Swedish record label Fang Bomb is releasing a compilation called 'Gothenburg 08'. Following up on its predecessor 'Gothenburg 84' released in 1984, the record is meant to be a polaroid or time-capsule of the electronic music scene of Göteborg - Scandinavia's capital for experimental music - as it looks like at the moment [...]
A few weeks before the start of the European Football Cup 2008, Lalya from Dånk! Collective was in Geneva, Switzerland to hold a locative media and physical computing workshop called "La Ville Interface Numérique" (The City as Digital Interface) at the Immédiat post-graduate programme of the Geneva University of Art and Design [...]
After Sara Ljungblad's and Liselott Brunnberg's recent thesis defences, it is now time for yet another brilliant and lovely researcher to wrap up her PhD research in the field of HCI / Interaction Design / Ubiquitous Computing / Locative Media / Urban Computing: Anne Galloway will soon defend her PhD thesis at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Her thesis is entitled "A Brief History of the Future of Urban Computing and Locative Media" [...]
A new master programme in Digital Media is starting soon at the University of New Castle in the UK [...]
After fixing a couple of bugs, the Dånk! website is now open for comments! [...]
A catalogue called "Creative Interactions: The Mobile Music Workshop 2004-2008" has been released at the occasion of the 5th edition of the Mobile Music Workshop! The catalogue features a compilation of key mobile music and locative audio projects presented at the workshop, as well as keynotes transcriptions, descriptions of workshop focus and activities, and an overview of the origins and of the field of mobile music in general and its evolution [...]
The excellent Clandestino Festival 2008 is taking place in Göteborg 13-14th June [...]
Liselott Brunnberg from the Mobility Studio at the Interactive Institute and Mobile Life Centre is publicly defending her PhD thesis in Applied IT (Göteborg IT-University) on 5th June in Stockholm [...]
Rydals Museum is hosting an exhibition called "Textile Possibilities" that focuses on experiments exploring possibilities offered by modern textile materials, including hidden functions or interactivity [...]
Did we mention that this year's master students in Interaction Design at the IT-University in Göteborg had their spring exhibition between 12-14 May at Lindholmen Science Park? [...]
The first master students in Computer Arts and Media (C:Art:Media) from the Valand School of Fine Arts and the IT-University in Göteborg are showing their master's projects at a degree show from 24th May to 8th June [...]
If your are in Berlin right now, make sure to check out the exhibition HACK.Fem.EAST about women, technology and networks in Eastern Europe! [...]
On 23 June, Lalya from Dånk! is co-organising a one-day hands-on workshop about Exploring Sonic Interaction with Artefacts in Everyday Contexts at IRCAM in Paris, France, as part of the 14th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD'08). The other co-organisers are Karmen Franinovic and Frauke Behrendt. More information here.