************* We are organizing the II Technoshamanism Meeting in Berlin! The event will take place on Sunday, July 17 at TOP eV, Schillerpalais (Schillerpromenade 4 – Berlin) from 2pm to midnight. Do you remember our first encounter in Berlin? Once again, we are calling all the cyborgs, witches, heretics, technoshamans, programmers, hackers, artists, alchemists, Read more »
Video link to our talk on Baobáxia, the Galaxy of Baobab Trees Our talk is, of course, also on Baobáxia itself. The talk was scheduled late Sunday and that did affect the attendance, but the people who were there displayed a lot of interest in the system. On Saturday, we set up a booth and Read more »
At the upcoming FOSDEM, I’ll be presenting the Baobáxia system, previously mentioned on this blog quite some time ago. On the corresponding FOSDEM presentation page, the talk is described with these words: Baobáxia is a community-built project to connect about 200 Brazilian quilombos to assist the interchange and preservation of traditional, community-built culture. A special Read more »
I’ve been far too busy to write much here about my activities. What have I been working on? Free software. And permaculture and other things, but mainly free software. The last weeks, we’ve been working on organizing this year’s LibreOffice conference in Aarhus. As part of that, we’re organizing Denmark’s first LibreOffice hackfest ever in Read more »
The LibreOffice Conference for 2015 will take place in Aarhus, Denmark, as a collaboration between the Document Foundation, the Danish LibreOffice community, the FSFE local group and the municipality of Aarhus. Also involved are the local hacker space and (hopefully) other local free software groups. I will personally be involved as a community contact, i.e. as Read more »
I’m co-organizing this event, involving our hackerspace and the FSFE local group in Aarhus: Frank Karlitschek, creator of ownCloud, will give a talk centering on ownCloud, free software in the enterprise and data protection in a post-Snowden world. The talk will be followed by a discussion with the audience and a discussion panel consisting of: Read more »
One of the more important parts of the 1st Festival of Technoshamanism (previously covered here, here and here) was several points of collaboration with the local Pataxó Indians. The Pataxó is an indigenous people of about 12,000 people who live in the extreme south of the Brazilian state of Bahia, mainly in the area between Read more »
Many artists and theatre people participated in the 1st International Festival for Technoshamanism, and this fact conspired with the festival’s theme – the confluence of technology and shamanism – to create a number of interesting performances and happenings. Below is a selection of images which attempts to give an impression of a few of these Read more »
The opening night of the technoshamanism festival featured a dance with the local Pataxó Indians, and in fact a lot of interaction with these indigenous people. One of the days participants in the festival went to perform workshops in their nearby village, and another day we were all invited to a Pataxó wedding. These photos Read more »