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

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.

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EESI Poitiers
29/10/2009 – 17:00
26 rue Jean Alexandre, Poitiers, France
http://www.eesi.eu

At a time when intellectual property is fiercely debated, while some people cling to their 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 of an alternative technological palette?

A presentation from Aymeric Mansoux

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16th-17th October 2009 – Berlin
“/mode +v noise” is a project based on IRC, the oldest text-based Internet chat environment. This intervention will transform an IRC chat room/channel into a simple, collaborative, text-based online system for making music. Since IRC allows ‘chat bots’- computer programs that pretend to be human conversation partners -, we will program such a bot to create a collective musical composition environment based on Internet chats. In this workshop, participants will explore two parts of the project: designing sound generators in Supercollider that they can control via a simple IRC bot written in Python. Workshop is taught by Aymeric Mansoux and Jan-Kees van Kampen from GOTO10.

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Talk by Marloes de Valk at the Plan09 Open Source Planning Workshop Ehrenfeld. For an overview of the talk, please have a look here.

plan09 – forum for contemporary architecture
25.09.–02.10.2009

The exhibition and event program “plan” was launched in 1999 with the goal of creating a new mode of communication for architecture and urban development – an annual cultural occasion which is aimed equally at “insiders” from all sectors of architecture and at the general public. The “Forum for Contemporary Architecture” offers a network situation which serves not only to facilitate direct contact between those involved in architectural and urban development processes, but also to promote more public involvement with architecture, urban planning and building culture. more

http://www.kurator.org/afterthenet
After the Net explores the paradoxical development of the Internet. As the current Web 2.0 hype begins to wane, the exhibition reflects upon the promises of technological progress, global networking and instantaneous communication. Presented artworks draw attention to key developments: from cybernetics to free and open source software, and
social networking platforms.

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.
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