I was in Nor’n Irelan’ at the end of July for my annual week of Belfast Tradfest. It was the best one yet. Classes in the morning, sessions all day, and concerts in the evening. There were also some excellent events at Ulster University during the afternoons—talks, film screenings, interviews and discussions. If you squint closely at the poster for this year’s event you’ll see my name on there. That’s because one of those afternoon events was me giving a talk about thesession.org....| Adactio: Journal
The chair for Digital Building Technologies (DBT) at the Institute of Technology in Architecture, ETH Zurich, lead by Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger researches new building technologies based on the seamless integration of computational design methods, digital fabrication and new materials. In this context, DBT investigates additive manufacturing strategies in architecture, which have the potential to challenge traditional paradigms of construction. The aim is not only to rationalise the fab...| dbt
Slides Slide sources Talk page (including video) Abstract Debusine manages scheduling and distribution of Debian-related tasks (package build, lintian analysis, autopkgtest runs, etc.) to distributed worker machines. It is being developed by Freexian with the intention of giving people access to a range of pre-configured tools and workflows running on remote hardware. Freexian obtained STF funding for a substantial set of Debusine milestones, so development is happening on a clear schedule. W...| Enrico's blog
Slides Talk page (including video) Abstract Although Debian has just turned 30, in my experience it has not yet fully turned adult: we sometimes squabble like boys in puberty, like children we assume that someone takes care of paying the bills and bringing out the trash, we procrastinate on our responsibilities and hope nobody notices. At the same time, we cannot assume that people have the energy and motivation to do what is needed to keep the house clean and the boat afloat: Debian is based...| Enrico's blog
Next-gen challenges for mobile game rendering| Tobias Alexander Franke
A talk on the Astro-FR discord.| Lucas Sifoni
Hot code loading and third party (node, java) interops from Elixir| Lucas Sifoni
SmartLogic podcast interview about building a remote-controlled telescope with Elixir, Nerves, and LiveView - expanding on my Code BEAM EU 2023 presentation| Lucas Sifoni
French language talk at Maison de l'Architecture Occitanie-Pyrénées about creating domain-specific languages for automating design workflows| Lucas Sifoni
From zero to execution for Ovo, a toy programming language.| Lucas Sifoni
Building a terrestrial telescope with Nerves, Rust NIFs, and Phoenix LiveView - full talk transcript with slides from Code BEAM EU 2023| Lucas Sifoni
The New Practice space at TU Berlin runs a series of talks called LOOPS. Together with my friend Malte I was invited to talk a bit about “Fascist AI”. How capitalism, fascism and AI narratives are very closely aligned and (re)produce one another. I enjoyed giving the talk (I rarely do those together with others) […]| Smashing Frames
Can you vibe a DSL? Will future languages be created by language engineers? The answer is "yes but".| Modeling Languages
In September 2020, I had the opportunity to give a flash talk about writing media descriptions for current events as part of the Protest Access-a-Thon, an| Veroniiiica
A conversation to explore and integrate diverse perspectives on data and healthcare, enriching design research and practice.| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
In this interactive talk, Petja Ivanova, artist and researcher from the Studio for Poetic Futures & Speculative Ecologies, explores “soul loss” as a condition of imperial modernity — a psychic fracture shaped by exile, economic precarity, normalized machine-ic abuse, and the inherited wounds of dis-belonging. Weaving personal narrative with theoretical inquiry, the talk draws from decolonial philosophy, feminist technoscience, somatic poetics, and digital media practice to ask: How does...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
The talk I submitted for TremorCon 2022| NullDeref
Together with Rikke Jensen, we’re organising a talk and discussion with Jean-François Blanchette in London on his book Burdens of Proof, which has been tremendously influential on our thinking arou…| malb::blog
“Ronayne’s approach is an inspiring one, using the wonder of nature to activate a love for what we have and what we are losing…His public talks often leave audiences moved to tears.” The Irish Times| International Literature Festival Dublin
“Shon Faye can break your heart and change your mind in the same moment.” Torrey Peters| International Literature Festival Dublin
“You Are Very Fetching. So, Go Fetch.” Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada| International Literature Festival Dublin
“A multilayered story of the many emotional and psychic ravages of war.” NPR Publishers Weekly on Diaries of War| International Literature Festival Dublin
“A must read, not only for autists, but for everyone. It shines a light on the highly varied, and often misunderstood workings of the many types of autistic people there are in the world.” Seán Ronayne, author of Nature Boy: A Journey of Birdsong and Belonging| International Literature Festival Dublin
Whether creating characters, creatures, costumes, planets or environments, Dermot Power brings ideas to life on screen and page. His career began as a comic book artist on 2000 AD. He has been working in film since 1997, beginning with Merlin, starring Sam Neill. He has worked on Star Wars Episode 2: Attack of the Clones, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. His work with Tim Burton includes Charlie and the...| International Literature Festival Dublin
