CyborgCampSeattle will take place on Sunday, July 18, from 10Am to 6Pm at Jigsaw Renaissance (1026 Madison Street) in Seattle, WA. Tickets are $15 and are now available! Get CyborgCamp Seattle 2010 tickets here!

A very curious preparty will likely be held the night before. Details will be sent after your ticket is purchased. A max of 50 tickets will be sold – your spot is not guaranteed until you receive and respond to the confirmation e-mail. E-mail will include details for payment and retrieval of ticket.

The $15 covers food during the event. You’d likely spend that much hunting for food in the morning and during lunchtime, so CyborgCamp Seattle is graciously providing that food on-site!

Follow @cyborgcampsea on Twitter for more details!

Conference Venue

The venue for CyborgCamp Seattle will be at Jigsaw Renaissance, located at 1026 Madison Avenue in Seattle’s First Hill. Jigsaw is CyborgCamp’s first sponsor, and has opened up its doors for free to CyborgCamp.

It’s a gorgeous space just now being settled into. It has high ceilings, huge windows, and will comfortably seat CyborgCamp attendees. While parking is sparse, it is free on Sundays and there are parking lots nearby. Within blocks you can find a convenience store, Sugar Bakery, The Hideout, pho, The Corner Cafe, and many other venues.

Wait a Second! What is CyborgCamp?

CyborgCamp is an unconference about the future of the relationship between humans and technology. We’ll discuss topics such as social media, design, code, inventions, web 2.0, twitter, the future of communication, cyborg technology, anthropology, psychology, biohacking, cybernetics and circuity.

CyborgCamp was conceived almost entirely on Twitter and organized via wiki. Much of the buzz was generated through multiple media channels. It’s a BarCamp style event meant for learning and teaching.

Featured CyborgCamp Talks

Ian Hanschen is a cyborg bent on world-domination. He has the jack to prove it. Come hear how he went from single-sided deafness to stereo hearing in the normal hearing range in both ears.  Then hear his plans on world domination! You can see Ian’s work and thoughts at Escape Hatch Labs. We’re excited to have Ian at CyborgCamp Seattle!

Other CyborgCamp Talks

Since CyborgCamp is a hybrid unconference operating under open space technology, there will be few formal speeches. For instance, I’ll be giving an open talk on Cyborg Anthropology, and attendees are more than welcome to hold concurrent sessions during that time. The session will be part presentation, part discussion, and part analysis. Comments, deconstructionist thoughts and debates are welcomed. Help be a part of a new and evolving field of study.

Ready to go? You’d better be! It’s next weekend! Got your tickets yet? There are only 50 available and they’re going fast!

What’s Open Space Technology?

1. A broad, open invite to everyone to submit ideas and sessions.
2. Seats for everyone, and multiple rooms for different sessions and types of content.
3. A bulletin board of topics and items of interest, proposed sessions and ideas posted by participants.
4. A marketplace with many breakout spaces that participants move freely between, learning and contributing as they discover and absorb new information and ideas.
5. A breathing pattern of flow, between primary and small-group breakout sessions, providing a relaxing yet engaging self-directed learning environment for attendees.

But I Live in Portland! What about CyborgCamp Portland?

CyborgCamp Portland is still a few months away! You didn’t miss it, we’ve yet to plan it! However, we do have a date and a location: Saturday October 2, 2010 from 9:00am – 6:00pm at Webtrends! If you’d like to sign up as a volunteer or help out, join us at the CyborgCamp Portland 2010 wiki! We’ll have volunteer meetings again in a few weeks.

For now, follow @cyborgcamp on Twitter.

See you in Portland or Seattle!

About

Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist from Portland, Oregon. She founded CyborgCamp in 2008 and is excited to plan the next Portland event. If you have questions about CyborgCamp or want to start your own, please contact her on Twitter @caseorganic.