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From: LexIcon unpublishednumber@gmail.com Date: March 16, 2010 9:34:40 AM EDT To: A discussion list for dorkbot-nyc dorkbotnyc-blabber@dorkbot.org Subject: Re: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] The Next HOPE call for projects &
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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:

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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@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@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@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@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@hope.net .

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