[Imc-makerspace] Fwd: Fwd: [IMC] FW: Gareth Branwyn In-Residence at Allen Hall 10/3-10/7

[Brian Duggan]

Editor-in-chief of Make: Online, former editor of Boing Boing, Gareth
Branwyn, is going to be Allen Hall's Guest-in-Residence next week. I
plan on attending one of these and picking his brain about hackerspaces.

Damn, they all look fun.. I would love to go to the Monday discussion
and Tuesday 'bot build. The 'bot build would be a great project to bring
back to the Makerspace.

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Subject: 	Fwd: [IMC] FW: Gareth Branwyn In-Residence at Allen Hall 10/3-10/7
Date: 	Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:24:54 -0500
From: 	Brian Dolinar <briandolinar at gmail.com>
To: 	Brian Duggan <bcdugga at gmail.com>



Looks like something you would go for. BD

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Date: Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:05 PM
Subject: [IMC] FW: Gareth Branwyn In-Residence at Allen Hall 10/3-10/7
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Please forward!



Gareth Branwyn

Guest-in-Residence at Unit One/Allen Hall 10/3-10/7

* *

*Gareth Branwyn *is a writer and professional amateur whose work focuses
on *DIY media, technology, art, cyberculture, and alternative culture*.
He's the author or editor of over twelve books, including the /Happy
Mutant Handbook/, /Jamming the Media/, and /The Absolute Beginner's
Guide to Building Robots/.



/All events are free and open to the public and take place in the South
Rec Room of Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory, Urbana. /



Sunday, October 3

7pm - */Marginalia: My Life Along the Edges/*

Stories of Gareth's growing up at Twin Oaks Community, his time at Patch
Adam's Gesundheit Institute, his involvement with the punky zine culture
of the 1990s, his part in the birth of cyberculture and the beginnings
of Mondo 2000, Wired, and Boing Boing, and his current work as
Editor-in-Chief of Make: Online and in the greater DIY/hacker world.



Monday, October 4

7pm -/ /*/MAKE vs. The Blob/*//

A slideshow and discussion of the maker movement and Maker Faires and
how they are acting as an antidote to mainstream mall mono-culture (aka
“The Blob”) and passive consumerism. We'll look at and talk about some
of the more amazing hackers and makers out there and some of the
projects and products that are growing out of hacker communities, such
as MakerBot (an affordable 3D printer), hackerspace space balloon
projects, and citizen science work.



Tuesday, October 5

7pm - */Junkbots, BEAMbots, and Arty Robotic Plantlife/*//

A hands-on night of building super-simple autonomous critters that meet
the common definition of robot, can deftly navigate a space, but have no
brains whatsoever. We'll build the bots while talking about the general
“school” of bottom-up, behavior-based robotics. Gareth is the author of
/The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Building Robots/.



Wednesday, October 6

7pm - */Why William Blake is Punk Rock!/*

An evening devoted to one of Gareth's missions in life – convincing
people that William Blake is not some crazy, impenetrable 18^th century
Christian poet and artist who couldn't paint very well, but rather, one
of history's most forward-thinking artists and astute diviners of human
psychology. Blake (1757-1827) was a proto-anarchist, proto-feminist,
proto-zine publisher, proto-multimedia artist (some have even argued
“hypermedia” artist), a radical visionary, and someone whose work
prefigured modern psychology by centuries. His clarion call to plumb the
depths of human imagination and creativity sound more loudly today than
ever. Come and discover why MAKE declared him “Patron saint of makers.”



Thursday, October 7

7pm - */The Happy Mutant Handbook/*//

In the late '90s, Gareth co-edited /The Happy Mutant Handbook:
Mischievous Fun for Higher Primates/, along with the other editors of
Boing Boing. This fun “handbook” covered culture jamming, reality
hacking, DIY science, technology, and culture, and the cultivation of
something called the “perpetual novelty brain jack”.  On this night,
we'll discuss the concepts behind the book, the current state of these
ideas, and see how flash mobs, zombie walks, seed bombing, electronic
graffiti, and groups like Improv Everywhere are current expressions of
happy mutantism. We will also make *LED Throwies*, while we talk, which
are really cool LED magnet graffiti lights that are super easy and fun
to make.



About Gareth Branwyn:

*Gareth Branwyn *is a writer and professional amateur. He's a self-
described “improvisational life-artist” whose work focuses on DIY media,
technology, art, and alternative culture. He has covered tech- and
cyberculture for Wired, Boing Boing, Esquire, the Baltimore Sun, and
numerous other publications. He's the author or editor of over twelve
books, including the /Happy Mutant Handbook/ (with the editors of Boing
Boing), /Jamming the Media/ (the late '90s book about the coming
personal media revolution), and /The Absolute Beginner's Guide to
Building Robots/. He's currently the Editor-in-Chief of Make: Online.
For ten years, he was the Assistant Director of Patch Adam's Gesundheit
Institute.





Laura Haber

Program Director of Unit One

University of Illinois

68 Allen Hall MC-050

1005 W. Gregory Drive

Urbana, IL 61801

(217) 244-2317

lhaber at illinois.edu <mailto:lhaber at uiuc.edu>




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