Mary Flanagan and Ken Perlin are presenting Rapunsel, a project where they’re getting 11-13 year old girls keen on computers by – with the girls – designing a system where the kids program animated characters to choreograph a dance. From the website: […]

This is from the boat… and this is just what a lot of the evenings here at ISEA have felt like. iseaclub Originally uploaded by srett.

Nina Wakefield‘s keynote is on “The identity politics of mobility and design culture”, and I took notes straight here. Wakefield’s an ethnographer from Britain who’s basing her theories on identity on queer theory. Her main argument is that rich people are easily […]

We walked in late for Wendy Hui Kyong Chun’s keynote, but Axel Bruns blogged his notes so we can pick up the question session OK.

If you read Swedish, read Kati K?§llman’s diary from ISEA. She just interviewed some of our panel for Radio Ekstrem (I think) and blogs in the community site her radio runs. You have to sign up to read it but once in […]

Timo is posting photos from ISEA here. There are some photos at Flickr too.

My camera’s ill but uploading a few phone pics to Flickr I noticed there are other people posting photos from here as well. This is the keynote I’m in right now. Erkki Huhtamo is talking about the history of mobile media, taking […]

Shuddhabrata Sengupta is an excellent story-teller. He’s giving a keynote on “The Remains of Tomorrows Past: Speculations on the Antiquity of New Media Practice in South Asia”, and he’s telling us about how the Indian telegraph developed, bringing out the histories of […]

Yesterday was spent in transit, mostly, on the late ferry back from Tallinn. That meant I missed some great-sounding keynotes here in Helsinki, but that I’m rested and ready for two more days of heavy conferencing. Helsinki is excellent. Packed with people, […]

Most conferences are only three days long. Today is day four of ISEA and there are days and days left. I’m in a caf?©, regenerating the energy I’ll need to keep at it till Sunday. I think I’m not meeting a lot […]