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The next OpenFrameworks Syjunta is scheduled for nov 26th 2008. This time the venue is Detroit on Roslagsgatan 21.

>> collectiveexperiments.com/ofsyjunta

>> detroitstockholm.com

Stockholm has been blessed with its own openFrameworks Knitting Circle. If you’re wondering why I’m talking about a knitting circle at at new media blog, it’s because this is not really a knitting circle. The craft here is hacking, not knitting. The material is code and electronics, not textiles, and the tool is primarily openFrameworks, the C-based framwork for new media artists and other… well, creative engineers.

The first oF Syjunta is at Doberman in Münchenbryggeriet, Oct 30 2008.

>> openFrameworks for the tool (and openframeworks.cc/download for the download)

>> oF Syjunta for the event

The good people of Dånk! are organizing the first Dorkbot Gothenburg event. It starts in about 30 minutes, so chances are that if you’re reading about it here it’s too late. All I know is that Japanese artist Kanta Horio will be there.

If you are not familiar with Dorkbot, I think the tagline “people doing strange things with electricity” really says it all. It’s great to see that it’s now running in Gothenburg too. Dorkbot STHLM has not been very busy lately, but fortunately we have Fringe… where, as it happens, Kanta Horio will also show up, as well as Alex Berman (aka Nim) from Dånk!

Out there:

• Dånk! [daonk.org]
• Dorkbot [dorkbot.org]
• Fringe [fringe.nu]
• Kanta Horio [media.t-kougei.ac.jp/~horio/]
• Alex Berman / Nim [timebend.net] [myspace.com/niminalism] [nimations.com]

Just so you know, there will be a new edition of Electrohype in Malmö, Sweden, this fall (2008). The call for entries is out on the electrohype website, electrohype.org

Fringe is a recurring gathering of people with an interest in stuff like new media art, physical computing, creative engineering, VJ stuff, etc., here in Stockholm.

At a typical Fringe gathering, there are a number of presentations, often followed by some sort of performance or DJ/VJ set, and usually a bar of some kind. We try to strike a balance between art and technology, and between “senior” artists/designers/researchers and new talents. At some point we also plan to start arranging workshops and other events.

One of the key ideas of Fringe is that it arranged by the community, for the community. This hints that while we have (so far) never stopped anybody from coming, we do want the people who come to be prepared to present something at some point. This is also why Fringe events are not announced in any other way than by direct e-mail to the people “on the list”. With one exception - since Fringe gatherings are usually hosted by some other organization, whoever is hosting an event is free to invite more people to that particular event.

To learn more about Fringe, check out the Fringe website: fringe.nu

The image above is one of the student pieces shown at Fringe #0003 at Konstfack, by Christer Chytraeus. This is only the inner mechanism of a odd machine that keeps a plant hooked up to the Internet. The dark box at the bottom is actually a beautiful accordion, modified to work as a sort of mechanical lung supplying the plant with fresh air.

For the record, this Fringe has no affiliation whatsoever with the Fringe festivals started in Edinburgh, but it is a direct continuation of the Fringe that ran in Gothenburg a few years ago. Fringe is an initiative by the Interactive Institute Art & Technology Program (where I work, when I’m not on parental leave, which I am at the moment). The main guy pulling the Fringe in Stockholm is Alberto Frigo.

Node.stockholm is a one-month festival of new media arts-related stuff. Read all about it at the site - nodestockholm.se