Welcome to the new n.blog
Hi all! I have the pleasure to launch the new noemalab blog with a report on the Subtletechnologies festival! If you wish to have a look at past reports on Sublte Technologies Festival, please, visit...
View ArticleLet the show begin: CC:me at the Redhead Gallery
…and so it begins, a steamy evening in Toronto, at the readhead gallery, the remotest space at the back of 401 Richmond street building… CC:me borrows the title from the pre-computer fax machine...
View ArticleSymposium day 1: Art, Technology & Science Ideas
As the first symposium day comes to an end, I managed to find a couple of hours before the dance show at the winchester theatre and gather my –very long and messy–notes. The title of today’s section of...
View ArticleNew Pedagogical models: Broad Vision. the arts and science of looking
Broad Vision, a special program that gives a chance to students across the University of Westminster to entertain a process-based series of collaborations with a special focus on science...
View ArticleFrom Symbiosis to Manipulation
Thinking about the various definition of ecology, symbiosis is one of the terms that come to mind. Take a mushroom: how much of an influence does a mushroom has over our body? once we inject it, is it...
View ArticleOn De-extinction and other dreams
Hendrik Poinar, a professor in Paleogenetics at McMaster University has some fond memories of his parents (entomologists) spending time uncovering and examining insects fossilized and encased in Amber....
View ArticleJune 9: bio-techno soups, we know where we are coming, but where are we going?
June 9 morning sessions were marked by two very different presentations, Scott Menary’s Born in the big bang and Alan Sondheim’s Digital and Physical Collapse. Interestingly, and despite their...
View ArticleAmelogenesis Imperfecta and Beautox me
Trained in art and dentistry, David Khang brought to Toronto his research on the benefits and the limitation of Botox injections as well as on the result of the interaction of human subjects and other...
View ArticleUnnoticed places of Immortality
So far, the symposium has explored projects and research that understand immortality as a way to bring back the past and the long gone; to restore and preserve memory; to pass human legacy to others;...
View ArticleJohn Dupuis Open Science presentation at the Subtle Technologies Festival
In addition to more traditional journals with Open access structures, John Dupuis in a later talk on Open Science, pointed out to a diverse number of tools that not only scientists, but also other...
View ArticleDay 1, a look at Open Access publishing
When we think of open culture, open science, DIY and making are probably the first things that come to mind. However, It is often thanks to the availability of information available through open access...
View ArticleOpen medicine, or becoming a Patient Expert
Open Medicine is not just about publishing or sharing information about experts, but also about empowering. Billiam James’ powerful and passionate intervention, peppered with evocative images,...
View Articleworking with Communities: inclusion and co-production, not education
I am usually very critical when it comes with working with communities, especially when these communities are what the West or the Intelligentsia considered “disadvantaged” or resourceless. I have seen...
View ArticleLooking for directions in Participatory Practices and beyond
Recently I have observed – with mixed feeling and a bit of disorientation– the rise of maker culture. Among them, agitators, activists and artists are finding ways to use the latest developments in...
View ArticleEncouraging participation in the right places
I decided not to go in order with my report, because I thought that some presentations on the saturday spoke to some issue that had emerged the day after. specifically, I thought that Matt Garcia’s Eco...
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