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Uit Puntkom

puntKom is a mix of crispy lectures, tasty workshops, bite-sized performances and yummy demos. In short, a meeting place for you (yes, You!), passionate about media, culture, design and technology!

puntKom is a series of informal meetings (each second Thursday of the month) organised by the docents & students of Communication & MultiMediaDesign of the Media & Design Academy.

• NEXT puntKom

11.03.2010 - Your textile or mine? ....A workshop on smart, interactive & social textiles...

The fourth puntKom will be a hands-on evening on smart, interactive & social textiles.

Two parallel workshops will be organised: Wendy van Wynsberghe (BE - Constant vzw - http://bit.ly/csKrsc) will provide for a practical insight in the creation of low-tech high-fun smart – interactive - social textiles.

The other workshop will be lead by Berit Greinke (GE - http://textileandsound.com/ & http://www.beritgreinke.com/). In her work Greinke tries to adress other senses than only the visual or the tactile when working with (or wearing) textiles. She will moderate a creative brainstorm, followed by a workshop starting from the tools (like an Arduino-based light-scanner) she developed in her artistic work.

The workshops are free, but registration is obliged! (We can only allow 35 persons to register for the two workshops!!)

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What can you expect from a puntKom-evening:

• 1, 2, 3... interesting speakers

Talking on a topic which will tickle your brain and will make you crave for more creative ...euh... stuff! (we hope)

• some tools, work-in-progress,... coming directly from the medialabs of C-md!

(Come see the new tools/technologies of the future! If you're a VC first contact me :-)

• maybe a workshop or some nerdy demo, but definitely a bit of crispy snacks, a refreshing drink (Thanks Nascom!) and young media talent!

They are not that good looking, but hey, they can talk code and will design your next smartphone so it should be worth it.

When & Where

The next puntKom is planned for the 11th of March 2010. We start at 18.45h and we will wrap it up somewhere near 22.00h.

puntKoms are held at the Media & Design Academy in Genk (that's Genk, NOT Ghent. Yes, we have a football team...and a design academy. Neh.).

The official address is C-mine 5 in Genk, but, as this is a fairly new street you will probably best set your GPS device to Evence Coppéelaan and follow the red road 'MDA' signs. The building is located nearby the highway E314 and there is a lot of free parking space.