XXXXX-Workshops: [in]tolerance
xxxxx-workshops: [in]tolerance presents a series of constructivist workshops specially programmed for the ClubTransmediale 2008 festival... READ MORE...
Free Software
Graffiti Research Lab: Writers As Hackers As Artists
Real and virtual spaces, cities and new media. These are the domains of confrontation of the new semantic clashes, made of massified and pre-digested messages on one hand, and free circulation, manipulation and expression of ideas on the other. The main characters are big companies, buying ads spaces to spark the consumerism at the basis of their economies, versus individuals, sometimes gathered in little independent groups, using new technologies for realising and using expressions means and the net to communicate and join in.... READ MORE...
Steal This Film 2: Share Alike
n the wake of the diy-do it yourself attitude of Abbie Hoffman s book, Steal this book (1970) , in 2006 a pretended group of filmakers who gathered under the name of The league of the noble peer , produced an interesting documentary film, Steal this film , showing how the present time's pirates are causing trouble to the diffusion and production system of knowledge and information with their recreational and disenchanted habits.... READ MORE...
Code in Motion Lab
Con l'obiettivo di far conoscere e diffondere le potenzialità della programmazione come strumento di creazione visuale, in occasione dell'edizione 2007 di code_in_motion, l'Associazione NADA , in collaborazione con il Circolo Culturale Amantes e il Festival Club to Club organizza code_in_motion LAB un laboratorio di programmazione pratico sull'uso di Processing per la creazione di applicazioni grafiche sound-reactive.... READ MORE...
Sustainable Non-property, The Answer By Estudio Livre
One of the innovations brought about by digital world is the reorganization of the process of creation/production according to an open system whose functionality is represented by the free software. The free software is the basis of the first free and widespread non-property net in history. Thanks to the overcoming of the binomial producer/consumer and the transformation of the product into process, an open and interactive relation between developer and user is created, with its potential of infinite new opportunities of production and creation.... READ MORE...
Hackmeeting 2007: Ten Years Nerdcore
Right this weekend it took place the 10th edition of Hackmeeting. This is a very important appointment for the Italian digital community because of its love for free software, of its computer nerds, of its technology freaks, regardless of hardware, software or reality manipulation. Hackmeeting is an independent initiative dating back to 1998. Every year a different Italian city is chosen as seat of the event, hosted by free and public spaces. For this edition the seat was the social centre Rebeldia' in Pisa, Tuscany.... READ MORE...
LOSS Livecode
A small festival bringing together cutting edge livecoding musicians and a/v artists from around the UK and beyond. ... READ MORE...
Mark Coniglio: Building Blocks Isadora
With their pros and cons, the real time process software for sound and image flow have an influence on the quality and organization of the today's audiovisual performances.... READ MORE...
Arduino Basic & Bluetooth Workshops
In this workshop you will learn how to work with the basic and the wireless Arduino. In the following days more advanced versions and uses, including Bluetooth Arduino's and the programming possibilities with Pure Data, working on your own small prototype of a wireless Arduino application.... READ MORE...
Pure Data Workshop
Pure Data (or PD) is a visual programming language for the creation of interactive computer music, video and multimedia works. It has become a pioneering application in the contemporary art field.... READ MORE...
Dio Error Bang: Pure Data And The Useless Machines
On the 28, 29 and 30 of April Rome saw for the first time in his history the Italian convention of Pure Data, a grafic programming language for manipulation and real-time creation of videos and sounds, as well as managing program for interactive systems. The event, result of the collaboration between Binario Etico, Feramenta and Strike, is the first organized effort turned to the institution of an Italian community, using and programing this free and open source software.... READ MORE...
Pure Data Dio Error Bang
Nasce a Roma la prima Comunita' italiana di utilizzatori di Pure Data, ambiente open source per la creazione musicale e multimediale in tempo reale, organizzando un'iniziativa di tre giorni che mira a coinvolgere tutti i musicisti, artisti, videomaker, dj, creativi,ma anche semplicemente curiosi della tecnologia, attorno all'interesse per la sperimentazione software e la creazione dei propri strumenti creativi.... READ MORE...
Pixelache 2007
Pixelache is a festival of electronic art and subcultures. Pixelache presents projects experimenting with media and technology from a broad range of disciplines: artists, engineers, designers, researchers and architects. Pixelache focuses especially in presenting activities of various international grassroot networks and communities such as the VJ community, media activists, the open source community and the demoscene.... READ MORE...
[the]xxxxx[reader]
xxxxx proposes a radical, new space for artistic exploration, with essential contributions from a diverse range of artists, theorists, and scientists. Combining intense background material, code listings, screenshots, new translation, [the] xxxxx [reader] functions as both guide and manifesto for a thought movement which is radically opposed to entropic contemporary economies.... READ MORE...
The Piksel Bing Bang: Tra Codice E Arte
Una delle differenze fondamentali, dovuta all'innovazione tecnologica, tra l'archivio delle conoscenze tramite la rete o attraverso i libri e la pagina scritta, e' il fatto che il metodo di definizione e scrittura della storia, e la cronaca come descrizione del reale, hanno subito una potente deformazione.... READ MORE...
No Music festival X
(((NOMUSIC))) started on June 2001, according to the principle that a diffusion site on Internet should correspond to the representation of the singular performances of a new generation of artistes, musicians, performers and other actors of the electronic scene.... READ MORE...
Open Culture Brief
There's a new and remarkable supply for people interested in free software and its philosophies, licences, and operative devices: the brand-new Informatics Freedom and Open Culture Brief by Simone Aliprandi, published by Prima Ora and freely available online in pdf format... READ MORE...
Piksel 06, Hardware Network Politics
From 12 th to 15 th October , in Bergen, Norway, Piksel festival developed its 6 th edition, intituled HardWare Politics. Piksel, for those who doesn't know yet what we are talking about, is an international meeting, actually one of the most important, for artists and developers of free software and independent art... READ MORE...