“Brilliant…healing and eye-opening.” Michelle Porter| International Literature Festival Dublin
KubeCon EU 2025 Summary| OpenFeature Blog
Symposium within the framework of the exhibition ‘Life Like a Horizon’: Nature and Wandering in the Work of Nicos Nicolaides Sunday, 16 March at 11.00 Minerva Hotel, 36 Spyrou Kyprianou, Pano Platres, 4820, Cyprus Celadon Center for the Arts &...| LAWHA Lebanon's Art World at Home and Abroad
There's better ways to replicate data than Raft.| Transactional
I got one talk proposal accepted at this year’s re:publica but two submissions didn’t go through review. I’ll archive them here (if someone has an idea where to submit them I’d of course be happy to try): The Nowhere Generation – Are we lost? Short description: The Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace argued that […]| Smashing Frames
OpenFeature at KubeCon EU '25| OpenFeature Blog
OpenFeature at KubeCon NA '24| OpenFeature Blog
KubeCon| OpenFeature Blog
SQL injections seem to be a solved problem; databases have built-in support for prepared statements, leaving no room for injections. In this session, we will go a level deeper: instead of attacking the query syntax, we will explore smuggling attacks against database wire protocols, through which remote, unauthenticated attackers can inject entire (No)SQL statements into an application's database connection.| pspaul's blog
SQL injections seem to be a solved problem; databases have built-in support for prepared statements, leaving no room for injections. In this session, we will go a level deeper: instead of attacking the query syntax, we will explore smuggling attacks against database wire protocols, through which remote, unauthenticated attackers can inject entire (No)SQL statements into an application's database connection.| pspaul's blog
Last night I gave an “Intro to Erlang” talk at a London Hackspace meetup. I did a quick audience survey first: About 75% did “web programming” (ruby,python,php,etc). Around 30% admitted to regularly using C/C++/Java or desktop/mobile app development. Less than 10% had much experience with functional programming.| Richard Jones
REGISTRATION: harvard.zoom.us/j/96487565928?… SYNOPSIS: Legendary artist Eduardo Kac will revisit key highlights in his forty-year career, with emphasis on his current space artworks. After an introduction contextualizing his pioneering telepresence works from the mid-1980s, Kac will give examples and further discuss his development of bio art. Kac first gained prominence at the beginning of the twenty-first century with his transgenic work GFP Bunny (2000), in which he used molecular biolo...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
A City of Longevity is an innovative urban framework that uses technology, data analytics, and citizen engagement to promote healthier, longer lives through preventive measures, while optimizing city resources and addressing the challenges of aging populations in urban environments.| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
With students already leveraging AI in creative ways, how can institutions balance innovation and academic integrity?| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
The Berlin Fediverse Day is a conference about the free social network “Fediverse” organized by members of the Berlin Fediverse get-together at c-base. It is aimed at people interested in alternatives to X, Instagram, Facebook and so on; but also at institutions, universities, media, NGOs, political actors and companies who want to exchange information in […]| friendica
DBT participated with three paper presentations at the Design Modelling Symposium 2024, held in Kassel Germany between 16 and 18 September 2024 on the topic of Scalable Disruptors. The papers were published in the Springer proceedings: Mathias Bernhard. Languages of Geometry. In: Eversmann, P., Gengnagel, C., Lienhard, J., Ramsgaard Thomsen, M., Wurm, J. (eds) Scalable […] The post Design Modelling Symposium 2024 appeared first on dbt.| dbt
DBT participated with three paper presentations at the fourth RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication, held in Munich Germany between 4 and 6 September 2024. The papers were published in the Springer and suplementary proceedings: Andrei Jipa, Ana Anton, Lukas Gebhard, Benjamin Dillenburger. (2024). The Nubian Slab: 3D Concrete Printed Stay-in-Place Formwork for […] The post Digital Concrete 2024 appeared first on dbt.| dbt
Tuesday, 2 July 2024, at the Institute for Theater Studies, Freie Universität Berlin and on Webex. Building on previous studies about the mapping of library collections through library loans (Casey et. al 2024), this lecture proposes expanding and refining these methodologies for dynamic classification systems. Libraries, particularly in academic and research settings, require classification systems that evolve in response to shifts in scholarly focus and the introduction of new fields — n...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS ONLINE ENVENT After years of deliberation there has been a great surge of AI products. Whether you love them or hate them, these products are now rapidly transforming our existing practices as designers, technologists, and educators. This talk considers AI through a number of ethical lenses, use cases, and speculative examples. Laura Scherling is a designer, researcher, and educator. She is a director and lecturer at Columbia University where she teaches course...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
