Woensdag 15 juni 2011 10u30 – 18u00
Day 1: “Open Your Mind” @ Timelab & Vooruit : New Concepts and Ideas
Met: Thomas Lommée (Intrastructures.net) , Sander Veenhof (sndr.nl) , Timelab Gent, Lieve Achten (Eurowheels – No Credit Game Over), Laurent Grumiaux (Fishing Cactus), Kristof van den Branden (La Mosca), Apps For Ghent e.a.
Donderdag 16 juni 2011 10u30 – 18u00
Day 2: “Public Space Invaders” @ IBTT & Vooruit: Life is a Game – The return of Real Life
Met: Dr Jan Van Looy (MICT-UGent), Tuur van Balen, Duncan Speakman, IBBT- wireless & gamelab, Marie-Laure Delaby, Juan Duque, Myriel Milicevic, Marnix Bonnike (Pôle Images), Marc Lavigne (Game IN) e.a.
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Transdigital ends its third season with a two-day seminar and presentation of Cookbook # 2, the yearbook of the Transdigital project. This two-day across-the-border conference links visits to the labs of Timelab and IBBT to a series of presentations, lectures and demonstrations for the inspiration of artists, developers, project managers and anyone working with new technology and communication. Central themes are open design standards and the expansion of serious gaming, with the slogan: Open Creative Serious Fun.
Transdigital sluit zijn derde seizoen af met een tweedaags seminarie en de presentatie van Cookbook#2, het drietalige jaarboek van het Transdigital project. We koppelen in deze grensoverschrijdende tweedaagse een bezoek aan Timelab en de labs van IBBT aan een reeks presentaties, lezingen en demo’s die inspiratie bieden voor artiesten, ontwikkelaars, projectleiders en iedereen die de nieuwe technologie en communicatie in zijn werk of werking wil integreren. Centrale thema’s zijn deze keer open design en standaards en de expansie van serious gaming, onder het motto: OpenCreativeSeriousFun. Het volledige programma vindt u op de website van Transdigital.
Also check: GentM#10 op dinsdag 14 juni 19u @N°13
TRANSDIGITAL SEMINAR 2011 - PLANNING
WOENSDAG 15 JUNI 2001
IN THE LABS
10:00 onthaal Timelab – Brusselsepoortstraat 97 – 9000 Gent
10:30 Introduction Timelab - Evi Swinnen
11:00 Fablab & residence project - Eva De Groote & Kurt Vanhoutte
12:30 Open Source Lunch @ Timelab Gent
SEMINAR PART 1 - OPEN YOUR MIND @ VOORUIT
14:00 Open Structures - open design - we are open - Thomas Lommée
14:30 De virtuele ruimte is van iedereen - doe er iets mee - Sander Veenhoff
15:00 I-Rail – Summer of Code - Yeri Tiete
15:20 coffee break
15:40 Apps for Ghent - open data apps development - Bart Rosseau
16:00 R.O.G.E.R - Laurent Grumiaux
16:30 No Credit - Game Over - Lieve Achten
17:00 Transdigital Cookbook presentation- Mylène Lauzon
17:30 drink!
DONDERDAG 16 JUNI 2011
IN THE LABS
10:00 onthaal IBBT - Gaston Crommenlaan 8 - 9050 Gent t
10:30 introduction IBBT - Nico Verplancke
11:00 Wireless sensor lab - Nico Verplancke
12:30 Open Source Pic-Nic @ Vooruit
SEMINAR PART 2 - PUBLIC SPACE INVADERS @ VOORUIT
14:00 At the crossroads of art, technology and user psychology- Dr Jan van Looy
14:30 Pole Images / plaine images - Marnix Bonnike
14:50 serious gaming in Lille - Marc Lavigne
15:10 Gaming in the City - Kristof Van den Branden , managing director La Mosca
15:30 coffee break
15:50 Disruptive City Lab - Marie-Laure Delaby & Juan Duque
16:10 Neighbourhoud Satellites- Myriel Milicevic
16:30 subtle mobs - Duncan Speakman
17:00 Pigeon D'Or - Tuur van Balen
17:30 drink!
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timelab is a new platform in Ghent, a workplace for art, technology and society.
timelab consists of a fabLab, an artists-in-residence programme, social research and get-togethers where artists, experts and other interested parties can meet, exchange ideas and find inspiration.
Make it!
Ghent boasts Belgium’s first real public fabLab. It is part of the timelab. Anyone and everyone can come along to the Friday Open labDays to realize their very own designs. There is also scope for larger projects.
