We’re glad to invite Jérôme Abel to give a workshop in the framework of the “Figures of Interactivity” Biennial.

“Copy-pasting… combining the collective imagination”
Emancipation and drifts around the tools for art.

The aim of the workshop is to build an hybrid, digital artwork prototype based on copy-pasting.
Reusing existing works is the rule in free and open source environment. Datas, libraries of functions, memory locations, can all be transported, altered, recorded. Besides the assembly is a very effective method for learning techniques as it’s based on experience. Starting from various sources of information (files, artworks, sensors, etc..) that will feed our algorithms, our program will be shaped connection by connection.
The students will be familiarized with the graphical programming environment Pure Data, along with Unix commands and networking protocols.

The workshop is taught by Jérôme Abel, member of the artist collective Impala Utopia.

When? 25, 26 and 27 November 2010, 9:30-17:30
Where? EESI, Poitiers (France)
Entrance: free
Language: French
Registration: please send us an email with a few lines explaining your motivations to attend the workshop

version en français, cliquez :

“Copier-coller… assembler l’imagination collective”
Emancipation et dérives autour des outils informatiques dans l’art.

L’objectif de l’atelier est de concevoir un prototype d’oeuvre numérique hybride basé sur le copier-coller.
En environnement libre et open source, la réutilisation de travaux existants est la règle. Les données, les bibliothèques de fonctions, les emplacements mémoires, sont tous susceptibles d’être transportés, modifiés, enregistrés. De plus, le montage est une méthode très efficace pour l’apprentissage des techniques, car basé sur l’expérience. Nous partirons de différentes sources d’informations (fichiers, oeuvres artistiques, capteurs, etc.), pour nourrir nos algorithmes, et de connexions en connexions tisser notre programme.
Pour cela, nous nous familiariserons avec l’environnement de programmation graphique Pure Data, couplé aux commandes Unix et aux protocoles réseau.

L’atelier est conduit par Jérôme Abel, membre du collectif d’artistes Impala Utopia.

Quand? 25, 26 et 27 novembre 2010, 9:30-17:30
Où? EESI, Poitiers (France)
Entrée: libre, sur inscription (nombre de places limité)
Langue: français
Inscriptions: veuillez nous écrire en nous indiquant vos motivations pour l’atelier

The London based members of the  puredyne team will be having a development sprint this weekend hosted by  SPACE London http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/ . The objective of the sprint is to move the current puredyne version to be based on the latest Maverick Meerkat release.

This sprint is supported by SPACE as part of GOTO10′s Permacultures residency. More details about what we are doing during this residency can be found at http://permacultures.goto10.org

Also free free to join in and help us remotely via irc.goto10.org #puredyne

We will be working hard there, and bento boxes for support are welcome:)

During the IRZU Earzoom Festival in Ljublana, Slovenia,  GOTO10′s Rob Canning will be Artist in Residence in the Ljudmila Hacklab. His work Kyklos for video and multichannel sound will be installed in the gallery ŠKUC from 2. to 6. October 2010.

There will also be a two day workshop on composing music for instruments using Free Libre and Open Source Software on the 6th and 7th of October. This workshop will focus on Lilypond notation software as well as Common Music / Grace, Fomus and puredata. It will be taught on the puredyne GNU/Linux. more info on workshop

Ljubljana Digital Media Lab

Ljudmila is a  digital media lab that focuses on digital production as well
as education, research and development of hardware and software. It also
provides knowledge, equipment, Internet access, server space, electronic
publishing and other affordable networking services to non-governmental and
non-profit organisations, art collectives, active individuals, and others.
In 2004, for its work as the Slovene epicentre of digital creation for group
projects and autonomous artists and researchers, Ljudmila was bestowed
the Golden
Bird Award <goog_1090993002> for the section of new media.

IRZU – the Institute for sonic Arts Research was founded in 2008 in Ljubljana with the aim of filling a local content gap in the interdisciplinary field of contemporary sonic arts. Our activities cover the following three main areas: audio technology research (digital signal processing, sonic interaction design, music information retrieval, non-linear acoustics, etc.), artistic productions (performances, exhibitions, installations, films) and educational projects (lectures, workshops), which are mostly aimed at transmitting basic knowledge on the use of digital technologies and conceptual approaches in sonic arts, to local composers and inter-media artists.

http://www.ljudmila.org/
http://www.culture.si/en/Ljudmila_-_Ljubljana_Digital_Media_Lab

Ljudmila, Rimska 8
1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
vstop prost, pon-pet 10h-16h
☎ tel: +386 1 4269530
fax: + 386 1 4269531

GOTO10 is supported by SPACE through the PERMACULTURES programme. PERMACULTURES supports artists using technology and exploring media culture against the backdrop of apparent ecological crisis. SPACE hosts 1-3 month residencies in the MediaLab supporting artists to develop and produce new work.