In 2024, Kat Jungnickel, Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of London, joins metaLAB (at) Basel as researcher-in-residence! During their research stay, Kat will explore inventive approaches to archival research, radical histories of clothing patents, speculative sewing, and DIY wearable tech cultures. In collaboration with Aylin Tschoepe, Director of metaLAB (at) Basel, Kat will further connect across the Institute of Contemporary Design Practices at HGK Basel FHNW and sh...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS ONLINE EVENT The research project Aesthetics of the Im/Mobile explores which new approaches performing arts festivals and cultural institutions, mainly in Switzerland and neighboring countries, have developed in dealing with “im/mobility” as one of the challenges of our times. Performing arts festivals tend to take on a pioneering role as incubators for new ways of working and aesthetical practices, both in the context of accessibility for disabled artists ...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS ONLINE EVENT The proliferation of metaverse-inspired cultural activities raises questions about the meaning of metaverse art and its performative aspect. What does metaverse performance mean in terms of extending the human body within constantly evolving technology? How does the body function within both autopoietic and allopoietic processes when participating in highly immersive and interactive art? What is human agency in metaverse performance, and how far do...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS ONLINE EVENT This roundtable brings together a diverse group of dance practitioners and scholars focusing on the transmedia flow of dance in the twenty-first century. The global pandemic offered an opportunity for dance to spearhead innovative transmedia formats that move fluidly across media boundaries, artistic genres, and geographical borders. Site-specificity, VR, and video games have influenced dance in multi-faceted ways, transporting audiences into an ...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
Sydney Skybetter is an expert in choreorobotics, a portmanteau of choreography and robotics, and a field which he has pioneered at the interdisciplinary intersection of choreographic theory and robotic motion planning. Choreorobotics offers a rich, critical aperture to consider how bodies in motion - human or otherwise - move through space and time to generate meaning. In Clock, Fall, Skybetter dives into the origin of choreorobotics, recent advancements in the field, and how emerging technol...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS ONLINE EVENT What makes a performance live, and how is liveness changing? After the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a wave of digital theatre, the liveness of live performance has never been more contested. This lecture draws on Hawthorne’s doctoral thesis Contextualising Liveness: Digitally Distributed, Digitally Mediated and Digitally Located Theatre in Edinburgh and Berlin, 2017-19’ to discuss the historical role of liveness within theatre and performance...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
[CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS ONLINE EVENT](REGISTER: zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIld… ) The ‘empathy machine’ is a claim that has been directed at the assumed potential of virtual reality (VR) (Sanchez Laws, 2017). Other common claims relate to the potential for VR to enable first-person experience and transformation of self (Slater, 2009) or to ‘body ownership’ and ‘full body illusion’ (Schoeller et al, 2019; Maister et al, 2015) where it is claimed that when a person embodi...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS ONLINE EVENT Even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, some theatre groups in Africa had begun experimenting with digital promotion and distribution of their shows. However, the pandemic and its attendant global lockdowns catalyzed the digitization process and encouraged more innovative and high-tech development, promotion, and execution of live theatre. This lecture examines how specific theatre groups adapted to the global upheaval (and general competition fr...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS ONLINE EVENT This talk focuses on the entanglements between human labor and machine “intelligence” in artistic performance. Indeed, as artificial intelligence in the guise of large-scale, data-driven neural networks rewrites the rules on what constitutes human language, thought, and action, this lecture will examine the bodily, mental, and affective work required to integrate neural networks into the profoundly anthropocentric domain of the performing arts ...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
Join us for a conversation with Dietmar Offenhuber and Lev Manovich about Offenhuber’s forthcoming book Autographic Design - The Matter of Data in a Self-Inscribing World (MIT Press) which examines the material life of data and post-digital practices of visualization. RSVP here *Cover image by Frank Kleinbach.| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS ONLINE EVENT The lecture will explore various experiments in transmedia and immersive theatre initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe. Bakk will offer a framework of how to understand these genres based on the level of interactivity or immersion and will also explain how immersive & transmedia productions have emerged in the CEE region and how it can be interpreted through various types of immersiveness or categorized based on their use of media, including th...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