Artists-in-residence
timelab invites artists from diverse backgrounds to take part in a residential programme. For some the link with technology is all-important; others prefer to start from a contemplative standpoint about, for example, man’s role in society.
In addition to the numerous get-togethers in the fabLab and a series of training programmes, there is an annual summer camp, an intensive ten-day programme in the city for15 artists from home and abroad.
Every month there is the international network meeting Dorkbot, “people doing strange things with electricity”, where makers explain the technical aspects of their creations or research to a group of interested people.
Finally, every year in early spring the timelab OPEN assesses the state of play.
timelab is: Eva De Groote, Evi Swinnen, Kurt Stockman and Kurt Van Houtte.
Intrastructures is a pragmatic utopian design studio that generates models, tools and products for social and environmental restoration.
We translate emerging opportunities into products and services that are profitable, ecological and equitable. Building new intrastructures on existing infrastructures.
In a society where the most inspiring ideas and images, from ingenious ancient techniques to brilliant new innovations are at most some clicks away, our position as designers is shifting from being inventors towards being observers, connectors and entrepreneurs.
Through a profound observation and systematic analysis of each component within our existing infrastructure we try to get a better understanding of the invisible synergies and short circuits that have been shaping our society until this day.
From these insights we then want to synthesize, to make new connections in between those systems in order to generate a series of integrated design solutions that illustrate more sustainable perspectives on our contemporary social and environmental challenges.
SNDRV is the working title of the art practice of the Amsterdam based artist Sander Veenhof (NL, 1973) who studied computer science at the VU university in Amsterdam and graduated in the direction 'instable media' on the Rietveld Art Academy in 2009. His artistic practice balances on the border between these domains, researching recent technological advancements to create projects within a cultural context, sometimes by inversing the trends of our time. Slowing down experience, making things unlogical or impractical, questioning the unconscious interpretation of technological 'improvement'.
His work focusses on new models of interaction and communication, so it's not a surprise that contemporary mobile phones are his foremost fascination. The massive growth of an instantly reachable geographical connected iPhone audience offers new borderless possibilities. The recent developments in the field of mobile Augmented Reality (the additional of a virtual layar to reality) allowed him to exhibit in in the MoMA museum in New York, create a one dimensional artwork and currently he explores new ways to open up the virtual public space for anyone to contribute to.
As an independent artist, equipped with a technical intuition and knowledge, Veenhof moves across the whole spectrum of new media (art) production, ranging from conceptual thinking to technical realization to innovative marketing inventions.
iRail started around September 2008 when Yeri Tiete ("Tuinslak") noticed there was no alternative to the NMBS/SNCB website for iPhones. The idea of iRail was to provide a simple ( KISS) interface to quickly look up departure times between two stations. iRail quickly gained popularity as it was reviewed by several big iPhone websites. Over the years iRail popularity slowly declined due to having now native iPhone applications, as well as an official NMBS/SNCB website for mobile devices and continuous updates on the NMBS/SNCB planner site, breaking iRail's data scraping.
In June 2010 however, iRail received an unexpected cease and desist letter from the NMBS/SNCB, asking to close down iRail immediately. Yeri Tiete, being a student at that time, decided to comply and shut down iRail. However, when Nick De Mey featured this story on MouseOver, this stirred up the public, and spawned a few question as to why the NMBS/SNCB was trying to stop a free, innovative application, as well as whether a public organisation shouldn't provide all their data in an open and free form.
Due to the huge support Tiete received, he decided to put iRail back online after carefully discussing it with Lawyer Ywein Van den Brande as well as open sourcing the whole project.
Once open sourced, iRail quickly gained additional help from others, including Pieter Colpaert, Christophe Versieux, as well as developers in France and Germany and others.
But we've moved on since, and are now focussing on several other things:
Apps for Ghent wil Gentse bedrijven en organisaties over de streep trekken om bij de beleidskeuze om data te ontsluiten of onder gesloten licentie te verkopen te kiezen voor open data. We zijn ervan overtuigd, en vele eerdere use cases hebben dit al bewezen, dat het openstellen van data een veel grotere return on investment kan creëren dan het doorverkopen ervan. Dergelijke gegevens moeten helemaal niet ver gezocht worden: heeft u een restaurant of snackbar, kom uw menukaart en prijzen aanbieden in een makkelijk formaat. Hoe meer mensen het wie, wat, hoe en wanneer van uw onderneming kunnen gebruiken in eigen toepassingen, hoe meer mensen uw zaak zullen kennen.
