We’re pleased to announce the new call for projects for the forthcoming edition of make art, which will take place in Poitiers from the 4th to the 7th of November.

make art 6th edition will focus on in-between design: rediscovering collaboration in digital art.

We’re currently seeking new, innovative media art and design works and projects focusing on the above theme :
– graphical artworks and installations
– lectures
– project presentations
– software and hardware demos

Deadline : 31st July 2010

More info and how to apply at : http://makeart.goto10.org/call

What happens when you try to combine FLOSS and digital art ? What is the creative influence between art and free software ?
This lecture will be given by Thomas Vriet (in French) as an immersion to “FLOSS art” movement.

Venue: Rurart, cultural center nearby Poitiers (FR)
Date: Thursday 27th May – 18h
More infos: click here

Que se passe-t-il lorsque l’art numérique et les Logiciels Libres et Open Source (FLOSS) se rencontrent ? Quelle est l’influence créative entre l’art et le logiciel libre ?
Cette conférence par Thomas Vriet (en français) est proposée comme une introduction au courant du “FLOSS art”.

Lieu : Rurart, centre culturel à Rouillé près de Poitiers (FR)
Date : jeudi 27 mai – 18h.
Plus d’infos : cliquez ici

Our friends from Servus.at are doing another wonderful Liwoli festival based in Linz (AT).

LiWoLi is an open lab focusing on Free /Open Source Software (FLOSS), Open Hardware and open contents in digital art and culture. This event will offer workshops, lectures, presentations and performances. For anyone interested in these subjects, participation in the entire program is free.

vacca (GOTO10) will be performing .extremsimulator -0.2 && .extremsimulant performance

Date: 04-17
Time: 21:00 – 21:30
Location: Roterkrebs
Speakers: Jan-Kees van Kampen

livecoding performance (20-25 minutes), no sampling, generative music, oscillators, filters, feedback, noise

A code sprint is a “time-boxed period of software development focused on a given list of goals” (source: wikipedia). It is a great opportunity for developers to meet in real life and work together on some issues. The Puredyne team use this technique for a couple of years now and have been doing sprints in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Spain. During a sprint, other developers and members of the community can follow our progress and discussion via IRC and/or stream and are welcome to contribute!

During 3 days developers from the Puredyne Team and guests Dave Griffiths and Gabor Papp will work together on improving Puredyne as a tool for live audiovisual performances and work towards better integration of software such as Fluxus. We are working from the 22nd until the 24th in the HIAP residency studio of the Suomenlinna island and you are welcome to drop by and work with us!

GOTO10 collective has been invited to design some parts of the Pixelache 2010 programme. The preliminary plan is to organise a seminar about FLOSS+Art and to present an exhibition featuring software art.

more details here:

http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/festival-2010/

web: pixelache.ac/helsinki
e-mail: office ((at)) pixelache dot ac

Yesterday the exhibition chmod +x opened in Sign gallery, Groningen. The works exhibited are “love2″ by Wayne Clements, “island2″ by Martin Howse, “Microcodes” by Pall Thayer and “Class Library” by Graham Harwood. The exhibition presents works that use the computer as a space for social revolution, as location, an ungraspable island that slowly transmits itself to other computers, as actor, mimicking other machines. Executable language, thoughts, ideas and actions translated into code that can be interpreted and executed by a machine. Each of the works show aspects of our relation and history with computers. Even though for non-programmers it might at first be hard to approach the code and the processes it describes, there are fascinating stories to be found.

You can visit chmod +x art at sign in Groningen until the 7th of March. more

When? 2, 3 and 4 March 2010, 10:00 – 17:00
Where? het Paleis, Erlenmeyer zaal
Entrance: free

At this very moment, the workshop Hello wor(l)d! is taking place, part of the chmod+x event. Hello wor(l)d! is an introduction to 3 different artistic approaches to programming, using three different programming styles: graphical, textual (code poetry) and life coding. The workshop gives a taste of all three flavours and is meant as inspiration and exploration for those artists curious about these forms of art but a bit afraid to try them. You cannot learn how to program in 3 days, especially not in 3 different ways, but it is well worth giving different languages and styles a try before starting to learn something new.

Day 1: Pure Data by IOhannes Zmölnig and Agoston Nagy
Day 2: Microcodes by Pall Thayer
Day 3: Fluxus by Dave Griffiths and Gabor Papp more

When: 5 March 2010, 14:00 – 18:00
Where: Het Paleis, Boterdiep 111, Groningen (NL)
For who? Art and design students!
Entrance: free

Art and Design students of the world, come join us for a speed geeking session the 5th of March :) You can either teach a 30 minute workshop about your new hobby, high tech invention or solution to the worlds problems, or you can follow 6 workshops by your genius collegues.

6 short workshops. In this “speed geeking” session you teach each other in a short amount of time a technique, skill or concept. Multiple workshop tables are set up in the space, groups are made. The workshops take place simultaneously. Just like in speed dating, after 30 minutes a bell rings more

When: 2 – 7 March 2010
Where: Sign, Groningen (NL)

The fifth edition of make art – chmod +x art – will take place in Groningen (NL), from the 2nd to the 7th of March 2010.

Workshop hello wor(l)d!, exhibition, Hocus Pocus lecture evening, Placard headphone concert, breakfast club, speed geeking & PechaGnucha, bookshop

With: Wayne Clements (GB) , Martin Howse (GB), Graham Harwood (GB) , IOhannes Zmölnig (AT), Pall Thayer (IS) , Dave Griffiths (GB), Gabor Papp (HU), Agoston Nagy (HU), Florian Cramer (DE), Nathalie Magnan (FR), Dmytri Kleiner (RU), …

http://makeart.goto10.org/chmod+x

When: 21st and 22nd of January 2010
Where: http://esadse.fr

Hacktion is a free micro event spreading over two days during the open days of the École Supérieure d’ Art et Design Saint-Etienne, in France. This event is organized by Aymeric Mansoux (http://goto10.org) and Antoine Moreau (http://artlibre.org) with the support of the ESADSE and the participation of Enrike Hurtado (http://www.ixi-software.net), Florian Cramer (http://pzwart.wdka.nl), Daltex (http://www.daltex-lab.com) and Anne Laforêt (http://www.sakasama.net).

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