Notes week 6

• Storyville- BBC i-player- How hackers changed the world/ Hactivism
• Bangladesh Warm crime- lofi cyber culture- www.globalvoices.org – cyber war
• Forensic architecture- investigative journalism-evidence gathering- crowdsourcing verification- how ambiguous is all this stuff?
• Mode of deployment “get excited and make things” – Before the Keep calm & carry on movement
• Citizen science
• Makey Makey- an invention for everyone- Jay Silver on Kickstarter.com
• Net Art- Good and Bad times for making and thinking- David Gauntless “making is thinking” making and creating culture. 
• www.thestartprohect.org = repair/restart 
• Biomapping with Christian Nold
• The quantified self- body as machine/mind as control/cybernetic feedback
• 3D printing, public libraries, makerspaces = accessible knowledge
• Urinal by Rob Myers – Duchamp inspired- conceptual example – http://robmyers.org/urinal/
• Technologies as an unconscious- making reality plastic- print your own gun. raises questions of governance. real plastic guns vs fake plastic guns . http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/133514-the-worlds-first-3d-printed-gun
• Internet switched off in Egypt in January 2011 – specific words banned from text messages.
• The free universal construction kit – http://fffff.at/free-universal-construction-kit/ = connect toys you couldn’t connect before
• Arduino Blog 
• open traffic counting platform – http://trafficcom.org/
• London hackspaces have exploded- M.I.T – self organised and funded. CNC computer control tools. Biolabs/Biohacking/ ever more fashion students are collaborating with hackers because of the technology they want to incorporate into their fashionwear but do not know how. 
• http://technologywillsaveus.org/ a haberdashery for technology and education dedicated to helping people to produce and not just consume technology.
• the makers guild around Brixton -Guild is a medieval reference around craft- 
• Balloon and Kite Mapping, grassroots mapping – form of environmental monitoring