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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On tuesday 22nd of September Rob Canning and Claude Heiland-Allen of GOTO10 will give a short workshop on puredyne as part of the OpenLab London series of workshops http://openlabworkshops.org/ This workshop will introduce the participants to the live distribution, giving an overview of the system and its applications as well as a brief look into the scripts behind the scenes showing how it is possible to fork the distribution for your own purposes. This workshop will be paired with the short workshop Animation and Livecoding through Fluxus with Dave Griffiths and Evan Raskob

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/mode+v noise && monolith

GOGBOT09

/mode+v noise is a project and an IRC channel for instant music and sound composition.

Here we used a wall with 12 DEC character terminals (called Monolith), built and generously donated by Datanet Drienerlo, for the first time.

Rob Canning (GOTO10) and Heather Corcoran (FACT) will give a presentation of puredyne on Thursday 27th of August at the 2009 International Symposium on Electronic Arts (ISEA) this year held in Belfast, Northern Ireland.  A brief overview of some of the key applications will be given alongside an overview of the technical backend of the distribution.  There will also be a presentation of the contexts in which puredyne appears and from which it emerges and its relevance and importance to media labs, artists and institutions who wish to engage creatively with FLOSS.

http://www.isea2009.org

NoIn EP from ClaudiusMaximus is GOSUB10 netlabel’s second release. Downloadable in a variety of formats, source code also available.

No-input mixer digitally controlled, self-connected time-varying system. An artificial aesthetic sense characterizes sonic parameters within a large space of possibilities. The absolute control of digital music is surrendered. Computerized “conductor” vs analogue orchestra.

Process: thicken a limited palette of tones (some minimal, some harsh, with little in between), using delays and pitch effects, reverberation and rhythmic distortions, quietly layering.

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We are just back from Gijon, in the north of Spain.

Some of us spent a week there working on the future release of puredyne codenamed ‘carrot and corriander’. This was our third development sprint founded by the Arts Council of England as part of the ‘puredyne for everyone’ project.

This sprint was also made possible with the help of the nice people at laboral who kindly provided us with a great working space, accomodation and some very fast transport