During the residency SPACE have offered GOTO10 time and space to develop new projects,  the residency will also host a puredyne code sprint as well as workshops and public events  related to the projects developed during the residency.

The residency can be followed here: http://permacultures.goto10.org/ or if you are in London feel free to drop in to say hello!

SPACE is London’s original radical artist support organization. Set up in East London in 1968 to provide affordable studio space for visual artists, SPACE remains at the vanguard in promoting the role of artists in society. SPACE provide platforms which enable creative people to experiment, develop and thrive, and for a broad public to engage with this creativity, through exhibitions, residencies, courses and workshops.

GOTO10 will be in residency in SPACE until late October 2010.

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!

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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64-bit support!
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(.. and more architectures to come…)

Starting with this release, we are happy to provide support for a new
experimental branch of Puredyne for 64-bit CPUs. We need your feedback
to develop this further, so please get one of these amd64 Puredyne CD or
DVD, and tell us how it works for you!

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

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Yeah, fork me baby!!!
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Thanks to broth, the mother of all soups, it is now very easy to make
your own Puredyne based recipe. Get the pan, mix in your ingredients
and cook slowly. Using broth, two new Puredyne/broth based distros have
been released:

* Puredyne craftivism: a special liveUSB key specially made for the
craftivism exhibition. You can purchase (at cost) this collector item
at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol, UK. http://www.craftivism.net

* sidistro: a greek flavoured distribution focussed on privacy and
anonymity. http://sid.gr/doku.php/agenda/distro

Why not make one yourself? (and impress friends and family with
your very own livethingie)

https://launchpad.net/broth

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Join the team!
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(we have internets)

Do you like adventures? Giant robots, waterfalls and dinosaurs? Then
join the dev team! We are always looking for people to help us make
Puredyne a better distribution for musicians, artists and media
designers. We need help on all fronts! you can type a mail? you’re
hired! :)

https://launchpad.net/puredyne

https://bugs.launchpad.net/puredyne

https://launchpad.net/~puredyne-team

https://launchpad.net/~puredyne-community

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Free Libre Open Source Soup + Art
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(as seen in /usr/share/soup)

A nice soup, a classic combination made with both fresh and
ground coriander – but the fresh coriander added near the end of cooking
really adds the bright flavour of coriander to match with the carrot.

Ingredients
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* 1 tablespoon olive oil
* 1 large onion,diced
* 500g carrots, diced
* 1 teaspoon ground coriander
* 1.2 litres vegetable stock
* large bunch Fresh Coriander, roughly chopped
* Salt
* Black Pepper

Method
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1. Heat the olive oil in a non-stick pan, to a medium heat.

2. Add the sliced carrots and diced onions. Cook for approximately 5
minutes until they start to soften.

3. Add the ground coriander and salt & pepper. Cook for a further 1
minute.

4. Add the vegetable stock bring the mixture to the boil. Simmer for
10-15 minutes until the carrots are very soft.

5. Blend until smooth.

6. Add the fresh coriander.

7. Serve.

source: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Carrot_and_coriander_soup
BY-SA 3.0

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Puredyne is brought to you by the Puredyne team, with help and support
from GOTO10 and Arts Council England. Special Thanks to the Debian Live
project.

:*
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Puredyne@goto10.org

http://identi.ca/group/puredyne

irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne

For the next two weeks photographer and performance artist Barbara Kukovec will be working with Rob Canning (GOTO10) as Artist in Residence in Access-Space, Sheffield UK.  The theme of the workshop is based around DIY photography involving Victorian  techniques such as pinhole photography, cyanotype and self made photographic emulsions.  This will be combined with a digital methodology where the  FLOSS photography tools in puredyne will be used to complete the work-flow to create large analog negatives for contact printing. Both the cameras and the negatives will be constructed from recycled computers.

During the course of the residency there will be workshops on pinhole photography and alternative photography techniques as well as workshops in FLOSS tools for the photographer in puredyne.  The residency will culminate in an exhibition on the 13th of November 2009.

More details can be found on http://barbarakukovec.com and you can also follow the residency on Barbara’s and Access-Space’s identi.ca microblogging account

http://identi.ca/barkuk

http://identi.ca/group/aspace

For more details about the workshops contact Access Space

Access Space,
1 Sidney Street,
Sheffield
S1 4RG
U.K.

44 (0)114 2495522