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Machine Wilderness newsletter dec 2017
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Machine Wilderness is an interdisciplinary platform for reimagining the role of human technologies in (post-)natural landscapes through prototyping ecological robotics.
A Machine Wilderness update is long overdue.
Here is an overview of some of our activities:

Machine Wilderness at Transmediale

Machine Wilderness was invited to Transmediale Festival in Berlin in February to join in a panel discussion and to host a workshop.

See this blogpost for notes and images.

Machine Participation in Oslo

The research group for the design of information systems (DESIGN) at the University of Oslo (UiO) invited European artists and designers for a 2-day workshop in April on 'The Cultures of Machine Participation’. Theun presented Machine Wilderness.

See the webpage for the workshop.

Migrating Art Academies workshop

Migaa organized a 10 day workshop at Nida Art Colony in Lithuania inspired by Machine Wilderness themes called 'Ecological Robotics, Biopolitics and Creative Practice'. Theun participated and shared his Machine Wilderness research.

See the website for more details.

Artificial Ecologies in Venice

Independent curator Roland Fischer and Artistic Director Paolo Rosso of MicroClima invited Theun Karelse, Alice Smits and Ivan Henriques in October for a presentation of their work, to explore the possibility of collaboration and the potential of the Venetian Lagoon for Machine Wilderness field-work.

See the blogpost for more details.

Pingbase Workshop in Nantes

Master students of the art academy and hacklab members joined forces at Pingbase in Nantes for a two day Machine Wilderness workshop in December in a former quarry in the city. Teams will be working on some prototypes in the coming period.
 
Machine Wilderness is organised by FoAM and Zone2Source

Contact:
info [at] machinewilderness [dot] net

Machine Wilderness is supported by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie and Mondriaan Fonds






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