Entries tagged ‘ikspin’
Last month I travelled to Stockholm to give a lecture at Södertörn University. Entitled Building Installations in Five Days (and a bit) it discussed the main takeaways from the Hacker camps run by Mediamatic at PICNIC:
- Simplify, simplify, simplify, because there’s only five days and because it’s about the real value of the experience.
- Constraints are freeing, they limit what you can attempt, so you can actually build your installation.
- Have a Plan B, so you focus on what you can do in Plan A, and never even need Plan B.
- Share your shit, shared brainstorming, shared problem solving, shared code.
- Find a mentor, for experienced outside feedback.
- Get a support team, so you don’t have to run to the hardware store yourself.
These takeaways are illustrated by actual projects undertaken in the past three years, with a focus on the ikSpin, a frisbee game created by Eelco Wagenaar and myself.
