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The Program
/ETC 8-12 June Umeå
This program is preliminary and will be subject to change. Please note that two or three workshops run parallel out of which you can attend one. We will do our best to make sure you can attend your first options but if you want to make sure you can attend your first choices please rush to the first computer and e-mail us your “pick of the workshops”. It is also possible to register at the information desk at /ETC, but it would help us if you gave us an idea of what workshops you are interested in in advance.
For contact and information
To register at the /ETC send us an email to:
info-umea@eclectictechcarnival.org
In your email write which dates your are attending and which workshops are your first choices e.g.:
Monday workshop A & D, Tuesday workshop B, E...
For more information on the workshop visit:
http://eclectictechcarnival.org/node/869
Prices
Entry fees
Five day ticket: 200 SEK (approx 18 Euros).
One day ticket: 50 SEK
Even if you are interested in some particular workshops we warmly recommend to hang around before and after workshops to meet with other participants! Maybe you'll find a workshop to attend that you hadn't thought of or meet someone you hadn't met otherwise:)
Workshop C Thursday: Build your own guitar pedal
Equipment for this workshop costs an additional 250-450 SEK depending on which pedal you choose to build.
Locations
Most workshops will be held at HUMlab, a few of them are scattered around at Bildmuseet and Verket. The dinner on Friday is at Studiefrämjandet.
HUMlab is located in the Social Sciences building at Umeå University, ask for University library, follow the arrows to HUMlab and take the stairs one floor below. Bus number 1, 5, 6, 7 , 8 and 9 will take you from City Centre to University.
Bildmuseet is 15 minutes walk from HUMlab.
Verket is located at Västra Strandgatan 7, five minutes walk from City Centre.
Studiefrämjandet is located at Ridvägen 10 minutes walk from City Centre.
Other activities
When you are not attending a workshop why not do this:
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Visit Open Source Embroidery
Exhibition from Wednesday to Friday at Bildmuseet
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Talk at the Inspirational corner
Every day at HUMlab. Do you have interesting ideas? Working with inspiring projects? Do tell others about it at the inspirational corner.
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Meet like minded at Birds of a feather
Every day at HUMlab. Find your soul mates and start your own network!
Our partners and sponsors
Bostaden AB, Kulturstorm, Media Center, Studiefrämjandet Umeåregionen, She's got the beat, Umeå kommun, Umeå 2014 and Västerbottens läns landsting. A big thanks to HUMlab for using their venue and resources!
Monday 8th June
Please note that Workshop B lasts for 4 hours so if you choose that workshop you will not be able to participate in other workshops.
12:00 – 13:45
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Registration and Opening.
14:00 – 16:30
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Workshop A at HUMlab, Computer lab
HTML/CSS workshop - Audrey Samson
HTML, hypertext markup language is the 'language' of the internet HTML is responsible for the structuring the content of the site. CSS, cascading style sheets are the code which works together with HTML and determines the 'style' of the page. The purpose of this workshop is to introduce these notions and learn how to use them to build/update/customize a website/blog. If you have a specific request, question, or problem you are facing, you are encouraged to come. We will try to shape the workshop according the different skill levels and specific desires of participants.
Necessary materials:
-Bring your laptop
-Have a text editor already installed (e.g. Text Wrangler, Notepad, Wordpad, Editplus).
-Have a web browser already installed (e.g. Firefox, Opera)
Workshop B at HUMlab, Annex
Hardware Crash Course - Donna Metzlar
The Computer Hardware crash course will consist of taking apart a computer and putting it back together again. We will make tangible such jargon as: ports, plugs, bus, interface, PCB, cards, processor, memory, storage, cache, master, slave and the BIOS. Participants do not need any previous experience or knowledge to be able to follow the workshop. Please do bring along some paper, a pencil and your questions. We will provide the computes and screwdrivers.
Only 12 participants! Please note that the workshop runs till 20:00.
18:00 – 20:00
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Workshop C at HUMlab, Computer lab
Wearable fashion - Kyveli Vezani
Fashion design with fabrics and circuits. We are going to use fabric and conductive thread, little lights (LEDs) and wire to create wearable technology and interactive jewellery.
Workshop D at HUMlab, the Glass room
Vocabulaboratories - Manuela Zechner and Anja Kangieser
How do we speak about what we do and what role does self-representation play in our (working) lives? When are words and discourses important to us, and when do we need to escape them? In this 3-hour workshop we will try to share both our poetics and our strategies around representation. We'd like to work on departing from the well trodden paths of our individual and collective professional vocabularies, and instead try to openly speak about the desires and problems that come with representing ourselves and our work to others.
