Technology Tinkers

On Friday 28/9 at 20.00 the Frown Tails presents an evening with guests MzTek, Technology will save us and Fun in numbers. These are three of the groups visiting Athens on the occasion of the Athens Plaython. The artists will present several past and ongoing projects and will begin a discussion on the role of technology and DIY applications as a means of creation, and the value and ethics of craftmanship.


The MzTEK is a nonprofit group based in London, with the aim of encouraging women artists to enhance their technical skills in the areas of new media, technology and art through computer. Featuring works by leading artists designers and technologists, organize workshops, discussions, and sessions of experimentation in Victoria & Albert Sackler Centre, Watermans and Space. http://www.mztek.org/

The team Technology Will Save Us, based in London offers the public the opportunity to learn to make objects, utilizing the creativity and ingenuity through technology. The aim is to mark the creation of a technology accessible and understandable to the public. "The craftsman is proud that she makes, and cherishes, while the consumer discards things that are perfectly serviceable in his restless search for new"

Richard Sennett, The Culture of the New Capitalism
http://technologywillsaveus.org/

Group Fun In Numbers working on interactive games the spring of 2008. He has created over ten original applications, which have been presented at international scientific conferences, technology exhibitions and events open to the public with great acceptance. The platform Fun in Numbers and games based on it have won awards, including three international conferences (MASS '08, Atlanta, Georgia - ACE '09 Athens, IoT '10 Tokyo, Japan) as the best demonstrations of the system, while the platform reported ektheiastika approved forms with more prominent MIT Technology Review (Φεβρουάριος 2010, "The Future of Gaming: The Hot Potato Experience"). http://funinnumbers.eu