A single thought can trigger fireworks of electrical signals in the brain. Since the revolution of Neuroscience around 80 years ago, EEG allows the monitoring of the brain without performing surgery. This has opened a whole new horizon to medical research but also artists started to making their stance.

This workshop focused on the development of generative design tools inspired by parametric architecture and product design techniques. The three dimensional modular pieces were fabricated in real life with laser cutters and then folded and sticked by hand.

By the availability of drones on the consumer market, a new wave of discussion on the impacts of surveillance technology on modern life erupted. In parallel artists discovered choreographies of drones as an aesthetical medium for critical reflection of surveillance.

Once you start to consider the world around, you inevitably realise you are just an incredibly small grain in the universe. The beauty of the universe is the result of the behaviour of infinite elements that play as an instrument in the symphony of creation.

At the biennial ‘vvvv keynote’ makers, contributors and users of the software toolkit ‘vvvv’ present their latest work. We got an overview of what happened in the time past since the last gathering in 2010 and heard what’s to come next.

NODE13’s open hackspace was the central meeting place for the international creative coders participating the festival.