Pure:dyne

Watch out for what ever comes out of this!

Pure:dyne Code Sprint- Goto10 @ LABoral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial
9th to 15th of August 2009

The artist collective GOTO10 gathers at LABoral this summer for an intense week of coding in support of the ongoing Pure:dyne project, which is underway at this very moment.

Pure:dyne is a GNU/Linux operating system developed by and for artists that offers a complete set of tools for processing audio and video in real time, making it an ideal work platform. Developed by GOTO10 alongside a community of users, Pure:dyne includes the tools most frequently employed by digital artists, all in a coherently integrated format: Pure Data, Supercollider, Icecast, Csound, Fluxus, Processing, Arduino, amongst others. Used by artists, medialabs and universities, Pure:dyne is a powerfult instrument and a network structured for artistic production through the use of FLOSS (Free/Libre Open Source Software).
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*The LABoral ‘code sprint’ is one of a series initiated by GOTO10 to gather members from across Europe for seven days to work on new features and system developments. Sharing a common living and working space, away from distractions, this intense working method is popular in FLOSS projects to inject a lasting energy into volunteer developers who otherwise collaborate online.

The discoveries and advances made by the Pure:dyne team are to be made available and become a permanent part of the Platform 2 Multimedia Production Centre of LABoral.

http://goto10.org/
www.laboralcentrodearte.org

Art and education have launched a papers section, for which they have posted a call for submissions on e-flux . It just launched but could evolve in a useful platform..check out an interesting contribution by Joseph Nechvatal

Modern Art: Who Cares? II MA:WC?II congress 2010

INCCA Update – June 5, 2009

News

Latest news on "Modern Art: Who Cares? II" congress

Preparations for the 2010 congress are in full swing. It will take place in Amsterdam from 9 - 11 June
2010. A pre-congress reception will take place on the evening of the 8th of June.

Registration will start in September 2009, so keep your eye out for updates per email or via the link on
the INCCA http://www.incca.org/modernartwhocares and SBMK websites http://www.sbmk.nl/

Tickets to the congress will cost:
€ 290
€ 160 for students

Included in the price of the ticket is a copy of the book Inside Installations (working title), which is due
for launch in March 2011.

The congress programme is being created in collaboration by a group of experts from 34 organisations
who are working together under the umbrella project PRACTICs. Most of these individuals worked
together during the EU project Inside Installations (2004-2007). For more information about PRACTICs
follow this link. http://www.incca.org/projects/64-current-projects/475-practics

Co-organisers of the congress would like to point out that there will be no call for papers, but there will
be a call for posters. This is expected to be sent out in September 2009.

MA:WC?II will feature plenary lectures as well as a choice of circa 10 parallel sessions per day;
discussions, workshops and site visits. There will also be time allocated to poster presentations and
networking sessions. The themes for the three day congress are as follows:
Day 1: Acquisition: production and collection building
Day 2: Articulation: care & conservation
Day 3: Access: presentation & the role of the public
More details on the programme will be posted alongside registration information in September.

If you have any questions about the Modern Art: Who Cares? II congress, please send an email to
modernartwhocares@gmail.com

GCC - Timeline History of Games Presentation

GCC - Timeline History of Games Presentation

Host:

A MAZE.

Date:

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 at 7:00pm - Thursday, July 30, 2009 at 1:00am

Location:

Homebase
Koethener Str. 44

Description:

Am 29.7.2009 wird der Erfinder der Heimvideospiele Berlin besuchen. Anlass ist die Veröffentlichung seiner Sammlung historischer Dokumente rund um die Erfindung des ersten Heimvideospiels, der Odyssey Konsole von 1972. Die Sammlung wurde in einer exklusiven Kooperation mit dem Computerspiele Museum nun in ein Onlinearchiv eingearbeitet, das am 29.7. der Öffentlichkeit als “Timeline History of Games” erstmals vorgestellt wird und von da an online frei zugänglich ist.

Veranstalter des historsichen Events sind das Computerspiele Museum im fjs e.V., das Berlin Gaming Network und die A MAZE. GbR.
In der HomeBase Lounge!

“Einen besseren Startschuss nach dem Umzug des Games Culture Circles (GCC) in die Homebase kann es kaum geben”, unterstreicht Thorsten S. Wiedemann, Artistic Director bei A MAZE. Die Heimkonsole ist gleichermaßen Sinnbild für eine neue, interaktive Form der Unterhaltung, als auch der Geburt einer ganz neuen Videospielkultur. Inspiriert von Spielen hat eine künstlerische Reflexion des neuen Massenmediums begonnen, die sich bis heute fortsetzt. Mit einer kleinen Ausstellung wird diese kulturelle Umrahmung der Historie zur Interaktion freigegeben. Der GCC, moderiert von Andreas Lange, wird in regelmäßigen Abständen Talkgäste einladen, um die Konvergenzen von Computerspiel und diversen Kunst- und Kulturformen zu hinterfragen – ohne den Bezug zur Medienindustrie zu verlieren.