Maar ook Stad Gent zelf zal gegevens ontsluiten. Op Gent.be/Open wordt een portaal geopend waar cijfermateriaal en andere data, die momenteel nog grondig wordt aangespeisd, terecht zullen komen in een formaten zoals CSV. Het maatschappelijk belang wordt hierbij vaak onderschat. In een democratie, een volksheerschappij volgens de letterlijke betekenis, is het belangrijk dat het volk actief kan participeren in het analyseren, stellingen kan duiden en onderzoeken. Het mooiste voorbeeld is deze waarbij een rechtzaak tegen een watercentrale voor rassenhaat werd beslecht in het voordeel van de openbare aanklager. Die had met open data een visualisatie gemaakt van de straten aangesloten op leidingwater en etnische afkomst van de inwoners.
De applicaties en website die u liet maken door één of andere vrijwilliger of in het betere geval webbedrijfje zijn binnenkort weer verouderd. En we moeten eerlijk zijn… we zijn ervan overtuigd dat andere mensen dit veel beter kunnen! Open data laat u toe een vrije markt te creëren. De best geschreven applicaties, die door enthousiaste klanten of door een professioneel appsbedrijf werden gebouwd, zullen het meest gebruikt worden en ook meer klanten aanleveren. Sommige tongen menen dat apps maar een hype zijn en dat binnenkort HTML5 websites echt innovatief zullen zijn. Eenmaal dat uw data open zijn is de stap naar een volgende “hype” klein.
[EW32] is here for one purpose — To help you tell a serious story…
The plan is (first) to wrap that up for you in some ’serious play’ and (next) head your audience towards ‘meaningful life’, in an enjoyable, collaborative and effective way. This site is our appetizer and contains some of our grassroots concerning ’21st Century Literacy’ and something we tend to call ‘Collaborative Experience Design’. But ‘Serious Urban Games’ or ‘Serious Rural Tales’ fit us as well.
[EW32] streeft samenwerkingsverbanden na die interdisciplinair zijn en een effectieve meerwaarde genereren op sociaal, maatschappelijk en cultureel vlak. Daartoe beschikken we over een breed netwerk dat ons continu voedt met nieuwe inzichten, noden en uitdagingen.
[EW32] bouwt bruggen tussen verschillende domeinen en disciplines. We doen dit vanuit onze engagementen in het onderwijs, met richtingen zoals gaming & Devine (HOWEST), multimediamanagement (CMD), kunst, media en technologie (HKU), open innovatief ondernemerschap (TSE), psychologie en pedagogiek (UG), enz.
EW32] ontwikkelde een participatie-methodologie die een “ernstig” onderwerp zoals “schulden” bespreekbaar maakt voor jongeren tussen 16 en 20.
No Credit, Game Over! is een Serious Urban Game. De leerlingen spelen een virtueel spel in een wereld vol realiteit. De stad is hun ‘playground’ en smartphones hun communicatiemiddel. Via vraagstukken, doe-opdrachten en het inwinnen van informatie op strategische plekken helpen ze hun spelfiguur in de strijd tegen schulden.
http://www.eurowheels.be/about
Fishing Cactus is a privately held company located in Mons, Belgium that was established by four industry veterans in 2008.
With a core team which combines 30 years experience and 15 released titles, Fishing Cactus creates compelling and high quality games tailored towards digital distribution platforms such as iPhone, XBLA, WiiWare, PSN, DSiWare but also Kinect technologies. We create games from both original ideas as well as from existing game designs or licenses.
Together with the support of the Microsoft Innovation Center and a cluster of 4 therapists, we have created a prototype Serious game dedicated to patients who suffer from a lack of logic and organizational skills (typically post-stroke patients, Alzheimer, hemi-negligent patients,…)
We have been getting a lot of press and attention about this project since we are pretty much the only studio in Belgium and maybe Europe who master the technology to build this game, the reason is that we have used Kinect Technology, a controller less movement recognition camera.
This allows our game to be piloted by any generation, and especially non digital natives who have never used a game controller or keyboard and mouse (very good indeed since most patients with those symptoms fall under this category).
Fishing Cactus est un studio de développement de jeux vidéo indépendant qui réalise vos jeux, Serious Games ou Advergames!
Avec une expérience cumulée de plus de 30 ans dans l'industrie du jeu vidéo, Fishing Cactus se spécialise dans la création de jeux haut de gamme spécifiquement dédiés aux plateformes de distribution digitales (iPhone, XBLA, WiiWare, DSiWare, PSN, Kinect, Sony Move).
Fishing Cactus propose des services en programmation, game design Serious Gaming, Advergaming et tests d'utilisabilité.
