Einmal im Monat lädt das Metalab Vortragende aus aller Welt ein, bei uns von ihren Projekten und Ideen zu erzählen. Anschließend gibt es Platz für Lightning Talks, wo Besucher aktuelle Unternehmungen und Vorhaben vorstellen können, sowie ein Buffet und gemütliches Ambiente für Diskussion und Austausch.

The Metalab is glad to invite everyone interested to Metaday #8
Nextlab is an initiative founded at the end of 2004, by a group of people of
diverse backgrounds. The aim of the group is to create an open, creative lab
to explore possibilities in new media, public space installations and
augmented reality by doing non-academic research an extensive experimentation.
The main goal is to create reflective, intelligent environments by permeating
our common surroundings with intelligence.

The lab wishes to be a catalyst for the creative expression of artists,
architects, developers, designers with the active engagement of the audience.
http://nextlab.hu/

Speaker: Viktor Szathmáry
http://nextlab.hu/viktor

(*1979, Budapest) software developer and architect with broad experience
in online applications and enterprise integration. Co-founder of software
development startup EU Edge. He views computing as a meta-language to
connect people and enable the emergence of new thoughts. In his spare
time he tinkers with electronic music.

ABSTRACT

“I will introduce Nextlab, a media lab organization from Budapest. My talk
will cover the background and goals of Nextlab and provide an overview of
the various projects we have been involved with, and the technologies used.
Buzzwords include: satellite tracking, robotics, cheap chinese gadgets,
augmented reality, environment-responsive and generative architecture,
sensor mesh-networks.

The key objective of the talk is to foster potential collaboration by giving
you an impression of what Nextlab is all about, and to try and capture some
of the lessons we have learned.”