MindTrek Newsletter 3/2009

NOKIA UBIMEDIA AWARDS FOR INNOVATIVE AND UBIQUITOUS MEDIA

Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Award invites makers of digital media to generate ideas and develop new innovative ubiquitous media products and services. The most innovative products coming from artists, practitioners, researchers and the industry are awarded with a price sum of 7.000 Euros. Find more info at http://mindtrek.org/ubimedia, and be sure to deliver by 7th August.

WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY IN MINDTREK

Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz from CuteCircuit are coming to MindTrek. CuteCircuit is a Fashionable Technology company that creates design excellence and beauty in the fields of Wearable Technology and Interaction Design. CuteCircuit is the first company to merge wearable and telecommunication technology to create emotionally rich experiences for consumers in the fashion, sport and communication markets. Francecsa and Ryan are going to show us examples of their amazing products like the Hug Shirt.

Read more about CuteCircuit: http://www.cutecircuit.com

APPS FOR DEMOCRACY FINLAND COMPETITION

The rules and other important information for the Apps For Democracy competition is published in the website. There are several awards in the Apps for Democracy Finland competition. The total award sum of 13 000 € is devided between the Idea, Library and Implementation categories and the Honorable Mention awards.

Read more at: http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/democracy_finland

MINDTREK ANIMAL OF THE YEAR 2009 IS THE ANT

You have voted the ANT as MindTrek Animal of the Year 2009. So this means that Annika Wiklund-Engblom is the lucky one that will get a free two-day ticket to the MindTrek Conference on Oct 1-2.

The arguments that won you over are the following: "The ant is a great representative of social media; the prosumers and participatory designers of the anthill. Each ant is important and contributes with its own part in the social system. Together they build infrastructures in endless patterns. The ant queen symbolizes the theme, which pulls the ants together much like any open source structure."

The ant will appear as a visual mascot of MindTrek 2009.

REGISTRATION HAS BEGUN!

Registration for the MindTrek conference (Oct 1-2) and ACM Academic MindTek (Sep 30, + Oct 1-2) has started, and people have begun to ensure their place at the number one digital event of the year. Be amongst the smart ones and register now: http://www.mindtrek.org/2009/registration

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See you at MindTrek!

MindTrek Team