL) with a lot of cool speaker: Mario Cam­panella, Mir­jam Strup­pek, Adam Somlai-Fischer, Pablo Miranda Car­ranza, Nico­las Nova, Jelle Feringa and me with z25.org .
I pre­sented the RFID instal­la­tion Dat-a, that I devel­oped together with z25.org.

The slides from my pre­sen­ta­tion can be found here: dat-a_pres.pdf

To get a good overview of the lec­tures, have a look at Nico­las Blog.