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The Hackers Camp at PICNIC and the launch of Open-CI
Interview with Willem Velthoven of Mediamatic
Mediamatic is organising one of the most exciting labs that PICNIC hosts this year. In the days immediately preceding this years' PICNIC, the Hackers Camp will explore various recent technologies, interaction design and social processes, and aims to realize a bunch of engaging interactive installations, wearables and spaces, for the visitors of PICNIC to play with. The results are promised to be "amazing, subversive, beautiful and unheard of". Of course we want to know more!
Willem Velthoven of Mediamatic -
Picture Rebecca Gomperts
Mediamatic has built the PICNIC website you are visiting, and the PICNIC Network that is such an important part of it. The network is a lot more than an easy way to round up 10.000 creative types and spread the buzz for PICNIC, as you will discover when you visit the event.
Last year, the PICNIC delegates took 1500 pictures in the connected picture booth, shared stories over an interactive tea cup, and not least of all got free beer from the PICNIC drink station. We met up with Mediamatic Director Willem Velthoven to discuss the plans for PICNIC'08.
First of all, who/what is Mediamatic?
"Mediamatic is a cultural organisation and new media agency that is dedicated to the innovation of cultural practice and social networks. We run our own public programme and we develop project for clients."Last year Mediamatic offers PICNIC delegates some fun and intriguing services. An RFID-tag was added to the PICNIC badges, and linked to the delegates profile on the PICNIC network. A team of top notch hackers, developers and dreamers got involved and came up with cute, fun and relevant new services. Remind us!.
"Last year we had the first version of the hackers camp where we built some ...
03.09.08, Monique van Dusseldorp Read more