Nico Verplancke graduated as a master in applied economics at the K.U.Leuven in 1997, but has been working in various technology oriented jobs ever since. After working for software development companies such as Guidance and Real Software, he started as a program manager with IBBT in 2004.
IBBT is a Flemish interdisciplinary research institute focused on ICT, applied to domains such as media, healthcare, mobility and logstics and green ICT. Nico Verplancke is responsible for the follow up of projects in the media domain, he launched the Art&D program that stimulates collaboration between researchers and artists, and was involved in creating the INCA award for creative developers. Through the Waalse Krook project he is involved in the creation of a multi-media site in the heart of Ghent, that will also become the home of Flemish institute for Archiving.
IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology) is an independent research institute founded by the Flemish government to stimulate ICT innovation. The IBBT team offers companies and organizations active support in research and development. It brings together companies, authorities, and non-profit organizations to join forces on research projects. Both technical and non-technical issues are addressed within each of these projects.
IBBT stimulates research that addresses current social and economic issues.
Het game experience lab bevindt zich in de gebouwen van het Interdisciplinair Instituut voor
At the Crossroads of Art, Technology and User Psychology: Exploring the Appreciation of Interactive Digital Artworks through Experimental Research
Media experience research is a blooming field. Because of the growing investment needed for building high-quality interactive works, be they video games or other interactive experiences, the industry is looking at user research to gain insight into the needs and opportunities for engaging their audience. Experimental research, whereby different experience dimensions are measured in a (semi-) controlled setting, plays an increasingly important role. What happens when the user is confronted with a storyline? When she is given a distinct identity, including a name and an appearance? When she is presented with a challenge? When other users are present in the same environment? Etc. Etc. Understanding these variables can facilitate the successful creation of digital works. But what about the very frontier of digital production: interactive art? Can user research help artists to explore and map the experiences they evoke? And vice versa, can artists help researchers understand the ins and outs of interactive digital art appreciation. This talk will present an exploration of these issues and a call for collaboration
Notre planète n'a jamais connu une accélération aussi rapide du progrès technique.
En vingt ans, notre manière de travailler, de communiquer et de consommer a été profondément modifiée. Qui aurait imaginé qu'on puisse un jour créer et partager des images avec un téléphone portable ?
Cette « révolution numérique » n'en est qu'à ses débuts mais elle bouleverse déjà fortement le monde de l'image dans lequel nous vivons.
Notre métier restera, bien sûr, de raconter des histoires et de cultiver l'imagination. Mais pour répondre aux attentes d'un public nomade et joueur qui ne compte pas rester passif, nous sommes en train de faire évoluer notre façon de créer et de diffuser. Le « serious game », le « web documentaire » et les « expériences interactives » en sont les premières illustrations…
Pour relever ces défis passionnants mais complexes, il faut mixer des talents très divers qui n'avaient pas, jusqu'ici, l'habitude de travailler ensemble. C'est pourquoi une centaine de sociétés, vingt cinq formations, dix laboratoires et sept organisations professionnelles, ont décidé d'unir leurs forces en créant le Pôle Images Nord-Pas de Calais. Au total près de 3.000 personnes, souvent très qualifiées.
Trois lieux ont été dédiés pour accueillir les projets innovants : la « Plaine Images », entre Roubaix et Tourcoing, le « Plateau Numérique des Rives de l'Escaut » à Valenciennes et « la Fabrique à Images » à Arenberg. Notre communauté s'étend bien au-delà du Nord-Pas de Calais grâce à un partenariat fort avec nos voisins belges, Wallonie et Flandre, mais aussi avec d'autres régions françaises et européennes.
Coming from Animation, Film and Electronic Arts, Marc Lavigne worked recently for Valenciennes Trade and Industry Chamber and the regional cluster « Pôle Images Nord – Pas de Calais » to set up facilities for the serious games industry and its development. His current position is managing director of Game IN.
GAME IN stands for Game In North, a newly established trade association representing the games industry in the North of France and Belgium. The mission is simple: to develop, promote, and support independent games developers, in-house publishers, distributors, outsourcing services, mobile, online developers, universities, and more! For the first time, a trade association is dedicated to helping cross-border games professionals, enrich and advance the business and creative environment in the region
L'association Game IN (Game Industry North) est née en 2009 du regroupement des entreprises de la filière du jeu vidéo ayant leur siège social dans la région Nord Pas-de-Calais et dans l'Eurorégion. Notre mission : structurer, animer, renforcer et favoriser le développement des acteurs régionaux : studios de développement, éditeurs, distributeurs, accessoiristes, écoles et prestataires de services spécialisés. Pour la première fois, une association professionnelle a vocation à soutenir les projets transfrontaliers : le territoire de référence de l'association s'étend à toute l'Eurorégion. Game IN oriente ses activités vers la formation professionnelle, l'accompagnement d'experts, le développement des missions à l'export, la veille et le transfert d'informations, la création du laboratoire de playtests.
