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  • 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...
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  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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)

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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?

  • 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...

  • Trends in Communication and Entertainment

    Dr. Stefana Broadbent, Head of User Adoption Lab, Swisscom Innovations (CH)

    Why people hate to talk, love to write, don’t skip the ads and still listen to the radio. For years, Stefana Broadbent has been visiting peoples’ homes and offices all around the world looking at how...

  • Workshop Craftworld: the Art of Television and…

    (Dutch-language event) Third workshop in a series bringing Dutch media developers and TV makers together to develop concepts that combine the worlds of television and computer games.

  • 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!

  • Machinima Salon

    Machinima is a cross-over between gaming, visual art and filmmaking. Recently, Machinima made the transition from targeting hardcore gamers to a much broader audience. For the first time in Holland

  • Picnic with…Each Other

    During this afternoon picnic, you are invited to introduce yourself to groups of people and share food and thoughts with them.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • BGIn Meeting

    Programme: Morning session by Ex Machina (see partner event "Games meet TV") 14.00 - Welcome and introduction - Tommy Goffin (BGIn) 14.10 - Workshop on Audio and Games - Tom Pearce (BGIn / Streamline...

  • 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.

  • 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...

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