Two projects from Lab3 are part of PIXELACHE festival on the Soumenlinna island in Finland: Laura Popplow and Tine Tillmann present their project FUNGIFICTION // FUNGUTOPIA in the exhibition of the festival. Jakob Penca and Lasse Scherffig will present the Flux Map Framework within the workshop „Mapping in Progress“.

A workshop of the › research project “Embodied Information” – ‘Living’ Algorithms and ‘Cellular’ Machines: Concepts and Images of ‘Converging Technologies’, discussing unconventional and non-classical notions of computation that treat physical or biological systems as computational systems.

› Meter Crawler by Keiko Takahashi is presented at another Make: exhibition in Tokyo. Make: in Hands will show the project from February 15th-28th.

Materials are a cetral topic of artistic practice, they are carrriers and media of ideas. In contrast, computers are thought to embody the immaterial. But with the advent of small pervasive computing devices that act in reactive environments, materiality unexpectedly gets a renaissance. The seminar teaches the basics of  programming and working with microcontrollers and then focuses on laboratory work and the creation and discussion of small experiments that probe the relation of code and materiality.

In digital signal processing, especially if applied to audio signals, two algorithms are of special importance: Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and convolution. The lecture presents both algorithms, focusing on their functioning and application.

The book covers theoretical and artistic positions of students and researchers at Lab3. Its central topic is the relation of code and material, of digital information and the material world. The projects presented do not only use algorithmic processes in order to convey an artistic idea but rather investigate the internal structure of digital computing machinery and its interpenetration with the analog world.

Tim Otto Roth introduces cellular automata, presents artistic projects dealing with those and discusses questions these systems raise for media theory and image science.

The StepperLab3 stepper motor library is made for our SensorAktor Shield but it works also with other motor driver IC’s like the popular L293. Compared to the standard Arduino stepper library we added some features for more convenient handling and getting most out of your stepper.

Karat by Sion Jeong is shown at Electrohype 2010, the sixth biennial for electronic art at Ystad Art Museum, Sweden. The piece has been developed in the seminar › Heavy Matter for ISEA2010 RUHR.

Keiko Takahashi will present her daily object creatures › Meter Crawler at MAKE: Tokyo Meeting 06 held at Tokyo Institute of Technology.