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I’m in Amsterdam, NL working at NIMK/Montevideo with Yolande Harris, who is currently Montevideo’s Artist In Residence. She has a project called Sun Run Sun which is about sonifying navigation data, in particular GPS data.

I have been called in to help write some Pure Data patches for this project. The patches need to run with PDa on a Gumstix computer.

In November last year I gave an artist talk at Dorkbot Valencia. It looks like Diego has put some photos online from the talk: wicked :-)

I <3 NZ electronica :-)

between Now and Then I have been:

• to Barcelona, ES, to visit Chris, celebrate her birthday, and generally hang out and not write much code (even though we intended to write lots..)
• to Amsterdam, NL, to hang out with n.i.p, give a talk at STEIM (incl. video), meet Yolande Harris who is doing some super interesting things with sonifying navigation technologies old + new;
• to Eindhoven, NL, to perform at TAC on a freezing cold Wednesday to a crowd of about six people, then to give a talk at the following night in the Van Abbemuseum to a crowd of about four people;
• to London, UK for Christmas;
• to Berlin, DE for the 24th Chaos Communications Congress, which was amazing, then to go stay with Pix and talk code and veganism, and meet up with my friend the documentary filmmaker Simon Burgin from Wellington and try to convince him to stay in Europe rather than going back to Wellies;
• to Bremen, DE to stay with Kjen Wilkens, do some work on MailGarden and generally lay low for a bit..

So that’s me for now.. I’m looking at going and doing a bit of helping out on a project in Amsterdam next week, and then there might be a couple of projects in Lisbon, with in between a visit to Paris to stay with another friend.

Things are still coming along, slowly but surely.

Till next time,
much love + be well
Damian