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Interactive Screen Pdx Makers
1. Praxis Makes Parfait
Looking at Making through the lens of Portland
Maker Culture
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Interactive Screen
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August 14 2009
Banff New Media Institute
2. Why are makers making?
â Has consumer culture lost a certain cachet?
â Has the internet let like minds find each other?
â Is the DIY aesthetic more popular in any way?
â Is this a way of socializing?
â Is this a way of showing off?
â Are we doing it for money? For beer?
â Is there a need to interpret the world through
the critical lens of tactile experience? Or what?
â Is this uniquely a PDX experience?
3. Approach
â This presentation will be example based â
showing examples of Maker activity in and
about Portland Oregon.
â Will share projects I contributed to - and
projects of friends - all of us participating in the
Maker community of Portland Oregon.
â I don't have answers as to 'why' we do this - so
maybe you can provide them?
4. Donald Delmar Davis â Dorkbot Lab
â Hosted at Pacific Northwest College of Art
â Lectures, lessons and hacking on Electronics
7. Amber Case â Cyborg Camp
â Unconference about the future of the
relationship between humans and technology
â Cyborg Anthropology, post sapiens philosophy
13. Commonalities
â Portland seems to be a hugely social geek town
â The social geek seems to be a new phenomena
â Cross disciplinary interests
â A lot of food related interests
â A lot of technology to 'support' other interests
â Tend to be smaller faster fun projects
â Tends to be a way people socialize
â People are learning hard core skills - fast
14. Shape of physical space
â Lots of co-working spaces
â Everybody around one big table
â Often each working on their own projects
â Simply sharing proximity and conversation
â Often highly wired via twitter
â Often peeps are not spending a lot of $$$
â Often peeps have a lot of free time
â Often just not happy with consuming media
â Often trying to rope peeps into activities
19. A bewildering blurring of boundaries
â Recreating patterns that we use at work,
scheduling, planning, coordinating, technology
â Groups I've seen are more balanced, men
women, sexual orientations, age and race
â Musicians, programmers, artists, electronics
hobbyists, experts and amateurs
â For profit and open source interests
â Artistic and Pragmatic technical interests
â Tending to be largely secular for some reason?
â Are people more comfortable now on stage?
20. Is it the tools that make us make?
â http://barcamp.org Social engineering practices
â http://wk.com - Portland Incubator Experiment
â http://sparkfun.com
â http://processing.org
â http://etsy.com
â http://arduino.cc
â http://openframeworks.cc
â http://github.com
â http://portlandtechshop.com
â http://makezine.com ⊠and the list goes on ...