via Medialab Prado list

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Thursday, September 30, 2010 / 7 pm

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MEDIALAB-PRADO
Plaza de las Letras
C/ Alameda, 15 · 28014 Madrid

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Lecture about KDE Desktop environment for Unix, developed thanks to the contributions of big communities. Kügler, release manager and member of the Board of Directors, will talk about its organization and management [live streaming].

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Further information here.

Thanks to Paul Gallagher for his brief but insightful description of my latest work Invisible Suns now featured on Dangerous Minds (via Mark MacLachlan).

via SoundFjord list

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Listening/Drawing

Workshop leader: Helen Frosi
Thursday 30 September | Drop in – 2-5pm
Wednesday 06 October | Drop In – 2-5pm
Free – Just drop in!

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Foley Performance
Workshop Leader: Andrew Riley
Weekend 02-03 October 2010 | 11am – 5pm
Tickets: £30 (by advanced ticket)
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/94084

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Interactive Media Sound Design
Lecturer: Andrew Riley
Tuesday 05 October 2010 | 8-9pm
Tickets: £3 (by advanced ticket)
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/94085

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Recording in the Field
Workshop leader: Andrew Riley/Helen Frosi
Saturday 09 October 2010 | 10am – noon
Tickets: Free but booking is essential: info[at]soundfjord.org

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Hydrophone Construction
Workshop leader: David Chapman
Saturday 09 October 2010 | 1pm – 5pm (approx)
Tickets: £15 (by advanced ticket)
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/94241

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Further informationhttp://www.soundfjord.org/workshops.htm

via Piksel list

Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam presents

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http://nimk.nl/syncstarter

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Since 2005 we release and mantain the free and open source software that we use to distribute multi-channel video artworks.
More information on our R&D deparment: http://nimk.nl/eng/research

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The digital video syncstarter software is developed and employed by NIMk to provide synced playback of multiple videos on multiple screens.

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In the video art field there are many artworks requiring the real-time synced playback of audio/video: HDSync provides such a functionality for HD decoders, to sync HD video playback on multiple devices.

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HDSync is been developed in-house at NIMk on a specific hardware configuration: WD HD Live players running B-Rad’s WDLXTV firmware, something artists themselves can afford for approx 100EUR on the consumer market.

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** Development in progress

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This release can synchronise the playback of multiple channels (virtually unlimited) on the same local network: hdsync can automatically handshake and start playing in sync, restoring the sync at every loop. Empirical tests show an error margin of 10-15 frames, with further development we aim to achieve frame exact sync.

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** Support and warranty

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The purpose of this release is to make the project open source to allow collaboration with developers interested: we release HDSync as free and open source (GNU GPL v3) in the hope it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.

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And in case you find it useful, we are happy to know!

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http://lmgtfy.com/?q=syncstarter

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jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org

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I’d like to share some documentation regarding my latest work The invisible suns project.

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“Can the trading market patterns be represented in a perceptually weighted experience?
Invisible Suns is an autonomous system that every day analyzes the historical stock prices of a variable selection of major corporations, compresses in few minutes over 8 years of economic transactions and eventually produces a generative and self-organizing audiovisual datascape.”

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Further information at http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/the-invisible-suns-project/

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An audio visual real time recording of an earlier output of the system can be view on-line at http://vimeo.com/15050311.
It is recommended to view the video in full HD, otherwise relevant details of the work would be lost.

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Developed in Pure Data, bash scripts, Linux OS.

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Danomatika just published a tutorial about the [httpget] object for Pure Data.
Start grabbing information from your favourite webpage into Pd. Here you go:

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http://puredata.info/docs/tutorials/SimpleWebclient

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In May I’ve been invited to Pikslaverk Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland, to present my work Golden Shield Music, a multi-channel generative sonification of IT censorship.
Pikslaverk is the Icelandic branch of the Pixelache Network which operates worldwide thanks to several organizations such as the almighty Piksel and its community.
Yes, I know, it’s probably very late for a report, but come on… better later than never.
Although I was really looking forward to my Icelandic journey, the arrival in Reykjavik was slightly weird. I was stopped and checked at the border by the local police for about 30′, with no explicit reason. I did not have anything illegal with me, fortunately. However after this warm welcome I suddenly faced an awful and hostile weather which did not help me rescuing the excitement.

