people doing strange things with electricity

dorkbot Cardiff #13 • April 25th 2013

bees

For our cold spring dorkbot, we had intelligent beehives from Paris and pervasive news from the watershed.

rooftop garden

Peter Hanappe and Michka Mélo, Sony Computer Science Lab Paris (via Skype)

Two speakers for three projects:
• P2PFOODLAB: make citizen active agents of the whole food chain by blurring the frontiers between consumers, producers and scientists.
• Bee-o-ICT: design biomimetic intelligent beehives, monitored by sustainable wireless sensor networks powered by dead bees.
• Metabolhomics: make the most of the nutrients traveling through your house, towards self-sufficiency.

juneau projects drawing robot

Victoria Tillotson, Pervasive Media Studio Bristol

Victoria is a Producer at Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed’s city-centre research lab that brings together a network of over 100 artists, technologists and academics to explore the future of mobile and wireless media. She manages collaborative residencies and International exchange programmes, enabling exploration of ideas at the juncture of art and technology.
Victoria has a background is visual art and in her spare time, co-produces independent projects as part of the Collect, including writing and performance works, workshops, discussions and micro-funding platforms.

Image: ‘Bartleby’ by Juneau Projects, developed with support from Watershed’s Studio Residency programme