good starting combo -- laptops and laughing!

the box grew from the second annual <<networks, dialogue, tactical media, and creativity>> workshop in the <<Anwendungen der Medieninformatik / Digitale Medien in Kunst und Kultur>> module at the Department of Informatiks, University of Bremen, Germany. The keywords of the title form the dynamic core to a wide-ranging workshop/seminar that explores the fundamentals of creativity from a socially aware and personally-centered perspective. It provides an open platform for a critical exploration of a wide variety of practical and theoretical technological implementations especially focusing on the possibilities of networks. Moving beyond a simple examination of product and process, it sets a precedent for an engaged creative praxis that is energized by principled and wholistic understanding.