Author Archives: Georgia

Call for Abstracts: Media Art Histories 2013

By Georgia | Published: November 20, 2012

Here’s a great reason to finally plan that trip to Latvia you’ve been putting off. The group RIXC, The Centre for New Media Culture will hold their Media Art Histories 2013: RENEW conference in conjunction with the ”Art+Communication” festival in Riga, Latvia October 8-11, 2013. RIXC is new media artists collective, events producer and publisher that puts out the [...]

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Paid Internships to get women into Open Source

By Georgia | Published: November 19, 2012

This is an awesome opportunity to get more women working in open source. The graphic above gives the basic outline, but there are many more details on the info page here. It’s an opportunity to get more women working on Free and Open Source Software. Numerous companies working in this field recognize the talent and [...]

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Photo Costume Contest Winners

By Georgia | Published: November 15, 2012

Thanks again to everyone who made it out to our Ghost in the Machine Halloween. We have a few winners from our photo costume contest, with the first place going to the Ravin’ Raven hand-made by Kathryn Sclavi! Congrats! Kathryn will get to choose from our prizes of

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BarCamp Philly is Tomorrow

By Georgia | Published: November 9, 2012

If you have an interest in art, design, technology, science, and want to meet others in Philly with those interests, you should definitely check out BarCamp tomorrow! BarCamp is an “unconference” which means any attendee can propose a talk to fit in multiple time slots throughout the day. The day’s schedule is set in the [...]

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Ghost in the Machine Halloween

By Georgia | Published: November 1, 2012

Don’t know about you, but we didn’t get enough Halloween this year. If you feel the same, come dance your ass off at our first ever Ghost in the Machine Halloween! There will be lasers, interactive installations, body paint, and a costume photo contest. Winners choose between a free one month membership at the Sculpture [...]

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Last Chance to see Science Per Forms Today

By Georgia | Published: October 28, 2012

Pay no attention to those pesky weather reports! Come to the last showing of Science Per Forms today at 2:30 pm. It’s been a wonderful collaboration between The Hacktory, Carbon Dance Theatre, and robotics experts from IK Studio and UPenn’s Robotics department. You don’t want to miss it! Did we mention there are dancing robots? [...]

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Hacking the Gender Gap in DC today

By Georgia | Published: September 22, 2012

We’re heading down to DC today to present our Hacking the Gender Gap activity with HacDC. We’ll be giving a short presentation and then collecting more stories of people’s experiences with technology – the good and the bad – to see what we can learn from the group about where the gender gap arises. Read [...]

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Nerd it Up

By Georgia | Published: September 18, 2012

Do you believe that nerdy skills are superpowers? The folks over at Nerdkicks podcast sure do (and of course we do at The Hacktory, duh). Former volunteer at The Hacktory Mindy Holahan kindly invited me on her podcast this week to talk about The Hacktory, hackerspaces, making things, soft circuits, and lots more! Check out [...]

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Announcing Science Per Forms this October

By Georgia | Published: September 13, 2012

We’re very excited to announce the dates for an amazing collaboration we’ve been working on all summer. The Hacktory has been working with Carbon Dance Theatre, and students and faculty from UPenn’s Immersive Kinematics program on a dance performance that explores humans, robots and cyborgs. Yep, cyborgs, as in Donna Haraway’s manifesto about how all of us are [...]

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Got a Makerbot? Submit a Photo for this Coffee Table Book

By Georgia | Published: September 12, 2012

Here’s a quick call for photo submissions from David Neff, who’s been making a coffee table book featuring photos of people with their Makerbots. (Makerbots are a brand of 3-D printers). David did a tour of hackerspaces and people’s workshops this spring to collect photos, but would still like more photos of individuals: I would [...]

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