Sorry for any cross posting... Zero Dollar Laptop at dorkbotlondon 17 March 2010. Hi there, Tonight some of the Furtherfield (www.furtherfield.org) crew, Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett and Olga Panades, Jake Harries from Access Space (www.access-space.org/) will be at Dorkbot - talking about the Zero Dollar Laptop Workshops, and the project itself. The Zero Dollar Laptop Project aims to change the way we all think about technology. Workshops have been running in London since January 2010 with clients of St Mungo’s charity for homeless people. We are recycling hardware, breaking Windows and installing Free and Open Source Software to build media laptops and create music, graphics and video for distribution over the Internet. Participants will leave the project with street-smart technical knowledge and a wireless enabled media laptop, classier than any shiny power-book. The Zero Dollar Laptop is a recycled computer, running Free Open Source Software (FOSS) that is fast and effective- now and long into the future. http://www.furtherfield.org/zerodollarlaptop/ --------------------------------------- Also presenting at Dorkbot tonight is furtherfield's current artist in residence - Danja Vasiliev. http://www.http.uk.net/residencies/danja.shtml A Russian born computer artist currently living between Berlin and Rotterdam. Working with diverse methods, technologies and materials Danja (http://k0a1a.net/) ridicules the contemporary affection for digital life and questions the global tendency for cyborgination. Co - creator of the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - http://suicidemachine.org Netless - to be without the net, to not have an internet connection - http://k0a1a.net/netless/ Time: 19:00-22:00, 17 March 2010 Where: Limehouse town hall, the boxing club, limehouse town hall, 646 Commercial Road, E14 7HA (directions below) More info about other guests tonight here: ........................................................................ .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ ........................................................................ ********** * To alter your subscription settings on this list, log on to Subscriber's Corner at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html * To unsubscribe from the list, email [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and the following text in the body of the message: SIGNOFF WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE