PICNIC'09

Today is the second day of picnic and I am glad to have received the time and the space to actually blog something about this cross-medial event (www.picnicnetwork.org) which I have been graciously given access to by Kitty Lering (one of the organizers) to examine what JAM would be able to do at this conference next year.

Yesterday (the 23rd) JAM was supporting the efforts of waag society in the Augmented city and the moneylab workshops. A great learning, because the results were difficult to present to a large conference audience at the end of a long day, without the cooperation of the stage director team handling the cameras. No added value during the picnicbites whatsoever...good lesson.

The money workshop did have an alluring visual problem in the fact that the information which was dropped by Bernard Lietaer and others talking about alternative monetary systems was undersold by a lot of textually oriented powerslides but a damn good verbal story. If this story needs to be told and remembered...it will need better visual representation. A job for JAM I would say...

The second day of picnic imprinted more on the soul... mainly because the people who were talking were marketeers or playful designers. My notes of the talks that I was able to join are on flickr.

Today it has been nice to talk with people about realtime content and combine it with silly sun filled moments outside and inspiring explorations with Martien inside.

I am getting my clues together and after tomorrow I will know how to go on... towards that bigger picture!

d.