HONF will be participating the next Playaround 2010 festival in Taiwan. With the theme of DIWO culture (Do It With Others), HONF will be presenting a workshop on Generic Infrastructures Community & Tools. HONF will be represented by Venzha Christ, Irene Agrivina and Tommy Surya. In this festival HONF will be presenting:

SOCIAL CHAOS - DESTITUTE COUNTRY ( Circle of Satan (COS)- Indonesia)
Circle of Satan is a platform for exchanges, meetings, sharing, discussions and common thinking. It expresses the struggle and disadvantage of a developing country. Whenever opportunity arises, another obstacle defeats progress, in either the form of natural disaster or human corruption. Indonesia still remains one of the poorest nations, with a substantial lack of technology for the public. Is there still a dream possible in the face of chaotic infrastructure, corruption, deforestation, illegal loging, the Pacific ring of fire, sweatshops and globalisation.

In Mid July 2010, HONF is participating Nu-Substance Festival 2010: Floating Horizon in Bandung West Java Indonesia. In this festival, HONF is represented by Julian "Togar" Abraham, Agus Tri Budiarto and Nur Akbar Arofatullah in representing an interactive installation of DIY wine research through collaboration between HONF and Microbiology scientist community. This research is part of Intelligent Bacteria program from HONF. The details of the exhibition:

CELLSBUTTON#04
YOGYAKARTA INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ART FESTIVAL
>> INVISIBLE CELLS
27 JULY – 7 AUGUST 2010

INTRO
HONF are proud to present CELLSBUTTON, an annual community - base festival that is organized by inter - community collaborations in Yogyakarta. In 4th edition of CELLSBUTTON#04 2010 – INVISIBLE CELLS, all participants and programs were selected through Open Call application and hand - picked selection process. Selection process were made from dialogues between HONF members and surrounding creative communities to determine suitable artists and programs that are representative to Education Focus Program [EFP] vision and objectives.

to read more, go to cellsbutton site

HONF is participating on Festival Kesenian Yogyakarta (FKY)  XXII 2010, which this year, the FKY XXII theme is "art_community" exhibition.
We exhibit one of HONF program, which taken from cellsKIT, named 'Fruit Wine Fermentation' that has been for 2 month is developed at HONF lab, collaborate with microbiology Lab, Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta.

We have the schedule below to show you all of our program during the exhibition at FKY XXII, either you can view or download in PDF format file.
The program is started on 27th June 2010 and ended on 7th July 2010.

Download the program schedule (PDF)

In late June 2010, HONF participated Mal Au Pixel 5, 2010 in Paris, France. HONF
was represented by Andreas Siagian who join a conference of Hack/fab/media/alt
labs of the world. HONF is the only media lab from Asia who participated in this
meeting. In this chance, HONF were presenting open community systematic in
inter-community collaborations in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. HONF give an overall
situation and condition in Indonesia and gave an explanation on how
inter-collaborative works could be achieve between creative communities by
giving several case examples.

DeadMediaFM is A-live-Media!

The House Of Natural Fiber (HONF) together with DeadMediaFM are proudly announced a regular online radio live stream program. The regular online streaming radio could be followed everyday by anyone in the world with internet access. Most of the daily program are stream directly from HONF lab in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The regular program was an output from a cross-collaborative community works between DeadMediaFM and HONF since 2008.

The collaboration started when HONF invited Budi Prakosa, Ignatius Aditya and Eka Jayani Ayuningtyas from DeadMediaFM to participate in YIVF#04: Out Of It - Yogyakarta International Videowork Festival, 2008 (http://natural-fiber.com/yivf). Their participation in the festival opened knowledge exchange discussion between DeadMediaFM and HONF and after intensive exchange, both communities started to work together in several projects. By integrating each specialties of the communities, the projects began to evolve to a more constructive projects with mutual objective.

The House Of Natural Fiber (HONF) have finally closed the open call officially on 25 of May 2010!
We give the most appreciation to those who have submit their interesting proposals to us for Invisible Cells.

All proposals that are now have been collected and reviewed by our community. We are now are creating a shortlist of participants and projects based on the activity of the proposals, schedule and the most of all; the significant impact of the proposal with local communities, institutions and universities in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

We will contacted directly all participants and project that is shortlisted for Cellsbutton#04: Invisible Cells - Yogyakarta International Media Art Festival 2010 and the official decision will be announced shortly in 10 of June 2010.

All participants and projects in Cellsbutton#04 2010 is chosen by HONF community from Open Call and Invitation to artists, theorists, scientists, researchers, practitioners, students and activists. The final decision will be reached by discussions with HONF members, Educational Institutions and creative communities in Yogyakarta which have the best potential to create collaborative knowledge exchange in Cellsbutton#04 2010.