“Es ist für uns eine historische Gelegenheit und auch eine große Ehre, dass wir in sehr engem Kontakt mit Hr. Baer dieses Kapitel der Gründungsgeschichte der Computer- und Videospiele-Industrie anhand von Originaldokumenten einer breiten Öffentlichkeit zugänglich machen können”, sagt Andreas Lange, Direktor des Computerspiele Museums. Weiterer Kooperationspartner bei der Produktion der Timeline ist die Kunsthochschule Kassel/ Fachbereich Visuelle Kommunikation, die für das Onlinearchiv die Gestaltung entworfen hat.


„Ich freue mich, dass wir den Vater der Heimvideospiele als Gast für eine Veranstaltung unseres Berlin Gaming-Netzwerkes gewinnen konnten. Der Besuch von Herrn Baer unterstreicht den hohen Stellenwert, den Berlin als Games-Standort auch über die Landesgrenzen hinaus besitzt“, kommentiert Benjamin Bezold, Senior PR Manager von TGC, den Deutschland-Besuch von Ralph H. Baer . Mit seinem Business-Netzwerk „Berlin Gaming“ möchte der Berliner Publisher TGC – The Games Company allen gamesaffinen Berlinern die Möglichkeit geben, innerhalb der Gruppe kreative Ideen auszutauschen, Synergien zu nutzen und das eigene Kontaktnetzwerk zu erweitern. „Berlin Gaming“ zählt momentan über 400 registrierte Mitglieder.

Ort:
HomeBase Lounge Berlin
Köthener Str. 44
10963 Berlin

www.homebase-berlin.net


Beginn: 19 Uhr

Der Eintritt ist frei.

Rückfragen und Infos unter: info@amaze-festival.de

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Erste Inspirationen von seinem Besuch im Computerspielemuseum 2006:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8khOCIK-Dg&feature=channel_page
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42BCU2DHKFU&feature=channel

CD

some months late, but still: happy 30th birthday, CD!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD

picasso's light graffiti

Today and Tomorrow points to a terrific set of photos found in the LIFE archive of Picasso doing light graffiti. They were shot in 1949 by LIFE photographer Gjon Mili when he visited Picasso in Vallauris, France.

from the wooster collective site

BBC's Memoryshare - A place to share and explore memories

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/memoryshare/

Memoryshare is an information visualization tool and user-generated archive that the BBC launched back in 2007. The visualizaton is a timeline that resemles a DNA-strand, with a slider on the right that enables you to go back and forth in the structure; a slider on the left side to jump from one year to the other; and a search-function with which you can access specific information via text.
Little colour-coded bulbs along the DNA strand represent the individual archive-entries. I could not figurte out, wheter colour and shape of the bulbs have meaning assigned, too. By clicking on the bulbs, the detailed information opens in a new window. Mouse-over a bulb highlights related entries.
Results can also be viewed as a list to get a different kind of perspective on the data. Entries start in the year 1900 and go up to date.


Memoryshare was featured in Infosthetics on June 24th, 2009, text:
"BBC Memoryshare [bbc.co.uk] is a living archive of memories from 1900 to the present day. Users are invited to contribute, share and browse memories of all their memorable days and life experiences, and see them in the context of recent and historical events. Memories can include text, photos and videos.

Memoryshare is a web service across a number of sites on bbc.co.uk, such as local websites, radio and television. It was launched on the BBC Norfolk site on 8 July 2007, on the BBC London site on 23 July 2007 and on the BBC South Yorkshire site on 25 July 2007. It uses the DNA software developed for h2g2. The long-term aim for BBC Memoryshare is for a fully dynamic service which will enable users to find and search BBC content against date, to create content and to share multi-media content with other users."

links:
- memoryshare on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoryshare
- h2g2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H2g2
- on infostehtics: http://infosthetics.com/archives/2009/06/bbc_memoryshare_a_place_to_share_and_explore_memories.html

Early Computer History @ University of Manchester

From "The Baby" to the "Manchester Mark 1" and the William's Tube. The University of Manchester, were these things were developed more than half a century ago, put together a website with a really nice collection of resources about the history of its early computers.

http://www.computer50.org/

FILE 2009 - symposium

FILE 2009 symposium, Electronic Language International Festival, 27th - 31st of August, 2009 @ Sesi Paulista's cultural space, Sao Paulo, Brasil

"FILE Symposium intends to create a new point of debate besides the Europe/US axis, with the intent of discussing the electronic digital culture in its international relations, and also to broaden the dialogue on digital culture in its interdisciplinary extension. FILE Symposium is a space for discussing new media that will have round-tables with artists, theoreticians and researchers from Brazil and abroad in the area of art-technology."

url:
http://www.file.org.br/file2009/eng/index.php
http://www.file.org.br/

monoskop

Monoskop is collaborative research project, that started a wiki about the social history of media art and culture in 2004, focussing on the media art histories of particular collectives and cities. The city entries are like an index to as well as detailed description of the media art scenes of these places.

Their current research project:
Collaborative research on media art and culture in Central and Eastern Europe


wiki:
http://www.burundi.sk/monoskop/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.burundi.sk/monoskop/index.php/Monoskop:About

blog:
http://burundi.sk/monoskop/log/