Mon Aug 10, 2009 00:00 - Fri Jun 26, 2009

Canada

August 10-15, the Banff New Media Institute presents the 14th installment of its acclaimed new media summit, where media makers from Canada and the world gather to reflect on the current state of new media and the shape of things to come. At Interactive Screen, producers, investors, and policymakers convene with artists, technologists, and cultural researchers in the majestic mountain setting of Banff.

Interactive Screen aims to stimulate the creation of emotionally powerful, creatively inspired, and economically viable new media in Canada and abroad. Participants invariably come away from the event with new projects and alliances, a refined set of skills, and a renewed faith in the cultural power of new media.

Part conference, part festival, part peer exchange, part creative workshop, Interactive Screen is always intensive. This year’s theme, The Makers, will explore the idea of a “society of makers”. This ties into the “cultural object” with a focus on those who “make culture,” not those who own it.

Workshop participants are joined by Interactive Screen scholarship participants from Canada, who are invited to pitch and develop projects inspired by the event’s theme. Applications for the Interactive Screen Scholarship Program will be accepted until July 10, 2009.

For more information and to register, visit the program site.

Sun Jul 05, 2009 00:00 - Wed Jun 24, 2009

Canada

From July 16-18, The Banff New Media Institute at The Banff Centre will present the Grounding Open Source Hardware (GOSH!) Workshop and Summit. GOSH! will bring together makers, producers and theorizers of open source hardware to facilitate the emerging dialogue on both artist-driven and socially conscious open-source hardware. The breadth of open source hardware projects and distributed models of manufacturing suggest that it is time for these disparate manufacturers, designers, artists and engineers to come together to discuss the common issues of their practices.

GOSH! attendees will participate in the discussion of open source hardware development, and examine the past and future trajectory of Open Source Hardware. With over 30 invited speakers, GOSH! will aim to explore questions related to the free exchange of information, the application of OS to art, and the politics and possibilities of OSH.

A limited number of on-site registration packages, which include accommodation and a meal plan at The Banff Centre, are available. Registration deadline is July 5th. For more information visit the program site, here: http://www.banffcentre.ca/programs/program.aspx?id=888.