About
Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist, internet marketer, consultant, and entrepreneur living in Portland, Oregon. She learned Cyborg Anthropology from Professor Deborah Heath, and wrote her thesis on “Cell Phones and their Technosocial sites of Engagement.”
Process
Amber utilizes qualitative/quantitative analysis and ethnographic methods in order to determine future idea/business/organizational developments. She uses anthropological methods to study the interaction between humans and computers. She is available for speaking engagements, workshops, data aggregation, blog consulting, and online efficiency training.
Photo Credit: Agency Aspen.
Currently
Case is a full time consultant and tech journalist. She writes for the Discovery Channel for the Nerdabout blog and is active in the local Portland tech community. She can be found at conferences, meetups, tweetups, Beer and Blog and Legion of Tech events. She has had numerous speaking engagements and is currently writing a book on the co-creation of humans and technology in the online space and the offline space.
Other Blogs
- Discovery Channel’s Nerdabout.com: http://blogs.discovery.com/nerdabout_portland/.
- Makerlab - A Portland Thinktank: http://blog.makerlab.org/.
Speaking Engagements
Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference [Sep 2008]
- The Interactive convergence conference is designed for thought leaders, executives, strategists, influencers, mavericks and cultural creatives from a variety of creative industries and disciplines,
- PPT of the Inverge Presentation on Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/caseorganic/inverge-08-from-telephone-to-tweetup-presentation.
MIT’s Futures of Entertainment 3 [Nov 21 2008]
- Futures of Entertainment is organized around a “talk-show” style model, with panelists participating in a moderated discussion. Over the last two years this produced great, thorough treatments of the subject matter, getting industry and academic speakers together but avoiding product pitches.
- Videos of Futures of Entertainment on MIT’s TechTV: http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/convergenceculture/videos.
Ignite Portland [Nov 2008]
Ignite Boulder [Dec 2008]
Projects
CyborgCamp [Dec 6 2008]
CyborgCamp was 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, and philosophy.
CyborgCamp was conceived almost entirely on Twitter and organized via wiki. Much of the buzz was generated through multiple media channels.
It’s aim was to utilize many communication channels, such as Twitter, Flickr, UstreamTV, Video and Audio recordings and live chats displayed on the screen.
Electronics
Drawdio: A Circuit Attached to a Pencil
Collin Oldham The RT (radio trowel) and The Cellomobo
Collin spent the 2005-2006 academic year at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) where began to develop the electronic musical instruments he is presenting today.
The RT (radio trowel) uses a capacitive sensor array based on Max Mathew’s radio baton to detect the position of the trowel on the playing surface. The trowel’s movements control sound synthesis parameters, including filters which process live sound from a contact mic attached to the trowel.
About Hazelnut Tech Talk
The site has three goals:
1. To allow members of local and global Tech Community to remotely attend local Portland/Seattle Tech Events.
2. To educate those interested in SEO/SEM, Google Analytics on greater methods for online productivity.
3. To provide an online extension of advanced consulting services available to the businesses and individuals.
You can follow Amber on Twitter @caseorganic. Or you may E-mail her at caseorganic@gmail.com.
