I spent the first couple nights in Ljubljana at the “#1 hippest hostel in the world” as determined by Lonely Planet. Since I’ve been stubbornly avoiding carrying any tourist guidebooks on this trip, I was unaware of this when I checked in. I just picked the closest hostel to the train station marked on the […]
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Kiberpipa: All our code are belong to you.
November 16th, 2008 · No Comments · Hacker culture, Photos, Slovenia, Tech-art, Technology, Travel
After the exhibition at the art gallery, most people went over to Kiberpipa (“Cyberpipe”, in English), the hacklab/group organizing the festival. Kiberpipa is almost as cool as C-base, but in a very different way. Where C-base has a very gritty, cyberpunk aesthetic, Kiberpipa is much more upscale, receiving funding from the European Union and some […]
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HAIP Day 2
November 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Free software, Hacker culture, Photos, Slovenia, Tech-art
Day two of the HAIP festival was mostly lectures. Kiberpipa is putting together a video archive of all the lectures from the festival, so you can watch them for yourselves there, there’s also text explanations from the HAIP program here. The first talk was by a woman named Eleonora Oreggia. She has an idea for […]
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HAIP Days 3&4
November 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Slovenia, Tech-art
The next couple days were a mix of lectures and performances. I’d kind of given up on my camera for the rest of HAIP, but there are photos of most of these things available on the Kiberpipa website. Day 3 is here, and Day 4 is here. Sheena Macrae talk: Wednesday was a lecture from […]
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HAIP day 100
November 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Slovenia, Tech-art, Technology
Friday was probably my favorite day as far as the lectures were concerned. The first presentation was from Anders Carlsson of the blog Goto80 (eye-searing color scheme warning). He talked about the 8-bit demoscene and about chip music. He gave the presentation on an actual Commodore 64, and showed off some demos from the early […]
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