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Jean-Noël Montagné is a visual artist. He has been creating interactive responsive installations since 1992. He founded the Art Sensitif, a non profit organisation in 1999
in Nice, on the project to gather artists, engineers, scientists and cultural mediators
around responsive and interactive arts. His visual art takes place in public and urban
areas, trying to rehabilitate global/local perception and critic sense for the citizen.

Rob Van Kranenburg is an innovation and media theorist involved with negociability strategies of new technologies and artistic practice, predominantly ubicomp and rfid
(radio frequency identification), the relationship between the formal and informal in
cultural and economic policy, and the requirements for a sustainable cultural economy.
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Date: 9am Tuesday 23rd September
Bring: your laptop (not neccessary)

The Open source washing machine project:
- The sociological context ( almost 2 billion women washing by hand, hard work, long
hours, painfull work)
- The economical context. sometimes no machines, no water, no energy, no knowledge
on technology, no possibility for girls to touch to technologies. Time wasted for other activities (for example: 7 persons family in Congo= 20 h per week on the washing by hand)
- The ecological context: water, washing ingredients with plants, energy etc

Concept of the project:
- Reinvent the technological systems for washing clothes, in accordance to the local
context and technical, economical, ecological possibilities; (systems by vibrations
mechanical but also with amplifiers and music !!!), mostly, with wood and recycled
materials, DIY windmills etc)
- Organize workshops so women can build and repair their machine themselves, and
manage technology in general. Women can learn how to organise workshop to disse-
minate the idea.

Our grandmothers remember how the washing machine arrival was a revolution...

Cost: FREE!!