This workshop will be held on Thursday as well.
Tuesday 9th June
14:00 – 16:30
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Workshop A at HUMlab, Computer lab
Linux workshop - Helga
Installing the open source operating system and getting started. LINUX install party! Bring your laptop along. This workshop is good to combine with Workshop C later in the afternoon.
Workshop B at HUMlab, Annex
DIY instruments – Joan Healy
Joan will be demonstrating some of the musical experiments that she has been working on over the last year. Participants will be taught some basic soldering techniques such as how to make contact microphones. You will be shown how to use these to make instruments out of different parts of their bodies such as stringed instruments from their hair. Participants are encouraged to be creative and experimental. They should bring their ideas and different acoustic objects with them such as bowls and ceramic pottery to use in making resonating chambers for their instruments. We will then amplify the sounds to make a noise orchestra!
Workshop C at Humlab, the Glass room
Portable Pixels : flash accessories! - Audrey Samson
Make accessories that light up with the simplest electronic circuit. What will you light up? Your neck, your arm, the inside of your pockets? What will make it light up? The touch of your fingers? closing a hook? The tilt of your arm?. This workshop does not involve soldering or any electronics knowledge!
18:00 – 20:00
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Workshop D at HUMlab, Computer lab
Ubuntu and Bluetooth - Tatjana Laursen
Ubuntu is a free Linux-based operating system with a wide array of free and easy-to-use alternatives for most tasks. Come and see what the computer salesperson didn't tell as free software is bad for business. Bring your laptop and get the needed help to try out using Ubuntu. If you have a bluetooth phone and computer, you can also try it out with a remote control!
Workshop E at HUMlab, Annex
Discussion on Why Open Source Donna Metzlar and Reni Hofmueller
Most people don't know much about open source. During this session we will discuss new developments and changes within the area.
Workshop F at HUMlab, the Glass room
Open source agriculture – Kristina Walters
This lecture is about how Open Source within agriculture gives people in developing countries opportunity to gain power over their means of support.
22:00 - 00:00
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Workshop F
Dumpster diving – Julia Selin
Two or maximum three persons can come along for a dumpster diving adventure and collect food for their own stomachs. Information on place will be given during carnival. Make sure you register!
This workshop will also be held on Wednesday and Thursday.
Wednesday 10th June
We will be at the Bildmuseet for workshops between 14:00 and 16:00 meeting at HUMlab at 13:30 and walk together to Bildmuseet.
14:00 – 16:00
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This afternoon we will be in the care of the Open Source Embroidery Exhibition. You don't have to sign up for a special workshop since it's possible to mingle in between.
Workshop at Bildmuseet
Film Screening: To Dream Tomorrow - Ada Byron Lovelace
The film describes the influence of the Jacquard Loom on Lovelace and Babbage, and the importance of Lovelace’s work to conceive of the idea of a computer in 1843.
Workshop at Bildmuseet
Running Stitch, Hamilton - Southern & St Amand
You are invited take part in this GPS mapping project facilitated by artist Jen Southern. Using GPS Mobile Phones visitors to the gallery are invited to take an hour walk around Umea which will be projected onto a hanging canvas in the gallery and stitched by their friends.
Workshop at Bildmuseet
SketchPatch - Sophie McDonald
Sketchpatch is a new website for people to learn processing by creating beautiful drawings and animations live online. Sophie will give introductions to the site, and show you how to get started by copying and modifying other people’s code.
Workshop at Bildmuseet
You Are What You Buy - Michele Pred
This embroidery of a 2D bar-code can be read by a cell-phone. Visitors to the exhibition can download a Java reader from Pred’s website onto their mobile phone, and take a photo of the image, which will then decode into a text on their phone. To download the software go to: http://semacode/ota Download the Reader Standalone for Java Phones 1.6. Once the reader program is installed, start the program, aim your camera phone at the code above and then take a photo. The code will then initiate a response on your phone screen.
18:00 – 20:00
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Workshop A at HUMlab, Computer lab
Web design - Maria Engström
Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made . Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. No previous knowledge is required.
Workshop B at HUMlab, Annex (This workshop runs until 20.30)
Introduction sound – Lisa Norman
General audio introduction.
This workshop is about generating and recording sound and audio material. How do you edit and manipulate sound? How do you export it in the right format and quality? No previous knowledge is required.
Workshop C at Verket, City Centre
An introduction to live sound reinforcement – Marita Johansson
How does the audio signal make it's way from the output of a DJ-mixer to the front of house speakers and how does it end up in the stage monitors? Why should the DJ keep hands of the gainpots after soundcheck? What is the difference between a mic and line signal? These are some of the questions you get answers to if you attend this three hour workshop, that includes a theoretical and practical introduction to the art and craft of live sound reinforcement.
