What happens when you try to combine FLOSS and digital art ? What is the creative influence between art and free software ?
This lecture will be given by Thomas Vriet (in French) as an immersion to “FLOSS art” movement.

Venue: Rurart, cultural center nearby Poitiers (FR)
Date: Thursday 27th May – 18h
More infos: click here

Que se passe-t-il lorsque l’art numérique et les Logiciels Libres et Open Source (FLOSS) se rencontrent ? Quelle est l’influence créative entre l’art et le logiciel libre ?
Cette conférence par Thomas Vriet (en français) est proposée comme une introduction au courant du “FLOSS art”.

Lieu : Rurart, centre culturel à Rouillé près de Poitiers (FR)
Date : jeudi 27 mai – 18h.
Plus d’infos : cliquez ici

Our friends from Servus.at are doing another wonderful Liwoli festival based in Linz (AT).

LiWoLi is an open lab focusing on Free /Open Source Software (FLOSS), Open Hardware and open contents in digital art and culture. This event will offer workshops, lectures, presentations and performances. For anyone interested in these subjects, participation in the entire program is free.

vacca (GOTO10) will be performing .extremsimulator -0.2 && .extremsimulant performance

Date: 04-17
Time: 21:00 – 21:30
Location: Roterkrebs
Speakers: Jan-Kees van Kampen

livecoding performance (20-25 minutes), no sampling, generative music, oscillators, filters, feedback, noise

A code sprint is a “time-boxed period of software development focused on a given list of goals” (source: wikipedia). It is a great opportunity for developers to meet in real life and work together on some issues. The Puredyne team use this technique for a couple of years now and have been doing sprints in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Spain. During a sprint, other developers and members of the community can follow our progress and discussion via IRC and/or stream and are welcome to contribute!

During 3 days developers from the Puredyne Team and guests Dave Griffiths and Gabor Papp will work together on improving Puredyne as a tool for live audiovisual performances and work towards better integration of software such as Fluxus. We are working from the 22nd until the 24th in the HIAP residency studio of the Suomenlinna island and you are welcome to drop by and work with us!

GOTO10 collective has been invited to design some parts of the Pixelache 2010 programme. The preliminary plan is to organise a seminar about FLOSS+Art and to present an exhibition featuring software art.

more details here:

http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/festival-2010/

web: pixelache.ac/helsinki
e-mail: office ((at)) pixelache dot ac

Yesterday the exhibition chmod +x opened in Sign gallery, Groningen. The works exhibited are “love2″ by Wayne Clements, “island2″ by Martin Howse, “Microcodes” by Pall Thayer and “Class Library” by Graham Harwood. The exhibition presents works that use the computer as a space for social revolution, as location, an ungraspable island that slowly transmits itself to other computers, as actor, mimicking other machines. Executable language, thoughts, ideas and actions translated into code that can be interpreted and executed by a machine. Each of the works show aspects of our relation and history with computers. Even though for non-programmers it might at first be hard to approach the code and the processes it describes, there are fascinating stories to be found.

You can visit chmod +x art at sign in Groningen until the 7th of March.

Images top to bottom: Class Library by Graham Harwood, island2 by Martin Howse, Microcodes by Pall Thayer and Love2 by Wayne Clements.

When? 2, 3 and 4 March 2010, 10:00 – 17:00
Where? het Paleis, Erlenmeyer zaal
Entrance: free

At this very moment, the workshop Hello wor(l)d! is taking place, part of the chmod+x event. Hello wor(l)d! is an introduction to 3 different artistic approaches to programming, using three different programming styles: graphical, textual (code poetry) and life coding. The workshop gives a taste of all three flavours and is meant as inspiration and exploration for those artists curious about these forms of art but a bit afraid to try them. You cannot learn how to program in 3 days, especially not in 3 different ways, but it is well worth giving different languages and styles a try before starting to learn something new.

Day 1: Pure Data by IOhannes Zmölnig and Agoston Nagy
Day 2: Microcodes by Pall Thayer
Day 3: Fluxus by Dave Griffiths and Gabor Papp

No previous programming experience required, as long as you’re not afraid to work in a terminal. Basic experience with any scripting or markup language (even if it is HTML/CSS) will make it easier to follow.

For more chmod +x events, please visit http://makeart.goto10.org/chmod+x

When: 5 March 2010, 14:00 – 18:00
Where: Het Paleis, Boterdiep 111, Groningen (NL)
For who? Art and design students!
Entrance: free

Art and Design students of the world, come join us for a speed geeking session the 5th of March :) You can either teach a 30 minute workshop about your new hobby, high tech invention or solution to the worlds problems, or you can follow 6 workshops by your genius collegues.

6 short workshops. In this “speed geeking” session you teach each other in a short amount of time a technique, skill or concept. Multiple workshop tables are set up in the space, groups are made. The workshops take place simultaneously. Just like in speed dating, after 30 minutes a bell rings and each group goes to another workshop table. Workshops of all shapes and colours are welcome, from Processing in a nutshell to copyleft ashtray clay modelling. Exchange ideas and make new friends!

Registrations
Limited places available. Send your name, phone number, where and what you study to Sign before February 28 2010.

Call for proposals
To propose a workshop, please send the following information to Sign before February 28 2010:

• Your name, email and phone number.
• Your workshop concept in min. 50 and max. 150 words.
• Where and what you study, and the URL of your website (for on our website).
• It’s a GOTO10 event, so FLOSS only! Promise us, scouts honour, that if you’ll be using a computer, you’ll only use FLOSS in your workshop, this includes the operating system (no OSX or windows). If you work with FLOSS but do use a proprietary operating system, you can use the Puredyne live CD to have quick and easy access to Linux without installing it, during the workshop.

The speed geeking session is part of make art: chmod +x art, 2 – 7 March 2010, Groningen (NL).

You can also join the PechaGnucha night, also 5th of March, 20:00 – 22:00, to present your ideas to the world or to sit back, relax and enjoy the presentations of others. The PechaGnucha format forces you to be to the point and show tons of visuals. 20 slides of 20 seconds each, that is all you get, short and sweet. For more information please visit http://www.makeart.goto10.org/chmod+x.