Oscar Abril Ascaso invited me to participate in his project Techformance which will take place around Murcia/Cartagena and will eventually be shown at ARCO Madrid, one of the biggest art fairs in Europe.
I’ve been invited to do a public performance with some citizens from Cartagena interested in trying out the Constraint City jacket in January. It was an interesting experience watching other people than me 
wearing the corset. Around eight people (3 women among them!) wore the corset and subjectively experienced an enhanced psycho-geographic walk through emblematic signs and ancient monuments in the maritime city of Cartagena!
The walk has been recorded and each progressively attacking network has been rendered into a Constraint City map of Cartagena.
A hub of participatory projects inviting visitors to the art fair and citizens in Murcia alike to take part in real time from February 11th to 16th 2009. All other selected works are presented on the Techformance website (both in english and Castellano). Take a look and contact me if you are around Madrid. I’ll be there from 11th till 13th of February!
The friendly and very supportive people from RIXC invited me to this year’s festival Spektropija in Riga/Latvia with the focus of artistic explorations within the invisible electromagnetic field surrounding us.
I performed a Constraint City walk yesterday and vola, here’s the KML file of my subjectively Riga Pain Derive (see below the map of Riga).
Apart from the exhibition which takes place in Riga’s Maklas Telpa, there’s a 2day conference announced from 17th October, performances and a workshop with the the title TEMPEST, the latter organized by no other than Martin Howse. Take a look on RIXC’s website for the full schedule.
I’ve been invited for another Constraint City Exploration in Gijon (Xixon), placed in the beautiful part of Spain, called Asturias. The map + video will be shown at Homo Ludens Ludens, an exhibition hosted by Laboral, on-site from 18.04 - 20.09.2008.
Furthermore, this weekend laboral will host a symposium exploring games as a critical element in our daily lives.
Walk along the Constraint Route by downloading this kml file
A new Constraint City Walk has taken place on_skin and on_map carried out by a Berlin resident on behalf of transmediale 08. The kml file can be found here!
Performance on 13/07/07 at V2 Rotterdam Eendrachtsstraat 10 during the Test_Lab PLAY evening.
PLAY AS A FORM OF SOCIAL INTERACTION HAS A RICH TRADITION IN VARIOUS BRANCHES OF THE ARTS. BUT IT WAS ONLY RECENTLY THAT HUMAN-CENTERED-TECHNOLOGY DESIGNERS REALIZED PLAY OFFERED INTERESTING NEW APPROACHES AND TECHNIQUES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR FIELD. THIS BRINGS THEM TOGETHER WITH CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS WHO EXPLORE PLAY BY EXPERIMENTING WITH A WIDE RANGE OF (OFTEN WEARABLE) HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACING TECHNOLOGIES. SUCH EXPERIMENTS OFTEN COMBINE A STRONG DIY ATTITUDE TOWARD TECHNOLOGY DESIGN WITH A DESIRE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE’S NAIVE OR INTUITIVE UNDERSTANDING OF TECHNOLOGY THROUGH PLAY.
