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Nortd Labs
Date and place of birth
Founded in 2006
Year(s) of residency and/or fellowship
2012–13, Research Resident
Members
Addie Wagenknecht, Stefan Hechenberger

Nortd Labs a.k.a. NOR_/D is an international research and development collaborative dedicated to the merging of open source art, architecture, software and system design. NORTD Labs is also a studio of creative thought that engages science, art and design.

Historically, NORTD Labs has developed open-source hardware such as CUBIT in 2007, which has been built and used by thousands of people, labs, hacker-spaces, and universities worldwide. NORTD Labs work is released under various open licenses.

According to co-founder Addie Wagenknecht, NORTD Labs “wants to change how people create, build and consume objects. Living in a software/internet powered world we forget about how physical products are created. We want to allow makers to feel empowered and to lose the black box feel of closed systems.”

NORTD lab’s commitment is to support open values and the public domain through the use of open licenses, support for open entrepreneurship, and the admonishment of copyright and intellectual property patents in exchange for support of open licenses.

Although NORTD Labs work is typically highly technical in nature, they define themselves as artists, not engineers.

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OPEN(ART) –CREATIVE PLATFORMS FOR THE OPEN WEB

Open(Art) was a joint initiative launched by Eyebeam and Mozilla to support creativity at the intersection of art and the open web. It offers a unique opportunity for artists and technologists to collaborate on work that catalyzes participation on a global scale, and engages audiences through innovation, transparency, and utility.

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“Making all of the tools better pushes up what can be built. The better the tools are, the more complex the projects.” 

BOMfu is a collaborative web repository for open hardware projects. It aims to increase the ease of use and quality for the “bill of materials” or “BOM”- the list of raw materials required to build a finished product. The goal is to open up new and more complex forms of open hardware creation.

BOMFu-Beta-Thon on July 13th was for open hardware developers and enthusiasts who helped create a new system of sharing BOMs. Following an introduction to the BOMfu platform, participants created accounts and beta tested this brand new system.

Eyebeam models a new approach to artist-led creation for the public good; we are a non-profit that provides significant professional support and money to exceptional artists for the realization of important ideas that wouldn’t exist otherwise. Nobody else is doing this.

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