[Neurobureau-hubs] OHBM Neuro Bureau activities update

[Daniel Margulies]

It's arrived all too quickly again this year, but with less than half a 
week to go before HBM, it seemed like an update was well in order.

In keeping with tradition, The Neuro Bureau, with the continued support 
of the Child Mind Institute, will be presenting three somehow 
interrelated spectacles:

1. The Brain-Art Competition: We had approximately 45 submission across 
5 categories, and will be sending out the judging forms in the next day. 
If anyone would like to help with rating the submissions, it would be an 
enormous help. We hope to announce the winners at a yet unknown time and 
place in Beijing early next week. Ideas are welcome. We won't be 
announcing the Brain-Art Competition winners at the Gala event this 
year, because instead we'll be organizing:

2. The Open-Source Summer-of-Sharing Traveling Gala (Please dress 
accordingly): With the help of Xinian, our man about town in Beijing, 
we've found a quaint, yet hip bar district that's located next to a 
lake. Think: Staten Island pub crawl meets summer break in Daytona meets 
the AFNI Listserve. This not-to-be-missed collaborative enterprise, 
aiming primarily to facilitate highbrow discourse (and other kinds of 
course) throughout the neuroimaging community. It will be held on 
Tuesday night, June 12th. Please mark your calendars. If all goes 
according to plan, Cameron may give a dramatic midnight reading of his 
work-in-progress psychodrama: The Brain Monologues.

3. Neurocartographies reloaded: "Entering the Mind's I": With the blind 
optimism of two Italian curators, and the equally benevolent support of 
CMI, we'll be hosting another art exhibition around the themes of 
identity and neuroscience. OHBM gave us space next to the registration 
desk and 100 m2 in the poster hall this year -- in addition, several 
artists will be attending the conference. The support from all sides has 
been remarkable. With all these good vibes, I'd be surprised if someone 
didn't streak the poster hall in blissed-out joy by Monday evening...

And finally, HBM will be our best opportunity to promote Brainhack. I 
know how busy everyone is, but if you have a moment to write up a 
project on www.brainhack.org, it would help enormously. This will be the 
time people are going to the website, so every idea there counts double.

Looking forward to seeing many of your there, and for those who aren't 
able to join this year, consider yourselves lucky for having avoided 
weeks of visa-related headaches. Besides, these events are going to look 
like kiddy stuff compared to the seismic activity that will be HBM 
2014... And for those who just can't wait that long, there's always 
Brainhack.

Much to look forward to -- see you all soon,
Daniel