Congratulations to Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud! With their project qaul.net they have won this years [the next idea] voestalpine Art and Technology Grant! You can find a detailed description of the project here.

Incorporated in our clothes, digital technology can influence human communictaion maybe in the most direct way. In her project “intraInter socialite” Kristin Stransky Mallinger shows how such an integration could look like.

What to do when there is no internet conncetion and no standard euqipment availiable to get one? Build a kite!

Although the notion is still strong that nature and culture are to different spheres, we strat to realize now that the things are maybe more intertwined as we think. Mia Kos tries to connect different actors like objects, the environment and nature via a digital interface and thereby turns the “passive” environment in an active actor!

Dance to your own movements! That is the concept of the Pacer suit and by turning around the concept of dacing, the individual is not just following a rhythm prodced by an external source, but creating and shaping its own sound.

Why not combine radio and digital technology, thought Michael Ossman and created HackRF. A new device for devoloping, testing and experimenting with radio technology which allows every computer programmer to develop new ways to interact with readio waves!

The good old radio! An old but well known and highly distributed medium which is at the core of this project. By establishing a moblie communication network “Global Nomadic Radio Dialogue” undermines the divisions of national boarders and encourages people around the world to contribute to a collaborative radio broadcast.

We all know online collaboration tools and are more or less familar with them. But how can you rethink crowd based cultural production? The project Social Device is approaching this question in a new way…..

This month the project FrontlineSMS is celabrating its 6th anniversery! Reason enough to dedicate one post to this brilliant project which found an easy and cheap way of establishing communication networks even in the most rural areas of the world.
Congratiulations!

We all have heard about the problematic relation between the available data in the world wide web and search engine produced information. Inspired by this situation Phil Jones and Aharon Amir are working on a search engine which uncovers neglected and as they call it “dark” information.