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.

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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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Puredyne is a GNU/Linux live distribution aimed at creative people, looking for tools outside the standard. It provides the best experimental creative applications alongside a solid set of graphic,audio and video tools in a fast, minimal package. For everything from sound art to innovative filmmaking.

Puredyne is optimised for use in realtime audio and video processing. It distinguishes itself by offering a low latency kernel and the high responsiveness needed by artists working in this field.

Puredyne is based on Ubuntu and Debian Live. All packages provided by Puredyne can be used if you are running this flavour of GNU/Linux.

http://puredyne.goto10.org/about.html

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Saturday 12 December 2009 – Sunday 14 February 2010
Preview Friday 11 December 6pm – 8pm

http://www.craftivism.net/

Invited artists/collectives: Kayle Brandon + Heath Bunting, Rhiannon Chaloner + Manuel Vason, glorious ninth, GOTO10, Rui Guerra, Household, Christine + Irene Hohenbüchler, JODI, Mandy McIntosh, Gloria Ojulari Sule, Trevor Pitt + Kate Pemberton, Janek Simon, Stephanie Syjuco, Clare Thornton, and projects produced with workshop participants + local residents.
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GOTO10 collective is glad to announce the program of make art 2009 ! The fourth edition of make art – What The Fork?! distributed and open practices in FLOSS art – will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 8th to the 13th of December 2009.

Le collectif GOTO10 est heureux de vous présenter le programme de make art 2009 ! La quatrième édition de make art – “What The Fork?!” pratiques distribuées et ouvertes en art FLOSS – se déroule à Poitiers (FR), du 8 au 13 décembre 2009.

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Mon 30 Nov, Tue 1, Wed 2 Dec
Free
Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
http://www.craftivism.net
http://slashmodeplusvnoise.goto10.org

/mode +v noise is an intense 3 day workshop for up to 10 participants, looking at how to build an Internet chat based music platform.
The workshop will give you the opportunity to create your own software sound synthesiser and different chat bots that will be used to manipulate and turn your chat into a music score. To achieve this, we will use free software such as Python, Supercollider, Puredyne, Emacs and more!

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GOTO10 @ Kiblix 2009 – Open code for artistic purposes, (11 – 14 Nov), Maribor – Slovenia

installation: RDEX (reaction-diffusion explorer) by ClaudiusMaximus

workshop:

if( sc++ == synesthetica ){
day1: "supercollider intro, improvisation and rendering of sound";
day2: "crossbreeding of sound and visual algorithms";
}

by karsten gebbert and jan-kees van kampen

performances: krgn, ClaudiusMaximus and vacca