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Telemegaphone Dale is a a seven-metres tall loudspeaker sculpture on top of the Bergskletten mountain overlooking the idyllic Dalsfjord in Western Norway created by MagnusTorstensson and Erik Sandelin of Unsworn Industries. Dial the Telemegaphone’s phone number and your voice will be projected out across the fjord, the valley and the village of Dale.
The Digital Artists Handbook is an up to date, reliable and accessible source of information that introduces you to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art.
The goal of the Handbook is to be a signpost, a source of practical information and content that bridges the gap between new users and the platforms and resources that are available, but not always very accessible. The Handbook will be slowly filled with articles written by invited artists and specialists, talking about their tools and ways of working. Some articles are introductions to tools, others are descriptions of methodologies, concepts and technologies.
When discussing software, the focus of this Handbook is on Free/Libre Open Source Software. The Handbook aims to give artists information about the available tools but also about the practicalities related to Free Software and Open Content, such as collaborative development and licenses. All this to facilitate exchange between artists, to take away some of the fears when it comes to open content licenses, sharing code, and to give a perspective on various ways of working and collaborating.
From August 2007 until January 2008, the editors of the Handbook were Marloes de Valk and Aymeric Mansoux of GOTO10.
In the illustrious world of case-mods and console hacking, artists and makers are re-inventing the design and function of these ubiquitous consumer electronics devices by creating hybrid systems and creative artifacts that challenge the corporate status quo. Taking this credo to an extreme with his inventive hardware projects is Dutch artist and maker, Gijs Gieskes. From casting a Nintendo Gameboy in concrete in order to build a garden path with “GameBoy Bricks” to creating an analog version of the hated spinning cursor in the Mac OSX operating system with “Spinning Beach Ball of Death”, Gieskes’ work and live performances are an inventive look at how closely entrenched we’ve become in the world of glitchy hardware and scrambled noise producing machines. MAKE recently caught up with Gieskes to discuss his practice, philosophy, and exactly how important the current crop of hackable consumer electronics might be to future generations.
Read the full interview in the MAKE blog.
Jonathan sez, “Open Source Cinema is trying to put together a collaborative documentary about copyright in the digital age.
They’ve travelled the world and have loads of raw footage available under creative commons which anybody can download, remix, and upload again! The script is also completely editable by users.
The finished documentary is to be screened on the documentary channel and in many theaters.
They need help, however: people, get editing!”
(from BoingBoing)
‘The ball in the hole’ is an interactive installation by Kysucix & Xname, shown for the first time at the Piksel06 exhibition.
Some videos and images from the installation are now online.
Enjoy!
The official Piksel05 video covering the KickstART and VjBattle events is finally released.
Beautifully put together in a nice DVD wrapping by Ingvild Hellesøy, it grabs some of the magic moments of the festival in an excellent way.
Download the individual videos here:
KickstART @ HKS – piksel05-kickstart.ogg (33,5Mb Ogg/Theora)
VjBattle @ the Bunker – piksel05-vjbattle.ogg (12,5Mb Ogg/Theora)
and as a ready to burn DVD image here: PIKSEL05_dvd.iso (676Mb)
Hi Piksels,
an open source only music compilation is out, on which I took part with
my project Elektronengehirn:
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[Apologies for cross-posting, please circulate where appropriate.]
The l.o.s.s project promotes and supports the use of free, open source
music software, in conjunction with Creative Commons (CC) licensing
which accepts and encourages sharing.
The first Libre Graphics Meeting will be held on 17, 18 and 19 March 2006 in Lyon, France in the Ecole d’Ingenieurs CPE on the university campus at La Doua, Villeurbanne.
Aiming to be a melting pot, with free software graphics developers and artists meeting each other, exchanging ideas and tips, and planning the future of free graphics, it features among others Øyvind Kolås aka Pippin, who will present a talk on his implementation of the long-awaited Generic Graphical Library (GEGL) concept, Gggl.
Another special treat will be the world premiere of the Project Orange movie, ‘Elephant’s Dream’, an animated film produced with Blender and other free tools.
By the end of this month, the rapidly expanding GOTO10 collective are organising Make Art – ‘a festival dedicated to the integration of “free and open source” software in electronic art’ in Poitiers, France.
I have been invited to do a presentation of Piksel05 and join a panel about the future strategies of open source in the context of digital art.
It’s very nice to see this kind of events popping up all over the place these days and I’m looking forward to meet new FLOSSminded ppl and probably some Piksel regulars too 🙂
More at the Make Art 2006 site.
Live Herring, a new festival and exhibition of Nordic net art opens today in Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Finland.
Among others it features my net art piece DodoNews. DodoNews is an online news processor based on rss feeds from various sources around the world which is continuously updated and processed using Jamie Zawinskis software Dadadodo to output a stream of news nonsense that still is somewhat understandable and forms a strange view of the flow of international news events.
Piksel regulars Martin Howse and Jonathan Kemp was just awarded the first prize in the art & artificial life competition VIDA 8.0. They won the prize for the work AP0201 which they presented at Piksel04.
AP0201 is a set of autonomous devices placed in a desert in Southern California. The devices use wi-fi to communicate among themselves and collect various data from the surroundings. The embedded code is constantly modifying itself.
From the jury statement:
‘ Their small computer displays tells us nothing — we have no way
of entering their processing or conversation. They are functionally
inscrutable, while nonetheless communicating a sort of technical authority.
While their location is available as GPS coordinates it’s hard to imagine
what one would gain by visiting them, and knowing the American Southwest
they would probably be peppered with bullet holes anyway. Quixotic as they
appear, they nonetheless present a challenge to our self-importance, as
oblivious to our curiosity as are the desert tortoises or cacti that share
their space.’
Some images of Achim Wollscheid at work mounting his Interactive Light Net on the facade of HKS is now online at: http://www.bek.no/static/gallery/Achim/
All piksellites on their way to Bergen right now should notice the exeptionally beautiful weather we’re experiencing right now 🙂