Magari lo sapete già tutti, ma nel caso che no, a fine gennaio/inizio febbraio a Madrid c'è questa cosa bellissima, GARAGE SCIENCE!<br><a href="http://medialab-prado.es/article/taller-seminario_interactivos09_ciencia_de_garaje">http://medialab-prado.es/article/taller-seminario_interactivos09_ciencia_de_garaje</a><br>
<br> <p><strong>Call for projects and papers</strong><br><br><strong>Medialab-Prado
issues a call for the submission of papers to be publicly presented in
a Seminar (January 28 and 29, 2009) and projects to be collaboratively
developed in a workshop (January 28 through February, 2009) within the
context of the Interactivos?'09: Garage Science event. <br></strong></p> <p><br><strong>Garage Science</strong></p> <p>The
socialization of technology and the accessibility of information
available on the Web make it increasingly easy for anyone to have the
possibility of building a home laboratory. Garage science is nothing
new but home laboratories are connected now more than ever before.
There are home laboratories of all kinds: technology factories,
chemistry or biology labs, artists' studios, places to rehearse, etc. </p><p>These
home laboratories have a worldwide scope via the Web, which serves as a
space for the dissemination of projects and the exchange of knowledge
and techniques. These online communities are accompanied by a
proliferation of onsite events, such as dorkbots, barcamps and
hackmeetings, where people who only knew each other via the Web can
meet face to face and share their achievements and experiences. </p><p>The
communities formed this way provide citizens with the capacity to
develop scientific-technical knowledge comparable to what is produced
in the major laboratories. "Citizen science" can serve to explore
questions such as: How are the foods we eat made? What possibilities
exist in biogenetic research? What is the code that makes the machines
we use work? How are those machines manufactured? Based on this
knowledge, experimental and critical formulations and objects can be
produced proposing new paths and goals in these fields. </p><p><strong>Interactivos?'09</strong>
aims to explore these practices, where art, science and technology
meet. We invite the participants to turn medialab into a garage
laboratory where low-cost, accessible materials are used to develop
objects and installations that combine software, hardware and biology.
There's license to fail!</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>LadyFest Pavia- Sept 2008<br><br><a href="http://www.myspace.com/ladyfestpavia2008">http://www.myspace.com/ladyfestpavia2008</a><br>