Olivier Laruelle (FR)
"Invisible commitments" installation
Behind software are people, sometimes whole communities. Some are developers, others users. Although one usually knows about the software's main author(s), it is sometimes difficult to realise how many individuals or how much time and effort has been put into making it work. All this activity is invisible to the users and sometimes to the software creator themselves. Developers working in groups often use programs to help them keep track of things and maintain coherence in their code's files and folder structure. Interestingly those programs can give back the whole activity behind a project. It usually comes in a dry textual format. This project is an attempt at visualising this data in a more engaging and artistic way and to highlight the amount of effort and commitment behind a specific open source software development project. The visualisations will be presented as a series of prints revolving around the theme branching. Each one of them free to be seen in its informative aspect or in its mere visual form.
Invisible commitments source code can be found here: https://devel.goto10.org/svn/oli/whatthefork
"Bottom-up! Scriptable design" talk outline
Oli Laruelle will present a collection of projects highlighting the simplicity of getting into creative coding nowadays thanks to programming environments such as Processing. With a background in design, he was able to start writing simple programs and quickly became hooked, up to the point where it became his daily job. His goal is to prove wrong the prejudice that programming is only about math.Biography
Oli Laruelle is a designer by training turned programmer. He spends his time between working for Sennep, a small London based web design studio and creating various types of artworks. Live generative or printed pieces, audio or data visualisation, he mostly uses Processing as coding environment. Oli has displayed his generative work in festivals, clubs, contemporary art galleries and simply over the internet. He is a member of Openlab London, a collaboration of artists who engage themselves in the aesthetics and politics of Free and Open Source Software Culture.