Have you ever wondered what the world would look like if we could see the information that moves invisibly around us via wifi, cellular, and satellite? Most of us take for granted the basic functioning of our electronics and the modes of transmission used to move the massive amounts of information that support our daily lives, economy, and tech development in the 21st century. If you want to clear up some of your own misconceptions about how things really work, come meet the team behind metaL...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
A delegation of cultural bearers (Teal Hansen, Danaya Hoover, Brooke Mallory and Lloyd Montgomery) from the Alaska Native Village of Eyak are currently working with the Eyak collection held by the Ethnological Museum Berlin. On October 12th, they will present their work on building a VR traditional Eyak Village, introduced by the metaLAB B4 Tomorrow project team and hosted at gamelab.berlin. We warmly invite you to attend. October 12th 2023 | 1pm EST / 7pm EDT | gamelab.| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS ONLINE EVENT One of the most fascinating aspects of the newest generation of chatbots seems to lie in an increased level of theatricality: self-learning machines such as ChatGPT impress with their ability to engage in vivid dialogue, to create empathy, to (re)act spontaneously, and to charm by critically self-reflecting on the “artificial” nature of their real effects. Meanwhile, ChatGPT users immerse themselves in giving directions - prompts - and revel, m...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
A note from Jacek Smolicki on his talk, Soundwalking through Time, Space, and Technologies: Departing from several of my recently developed artistic research projects, I will discuss how creative and critical approaches to recording technologies, particularly those concerned with sound, can help rewire some of our preconceptions about the surrounding environment, its human and more-than-human actors, histories and temporalities. I will talk and speculate about how sonic thinking and doing can...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS ONLINE EVENT The pandemic had compelled many of us to rely on online platforms to create performances, design seminars, and conferences, and make art. As a meditation on that moment in time, Kai Tuchmann and Anuja Ghosalkar conceived a VR exhibition on the open source platform Mozilla Hubs for the Serendipity Arts Foundation, New Delhi between December 16th-18th 2020. The title of this show was, Look, here is your machine.| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS ONLINE EVENT How do we create a participatory experience? How can you foresee participation and design for it? Drawing from Belén’s extensive experience in creating immersive and participatory experiences, she will discuss the key insights and learnings she has acquired through her work, including the importance of collaboration, the role of technology in enhancing the experience, and the value of placing the audience at the center of the creative process.| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
“Anjan Sundaram is one of the great reporters of our age. He writes with exceptional courage and deep humanity. An inspiring chronicler of the world and the spirit.” —Fergal Keane, author of The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD In this upcoming public event, co-hosted by metaLAB (at) Harvard, the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, metaLAB Affiliate and TED Fellow Anjan Sundaram w...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS ONLINE EVENT teamLab (f. 2001) is an international art collective, an interdisciplinary group of specialists such as artists, programmers, engineers, CG animators, mathematicians, and architects, whose collaborative practice seeks to navigate the confluence of art, science, technology, and the natural world. teamLab aims to explore the relationship between the self and the world and new perceptions through art. In order to understand the world around them, peop...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
On March 28, 2023, Emanuele Coccia from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris presented a talk that anticipates some of the arguments contained in a forthcoming book collaboratively written with the former art director of Gucci and noted fashion designer, Alessandro Michele, entitled Fashion as Philosophy :: making philosophy with fabrics:: making clothes with concepts. After a doctorate in medieval philosophy and philology at the University of Florence, Coccia received ...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
The last couple of years redefined the way performing arts live. Trapped behind small screens, artists stopped moving, and the shared time/space experience was lost. How did we cope with this? What did we have to say? Did we learn something from all this technology? Drawing on La Quinta del Lobo’s own research and artistic production, this lecture explores the place where media and contemporary art intersect the theater experience and invert the way performing arts are built today.| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
In 2017, the Canadian Arts Presenting Association (CAPACOA) published its digital innovation assessment, “Digitizing the Performing Arts: As Assessment of Opportunities, Issues, and Challenges.” As the rationale for its work, CAPACOA noted that, “… as audiences gain the ability to curate their own content, and seek content on multiple devices and platforms, artists and arts organizations have had to respond to new intermediaries such as search engines, applications, video, and audio s...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
