AXIOM Lab at Open Hardware Europe Summit / Openism Festival

The 19th of May 2016 marks the starting point for Coded Cultures: Openism. The festival center is located in a former police inspection in the heart of Vienna and lots of events will take place there between 19th-29th of May 2016. Within this center AXIOM hosts the AXIOM Open Cinema Lab. So what is this event? Coded Cultures: Openism is an art festival without an exhibition. It invites people to interact, discuss and get involved. The focus of this years issue is to debate concepts of openness, particularly open hardware and open technologies and their impact on art, science and society. It does so through experimental settings of workshops, labs, artistic interventions and the symposium Open Hardware Europe Summit. Coded Cultures: Openism is hosted by RIAT - Research Institute for Arts and Technology. The AXIOM Open Cinema Lab features hands on workshops and demos with AXIOM Beta - shooting interviews and playing games running directly on the camera hardware. Join us and 3D print your own camera enclosure components. And for the very first time we will also do workshops on shooting and developing and editing analog films with special guests flown in from Belgium.

But there is a lot more to experience during the time of the festival. Come and repair any device that doesn’t work anymore with the German artist Hannes Waldschütz and this way practice a new form of civil disobedience in our throw-away society. And if Hannes can’t help you, just walk over to Spanish artists Víctor Mazon Gardoqui’s and Pablo Vejo Gallo’s audio repair lab and maybe you arrived with a broken blender and go home with a functioning drum machine. Or be part of a political intervention and edit Wikipedia together with Mz* Baltazar’s Lab and Art+Feminism, or print your own zine (it’s the cool word for an artsy magazine) in the Open Publishing Lab using the beautiful aesthetic of riso-prints, or create a pirate map with Australian artist Josh Harle, or finally find out what the fuck cryptocurrencies are in the crypto-lab, or…. You see there is a lot to experience. Find out more under: codedcultures.com Last but hardly least: the Open Hardware Europe Summit. On the 28th of May at the Austrian Museum of Applied Arts & Contemporary Art (MAK), national and international speakers will debate open hardware and AXIOM will be represented there to exemplify advantages and challenges of building a highly developed open hardware tool, and what makes it so difficult to do just that. The Open Hardware Europe Summit a is a critical symposium to debate the cultural, political and societal relevance of open hardware and maker culture and their pertinence for science, education and art. Some of the greatest developer’s, thinkers, artists and scientists in this field get together to discuss this topic. Speakers include: Michael Weinberg, president of the Open Hardware Association US, Bilal Ghalib, entrepreneur, activist and maker establishing collaborative making spaces in America and the Middle East, David Cuartielles, one of the founders of the arduino project, Tarek Loubani, Canadian emergency physician who works in the Gaza strip and Canada, Madeline Gannon and more. Find out more at openhardware.me and codedcultures.com