Computing Culture Group

Mako is helping to organize and host an event called Digital Disobedience on cyberactivism and culture jamming this Friday with Harvard Free Culture. The event will explore the interplay between digital technologies, activism, and the ability to modify and critique cultural institutions.

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The Director will be speaking November 20 at 8:30pm, at the Visual Arts Program.

Joined by Harvard Free Culture, Mako and Shifty are holding a liberation session for iPods — basically an installfest (a la GNU/Linux) for digital audio players. It’s part of raising awareness about software freedom and digital rights management. You can read more on the Harvard Free Culture weblog post or in this article in the Boston Phoenix.

At 7PM, on Wednesday, October 4th, 2006, Noah Vawter will present
Ambient Addition at
Dorkbot NYC at Location One in New York City.

Mako will be presenting at Wizards of OS 4 in Berlin on Friday, September 15.
Among other things, he’ll be speaking in a workshop on social movements and free content licensing issues debating and discussing the issues with Lawrence Lessig and Paul Keller.

On September 9th, CCG member Noah Vawter spoke at Sounding Out 3, a conference on sound art in Sunderland, England. The subject of his talk was his Master’s Thesis, Ambient Addition, a Walkman with microphones which mixes ambient sound into harmonic and rhythmic music. While this talk was not captured for posterity, Shifty and ML grad Ben Dalton took the time to make a podcast of a sideproject.
The podcast can be found here.

PLAY NICE @ FRINGE
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 19, from 6 – 8 PM
August 19 – September 2, 2006
504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213-613-0160
CCG Students are starting the new academic year by showing their work from the last one, at LA’s bold experimental gallery Fringe in the Chinatown gallery district. Please come by for the opening with performances, djing, turtles, dim sum, and then some.

The Director will be presenting recent Computing Culture work at Liquid Fridge in Capetown, South Africa, July 27.

Ayah Bdeir, CCG’s recently graduated superstar, was back home in Lebanon when the war started. After some very near misses, as bombs fell around her apartment, her family took refuge somewhere in the hills outside of Beirut.
The Director remembers that when he first interviewed her, she said that her main goal at MIT was to use technology to promote human rights and international understanding. During her time at MIT Ayah charmed everyone with her intelligence, wit, and generosity. All of our thoughts and best wishes go out to her.