From November 3rd until 11th 2008 the third biennal festival HAIP 08 will take place in Ljubljana, Slovenia. HAIP is International Multimedia Festival of Open Technologies and is organized by Zavod K6/4 - open multimedia center Kiberpipa from Ljubljana.

HAIP Festival puts on display multimedia art forms resulting from creative use of open technologies. HAIP is an acronym that stands for "Hack-Act-Interact-Progress". The festival features individuals and groups with a critical approach towards the technologies that surround us and shape our everyday environment. They generally use open technologies, either as a practical or an ideological choice. Modern practices of technology and creativity often refer to diverse possibilities and choices at the individual’s disposal - everybody is involved in the social progress and development. And if we take a moment to reflect on what we eat, how we communicate, who dictates how we connect, interact, protest, and participate, we quickly realize that it’s our turn.

The main line of presentation will focus on new art of free digital media - and the new media content that enabled it in the first place - while laying special emphasis on technical and legal aspects of new digital media with free access. The topic was selected with regards to the current time of political involvement in the changes of national strategies regarding the digitalization of mass media and the significant political, contentual and creative consequences thereof. This years festival theme is Hacktopia.

Festival will take place on several locations in Ljubljana featuring exhibitions and installations, performances, public space interventions in the centre of Ljubljana, lectures, club night and round table.

HAIP 08 will host over 40 artists on international level in cooperation with following partners: Monochrom (Vienna), Radio FRO (Linz), Time's Up (Linz) in Ciant (Prague). Programme curators and coordinators are: Daša Lakner (also festival director), Maja Smrekar, Luka Princic in Jaka Železnikar.

Entrance is free for all festival events except the club night at Club K4 (4 EUR).

You are kindly invited to join us on HAIP 08 from November 3rd - 11th and hack the future with us! Visit HAIP 08 site for more information!

Paraflows, the festival for digital art and cultures in Vienna, is progressing into the third round. By now, paraflows has been able to establish itself as a platform for the young, local scene of digital art and cultures, and this year it will expand on its position as an interface to already established international positions in media art. It will last from September 11th until 20th (the exhibition until October 19th). With the title UTOPIA, this year’s festival is following up last year’s topic of UN_SPACE. Starting with the already explored ‘non-spaces’, this year will take a prognostic glimpse at the future. Fantastic, longing, and gloomy visions are the tenor of the exhibition, the symposium and of the supporting programme.

A part at the exhibition will also be contributed by Kiberpipas production with two project introduced in last season: System Cassio:pia by Maja Smrekar (opening in November 2007) and Pufination by Robertina Sebjanic (opening in May 2008). You can find out more about the festival at www.paraflows.at.

From Linz to Vienna - see you!

From September 4th till 9th there will take place the legendary international Ars Electronica 2008 festival in Linz, Avstrija. This years theme is A NEW CULTURAL ECONOMY - The Limits of Intellectual Property.

Slovenian intermedia art will be presented by Kapelica.

Kiberpipa will participate at Mediadays conference organized by Radio FRO. Within the theme Open networks shaping society? Future in progress! Kiberpipa will present how open standards are supported its environment.

See you in Linz!

After a summer break, Kiberpipa is opening again on September 15th 2008. This will start Kiberpipas eight year of activites. We are inviting you to visit us in Ljubljana ob 6 Kersnikova Street (right above Cafe Metropol), which is close to the central train station. The programme of events (lectures, presentations, ... mostly in slovene, but also some in english) start in October, until then there is free internet available and the fantastic collection at Kiberpipa Computer Museum. Of course, coming here just to hang out, chat and socialize is not excluded :)

Before that, Kiberpipa team will attend Ars Electronica festival (September 4th - 9th in Linzu, Austria) where we will participate at Radio FRO Mediadays 2008 conference. You can also visit us on Paraflows 2008 festival (September 11th - October 24th, Vienna, Austria). In November, we invite you to join us on our third international multimedia festival of open technologies and art - HAIP 08 here in Ljubljana! Stay tuned!

Firefox 3's release, the release of new version of most popular opensource browser is knocking at the gates and to welcome it, we’re throwing a party. Kiberpipa and Information Science Students Association are organizing a big one-day event and an even bigger party! Since Slovenia is currently the head of the EU, we thought it would be a great idea to have the event up to scale. And, we’re not in it alone. With help of Mozilla and other sponsors, we’ll bring you something truly worthwhile.

The event will be on 24. June 2008 at Kiberpipa (6 Kersnikova Street, Ljubljana - Slovenia). It starts at 11:00 with press conference. At 15:00 there will be some interesting talks to feed your knowledge hunger, given by Mozilla staff (keynote by Tristan Nitot, the president od Mozilla Europe) and others.

The peak of the day will be, of course, the party starting at 21:00. Finally the time to relax and mingle, accompanied by live DJ beats and plenty of people to talk to. There will be plenty to drink and plenty to eat. We’ll provide you with many opportunities to network and meet new people. Call it a revolution in the offline social networking! :) Need we say more?

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With support from Mozilla and sponsors, we’ll make this a truly memorable day! We invite you to join us and celebrate the launch of Firefox 3, mingle, have fun and meet plenty of interesting people!

For more information, visit official event website: http://www.kiberpipa.org/firefox/

Contact: firefox at kiberpipa.org

Pufis represent microorganisms living in an open ecosystem, while the collection of objects functions as a sensitive sensory network. The visitor is subsumed into the artificially produced "biosphere" through active sensor-based interaction. Pufination is incomplete without interaction. There's no leading role, we're all just cohabiting. The project thus highlights our relationship to other life as an important factor to every individual's own survival. In Pufination, we find ourselves inside a simulated projection of our everyday. Decentralised control, close stimulus response and adherence to simple rules – this is what links robots and visitors in the Pufination.

Pufi robots are based on the Arduino platform. They communicate with each other by a wireless network and with people by touch, sound, light and vibration.

Idea, concept, design: Robertina Šebjanic
Programming, advice: Luka Frelih
Technical realization: Alojzij Sinur in Janž Verbancic
Production lead: Daša Lakner
Produced by: Kiberpipa (Err0r)

You are kindly invited to the opening to Cafe Metropol (above Kiberpipa on Kersnikova Street 6, Ljubljana) on Thursday, May 15th at 9 p.m..

Pufination is supported by Ministrstvo za kulturo RS, Mestna obcina Ljubljana - Oddelek za kulturo in ŠOU v Ljubljani

In november 2008, Kiberpipa (Cyberpipe) is organizing the third edition of biennial festival of open technologies and modern-art practice HAIP.

Artist, theorists and creative engineers are kindly invited to participate. Call for applications is open until 21st April 2008. The theme of this year's festival is Hacktopia.

All information is available on www.kiberpipa.org/haip

This time we are "hacking" utopia on HAIP!

We invite you to Spletne urice. This week we will host presentation by Brian King titled The Firefox Desktop.

As traditional Desktop applications move into the browser, Firefox is leading the way in enabling Web developers. This talk will discuss the opportunities to hang your own UI off the Firefox chrome, but mostly will delve deep into the opportunities for Web developers to work with content to create richer Web applications as JavaScript moves from 1.7 to 2.0 in the upcoming Firefox 3.


Brian King is a coauthor of Creating applications with Mozilla, presently he develops FotoFox for Mozilla Corporation.

Wednesday 14. march at 19.00 Presentation will be in english!