Only 17 days left!
We are almost at the half-way point and we need lots more people to pledge to make this a reality. There won't be a Material Conference 2016 if we can't make our minimum goal, so please don't rely on others to pave the way.
How you can help:
- Pledge at any level you can, $10, $25 or more. You can always change your pledge later.
- For only $150 you'll get the regular conference ticket.
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Please support our Kickstarter and pledge today!
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We have 17 days left to raise all the funds we need via Kickstarter. If we don't then Material Conference is on Ice until 2017.
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If you need help with getting to Iceland or finding accommodation, we can help. We started the Slack Channel VisitingIceland.slack.com where you can discuss accommodation and travel options with other attendees, like sharing an AirBnb apartment or which spots to visit in and around Reykjavík. Please contact Brian or Joschi on Twitter or send us an email to info@material.is and we'll send along an invite to the channel. |
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Our next speaker needs no introduction. She's been working with the web for longer than many people have been alive.
Molly is back!
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It's a little sensation that Molly E. Holzschlag confirmed to be our third speaker. We are honoured that she will take Material as opportunity, after her long absence, to return to the stage and talk about what she refers to as "organic Web" where the first thing to do is get off the computer and go out into the sensory world of doing and making — "material" as we put it. We are really, really excited — and so should you!
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To get Molly over to Iceland, we need to hit our goal. After the Kickstarter ends, there won't be a conference unless we reach our funding. If you are thinking about getting a ticket, then pledge today, because in 17 days it will be too late! Please help us spread the word, back us and make this a reality.
Thanks for your support,
Joschi & Brian
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To get Molly over to Iceland, we need to hit our goal. After the Kickstarter ends, there won't be a conference unless we reach our funding. If you are thinking about getting a ticket, then pledge today, because in 17 days it will be too late! Please help us spread the word, back us and make this a reality.
Thanks for your support,
Joschi & Brian
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Materials grown in a vacuum
In 1994, NASA started an experimental project called the Wake Shield Facility. It is a disk that travelled behind the space shuttle while in orbit. The vacuum of space is further increased on the side of the disk trailing the shuttle. This was where the first-ever crystalline semiconductor thin films where grown in the vacuum of space which has lead to thinner and better photocells and semi-conductors.
We want to look at the Web as a material, but we always want to think about existing materials, such as crystals and their properties, not only on Earth, but in other locations and formats as well. As we move to purely digital on the Web, does that allow us different properties of the same material?
Those space crystals grown in an extreme vacuum were even better than what could be produced on Earth. Could the Web's material be better and different when digital instead of analog?
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Now I need to take a piece of wood and make it sound like the railroad track, but I also had to make it beautiful and lovable so that a person playing it would think of it in terms of his mistress, a bartender, his wife, a good psychiatrist - whatever.
— Les Paul
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