FLOSS+Art panel

Panel discussion about FLOSS and art from the perspective of art organisations, artists, academies and universities. With: Sally Jane Norman (NZ/GB), Martin Howse (GB), Florian Cramer (DE/NL), Gisle Frøysland (NO) and Simon Yuill (GB).

Florian Cramer is the Course Director of Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam/Netherlands) Media Design. He integrates software art and copyleft culture in the students courses. He's a writer from Berlin who has published in the area of code poetry, comparative studies in the literature and the arts, modernism, text theory, literature and computing.
Gisle Frøysland has for over a decade been one of the key figures of the Norwegisn electronic arts scene. He is a founding member of BEK - the Bergen Centre for Electronic Art, initiator/maintainer of the FLOSS videoapp MøB, and main organiser of the Piksel festival in Bergen, Norway. Since the early 80ies he has been working as a musician, VJ and visual artist, building installations where modern technology and communications is in the main theme.
Martin Howse, Artist, programmer, theorist and film-maker. Founded ap in 1998 to produce and explore the construction of a free, artistic operating system in its widest sense. xxxxx founded in collaboration with Jonathan Kemp in 2006 as research institute (Berlin, Germany) and ongoing manifestation (open hardware explorations). Sally Jane Norman is a New Zealander-French theorist/practitioner whose research is focused on live art and technology, author of numerous texts including studies commissioned by UNESCO, the Laboratoire des Arts du spectacle at the French National Scientific Research Centre, and the French Ministry of Culture. Docteur d'état (Institut d'études théâtrales, Paris III), co-/organiser of workshops, performances, and seminars exploring human interactions in digital environments at the International Institute of Puppetry (Charleville-Mézières), KHM (Karlsruhe), STEIM (Amsterdam), Phénix Theatre (Valenciennes), ESI (Angoulême/ Poitiers), IRCAM (Paris); engaged on EU Framework projects since 1996, founder member of the European Cultural Backbone. Since September 2004, Director of Culture Lab, a project-driven interdisciplinary research facility at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Simon Yuill is an artist and programmer based in Glasgow, Scotland. His work addresses coding both in terms of its low-level formal mechanisms and aesthetics and in terms of its higher-level relationships to social structures and systems. These issues are explored through software projects, written texts, discussion, and hands-on workshops. Current projects include spring_alpha, making social enquiry through game design, and YOUR MACHINES, a series of events and practical workshops based around FLOSS technologies and their social-political consequences. He is a founder member of ChIT, the Chateau Institute of Technology, an artist-run recycled media-lab in the heart of Glasgow.

Open Source For Art at KHM - Martin Rumori (DE)

Martin Rumori works within the Art and Media Science department of the Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, specialising in sound. He has a Masters in Informatics and Musicology and is largely responsible for practical aspects of the work at the department. He is also a vital resource for students seeking individual support on scientific and theoretical matters. He is actively trying to introduce the students of the KHM to open source software, through a series of practical workshops called OSFA (Open Source For Arts). The workshops included themes such as UNIX, C programming, ambisonics and DIY (surround sound) Soundfield microphones.
http://www.khm.de

Command Line Video Editing --- Dominik Bartkowski (PL/FR)

In his current artistic work, Dominik Bartkowski algorithmically edits and transforms video on the command line, using python and shell scripts combined with tools like ffmpeg, Pil, ImageMagick, RegEx. He will show how they work and how they differ from traditional video editing. He developed those tools because of his artistic work on sexuality, AIDS and pornography and the languages and codes that describe and filter them.
His programs - command line video editor and text parsers are inspired by content filtering engines for images and texts, used to detect and delete sexually explicit texts or graphics on the web and they are building blocks for a video installation on sexual politics.
Dominik Bartkowski grew up in Poland and France, he holds a degree in Graphic Design From Le Quai, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Mulhouse, 2005, he's currently an M.A. candidate in Media Design at the Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam where he is preparing his final project on the esthetics of pornography and the bureaucratic language used to describe topics such as desire, AIDS and prevention.

Art, Open Source and non profit organisations - APO33 (FR)

APO33 is an artistic and interdisciplinary laboratory that develops different collective projects, blending research, experimentation and interventions in public space. Plugging in to the continuous dynamics of the open source movement, APO33 manifests itself as a modular space, initiating collaborative projects and processes and exploring new modes of creative and artistic production and distribution.

Through workshops, seminars, interventions in public space, artistic creation, international meetings, on-line projects, publications, etc. APO33 questions current transformations in artistic and cultural practice caused by the re-appropriation and usage of Communication and Information Technologies. This questioning has driven APO33 to work at the edge of the cultural field, by exploring the intersections of artistic creation and other disciplines and practices (political activism, social mediation or action, social science and "hard" science, urbanism, ecology, economy, ...).
http://apo33.org

ap/xxxxx (GB)

ap operates within the fields of discourse, speculative hardware (environmental data in open physical systems), code (an examination of layers of abstraction), free software and the situational (performances and interventions). The digital made physical, audible, visible through geological computing and complex systems. recoding data processing algorithms on the fly, ap transform the performance space into an open laboratory.
http://1010.co.uk/

Back to the Programme or see also:

• BEK.NO(ISE) evening - Carré Bleu
• Closing party @ Confort Moderne
• Exhibition
• Screening "The Code"
• Audiovisual performances @ Planétarium
• FLOSS TOOLS
• Workshop Pure Data