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  • RFID fantasies, experiences and creative…

    Mediamatic RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp

    During Picnic 07 ( Go play with your tag! ) you could experience the creative prototypes and experiments that were built around the unique opportunity of having a large crowd of tagged people present

  • Virtual Worlds

    What do virtual worlds mean for brands

    Once the stuff of science fiction, virtual worlds are becoming central to the future of marketing, technology, entertainment and brand-building. Consumers desire to be engaged in a dialogue with the...

  • Heroes of the Information Economy — the Makers

    Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing

    With the rise of the internet and digital technology, we have not only been given the power to produce and distribute digital content, we now have new tools to make things.

  • Future Technology Trends

    Bruno Giussani, Jeff Han of Perceptive Pixel, Nikolaj Nyholm of Polar Rose, Alexander Straub of Pixsta, Arnold Smeulders of Multimedian

    In this demo session, four industry leaders will show their technologies and share their ideas on the future of information interfaces.

  • iTea

    Cosy tea-table column with "facts" about you.

    There's nothing more interesting than hearing juicy gossip about other people. But did you know there is tons of "intelligence" on the internet about you? Using the iTea installation is like visiting...

  • Review of the Tools

    Review of the Tools

    Together with public broadcaster VPRO and many other media and service partners, PICNIC’07 intends to be an incredibly well covered event, using all the web 2.0 tools available.

  • Come Out & Play Announcement

    Aska Hopman & Ronald Lenz, Waag Society

    The ‘Come Out & Play Festival’ will transform Amsterdam into a playground! This short invitation to the festival highlights the most fascinating and intriguing and enjoyable games.

  • Case Study: Minimally Invasive Education through…

    Dr. Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology, Newcastle University (United Kingdom/India)

    Creativity and play are closely connected, and play can be a form to arrive at collaborative creativity. In this session, Dr Sugata Mitra, know from the ‘Hole in the Wall’ project, will share with us...

  • The Near Future of Pervasive Media Experiences

    Julian Bleecker, Dennis Crowley, Febien Girardin, Nicolas Nova

    Hosted by Julian Bleecker, Professor, University of Southern California and Researcher (United States)

  • Keynote: The Game of Life

    Katie Salen, Parsons School of Design

    New forms of gaming, including collaborative alternate reality games, and games that blur the boundary between reality and fiction.

  • Demo and Discussion: Recognition

    Nikolaj Nyholm, Alexander Straub and Arnold Smeulders

    After years of research on touch-driven computer displays, Jeff Han has created a simple, multi-touch, multi-user screen interface that could herald the end of the point-and-click era.

  • Cosplay Catwalk

    A parade of animanga characters

    At Picnic at Night, Mediamatic will present a dazzeling catwalk show with Dutch cosplayers. Cosplayers are people that enact their favorite characters from mostly Japanese pop culture: Manga Anime...

  • FabLab Workshop: Wednesday

    We have 3 days! to built an open source 3D printer...

    A FabLab is a public enterable space with digital fabrication machines to make (almost) anything you want...

  • Urban Playgrounds

    Federico Casalegno, MIT; Christian Nold, artist; Matt Adams, Blast Theory

    Contemporary play crosses the border between the real and the virtual world, extending our everyday perception of the city. How can play support urban life? How can cities reconnect their citizens?

  • Fablab Launch Meeting

    Meet Neil Gershenfeld and other Fabbers

    The Dutch FabLab Network will gather to meet Neil Gershenfeld. Anybody interested in FabLab is welcome! Just sign up!

  • TODAYSART 2011

    Festival beyond art

    TODAYSART is a festival in The Hague organized by The Generator, which profiles itself in Art, Music and Technology.

  • Creating New Worlds

    Michael Johnson, Digital Lead, Pixar

    This session is dedicated to the creative processes involved in building new worlds. Three leading creators discuss what it means to make a reality out of whole cloth – for personal reasons or on...

  • Creative Genius: Things I have learned in my life…

    Stefan Sagmeister, Graphic Designer and Typographer, Sagmeister Inc (AT)

    Renowned for the album covers he created for the likes of Lou Reed, Talking Heads and the Rolling Stones, Austrian-born designer Stefan Sagmeister has a slightly different way of looking at things.

  • Demo: Implementing Science Fiction

    Pablos Holman, Founder, Komposite

    Pablos Holman is a futurist, IT security expert, and notorious hacker with a unique view into both breaking and building new technologies. At Komposite, he consults on bizarre invention and design...

  • Day of the Media Labs (invitation only)

    Collaborative Innovation: Redefining the Media Lab and the Community

    The Amsterdam based Media Guild is proud to be (co) organiser of the following events at PICNIC ’07.

  • Fablab Workshop: Friday

    A FabLab is a public enterable space with digital fabrication machines to make (almost) anything you want...

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    FabLab @ Mediamatic

    Make your own stuff - do it yourself

    Artists, designers, entrepreneurs, anyone can come and explore the Fablab machines to create your own prototype. We have a sublimation transfer system, laser cutter, vinyl cutter and 3D milling...

  • Demo: From pictures to 3D worlds – Photosynth

    Blaise Aguera y Arcas, architect, Microsoft Live Labs

    Using photos of subjects gathered from around the Web, Photosynth creates breathtaking multidimensional spaces with zoom and navigation features that outstrip all expectation. Imagine hundreds of...

  • (Un)common Ground - Scale and Intimacy

    Expert meeting

    The meeting will take place on the 24 Sept. (1 - 5pm) and 25 Sept. (9am - 5pm) in Amsterdam. Announcing (Un)common Ground – Scale and Intimacy, the latest in a series of expert meetings designed to...

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