The Future Places festival will host three workshops addressing technical and theoretical aspects of digital media production.
The first, occurring on October 7-8, will introduce 20 participants to Arduino, a flexible physical computing platform used by artists and designers to create digital music and interactive environments, hack electronic household items, and explore the possibilities of robotics. […]
Our four weeks of workshops are now over: UT faculty are back in Austin, faculty colleagues in Portugal are breathing a well-earned sigh of relief, and all agree that the Summer Institute was a success. Four public lectures, one week-long cinema series at the Cinemateca, and six intensive workshops (most of them two weeks […]
Festival planners are concluding negotiations with Tinker.it, a technology and design consultancy based in London and Milan, to offer a workshop on Arduino. This open-source electronics platform is known for its flexibility—allowing the creation of a wide range of interactive objects and environments—and for its accessibility, in that Arduino is simple enough to be used […]
The new Future Places website is up and running, and festival plans are progressing! The Future Places digital media festival will take place at the new Edifício Douro (Fundação da Juventude), in Porto, Portugal, from October 7th to October 19th. Future Places kicks off with two workshops on October 7 and 8, bringing together members […]
Last summer Karen Kocher of the UT Austin Dept. of Radio, Television and Film conducted a week-long short course in interactive documentary in Porto, Portugal. Sixteen participants produced seven short documentaries about Porto inspired by the silent-era “city symphony” tradition.
You can see the videos online as well as background about the process at: […]
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