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  • 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)
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  • 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.

  • 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?

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • The city is here for you to use

    Adam Greenfield, thinker and writer

    • Adam Greenfield, Thought Leader in information architecture and the user experience (United States) Over the past few years the “computer” has begun to disappear into the fabric of everyday life

  • Short presentations and Panel discussion: The…

    Andrew Klein, Spotzer; Dominique Delport, Havas; Marko Ahtisaari, Blyk

    One Show features Branded Entertainment, Spotzer offers a new scale for video commercials and Blyk thinks calls should be free. The advertising world is grappling for new models - in this interactive...

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • China Language Bridge

    Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam

    As China’s economy is growing rapidly, cultural exchange between the western world and China is flourishing. However, one of the largest barriers is language. New media technology provides us with...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • Creative Cities in China

    Organized by Da-Tong China Desk Creative Industry

    Interesting and conceptually compelling cases of building "creative cities" in China, debate about the role of the creative industry in the dynamic urbanization in China. Moderated by: Paul van den...

  • Mobile City Workshop

    Workshop on creating mobile games

    Imagine having the city as your playground. What would you do if you have the opportunity to create a new mixed reality for its residents and visitors?

  • Augmented Reality for Advertisers

    Ferhan Cook, Eduardo Dias, Ydreams; David Polinchock, Brand Experience Lab; Jeroen Mol, Total Immersion

    Augmented reality is a field of computer research which deals with the combination of real world and computer generated data. Most AR research is concerned with the use of live video imagery which is...

  • 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.

  • In Search of Belonging

    Susan Kish, Xing; Danah Boyd, Researcher; Marc Canter, Broadband Mechanics

    It’s human nature to form cliques and join communities. The Internet, TV, music, mobile devices, virtual reality and gaming and print publications make it easier for people to form communities of...

  • Keynote: The Cult of the Amateur

    Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur (UK)

    In ‘The Cult of the Amateur’, Keen aims to show how today’s Internet is killing our culture and assaulting our economy. The Web 2.0 revolution is delivering superficial observations of the world...

  • Mobile City showcase

    Directly following the Mobile City workshop Waag Society will present what its Mobile City platform is all about and what future plans are.

  • 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...

  • 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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