22:00 - 00:00
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Dumpster diving with Julia at 22:00. Information on place will be given during the carnival.
Workshop F
Dumpster diving – Julia Selin
Two or maximum three persons can come along for a dumpster diving adventure and collect food for their own stomachs. Information on place will be given during carnival. Make sure you register!
This workshop will be held on Thursday as well.
Thursday 11th June
Please note that Workshop C lasts for 5 hours so if you choose that workshop you will not be able to participate in other workshops.
10:00 – 12:00
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Workshop A at HUMlab, Computerlab
Gimp - Erica Svensson
In this workshop we will explore two different programs for manipulating images. You will get hands on experience on how to apply filters and other tools in order to generate professional images.
Workshop B at HUMlab, Annex
Interactive Dolls and Robots - Varvara Guljajeva
Building and hacking dolls and robots, learning how to control a motor within a doll, soldering and prototyping.
Maximum 7 participants!
14:00 – 16:30
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Workshop C at HUMlab, Computer lab
Live audio and video processing - Reni Hofmueller
Audio processing, streaming, audio in/on the internet. We will also be looking into video streaming and image processing. But the main focus is on sound and audio processing.
Workshop D at HUMlab, Annex
"Games for Change" - Annika Olofsdotter
A workshop about computer game concepts and how they affect real life.
Workshop E at HUMlab, the Glass room
Build your own guitar pedal - Ida Lindfors
Are you interested in sound effects and electronics? This workshop starts with a theoretical part where we discuss what a guitar signal is and what different effects do. After that the workshop continues with a practical part where you build your own guitar pedal. No previous knowledge but a bit of patience and some cash is required.
This workshops costs an extra 450 SEK for the equipment, you will keep the pedal you build.
Screening F at Humlab, the Conference room
Goedele Verloyen filmmaker
Documentary about women in Evo Morales Bolivia
18:00 – 20:00
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Workshop G at HUMlab, Computer lab
Blog with Word Press – Maria Engström
Learn how to build up your own blog using Word Press.
Workshop H at Humlab, Annex
Women@internet – Ana Valdes
Screening I at Humlab, the Conference room
Film screening - Annemie Maes filmmaker
Barefeet enginneers of Barefeet college in India.
Workshop J at Verket, City center
How to DJ! - Sofia Säfholm
An introductory workshop on how to dj. How does the equipment work? What is it that you really do as a dj? What is beat-mixing and how is it done? What music works on the dancefloor? The answers of these questions and lots of possibility to practice will be given in this workshop.
22:00 - 00:00
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Workshop K
Dumpster diving – Julia Selin
Two or maximum three persons can come along for a dumpster diving adventure and collect food for their own stomachs. Information on place will be given during canival. Make sure you register!
Friday 12th June
14:00 – 16:30
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Workshop A at HUMlab, Computer lab
Open Source + Usability = Open Usability - Marleen Vanhauer
The topic of this workshop is the Open Usability initiative. We will take a look at their mindset, take a peek at on-going projects and explore some usability methods and best practices ourselves. You will get a chance to try out software for building wireframes, learn how to create a paper prototype yourself and much more.
Workshop B at HUMlab, Annex
Vocabulaboratories - Manuela Zechner and Anja Kangieser
For description see workshop C Monday.
Workshop C at HUMlab, the Glass room
Interactive Dolls and Robots - Varvara Guljajeva
Building and hacking dolls and robots, learning how to control a motor within a doll, soldering and prototyping.
Maximum 7 participants!
16:45 – 17:30
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Evaluation and sum up.
19:00 – 21:00
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Dinner at Studiefrämjandet, Ridvägen 5
Yummy fair trade vegan dinner! Please register for the dinner at the information desk as only a limited number can participate.
Unfortunately, we can't guarantee dinner to all participants and therefore those of you who have bought a fiveday pass, has given a workshop or volunteered come first. If you want to join the dinner! First comes first served rule applies. The dinner is free of charge.
21:00 - 02:00
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Silk screen print – Hanna Hindriks
Party and DIY-market at Verket, City Centre
Bring along stuff you have made that you want to sell (Send us an email and let us know in advance if you are planning on selling your creations at the market so we can make room.)
Also bring your favorite T-shirt, scarf or pillow case along, we provide frames and color so You can make your own memorable /ETC Umeå souvenir!
There will be live music and DJ:s and party feet to dance all night! Bring your own beverage!!
This event is free for those with a weekly pass, all others pay 50 SEK. People of all gender identities are welcome to join!