[NetBehaviour] CALL: participate and develop your DIY / DIWO project at EEII'12 event

[Kruno Jost]

Dear NetBehaviourists,

pls forward if you think someone might be interested! Thank you!


====== EEII '12 ======

Experimental Electronics Interventions / Eksperimentalne elektronske 
intervencije

=====WHEN / KADA=====

30.05.2012. srijeda / Wedensday - 03.06.2012. nedjelja / Sunday


=====WHERE / GDJE=====

Technology Innovation Centre Međimurje, Čakovec, Croatia.

Tehnološko inovacijski centar Međimurje, Čakovec, Hrvatska.

http://tic.redea.hr/

=====WHO / TKO=====

[[http://actnow.hr | Autonomni centar]], ACT i [[http://www.uke.hr | 
Urbana kultura i edukacija, UKE]]


=====POZIV / INVITATION=====

World of disciplines and experts made it hard to work in collaborative 
environments. More so for creative and artistic people, inclined to DIY 
and DIWO practices. Disciplines are strictly separated, so every pursuit 
is tightly focused on only one element of realization. This labour mode 
makes it more difficult for creativity and innovation that springs up 
from group and collective problem-solving situations, using methods 
popularized trough today’s networked society.

Ruth Catlow i Marc Garrett, co-funders of on-line community for digital 
arts Futherfield.org created a project under the slogan DIWO (Do It With 
Others) which was reflecting on DIY ethics. DIY is short for Do It 
Yourself – firstly a term used to describe aspirations of DIY builders. 
Latter DIY ethics became a cultural movement opposed to culture 
professionalize and commercialization. DIWO can be described as e-mail 
art – a form of collaborative artwork that reflects on mail-art from 
70's. Internet allowed us to see technology as a uninterrupted 
possibility for participation, information flow and upgrades, where 
working with others enriches our ideas and facilitates realization 
without stipulating commercial gain.

Creators of WIKITOPIA festival say: “DIWO is the new DIY! In the media 
art, and even the contemporary art world in broad, artists are working 
more cross-disciplinary with other individuals through technology than 
ever. In these collaborative projects, peers connect and communicate, 
creating controversies, structures and culture using both digital 
networks and shared physical environments. Collaborators SHARE. As said 
by Zach Lieberman, a creative technologist whose work bridges the real 
world with the digital: 'Collaborative projects require a level of 
humility and understanding of the ultimate mission. Only then do they 
have the ability to be truly transformative'.”

EEII'12 festival follows the practice of DIWO events, creating space for 
enthusiasts, DIY and DIWO craftsman, creative people who love to think 
with their head and work with their hands, recycle, seek innovative 
solutions, sophistically think of simple things and vice versa. EEII'12 
offers frame for this years event: Do it Yourself / Do it With Others in 
the context of Mobile Art Lab that will consist only of basic metal pole 
frame construction. Mobile Art Lab is conceived as multi purpose mobile 
unit, a tool, mobile lab, a container, that can host artist residencies, 
art labs and workshops, video projections and exhibitions, meetings 
between artists, scientists and technologists for research projects.

If you recognize yourself as:
* DIY person:
* person orientated to 'sustainable' and 'coexistence of technology and 
nature';
* person that likes to research new organizational concepts (teem work, 
working environment, crowd-sourcing, …)
* person that likes innovative solutions
* skilful person
* person that likes to work on something that will be useful for 
community, person that likes to share knowledge and skills.

Or you consider yourself:
* as DIY craftsman;
* ecologist;
* mechanic;
* engineer;
* enthusiast;
* creative;
* innovative;

than you are more than welcome to apply to EEII'12 festival where one 
can make friends with like-minded people. Please take a look at 
[[mal|MAL WIKI]] where you can learn more on the idea of Mobile Art Lab 
and where your ideas can start developing. Apply at the bottom of the 
page with a link to your project and we can develop ideas further trough 
e-mail. For EEII'12 MAL will be just a basic constructions and our task 
is to apply many small constructions on it, for example: sliding doors 
and windows, movable tables, LCD screen holders, speaker holders, WIFI, 
electrical, solar energy power, sliding doors, modular cupboards, LED 
light, mechanical and digital assemblies and circuits...



=====LINKS:=====

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_it_yourself

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Do-It-Yourself

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIY_ethic

http://www.thelalatheory.com/dig9.html

http://videotage.org.hk/wikitopia/?p=392

http://blogs.hbr.org/bigshift/2010/02/from-do-it-yourself-to-do-it-t.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_appropriate_technology

=====EEII'12 ensures / EEII'12 osigurava=====

* incentive working environment;
* opportunity to embed your idea/creativity/solutions in Mobile Art Lab;
* environment where one can learn from others;
* space for new models of sustainable, multifunctional working environments;
* that one will be using 
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_appropriate_technology | OSAT 
- Open source appropriate technology ]]
* accommodation and three meals during participants stay;
* travelling cost,
* needed materials;
* volunteers to help your project;
* lots of fun in small rural environment where good working people love 
to share ideas, warm weather and beautiful untouched nature on the banks 
of Drava river.


===== APPLICATION / PRIJAVA =====

Rok za prijave: 3. travnja 2012. / Deadline: 3rd April 2012

http://wiki.noborderculture.eu/doku.php/eeii#eeii_12