Wilfried from Socialfiction sent us this info about a new Crystalpunk event in Utrecht:

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CRYSTALPUNKS AT WORK: 11, 12 & 13 November

A Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture Event
Oudenoord 275, Utrecht, Netherlands

Saturday 12 November 15.00-18.00
Processing & Wiring Board Primer by Manuel Dahm Processing is a scripting tool, designed for teaching the basic of programming using a visual environment, that has become rapidly popular over the last 2 years. Making use of the fact that processing is open source other applications have extended its use. One of the examples being the Wiring boards, of which the workshop possess 5.

In true Crystalpunk fashion this primer will be hands-on, allowing complete novices to learn from the more experienced.

This workshop is free, but you might want to bring your laptop (and install the software before you come) if you have one.

http://processing.org

http://wiring.org.co

Sunday 13 November 15.00-18.00
Making It So – presentations by Pete Gomes, Paul Prudence, Inga Zimprich, Jo Walsh

September – December 2005, Utrecht
generated by socialfiction.org, produced by impakt.nl

Hidden in the former utility area of a vacant 13 floor office in Utrecht, the "Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture" will evolve an empty room from nothingness into unknown states of technological enhancement. Unlike the alphabet that always knows where it is going, this workshop does not.

why refer to crystals?
The inorganic strategies of the crystalpunk are both chemically and metaphorically informed by the lessons learned from the transformation from moleculline mayhem into crystalline order. Crystal growth is adaptive, particle-noise disrupts tessellation but the crystal works its way around it softly. Roomology as crystallography? The analogy with crystals finding form permeates every aspect of this workshop: the room is filled with latent possibility, the workshop seeds these powers laying dormant, what remains after 4 months is outward form pushed and moulded and beaten into shape by events and persons working inside the room with the material produced by their own every moves inside the room.

We do not care if participants don’t know anything useful, and likewise we will welcome you with as much enthusiasm if you do know something useful. We are not like an alphabet but we are neither a cheap bar: we do ask from our participants the desire to unwind their own what-if soft scenarios. If you only want free internet access Beelzebub will bite your head off and create content that has form as a main artery needing urgent medical attention.