Pixelache Helsinki 08

Bricophone : Is it possible to build an independant mobile communication infrastructure not related to big mobile telephony companies and associated political power ? The bricophone project is an open source mesh network mobile communication device project just started few weeks ago...

www.bricophone.org with the support of www.bricolabs.net and NLnet Foundation www.nlnet.nl

CRASlab: an open source ressource center for interactive art learning:
How to learn interactive technologies ? How to discover and understand the reaction of serinsors, real time dataflow software, actuators and real time media diffusion ? The demo room for self learning of interactive technologies is an open source project. Short video visit here: public-access.org/archives/258

fluXtation : a low cost DIY open source hardware and software project for autonomous audio-video local and global broadcasting.
How to stream on the web with no knowledge on streaming technologies, how to mount a FM radio or TV studio all in a box ? the works on the fluXtation project have started few weeks ago... www.fluxtation.org

Bricophone, CRASlab and fluXtation are presented by Jean-Noël Montagné (FR), as a part of the Open hardware discussion event on Saturday 15th March.

Jean-Noël Montagné: French artist and activist born in 1963. Creates interactive installations with sensing technologies since 1991. Last installation: "Je te parlerai dans un reflet de lumière", 2006/2007, an interactive installation on the subject of the walls for separating rich and poor. Founder of the non-profit NGO "Art Sensitif " related to relations between art and science for interactive art. Founder and director of CRAS ressource center for interactive technologies in Paris-Saint Ouen. 

JNM is the pilot of the bricophone project, an open source project for an autonomous infrastructure for mobile communication, and also the pilot of the fluXtation project, an autonomous low cost media studio for media streaming, TV and FM broadcasting.

Children playing with sensors and sensitive floor in the CRAS demo room. Photo by Jean-Noël Montagné.