http://www.game-in.org/
Kristof Van den Branden startte La mosca op in 2006, na tien jaar ervaring als internetconsultant en als (web)redacteur/journalist. Hij kreeg, als verwoed bordspelliefhebber, het idee voor de citygames al in 1998. Pas in 2005 vond hij de tijd rijp om het concept vorm te geven, om eind dat jaar de productie van The target (het eerste spel van La mosca) op te starten. Begin 2007 waren The target en het tweede spel, Citytracks, klaar. Anno 2011 biedt La mosca tal van stadsspelen en formules aan. Daarnaast maken we ook apps voor smartphones.
Kristof Van den Branden a fondé La mosca en 2006, après dix ans d'expérience en tant que consultant en Internet et rédacteur/journaliste Web. Fervent amateur de jeux de société, l'idée des citygames lui était déjà venue en 1998. Ce n'est qu'en 2005 qu'il trouva que le temps était mûr pour développer le concept, puis démarrer la production de The target (le premier jeu de La mosca) à la fin de cette année-là. Début 2007, The target et le deuxième jeu (Citytracks) étaient prêts.
En 2011, La mosca continuera de vous proposer ses nombreux jeux urbains et ses différentes formules. Sans oublier les applications smartphone.
Disruptive Citylab is a Ghent-based collaborative platform for artistic research and intervention in the urban realm, focusing on peripheral and overlooked city areas and urban phenomenons.
Disruptive Citylab projects seek to reassign these spaces and our relationship with them by transforming their perception and meaning. Not viewing them as empty spaces but as an urban landscape of possibilities.
Through walks, mapping and interventions, we are exploring depression zones (urban voids, borders, suburbs, post-industrial areas) where creativity becomes an urban activator.
Working as a laboratory, Disruptive Citylab is open to any artist, urban designer, architect, researcher,…with curiosity for non conventional city areas.
Disruptive Citylab is an initiative of Juan Duque and Marie-Laure Delaby.
http://disruptivecitylab.wordpress.com
My work explores how we use sound to navigate geographical, personal and political environments, creating experiences that physically and emotionally engage audiences in public spaces.
I often employ walking as both a process and/or an outcome of my work, partly because it is ‘within the speed culture of our time, a kind of resistance’ (Alys).
Many of my pieces, such as the soundwalks and live performances, are experienced on headphones while walking through public spaces. Sometimes they are pre-recorded, at other times they may use satellite positioning, live performers and realtime sound processing.
Other works include large-scale video projections, micro-documentaries and books.
Recently I have been continuing my research into sound and social spaces by developing street based games and subtlemobs.
Throughout my practice I have been trying to adopt Grierson’s definition of documentary as ‘the creative treatment of actuality’.
Myriel is an artist, researcher and interaction designer based in Berlin. With her Neighbourhood Satellites she explores the hidden connections between people and their natural, social, and technical environments. These explorations are mostly of a participatory nature, emerging from collaborations with other artists and scientists, in the context of workshops, classrooms, exhibitions, residencies and out in the field.
Myriel received her MA from the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy and her diploma in Graphic Design from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. Further, she followed studies at the Conceptual and Information Arts department of San Francisco State University as part of her education.
Currently she works as senior designer and researcher at IxDS - Interaction Design Studios, Berlin.
http://www.neighbourhoodsatellites.com/
Tuur Van Balen (Belgium, 1981) uses design to explore the political implications of emerging technologies. Through designing and experimenting with new interactions, he constructs thought-provoking new realities. Both the process of creating these objects, interventions and narratives as the resulting physical presence aim to confuse, question and confront different publics with the possible (and impossible) roles of technologies in our everyday lives.
Since 2008, Tuur has been working on bringing design into the world of synthetic biology and vice versa. This has led to collaborations with the Centre for Synthetic Biology at Imperial College London, the BIOS group at LSE and the Haseloff Lab at Cambridge University. He has exhibited and presented his work in various contexts, both within the UK and abroad.
Currently, he is working on a project that proposes the use of feral pigeons and synthetic biology to create aesthetic interventions in urban metabolisms. The project is in collaboration with James Chappell and funded by a design-research grant of the Flemish Agency for the Arts.
Tuur also works as a visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art and a freelance designer in service and interaction design.
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