GOTO10 at SPACE MEDIA ARTS

A two week boot camp dedicated to free software and open hardware in the field of media art.

Pure Data is a free and open source real-time graphical programming environment used by artists to create a range of visual arts, theatre, dance, audio, installation, performance and media art works.

Pure Data is ideal for those looking to integrate technology into their work for the first time, or advanced media artists looking to explore new tools and new ways to combine them in a unified environment. It is easy to use Pure Data to create interactive environments, link animations and sound, control hardware and electronics, stream audio, generate real time visuals and develop interfaces for other programs.

In this intensive two week course, participants will learn Pure Data from scratch and explore in detail some of its most exciting extensions. Using the Pure:Dyne creative GNU/Linux operating system, participants will discover real time sound design, audiovisual techniques, physical modelling with Gem and PmPD/MSD, how to extend PD into hardware and electronics using CAT/purrr and generative 2D/3D visuals using Packet Forth.

The Pure Data Summer School 2006 is brought to you by Goto10 and friends. Teachers: Frank Barknecht, Antonios Galanopoulos, Andy Farnell, Chun Lee, Aymeric Mansoux and Tom Schouten.

The project is supported by Arts Council England, SPACE Media Arts and the The Digital Research Unit, University of Huddersfield.

DATE: JULY 17th-28th 2006, Monday - Friday, 10:30 - 4:30pm
TOOLS USED: PDSC06-tools
WEEK PLANNING: PDSC06-planning
TEACHERS BIOS: PDSC06-bios
HOST: http://www.spacemedia.org.uk
LANGUAGE: english
FEE: £100 for 10 days workshop
VENUE: SPACE Media Arts 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, London E8 3RH, phone: +44 (0) 208 525 4330 (Bus: 254, 253 and 106 from Bethnal Green, 55 from Old Street - Tube: Bethnal Green - Train: Hackney Central Silverlink). SPACE Media Arts is wheelchair accessible. If you have specific access requirements, please contact us in advance.
FOOD&DRINKS: Free tea + coffee, bring a lunch
HARDWARE: Hardware provided, laptops welcome.
BOOKING: Please email training@spacestudios.org.uk with a single paragraph expression of interest that includes your artistic background and interest in the course. Questions by telephone can be directed to +44 (0) 208 525 4339

TEACHERS BIOS
Frank Barknecht http://footils.goto10.org
Frank Barknecht is a writer, software developer and sound artist based in Cologne, Germany. Since 2005 he is part of GOTO10, an international collective of media artists, musicians and coders devoted to using and promoting Free Software in their work. He is involved in the “Pd scene” for almost five years now, where he works on supporting new users through the Pd mailing lists and helps maintaining the Sourceforge repostitory.

His Pd project “RRADical” is a collection of graphical modules with a common preset system, that was first presented to the public at the Linux Audio Conference 2004 in Karlsruhe. Since then he was invited to play concerts, do workshops and talks at Waag and Montevideo in Amsterdam, at the Art School Kassel, at the ZKM Karlsruhe, the KHM (Media Art School) in Cologne and at the first pd~convention in Graz 2004.

Lately he participated in and was involved in organizing the “Pure Data Big Band” in Cologne, a multinational free form freak out collective of almost 20 media artists improvising together.

Andy Farnell http://obiwannabe.co.uk
Andy Farnell is a computer scientist with 15 years experience working as a freelance programmer and developer mainly in audio-visual media. He is a veteran open source advocate (proud to have not touched a Windows machine since 1999), a skilled content developer and composer of music for radio, television and film. His main occupation is serverside unix /linux programming and administration on LAMP stack, MySQL, Perl, C etc. Right now he is tinkering with Zope and Smalltalk for no particular reason.

Antonios Galanopoulos
Antonios Galanopoulos Studied Audio engineering at SAE Athens and later acquired a B(sc) in Musical Instruments Technology at London Guildhall University, specializing in software and audio systems. He started investigating GNU/Linux based audio workstations as a final project and never stopped since then.

He Currently takes care of the kernel and core integration in the development of the pure:dyne live GNU/Linux distribution and is an active member in the London Openlab community.

Chun Lee http://sonicvariable.goto10.org
Chun Lee is a musician/composer from Taipei, Taiwan who now lives and works in London. Initially trained as a classical musician, he became increasingly fascinated by the technological and experimental aspect of contemporary music. He now focuses his compositional practice on algorithmic/generative music using software tools such as Pd. In addition to his compositional practice, he is also working towards his doctoral degree in Electronic Arts at Middlesex University. He has presented his works in both the UK and Europe and has also worked in collaboration with other digital arts practitioners from various disciplines.
Aymeric Mansoux http://320×200.goto10.org
Since the mid-nineties, Aymeric Mansoux has taken part in many artistic experiments based on the internet and the emergence of networks. Traceroutes, network packets, digital feedbacks and piped logs become a new clay that can be used to develop autonomous artistic processes. Currently a mphil/PhD student at the creative technologies department of the University of Huddersfield, his most recent artistic projects include a residency at the Mediacentre of Huddersfield, a collaboration with Chun Lee within the live electronic music group 0xA, some bits and bytes of software development and documentation for the GNU/Linux pure:dyne operating system, participation in the mysterious packets project and Metabiosis, a project on pseudo living forms in distributed computing and peer-to-peer networked ecosystems with the Dutch artist Marloes de Valk.

Tom Schouten http://zwizwa.goto10.org
Tom Schouten is an artist and independent software developer. He is the author of PDP, an extension for Pure Data, which adds building blocks for image and video processing, and other media oriented applications, tightly integrated to the computer music system which hosts it. Currently he is developing Packet Forth, a stand-alone application / scripting language for media processing and CAT/purrr, an interactive FORTH compiler for Microchip Picmicro microcontrollers.