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Mal au Pixel 2010

Since 2006, Mal au Pixel festival is looking at connecting technology, urban electronics and social transformation issues, and to investigate our contemporary beliefs. The festival brings together young digital artists and unconventionnal electronics : unexpected technologies, prototypes and open ended events.... READ MORE...

Laptopsrus Meeting

LaptopsRus concludes its 2009 2010 touring season. With a spectacular performance at Matadero Madrid, a conference at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and an AVLAB workshop at Medialab Prado.... READ MORE...

Art on Wires

Art.on.Wires is an open laboratory for live and interactive art where researchers, engineers and practitioneers from various fields collaborate to explore and create a new generation of media technology for artistic performances and mixed-reality spaces.... READ MORE...

Lev Manovich: Software Culture. The Common Grammar Of Media

Professor of New Media Art at the University of California, both artist and graphic designer, Lev Manovich does not need further presentation. His first book 'The language of New Media' (it came out in Italy in 2002 in the Olivares Edition) was one of the main reference points for many theorists, artists, communicators and designers, that were already well settled down in the 'new technology' sector. Ten years later, thanks to the digital diffusion, grammar was already consolidated in the capitalism era and Lev Manovich decided to analyze and study that which today is seen as our 'interface with the world'(1): software.... READ MORE...

irrational pendulum

A spinning pendulum that drips color and draws a square. The process lasts more than 6 minutes, so this short video is presented at a faster speed. Made with openframeworks.... READ MORE...

Eclectic Tech Carnival

The Eclectic Tech Carnival is a gathering of women & trans with a critical interest in Free Information and Open Standards technology. The event has been held annually since 2002 and creates an opportunity for women & trans to share their experiences, knowledge, skills, and network, thus: have fun!... READ MORE...

Aseum Symposium

ASEUM is an international network of new media art practitioners pushing for cultural, educational, and technological exchange on emerging new media art practices in South East Asia and Europe.... READ MORE...

Sommercamp+Workstation

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A New Center For Art & Technologies

A new Center for Arts and Technologies was born in Brescia, with the payoff of have an idea and put it into practice, to identify the personality of the place itself and of the members of it..... READ MORE...

Hackmeeting 2009: Meeting With The Debian Community

On the official website of the Debian project can be read: The Debian Project is an association of individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating system. This operating system that we have created is called Debian GNU/Linux, or simply Debian for short. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run.... READ MORE...

Hacker Space Festival

The second Hacker Space Festival (HSF) will be held at the /tmp/lab in Paris, on the 26-30 June 2009. The goal of the Hacker Space Festival is to bring together people from many cultural and technological backgrounds and from different Hacker Spaces and Autonomous zones in France and Europe (and from beyond, if they can attend) to share and show what's going on... READ MORE...

The open source Embroidery

The Open Source Embroidery exhibition presents artworks that use embroidery and code as a tool for participatory production and distribution.... READ MORE...

Hackmeeting 2009

Smanettoni, nerd, tecnofili, cyber activist, inventori, geek, creatori, manipolatori e soprattutto hacker! Tenetevi pronti! Quest'anno Hackmeeting, l'incontro annuale degli hacker italiani, si tiene a Milano... READ MORE...

The Aware And Creative Technology Of Goto10

The collective GOTO10 (the answers of this interview were elaborated with the name GOTO10 by Karsten Gebbert, Claude Heiland-Allen, Aymeric Mansoux, Marloes de Valk and Thomas Vriet), active internationally for years in the technological activist environment, is a good example of how a group of programmer-artists manages to face and win against the swamps of our time through a creative, aware and thought-out use of technology. I interviewed them so that they could tell us about some aspects of their complex project.... READ MORE...

Blender And 3dwithin Nearly…everybody’s Reach

Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License'. Dietro questa sintetica definizione che apre il sito ufficiale del software free e open source Blender, non si cela solo un programma per la modellazione 3D, ma un'autentica filosofia di lavoro, oltre che una comunit di utenti sviluppata lungo le direttrici partecipative che le nuove tecnologie aprono in diversi settori. Blender, che sar protagonista di un interessantissimo workshop nel periodo di warm up del prossimo Hackmeeting di Milano di Giugno, presso l'Universit Statale Bicocca... READ MORE...

Pure Data Basics

Pure Data is a powerful, free and open-source software environment for producing and manipulating sound, image, data and connections to sensors, motors and other "physical computing" functions, all in real time.... READ MORE...

Free Software and Beyond

"The 4th Oekonux conference. Free Software and Beyond. The World of Peer Production" at University of Manchester from 27th to 29th of March, widens the perspective from Free Software to other fields of peer production. Project Oekonux and P2P Foundation are proud to welcome nearly 30 invited contributors which will share their experience, studies and insights with us on the following topics... READ MORE...

FLOSS+art

What does Free and Open Source software (FLOSS) provide to artists and designers - beyond just free alternatives to established tools from Photoshop to Final Cut?... READ MORE...