Open source hardware is not just about catering for niche applications and marginal use cases and many projects are concerned with creating devices for everyday use. For the sixth OSHUG meeting we'll have presentations on two projects targeted at the home and one that doesn't even involve electricity!

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EVICTED is a temporary large-scale outdoor video installation which is exploring alternative uses of empty spaces in office buildings in the City. Visually, it reflects on the nature of these spaces as places of gamble in the financial world and proposes use that is beneficial to wider community beyond material gain.

Evicted is part of This is not a gateway:

21-24 OCTOBER 2010, LONDON

HANBURY HALL, 22 HANBURY STREET, E1 6QR

Bethnal Green Library is in an attractive Victorian building which was originally part of a lunatic asylum. Its old enough to be a proper library with dark wooden shelves and panelling.

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Each month, our performance/art/technology collective The People Speak
organises a Talkaoke session (www.talkaoke.com) to try out new
talk-show hosting talent, demonstrate and test our latest
conversational technologies, and have a good, public, open-ended chat
about *stuff*.

This week, we are unveiling some cool new features of our live
conversational archiving software, and have a few hot new hosts to
test out. We are also planning the construction of an all-new
light-weight Talkaoke Table, so any audio/electronics mavins who want

I am an artist based in Sofia, Bulgaria and London, UK.
My work involve technology and new media.
My current interest is focused on exploring human perceptions and abilities for communication trough the advantages (and disadvantages) of technology.
More about my art work at www.dourmana.com
As a co-founder and chairman of InterSpace Association (www.i-space.org) I have been involved in production and co-production of many art events and international projects.

Ambient Information Systems (AIS) came into being as an intermedia hub and website, www.ambientTV.NET, in 1999, emerging out of founding artist-activist Manu Luksch’s interest in extending the medium of film using the Internet. Under her co-directorship with Mukul Patel, it has since developed into a crucible for wider critical, interdisciplinary practice that takes numerous forms – the devising of tools, the creation of frameworks, the instigation of processes.

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