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Mobile Art && Code symposium at Carnegie Mellon and a cool $3,000 contest for a
CivicScience-inspired Facebook application highlight this week's events.
Art && Code is an online community and series of events on the artistic and tactical potential of using various forms of mobile media for the democratization of computing tools for artists, young people and anyone interested.
The three day event, Nov. 6 to 8, features practical and arts programming workshops for popular mobile platforms such as the
iPhone, Android, Nokia, Smartphones and more, along with an all-day FREE lecture that puts these technologies into the context of contemporary critical, artistic and design practices.
Sponsored through a grant from Microsoft Research, the program is a project of the
Carnegie Mellon Studio for Creative Inquiry.
Feeling inspired to build a great Facebook app and a possibly win $3,000?
CivicScience is offering cash and prizes to a team or individual with the best Facebook app using the CivicScience polling, data analysis, user comparison and social networking platform. The winner will be selected by a team of experts including prominent software execs, engineers and venture capitalists.
Selected apps will be used for six weeks; the most down-loaded app wins. First prize is $3000 and a 3-month paid internship at CivicScience. Prizes for runners up include a new Netbook and Android Phone.
Source: Carnegie Mellon University; Civic Science