Notes from Brain

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The latest Tweets from sea change (@100yearsrising). sea rise predictions / at-risk cities from the international panel on climate change. (more information, ipcc.ch. inquires, @katierosepipkin)

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The Unfit Bits presentation at the Republica conference in Berlin. Free your fitness from yourself!

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http://events.nyu.edu/#event_id/102166/view/event

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Such an honor to have Unfit Bits in this upcoming exhibition at HKW, Berlin curated by Tactical Tech and in such fine company. With @suryamattu, Jacob Appelbaum, Ai Wei Wei, @PaGlen, @jamesbridle, Julian Oliver, Danja Vasiliev and many others. 

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Now accepting submissions of content and images of men working with VR.

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Smell Dating

Smell.dating is the world’s first mail odor dating service. Made with Sam Lavigne and Useless Press. Sign up is open now.

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Nervous System w/ Tactical Tech

Unfit Bits will be exhibited in Nervous System, at HKW Berlin. Co-curated by Stephanie Hankey and Marek Tuszynski from the Tactical Technology Collective and Anselm Franke the Nervous System exhibition showcases a range of reflections on our quantified society and the processes of self-quantification. More info here. 

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Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn is 2 day conference for educators teaching computer programming in creative and artistic contexts. Hosted at the School for poetic computation in New York City, this event focuses on asking experienced educators how can we learn to teach more effectively? It will bring teachers together to explore pedagogy, curriculum development and strategies for creating environments and tools for learning. The event will consist of a one day program of speakers followed by a one day open workshop for developing your own syllabus and course materials. We will also host a session developing guidelines for teaching creative computation and to explore how to best publish syllabus resources online with the Processing Foundation.

Speakers include: Zach Lieberman (SFPC), Alllison Parrish (SFPC, NYU), Dan Shiffman (NYU), Golan Levin (CMU) and Stacy Mulcahy (Microsoft, Bitchwhocodes).

Organizers: Tega Brain (SUNY, SFPC) and Taeyoon Choi (SFPC)

Program:

Saturday 9th Jan: Conference

The space will be open from 11am. Tea and coffee served.

1pm - 3.30pm - Speaker presentations: Best practices and case studies from educators (30mins per speaker)

4 - 5.30pm - Workshop: guidelines for teaching creative computation

Sunday 10th Jan: Open syllabus workshop

11 - 5pm - This is an informal day inviting conference attendees to work in the same space, share resources and develop their syllabus. No formal activities will be planned, participants will be invited to divide into working groups around syllabus themes.

Venue:

155 Bank St., New York, NY 10014

Tickets:

Tickets are available here.

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Eccentric Engineering Panel

This Sunday, 13th of December, I am so happy to be moderating an incredible panel of artists all making eccentric engineering. Join us for a conversation between Karolina Soebecka, Ramsey Nasser, Danja Vasiliev and myself on what it means to be developing atypical and parafunctional technologies as an artist. This event will be held in the South Street Seaport space from 2-4pm. 

More details are here: http://eyebeam.org/events/eccentric-engineering 

An Orbit (lunar), 2015

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Inside/Out at Eyebeam

Pleased to present part of my Eyebeam residency project in the Inside/Out exhibition at South Street Seaport. On show are three eccentric wifi routers that provide unconventional wifi networks in the gallery. Documentation coming soon.

The show is open from 19th November through to the 20th December from 12-7pm everyday. Details are here. 

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Unfit Bits on Biononymous.me

I wrote this essay on the Unfit Bits project for the research hub Biononymous.me. Biononymous.me is a community engaged in creative research exploring ways to resist biological surveillance. This is surveillance where biological science is used to track, monitor, analyze, and turn bodies into data.

My piece gives some background to Unfit Bits project and why we made it.

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Radical Networks

It was really fun to present new work at the Radical Networks conference, NYU. Check out the details here: http://radicalnetworks.org/ 

If you are interested in all things networked, the live stream here: http://livestream.com/internetsociety/radicalnetworks 

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Very excited to be presenting Unfit Bits at the Obsfucation Book launch with Helen Nissenbaum and Finn Brunton. 

At the NYU Department of Media, Culture and Communication. 

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM (EDT)                            

RSVP here.

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At Home in the Universe

My recent interview with physicist, artist and writer Margaret Wertheim is published in Guernica Magazine.  We spent an inspiring afternoon discussing gender diversity in science, the still narrow public representation of science and some of her wonderful work such as the Crochet Coral Reef project.

The interview is here.

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The FutureNature exhibition is on now at Object Gallery, the Australian Design Centre. Very excited to have the Archive of Old and New on show there until the the 6th of October. A project made in collaboration with Carbon Arts.

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Learning Objectives Generator

For all the art professors back in class this week, I’ve made you a handy learning objectives generator.

http://www.learning.tegabrain.com/