[PD] Fwd: The Next HOPE call for projects & art

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

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> From: LexIcon <unpublishednumber at gmail.com>
> Date: March 16, 2010 9:34:40 AM EDT
> To: A discussion list for dorkbot-nyc <dorkbotnyc-blabber at dorkbot.org>
> Subject: Re: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] The Next HOPE call for projects &  
> art
> Reply-To: lexicon at nc2600.org, A discussion list for dorkbot-nyc <dorkbotnyc-blabber at dorkbot.org 
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> I'm the projects coordinator for this, if anyone has any questions.  
> It's going to be a real tech art blowout. Lots of space for  
> installation art, the admission badges will be RFID transponders  
> with the real time tracking data available via API, and there will  
> be a huge 24-hour hardware hacking village running the whole weekend.
>
> - Lex
>
>
> douglas repetto wrote:
>>
>> http://thenexthope.org/2010/03/call-for-projects-and-tech-art/
>>
>
> Call for Projects and Tech Art
>
> 2600 Magazine presents The Next HOPE, the eighth conference in the  
> 16 year history of the Hackers On Planet Earth series. It will  
> happen at the Hotel Pennsylvania in the middle of New York City from  
> July 16-18, 2010, and will be the largest creative technology  
> conference on the U.S. East Coast.
>
> Traditionally HOPE conferences have been more about the talks than  
> the physical projects, but with the 2008 conference that started to  
> change, and this time organizers are pushing for an even stronger  
> showing of projects and tech art. This call for projects goes out to  
> hackers, makers, technologists, artists, and free thinkers around  
> the world. Come share your passions and ideas with 3,000+ of your  
> soon-to-be closest friends.
>
> If you want to pitch in and you don’t know what to do…
>
> Lounge/Hang-Out Spaces
> HOPE usually has work spaces, seminar spaces, and crash spaces. Can  
> you organize more chill zones for simple conversation?
> Games
> You have 3,000+ people, three floors of a massive hotel, an RFID  
> tracking system, and The City of New York. What can you do with  
> that? Teach, play, explore.
> Art
> What’s your vision of the future?  Show us using hardware, software,  
> electricity and imagination.
> Night Life
> The talks usually stop around midnight. What else could be going on  
> between midnight and 9am? Plan it, make it interesting, make it  
> happen.
> The main visual theme of the conference is visions of the future  
> from the past, so things that reference The World’s Fairs, The  
> Jetsons, flying cars, DaVinci, Asimov, and so forth would be very  
> appropriate. However, projects are not required to carry the central  
> theme in any way. Some projects, such as OpenAMD, are already being  
> planned to be simply visions of the future from the present, rather  
> than referencing any futurist thoughts from antiquity.
>
> Some projects already in the works include…
>
> The Attendee Meta-Data Project (“OpenAMD”)
> An expansion of the RFID crowd tracking project from The Last Hope.
> Needs programmers and hardware hackers, and is prime for spinoff  
> projects.
> Many possibilities exist for the development of games, data mining,  
> and visualizations.
> Ask about the OpenAMD API.
> http://amd.hope.net/
> contact: amd at hope.net
> Radio Statler!
> Streaming 24 hours a day live from the expo floor.
> Needs people to do shows, experienced engineers, reporters, and  
> people with interesting audio gear.
> Needs a large isolation booth.
> http://radio.hope.net/
> contact: radio at hope.net
> Art Space
> The Next HOPE invites artists, local and beyond, who have a vision  
> of the future expressed as installation art.
> Installations must be technology-based. They can range from  
> electrical experiments to computer-controlled machines, to data and  
> information processing visualizations, they can be static or  
> interactive, and they could be visual or musical, this is a very  
> open field.
> This is an unpaid exhibition, but the selected installation artists  
> will be given free admission to the conference, and an online  
> gallery with artist biographies will be set up for promotional  
> purposes.
> What are your space, power, time, and data connection requirements?
> contact the curator: artspace at hope.net
> The Hackerspace and Hardware Hacking Village
> A 24 hour gathering point for the hackerspace community, a hardware  
> hacking workshop area, and a supply post for hardware hacking tools  
> and expendables.
> Are you involved with a hackerspace? Reserve a special area for your  
> group to chill and show off projects!
> Looking for hardware hackers and hackerspaces from all around the  
> world to come together and share ideas.
> contact: hackerspace at hope.net
>
>
> If you need help with your project, you can find a lot of people on  
> our forum before the conference starts, at talk.hope.net. The HOPE  
> wiki is also available for your use, wiki.hope.net.
>
> Contact the projects coordinator with a plan of action, along with  
> your space, power, time, and data connection requirements: projects at hope.net 
> .
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