A couple guys from Zeitgeist Portugal popped up to hear about our project.

V* and Gil also showed up to do some personal projects.

Me, i was trying to get some sound to upgrade our Discardable Beauty. And figure out something cool to show off at Kanpai Coimbra next week.

Then, suddenly, a couple of appearances has forced us to establish this very day the xDA diocesis of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

We also have a mini-site with bios of the authors and descriptions of the works, temporarily hosted here. Not only of the works present at the exhibition but also a few others developed during the residency that couldn’t be exhibited by one reason or another. Check them out!

Big thanks are in order to everyone at O Espaço do Tempo for the opportunity we had, and all the in loco support to our needs, you rock.

A few folks seem to be missing in action. Mauricio is back with some news from Interactivos to lend us a hand on pending projects. Mónica and Pedro are still working on B-wind!. Margarida working on his robot Freddy. Victor Silva rehearsing his The Last Words of Dominico. Victor and Marco working on Discardable Beauty. Guilherme finishing his Róbotica Criativa works. And me finishing up Meta Gen Haiku. Catarina and Joel should also show up tomorow with their Micro Dérive.

Website with more info on the presented projects should go online soon. In the meantime if you should show up on Monday the 12th July in Montemor-O-Novo for the exhibit. We will have 7 projects installed under exhibition until the 31st July, and 2 liveacts presented on the exhibition day 12th July.

In the meantime we’ll leave you with some important t-shirt quote material we have recently acquired:
“48 horas são 6 dias de trabalho, em turnos de 8 horas”
“Eu só faço projection mapping quando estou bêbado”
“Não tens pincel para isso. Vai antes de rolo.”
“Queres falar ao telefone? Fala aí! *slap*”

Starting with a 30 minute projection of the following works of xDA members:
Outside demo by Ill
fr-045: life after demo by Farbrausch
Taxesss demo by Nothing
dp demo by Nothing
Harmony intro by UVA
Sunflower demo by VS*
Float demo by V*
Allemagne slideshow by S*
Function2Form slideshow by V*

V* also took some time to help out IN ANIMA with some projection for their dance performance.

Tiago showcased Graffiti Spines on a huge façade.

And ps gave away some Enough Records flyers, free music for free people!

Pictures should follow soon.

AZ Residency at Espaço Tempo has resumed it’s course on the 14th June 2010, and we’ve been kicking it real with some hardcore project dev for a whole week now! Our main aim is to get all of these projects kicking and screaming on the 12th July for the big opening of the exhibition.

Catarina and Joel have spent their week fidling with some heavy duty MakerBot 3d printing trial and error. In between random python re-learning fast courses. They managed to pull out some awesome hacks, such as a makerbot microscope to observe bacteria and printing a nutella jesus on a toast.

Random project quotes include:
“if you believe, it will work”
“how big should we make jesus?”
“there is a bug in your LED”
“we have scientifically proven that yoghurt is not printable”
“only two jesus toasts and already out of nutella”
“what kind of jesus do you want?”
“there is a guy coming by on monday to get a jesus on a toast”

Meanwhile Francesco and Mariana been hard at work on their ant tracking project. Marco drawing some more Suicide Girls for his secret projection art installation project. Ricardo working on his thesis. Pedro and Mónica working some more on the RTiVISS (Real-Time Video Interactive Systems for Sustainability) project. Vitor upgrading his version of Attic Tesla / Last Words of Domenico performance. Margarida working on her arduino based reactive robot.

Myself and Tiago arrived yesterday night and been hard at work in our own projects aswell. Me preparing a release version of Gen Haiku, helping out with the webdev side of things on the iCookie fast-hack project and conjuring some evil plans for world domination preparing a liveact for the opening day of the exhibition. And Tiago working on his bus GPS tracking system app.

Now presenting, the iCookie.

And while we are at it, also the full video of the winner demo, it’s called Float and it was put together by our very own xDA member V*

Results and releases available at the website. Thank yous to the folks at LCD and everyone who showed up and participated at the event. Best portuguese demoparty of 2010 so far.