Salome Asega / @computers_puting (she/her/hers) is an artist, researcher, and educator working between participatory design and emerging technology. Salome believes in leveraging the power of collective imagination to redistribute power, change culture, and shift policy. Before joining the NEW INC team in 2021, she worked at the Ford Foundation as a Technology Fellow supporting artists and organizations in the new media arts ecosystem. Salome has participated in residencies and fellowships wi...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
Theatre and film are intimately related representational media. In both, actors embody fictional characters to convey narratives. At the same time, as both practitioners and theorists have long recognized, there are profound ontological, phenomenological, and structural differences between them. One of the most significant and least explored of these differences is that theatre and film conventionally engage radically different modes of representation. The film is primarily a pictorial medium...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
A lecture/presentation by the noted artist, curator, and creator of conceptual comics Ilan Manouach on his past, present, and future work.| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
What does the hybrid future of theatre look like? Hybrid Futures is the title of an exhibition, currently on view at the Theatre Museum in Düsseldorf that responds to this question by putting the work of the VolkswagenFoundation-funded artistic research project Viral Theatres on display. Over the last 1.5 years, Viral Theatres has developed a range of creative and participatory documentation formats to gather responses of German and international theatre artists and audiences to the theatre ...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
In his lecture Attunement, Dr. Andrea Lissoni discusses his leadership approach as artistic director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich. The talk was organized by metaLAB (at) Harvard & FU Berlin and was offered online to both campus communities. “The vision that I am developing for the Haus der Kunst is based on a central force: to share the significance of contemporary art and culture in an interdisciplinary way and in an open, original, visionary, inviting, and optimistic way,” Lissoni sa...| metaLAB (at) Harvard, Berlin & Basel
At SymfonyWorld Winter 2021, I talked about using the new Symfony authentication system in your applications in Symfony 6. We discussed the important changes to the Security component, what we tried to improve with each change, and how you can use these to make a more secure application quicker.| Wouter J
I helped organize the documentary around React and talked within it. It was released in 2023.| Vjeux
This panel happened on 2015.| Vjeux
This podcast was recorded in 2015 and also featured Spencer Ahrens!| Vjeux
This podcast is in French and was recorded in 2023.| Vjeux
This podcast was recorded in 2024.| Vjeux
This podcast was recorded in 2018.| Vjeux
This talk was recorded in 2023.| Vjeux
This podcast was recorded in 2024.| Vjeux
This talk was presented at React Miami 2023.| Vjeux
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© www.viewsoftheworld.net A time where ‘real world’ conferences are a memory of the past is a good opportunity to look at the wealth of material that has been put online instead. Here is one of my talks that has recently been put … Continue reading → The post Re-Enlightening Views of the World was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - publication on other websites without permission n...| Views of the World
— at JSHeroes 2024| Rodrigo Pombo
— at React Alicante 2022| Rodrigo Pombo
— at NextJS Conf 2020| Rodrigo Pombo
— at jsday 2019| Rodrigo Pombo
— at React Amsterdam 2019| Rodrigo Pombo
— at Meetup.js Argentina| Rodrigo Pombo
The conference on »Harmful Entanglements« aims to answer to the unacknowledged conditions of entanglement’s conceptual ubiquity, or, with other words, its own ‘entanglement’ in a particular political context. Arguably, the study of and the various approaches to entanglements are products...| LAWHA Lebanon's Art World at Home and Abroad
Under the motto “Who Cares” Re:Publica gathered a few thousand people in Berlin and I got to give a talk continuing the path I started out on with my last two talks in 2022 and 2023. Titled “Empty Innovation” I tried outlining my understanding of the patterns of the weird technological hypes we’ve gone through […]| Smashing Frames
Conference organized by the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies and the Department of Fine Arts and Art History (FAAH) at the American University of Beirut Beirut, 11 May 2024, AUB College Hall B1 Conference...| LAWHA Lebanon's Art World at Home and Abroad
A talk on future protocol changes and a panel on Bitcoin open source development.| John Newbery’s blog
A podcast about Bitcoin protocol development.| John Newbery’s blog
Appearance on CopperCast discussing Bitcoin open source funding.| John Newbery’s blog
A talk at the ARK Invest/Square Crypto B Word event.| John Newbery’s blog
A developer panel at the 2021 MIT Bitcoin Expo with Pieter Wuille and Gloria Zhao.| John Newbery’s blog
A talk with Nicholas Gregory about Bitcoin Core development and Brink.| John Newbery’s blog
An interview with Christian Keroles about Bitcoin open source development.| John Newbery’s blog
