Saturday the 8th of December, GOTO10 was invited to come to Generatech, a festival about gender, technology and open source software in Barcelona. The festival was organized by Ningun Lugar, a cultural organization that offers a space to develop political projects through social and cultural activism, a place to show and cultivate ideas, by creating and developing alternative cultural productions.

The festival is an initiative of investigation/action to stimulate associations with a focus on gender to investigate free software tools for audiovisual production. The festival aims to create a space of collaboration between associations, collectives and people by defending and applying the free circulation of knowledge, experiences and techniques, and by reflecting on the current state of gender in the context of technology.

Marloes de Valk was @ Hangar on Friday and Saturday to exchange with the different invited artists, associations and theoreticians, to present the work of GOTO10 and its approach to making the use and development of FLOSS more accessible for women.

Du mercredi 28 au vendredi 30 novembre, GOTO10 propose un workshop dédié au puissant logiciel PureData, réservé aux élèves de l’EESI (Ecole Européenne Supérieure de l’image) et animé par les artistes intervenants Jérôme Abel et Chun Lee.

Premier workshop d’une série consacrée à l’intégration des logiciels libres dans les arts numériques, les prochains ateliers se dérouleront d’ici la fin mai 2008 à l’EESI et pourront être accessibles à un public extérieur.

Pour plus d’infos sur ce premier événement et sur le reste du programme : http://devzero.goto10.org/

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Chun Lee will be giving a talk relating to making digital music with free software. during dmrn at the Queen Mary, University of London on the 18th of December.

abstract:
The presentation aims to examine the differences between adopting conventional proprietary and free (open source) software in the context of digital music making, thus highlighting both their implications. The talk will focus on two aspects when making the comparison: technical and social. Whilst the former focuses on issues relating to the practical capabilities between them, the latter will point out the cultural differences that they tend to encourage.

P1k53L was good fun as usual. Below some photos from Carlo to remember the great time we had in Bergen!

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Piksel is an annual event for artists and developers working with free and open source audiovisual software. Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, by the Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (BEK) and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free and open source software.

Some of GOTO10 are currently at Piksel07 in Bergen (Norway), a festival focused on the aesthetics and politics of free and open source software. Among a lot of other great performances, discussions, workshops, exhibitions, …, Marloes, Tom and Aymeric are holding a CATkit workshop in the Bunker, the same 3 are also perfoming Sheepsint for the closing evening. Claude is performing “d0->d1->d2->d3->d4″ Friday 17th and will present together with Aymeric and Gisle Frøysland (initiator and coordinator of Piksel) the people.makeart project.

If you can’t get to Bergen, get the stream !

FLOSS+Art
Call for Papers
Deadline: November 1st 2007

Extended Deadline

Thanks to all the persons and groups who have replied to the call so far! Due to a growing demand for extra time, we have decided to extend the deadline. Please note that this new deadline will not be extended. Every paper/article/map received after the 1st of November 2007 midnight will not be published in the book.

people.makeart is a repository of articles and lecture materials focused on the relationship between FLOSS and digital arts. The selected papers will be published on the people.makeart website and will be printed in the FLOSS+Art book, scheduled for spring 2008, using OpenMute’s POD publishing service.

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The PureData Convention 2007 took place from the 21st til the 26th of August, in Montreal. Several GOTO10 members were there to present and show their projects. Papers on pure:dyne (Chun + Aymeric), Keyboard-only interface for PureData (Chun + Mathieu Bouchard), hsext: Haskell in PD (Claude Heiland-Allen), pyode – Rigid Body Dynamics for Pd (Frank Barknecht), Self-Other Organizing Structure #1 (Ben Bogart), were presented during the conference. Ben Bogart showed the installation “SOOS1″, a first prototype in a series of site-specific responsive installations. Frank Barknecht performed “faltig”, an audiovisual experience based on the manipulation of a physical model. And last but not least, 0xA (Chun Lee and Aymeric Mansoux) closed the festival with a fantastic live set.

Location: Sheffield, UK (see link)
Friday July 20th:
Powerbooks Unplugged & powerplugs unbooked, netconcert; Julian, Renate, Alberto and Jan-Kees are in Sheffield, Hannes and Echo will play from Beijing. presentation: “purloined letters and distributed persons”

Saturday July 21th:
Les Duchamps ( Alberto de Campo, Jan-Kees van Kampen) – remembering Marcel, inspired by Duchamps talks of “The Creative Act”

LOSS festival schedule
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For a week from 3rd to 8th of April 2007, Poitiers (France) became the stage for a Free and Open Source digital art effervescence. Almost 40 international artists and lecturers were invited. They offered great performances, talks, installations and a workshop.

We now invite you to visit the festival photo gallery and to watch a timelapse film produced by the creators of the OSK (Open Circuit) installation, an accelerated view of make art 2007 at la Maison de l’Architecture of Poitiers. Check make art website.

Full videos of the lectures and performances will be available by the end of summer.

Host: folly.co.uk
Location: The Dukes, Moorgate, Lancaster
Date: 7:30pm Thursday 28th June

0xA (electronica+ambient/noise)
Marloes de Valk (clickpop+lsystems)
ClaudiusMaximus (5th dimension techno)

An evening with GOTO10 live sets, hosted and organized by Folly and part of Folly’s three-day Summer School of Sound.

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