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

Images top to bottom: Class Library by Graham Harwood, island2 by Martin Howse, Microcodes by Pall Thayer and Love2 by Wayne Clements.

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

No previous programming experience required, as long as you’re not afraid to work in a terminal. Basic experience with any scripting or markup language (even if it is HTML/CSS) will make it easier to follow.

For more chmod +x events, please visit http://makeart.goto10.org/chmod+x

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 and each group goes to another workshop table. Workshops of all shapes and colours are welcome, from Processing in a nutshell to copyleft ashtray clay modelling. Exchange ideas and make new friends!

Registrations
Limited places available. Send your name, phone number, where and what you study to Sign before February 28 2010.

Call for proposals
To propose a workshop, please send the following information to Sign before February 28 2010:

• Your name, email and phone number.
• Your workshop concept in min. 50 and max. 150 words.
• Where and what you study, and the URL of your website (for on our website).
• It’s a GOTO10 event, so FLOSS only! Promise us, scouts honour, that if you’ll be using a computer, you’ll only use FLOSS in your workshop, this includes the operating system (no OSX or windows). If you work with FLOSS but do use a proprietary operating system, you can use the Puredyne live CD to have quick and easy access to Linux without installing it, during the workshop.

The speed geeking session is part of make art: chmod +x art, 2 – 7 March 2010, Groningen (NL).

You can also join the PechaGnucha night, also 5th of March, 20:00 – 22:00, to present your ideas to the world or to sit back, relax and enjoy the presentations of others. The PechaGnucha format forces you to be to the point and show tons of visuals. 20 slides of 20 seconds each, that is all you get, short and sweet. For more information please visit http://www.makeart.goto10.org/chmod+x.

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

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).

Planning
• jeudi 21 janvier
Noon: Potlach Feast with the «cabas noir» Part I
Afternoon: Présentations from Antoine Moreau, Aymeric Mansoux, Enrike Hurtado, Daltex, as well as works from the students.
Evening: performances from Aymeric Mansoux, Enrike Hurtado, Anne Laforet + Daltatron session with Daltex.

• vendredi 22 janvier
Morning: roundtable with Florian Cramer, Anne Laforêt, Daltex
Noon: Potlach Feast with the «cabas noir» Part II
Afternoon: Programming crash course with Enrike Hurtado + improvised discussions, hacking, writing and drawing.

Workshop with Enrike Hurtado:

Crash course on programing. How to gain control of computers. Computers are pervasive in nowadays world. They are present in almost all moments of our lives, catching a train, sending an email, reading a newspaper… However, the design and production of those systems is controlled mostly by engineers. Thanks to modern programming languages and free software this is not so true any more. Any person
with some reasonable effort and cheap hardware can learn programming and therefore have its say on this. From the perspective of an artist/musician/creator, gaining control of the tools we use or at least understanding how they are built, gives us another perspective on the politics, ethics (and esthetics) implied by them.

In this crash course we will be exposed to tools, ideas and processes used on this field from a practical point of view. We will write small computers programs that communicate different computers in the network, we will control basic graphics, sound and video. We will get content from the internet such as images or data from websites and use it in our applications.

booking, info and hugs:http://www.esadse.fr

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

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.

Craftivism is an Arnolfini/Relational contemporary art project that responds to the resurgent interest in craft as it relates to socially-engaged art practice. It involves fourteen projects developed by artists and collectives that work with craft-based traditions and activist practices, and who employ the tactics of ‘craftivism’ (combining crafting + activism) to question and disrupt the prevailing codes of mass consumerism.

The project attempts to collapse the distinction between ‘making’ and ‘doing’ – the former associated with craft, the latter with human action. It places an emphasis on interaction and participation in the wider social realm, and employs aspects of self-organisation and ‘open- source’ principles. The artists involved engage with craft-based traditions through diverse practices including art, technology and fashion. Selected works exemplify ‘innovation’ in the general sense that newly invented forms might diverge from established rules and perceived norms.

Craftivism is developed in relation to a range of contexts and includes nine artist-led participatory projects developed with local
communities, the outcomes of which are shown as part of a gallery-based interactive exhibition, online and in free software-related
projects, workshops, talks and the uncurated satellite event UnCraftivism. Events also take place locally at Brandon Hill Park,
Colston Hall, Full Circle St. Paul’s Youth and Family Centre, Knowle West Media Centre and The Mall Bristol.

The project will invite public interaction and provide opportunities to take part, make work and learn craft-based skills to customise
products. It encourages wider communities to embrace the ‘freedom’ to create, modify and distribute products, and in so doing demonstrates the possibilities for people to modify their own lives.

Craftivism is part of the Artist/Activist season, a series of Arnolfini projects in Autumn/Winter 2009/2010 which provides a
socially-active forum for debate and learning around issues of climate change and alternatives to the culture of consumerism.

Arnolfini
16 Narrow Quay, Bristol, UK
http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/

Craftivism is an Arnolfini/Relational project curated by Zoë Shearman, Director, Relational, Geoff Cox, Associate Curator of Online Projects, Arnolfini, and Ann Coxon, Assistant Curator, Tate Modern. It has been developed with the support of a Crafts Council Spark Plug Curator Award and is funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Bristol City Council – Single Project Fund, The Crafts Council, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Mondriaan Foundation and Polska! Year. Additional support and partnership from Arnolfini Café Bar, Bradley Stoke Library, Bristol City Council Park’s Department, Bristol Rope & Twine, Cameron Lee Carpets, CLIC Sargent Cancer Care for Children, Colston Hall, The Cookery School at Bordeaux Quay, Craftspace, CSF Wrestling, Full Circle St. Paul’s Youth and Family Project, Galerie Martin Janda Vienna, Galsworthy Graphics, Knowle West Media Centre, Labour Behind the Labour, The Mall Bristol, Naturepaint.com, POD Projects, West Country Knotters and Wicklea Youth & Community Centre, Brislington.