Today we had the pleasure to discover a very nice review of FLOSS+Art in the Summer issue of Neural magazine! Many Thanks to the editorial team!

You can read the review online here or even better, order issue #33 of the magazine. In this “very green” Summer edition you will find more reviews, articles and interviews like the ones with futurefarmers or HeHe.

Neural is a printed magazine established in 1993 dealing with new media art, electronic music and hacktivism. It was founded by Alessandro Ludovico and Minus Habens Records label owner Ivan Iusco in Bari (Italy).

from the 5th til 9th of July:
“The Computer Hardware Crash course” by Genderchangers
“/mode +v noise” by GOTO10
Location: CBK Rotterdam, Nieuwe Binnenweg 75, 3014 GE Rotterdam
Participation is public and free… but BOOKING IS MANDATORY!

Part of the Networked Media Graduation show, of the Master Media Design, Piet Zwart Institute of the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam University, two public workshops will be hosted at the Centrum Beeldende Kunst in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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On the Saturday 27th of June, OpenLab.Taipei will mark its first event entitled “Co-Play #1″. It will consists of a evening of casual presentations by several FLOSS artists, as well as chance to socialise and hang out at the new Digital Art Center Taipei.

The preliminary URL of OpenLab.Taipei can be found here. We would like to thank DAC for hosting the event!

The call for the fourth edition of the make art festival is out!

make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art. The fourth edition of make art - What The Fork?! distributed and open practices in FLOSS art - will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 7th to the 13th of December 2009.

We’re currently seeking new, innovative FLOSS works and projects: music and audiovisual performances, presentations, software demos, and installations.

Check out the call here: http://makeart.goto10.org/call/index.en.html

The second Hacker Space Festival (HSF) will be held at the /tmp/lab in Paris, on the 26-30 June 2009. The goal of the Hacker Space Festival is to bring together people from many cultural and technological backgrounds and from different Hacker Spaces and Autonomous zones in France and Europe (and from beyond, if they can attend) to share and show what’s going on.

GOTO10 has participated to the program selection of this nice event. Unfortunately we won’t be around, but that’s not a reason to not drop by and say hi ;)

For more information: http://www.hackerspace.net/

folly and GOTO10 are pleased to announce the latest articles to be added to the Digital Artists’ Handbook at http://www.digitalartistshandbook.org

The handbook is a reliable and accessible source of information that introduces artists to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art. With a focus on Free Software and Open Content, the handbook covers topics such as working with graphics, sound and digital video, software art, developing your own hardware, collaborative working and publishing your work.

The first of two new articles, “Video editing with open source tools”, has been written by Valentina Messeri and Eleonora Oreggia.
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ensa bourges
20/05/2009 - 9:00
7, rue édouard-branly
http://www.ensa-bourges.fr/

At a time when intellectual property is fiercely debated, while some people cling on to their little bits of territory, others have chosen to share knowledge, art and networks.

Why? How? And.. what can free and open culture contribute to artistic creation beyond the proposal for an alternative technological palette?

A presentation from aymeric mansoux, part of the conference cycle “Libre comme l’eau, l’air…” produced by Nathalie Magnan.

Monday 18 May 2009 / 10.00 – 17.00 / Amsterdam (FULLY BOOKED)

Expert meeting for practitioners, researchers, and policy makers in various fields related to online archives, primarily in the Netherlands but with an international focus. Based on 6 short presentations of case studies (below), we will raise a series of specific questions. How can a community establish its own archive beyond an institutional structure? Does a community driven approach with social software help develop innovative strategies for group archiving? How can new and traditional tools best be merged to increase access and improve usability?

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yourmachines.org is gone! but yourmachines.goto10.org is up and running!

Your Machines is a collection of tutorials and resources for working creatively with Free and Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and related practices. It brings together contributions from artists, activists, community workers, and Linux advocates, all of whom use it within their work. Your Machines presents FLOSS not simply as a set of tools and applications but also as a way of working, which is reflected in the approach of many of the contributions.

The project was initiated by Simon Yuill and we are now keeping an archive of this excellent resource in the hope it will be brought back to life in the future :)

When: May 8 2009
Where: Winchester, UK

Openlab are providing a day of workshops & presentations about opensource software, and performances in the evening in front of Winchester Cathedral in Winchester. There is a venerable lineup of OpenLab and GOTO10 members providing some in depth knowledge during the day and some great performances at night.

CoMA, Contemporary Music for Amateurs, is joining them for exploration of music inspired by sculptures by Bridget Dumper, and will perform Kyklos, a new composition by Rob Canning.

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