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

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

Reflected in the title, the exhibition makes explicit reference to the documentary film The Net by Lutz Dammbeck (2003), and has three iterations: for Valencia (2008), Plymouth (2009) and Toluca (2010). The selection of artists is updated for each venue as a new version.

—

Exhibition
12 September – 23 October 2009, Peninsula Arts Gallery, University of
Plymouth, UK

Roy Ascott, Blackboard Notes (1967), special poster edition of 1000 produced for After the Net (2.0) by KURATOR / Wayne Clements, logo_wiki (2007), The Best and Worst of Possible Worlds (2009) / Geoff Cox, antisocial notworking for Arnolfini (2008), Hello World! (2008) / Lutz Dammbeck, The Net: The Unabomber, LSD and the Internet (2003) / Jeff Gompertz & Caen Botto (Universomente), Second Public Life (2009) / Rui Guerra, www_hack (2008) / Linda Hilfling, Participation 0.0 ­- Part I (2007) / Aymeric Mansoux & Marloes de Valk (GOTO10), Hello process! (2008) / Graham Harwood, Richard Wright & Matsuko Yokokoji, Tantalum Memorial (2008)

—

Performance
25 September 2009, Peninsula Arts Gallery, 7.00pm
4NX performance by Aymeric Mansoux

4NX is an audiovisual noise sculpture, starting with the panic of a flat signal, turning it into image then back into sound, the bootstrapping of a stochastic noise generator, the search for structure and frozen moments of accidental beauty. A cornucopia of clicks, pops and glitches. 4NX is violent but draws you into this world of chaos through its black and white aesthetics, melancholic atmosphere and unexpected shaping of raw noise into hypnotic patterns. 4NX is on ongoing research on noise aesthetics.

—

Lecture
22 October 2009, Theatre 2 Roland Levinsky Building, 6.30pm
Transiting the Net by Professor Roy Ascott

Cybernetics and behaviour, mind and technology, connectivity and syncretism, chance and change, constitute the parameters of practice of Roy Ascott, whose talk will chart his passage through the Net, from analogue to digital and beyond. Ascott has exhibited widely, from Venice Biennale to Ars Electronica, is published in at least twelve languages, and recognised internationally as an innovator and visionary. He is president of the Planetary Collegium at University of Plymouth.

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.

Liwoli 2009 is a three day long Hacklab and an open invitation to all who would like to participate in an active process of learning, producing and sharing around the areas of Free/Libre Open Source
Software and Art. FLOSS developers, artists and programmers such as the collective GOTO10 or activists from HAIP (Hack Act Interact Progress) and many others form the basis for the event and share their knowledge in the form of workshops, hacklabs, presentations, installations and
performances.

Please register NOW to book a place in some of the many FREE workshops!
http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Workshop
- Select a workshop
- Read the description
- Interested? Click on “Register” and fill the form

DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: 15/04/09 !!!

–

… and do not miss out on the rest of the event!
http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Vortrag
http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Presentation
http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Performance
http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Interviews
http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Intervention
http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/programm/format/2009/Installation

With the participation of:

Andrea Mayr, Andreas Trawoeger, Arjan Scherpenisse, Aymeric Mansoux, Christoph Haag, Claude Heiland-Allen, Dan Wilcox, Daniel Turing, David Ayers, Eleonora Oreggia, Georg Jakob, Holger Schoner, Jan-Kees van Kampen, Johannes Kreidler, Marius Shebella, Pippa Buchanan, Ricardo Palmieri, Rob Canning, Robert Martin, Roch Forowitz, Sascha Neudeck, Stephanie Vilayphiou, Thomas Warwaris, Yves Degoyon, … and more to be confirmed!…

–

Questions?
http://linz.linuxwochen.at/en/contact
Where to sleep?
http://linz.linuxwochen.at/content/service

FLOSS+Art is the first book to cover Free and Open Source software (FLOSS) for artists and designers not just as a technical tool, but as an artistic medium that works differently and has its own philosophy, politics and aesthetics.