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Orebro University, Sweden

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Örebro University is now going through its most expansive phase since its formation in 1977. We are in the midst of creating a campus that in the widest possible sense gives the students, staff and guests an excellent intellectual, social and physical environment.

Call for workshop participation

Tangible code

Wednesday 15th of February - Saturday 18th of February

at Atelier Nord Oslo/Norway

by Marius Watz & Erich Berger

Free participation

Application deadline Friday 27th of January Send applications with CV to sense@anart.no

Recently, code evidently became artistic material and programming artistic practice. The coding artist literally hacks his/her artwork, forms it with skilled hands, touching and communicating with and through it.

Physical electronic interfaces enable the artist to tighten the relation between the artwork and the audience.

Tangible code is a workshop for artists and practitioners who are interested in the concepts of programming and physical computing.

The employed tools are the multi platform and open source programming and hardware environments Processing and Arduino. (more…)

Link: News.com

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The nonprofit group going to distribute these laptops to children in developing countries. This computer has an innovative design, giving the flexible possibilities to use in various conditions, even out of power network.

The proposed design of the machines calls for a 500MHz processor, 1GB of memory and an innovative dual-mode display that can be used in full-color mode, or in a black-and-white sunlight-readable mode.

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Via BigPerk.com

NoMA Nordic Multimedia Academy

For these who interested to learn multimedia design, there is a valuable possibility to do it in Denmark. That’s important that they ofer good housing service. There are few appartments still vacant, so hurry up!

What do they say about their academy:

What is NoMA? NoMA is the multimedia academy in Kolding Denmark. We offer the multimedia designer education, a 2 year comprehensive course in multimedia, covering design, communication, web-programming and business. NoMA is an international school with students from 6 different countries. You can study in English or Danish. There is no tuition fee, if you are a citizen of one of the EU or EFTA countries. We have a close relation ship to companies in the multimedia area, and a large part of the education is about solving tasks for companies. We call it “Hard Fun - Real Life”.