Plutopia 2012 – The Future of Imagination Line-up
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Great Plutopia 2011 Review in The Futurist
Line Up for Plutopia 2011: The Future of Play
Following the momentum generated by Plutopia 2010: The Science of Music, an official SXSW evening event held last March at Austin’s Mexican-American Cultural Center (which featured headliner DJ Spooky performing a world premiere of a piece based upon Brian Greene’s … Continue reading
Wearable Sound Experiment
This past May , V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media held a 2-day workshop on wearable technology lead by Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson aka Kobakant. After the workshop introduction and meeting round participants were split up into two groups … Continue reading
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Tagged design, experimentation, fashion, Music, performative sound, V2, Wearables, workshop
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The Future and Ball Point Pens
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The Medium Doesn’t Matter: Shaping the Future of Play
“Play is the greatest natural resource in our creative economy.” (This was the keynote at MIT’s 2010 Sandbox Summit) Future Of Play – Keynote MIT 2010 – Sandbox Summit View more presentations from frog design.
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Text of Light
Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth is part of a group called “Text of Light,” formed in 2001 to improvise music to the films of Stan Brakhage and other Expanded Cinema filmmakers. Other members Alan Licht (gtrs/devices), Christian Marclay and DJ … Continue reading
Shpongle at Austin’s Manifestation Celebration last Saturday…
It was “just” Simon Posford last night – he’s a trip and consummate showman/dandy/brilliant musician – with a DJ station and a number of dancers. The projections were incredible – a feedback/strange loop via a live vid feed that made … Continue reading
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Tagged Alex Grey, Allyson Grey, DJ, Manifestation Celebration, Nadis Warriors, performance, projections, Shpongle, Simon Posford
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Plutopia 2010: Sensation-al
For the second time in three years, the annual Plutopia extravaganza was reported as “the best SXSWi party to date.” In 2008, it was the Austin Chronicle’s columnist, Stephen Moser, who proclaimed this, and in 2010, Jean Russell, global community … Continue reading
White and Xiao He enchant fans at send-off show in Beijing
Shou Wang, leader of Chinese outfit White, who will be the closing act at Plutopia 2010 has been doing a series of gigs in Beijing with a new drummer, Wang Xu, who will perform with White throughout SXSW. Tonight, (Saturday … Continue reading
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Tagged Beijing, Chinese, Maybe Mars, SXSW
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