The AMC2012 "Media a Go-Go Lab" is seeking proposals for Do-It-Yourself and Do-It-With Others work stations and skill-shares.
Also check out the general AMC2012 call for session proposals.
IMAGINE
At the center of the AMC galaxy, there is the non-stop Media a Go-Go Lab. It is as diverse as it is explorative—a radiating multidimensional dynamic space that transforms ideas into actions and remixes the energy of our creativity and collective memory into space and time!
BUT WHAT IS IT?
The Media a Go-Go Lab is a multidimensional zone devoted to hands-on and Do-It-Yourself and Do-It-With Others work stations and skillshares. Lab participants will learn media-making skills, collaborative design*, innovative communications tactics**, and build technology throughout the weekend. We will create opportunities to analyze, remix, and transform our current and future technologies! This dynamic space is where we put the walk to the talk at the AMC.
* collaborative design: groups or individuals working together with common goals to create a shared vision
** innovative communication tactics: new ways of shaping and framing messaging for your movement, using internet tools to cross bordersTYPES OF SESSIONS FOR THE MEDIA LAB
The Media a Go-Go lab stays open all weekend-long and houses stations that allow people to explore the skills they have picked up throughout the conference. Stations should engage participants in creative explorations and allow them to take technology into their own hands. In the past, media lab stations included: Linux/open source softwares, audio editing, video editing, online game design, radio broadcasting, social media tools, building radio transmitters, building computers, working on wireless mesh networks, and making homemade electronic instruments.
This is not a space for traditional panels or discussions. This is a space for hands-on experimentation and excitement!
We especially encourage sessions that:
- are appropriate for all ages
- demystify media and technology
- are accessible to people of all abilities and experience levels
- intersect with other topics that are being addressed at the AMC
- build the leadership of people traditionally excluded from technology
- allow people to imaging the future of media and technology
Proposals are due March 14. Submit your proposals at AMPTalk.
SOME STATIONS WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE HAPPEN:
- Arduino hardware and software hacking
- Electronics design and soldering
- How to build or fix a computer
- Beat making, audio editing, music production
- Photography stations for editing or re-mixing
- Film and video how-to and editing
- Design and visioning for future technology and media
- Alternative energy and green tech
- Collaborative design stations
- ...and things we can't yet imagine!