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Later on all my worries disappeared: I reached our lovely accommodation and eventually met long time friend Servando Barreiro along with the other international artists hosted for the event.
Once relaxed, chilled and excited again, I joined the group at the Reykjavik Art Museum for the first session of lectures.
The bad weather were still hiding the beauty of the city, but the modern, formal and cozy mood of the museum positively surprised me.

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While Servando was setting up his performance for the opening of the festival, I got my chance to meet the organizers of the event and have a chat in the shiny library of the museum.
Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir is an exquisite person and an excellent host, she’s also a curator working with digital and critical media. Aki Asgeirsson is a talented experimental composer and organizer for the Raflost festival. Curiously enough, we had already met a week before in Copenhagen as he have performed a concert at the Re-new Festival.

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Eventually Margrét formally opened the event and lectures started. Pall Thayer presented his Microcodes, “very small code-based artworks. Each one is a fully contained work of art. The conceptual meaning of each piece is revealed through a combination of the title, the code and the results of running them on a computer”. I had already viewed the work on-line, but the talk revealed some specific and interesting aspects of the research along with many practical examples. Make sure you check his website.
Then Servando performed an audiovisual self-destructive concert and the night ended with the hyper-fast and tense meta-talk by Goodiepal. I think I can’t really explain his presentation, probably any explanation won’t even make justice to the performance he made, but just think about 20mins of the fastest and most chaotic talk you can imagine, fill it with some real pragmatical and cynical considerations about modern electronic music as we know it and mix it with the exhibition of self-promoting hand-crafted gadgets such as toy-shaped vinyls, fake (?) theoretical handbooks and other lovely, weird objects.

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The day after we all met again at the Museum Hall for another session of lectures. Presentations were mostly focused on software “art” and a critical approach to the digital media in its widest conception. Martin Howse talked about his research projects amongst which I’d like to mention the brilliant Island2 “a free software application which creates a semi-permanent, isolated island in the computer’s memory”. I presented the Golden Shield Music project and I have to thank the audience and the other artists who outlined few criticism which I didn’t faced before, questioning the “liveness” of the generative system and proposing a theoretically endless accumulation of data instead of a static analysis of pre-recorded figures.
Next was Linda Hilfling who introduced a “TV-program in its literary meaning – a software executing local-tv-transmissions, where the code of the programme critically reflects on the premises of participatory media itself.” (I stole this quote from http://www.observatori.com/pages/ob.php?anim=0&lang=en&tid=3). Finally Rafael Hidalgo closed the session presenting his Personal Weather Sensation, a multimedia project researching the interaction between the weather and human feelings, aiming at the creation of a sonic reactive environment controlled by the variations of weather conditions in specific place around the world.

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Eventually we headed at the Reykjavik Academy of Fine Arts to attend the presentation by Juan Parra and the exhibition of student’s final projects included in the Raflost program.
The walk was amazing: 20/30 mins wandering along the open sea surrounded by most likely the widest sky I’ve ever seen.

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The night after PIkslaverk was officially closed with few hours of live performances including myself and I C::ntr::l Nature audiovisual improvisational concert, Juan Parra quadriphonic concert, Martinka Bobrikova and Oscar de Carmen and some other interesting performances.
The following party ended in the morning and I exploited the industrial set of the location to make some improvised strictly geeky and conceptual mapping projections over the whole building structure using the latest mapping module for FLxER, free vjing and multimedia mixing software.

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We all couldn’t leave Iceland without seeing the legendary landscape around the island, so we rented a van and spent the whole final day driving around incredible views and alien scapes. Well, this would deserve another whole post, but… hey, I won’t describe my holiday!
I want to thank the organization of the event, Margrét and Aki, the other artists that shared with me such a great times in Reykjavik. I wish to come back soon on this awesome island.

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Workshop by Julian Oliver and Damian Stewart
30 September – 2 October 2010
The Artvertiser is an urban, hand-held “Improved Reality” project that re-purposes street advertisements as the surface for exhibiting art.
During this 3-days workshop, participating artists will have the opportunity to create visual works to replace urban advertisement in the city. They will be able to experiment and analyse real time computer vision techniques developed by Julian Oliver and his team.
The results of the workshop will be presented for the Media Facades Festival Finissage during “augmented” walks in Brussels on Saturday afternoon October 2, where the audience will be able to watch the results through specially built binoculars (or Billboard Intercept Units).

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- Max participants: 15
- Spoken language: English
- Participation fee: 30€ (lunches included)
- Registration deadline: 22 Sept 2010

More info & registration: imal.org