While here in Edinburgh we are drowning in the snow, I thought I’d post a brief note about few reviews published in these days after my appearance at Piksel Festival (hopefully soon you’ll get also a report of the festival).
A fantastic and accurate review of my talk at Piksel “Golden Shield Music: sonification of IT censorhip technologies” has just been published by Regine Debatty at the awesome We Make Money Not Art blog.
Besides, the work has been reviewed on Wired.com and Wired.co.uk, check it here.

In a couple of days I’ll be flying to Bergen, Norway to host a talk about sonification of Internet censorship technologies within the framework of Piksel Festival.
Program is rich and dense, check below.
Drop me a line if you’re passing by!

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PIKSEL10 :: (Un)stable

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The 8th annual Piksel festival for Electronic Art and Technological Freedom
- exhibitions – workshops – live art – presentations
- November 18-21, Bergen (NO)
- http://piksel.no/p10

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The 8th edition of Piksel celebrates the unstable as a source of creativity, revolt and development. At the edge of a new decennium, 100 years after futurism and dada permanently changed the artworld, we are again at a point in time where instability grows and anything can happen.
The festival theme, (Un)stable, points to the temporarily placed and unsteady constructions, mobile spaces, code in constant development,  a globally charged political climate and how these factors are changing the production of art today.

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Program:

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EXHIBITIONS @ Galleri 3,14, KNIPSU, Entrèe & StudioUSF
http://www.piksel.no/p10/exhibition

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Gijs Gieskes (NL), Øyvind Mellbye (NO), Signe Lidén (NO), Michal Kindernay, (CZ),Korinna Lindinger (AT), Martinka Bobrikova (SK), Oscar de Carmen (ES), Victor Mazon (ES), Ben Dembroski (GB), Ben Woodeson (GB),Emanuel Andel (AT), Christian Gũtzer (AT), Jorge Luis Crowe  (AR), Richard Schwarz (AT), Malte Steiner (DE), Luca Carrubba (ES), Anis Haron (MY)

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WORKSHOPS @ KNIPSU, StudioUSF & PikselHut
http://www.piksel.no/p10/workshops

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Psychedelic D.i.Y. Toilet Roll Goggles, Arduino Synthesizers, CHEAP, FAT + OPEN, Functional live coding, Hack your own radio, NoiZe bouyZ: Workshop and Guerilla Installation, Mouse and keyboard hack, Spectral Analysis and Processing in Pure Data

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LIVE ART @ StudioUSF, Entrèe &Galleri 3,14
http://www.piksel.no/p10/liveart

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ALejandra Perez (CL), Shu Lea Cheang (FR), Ryan Jordan (UK), Geraldine McEwan (UK), Eleonora Oreggia (IT), Andy Bolus (FR), Miho (JP), Jorge Luis Crowe (AR), Brendan Howell (DE), Jonathan Kemp (UK), Alex McLean (UK), Dave Griffiths (UK), Claude Heiland-Allen (UK), Cristiano Rosa (BR), Alexandre Torres Porres (BR), Julien Ottavi (FR), Luca Carrubba (ES), Oscar Martin Correa (ES), Joachim Montessuis (FR), Alexandre Quessy (CA), Tristan Matthews (CA), Alo Allik (EE), Martin Howse (UK), Anthony Iles (UK), Signe Lidén (NO), Michal Kindernay (CZ), Audun Eriksen (NO), Arnfinn Killingtveit (NO), d.R.e.G.S (ES)

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PRESENTATIONS @ StudioUSF
http://www.piksel.no/p10/presentations

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RDEX, Cartografia Sonora Antartica, Reflecting about ArTe, Golden Shield Music – Sonification of IT censorship technologies, How to build a Capitalistic Robot, Scenic: Telepresence software for live performances and installations, The White People, Scratch, Naked on Pluto

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more info and complete program:
http://piksel.no/p10
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Piksel10 is supported by The Norwegian Art Council, Bergen Municipality, Hordaland County Council, PNEK, OCA, UD – Music from the south, BEK, Bergen Kunsthall/Landmark, The Norwegian embassy in Belgium and the Austrian embassy in Norway.

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PIKSEL :: FREE AS IN ART!
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Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with free and open technologies in artistic practice.
Part workshop, part festival, it is organised in Bergen, Norway, and involves participants from more than a dozen countries exchanging ideas, coding, presenting art and software projects, doing workshops, performances and discussions on the aesthetics and politics of free technologies & art.
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BLOG www.piksel.no
TECH www.piksel.org
WIKI   www.piksel.no/pwiki
IRC    #piksel (irc.freenode.net)
LISTS www.piksel.no/pwiki/MailingLists

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Is it possible to develop artistic projects that not only change the way we see and use technology but also affect real social change at the same time? Ruth Catlow introduces the Zero Dollar Laptop project and proposes that this might just be possible.

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By Ruth Catlow.

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The Zero Dollar Laptop Workshop programme has been developed and delivered through partnership between Furtherfield and Access Space and aims to change attitudes to technology. It does this by recycling hardware, deploying Free and Open Source Software (FOSS), sharing skills and working together to create rich media content.

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This project has provided a useful basis for thinking about how art might be able to create change through learning and education that relates to technology.

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This question becomes especially relevant in the context of current, global economic and ecological collapse.

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Read here http://www.axisweb.org/dlForum.aspx?ESSAYID=18115

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I’m forwarding here a message from Netaudio Berlin Festival Staff. They have been putting together a series of publication about the last edition of the festival, including reports, ideas and articles from all participants.
Looks an interesting reading, I also contributed with a report of the event (previously published here) and some personal observations about net-labels’ music and such.
More info below.

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Dear friend, musician, netlabelhead, netaudio enthusiast, creative mastermind, visual aesthete and free thinker…

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We would like to inform you about a new publication on the website of Netaudio Berlin which is finally ready. (At least the texts… the layout is not perfect yet

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This publication has developed from the idea to keep hold of some personal perspectives, interesting anecdotes and developed ideas – alongside with some theoretical thoughts – as an outcome of the festival. And analogue to the colorful mixture of participants in the festival, we were able to tie a turbulent bundle of texts in style, types and perspectives. Most of them are very friendly and full of (personal) enthusiasm, others are meant to increase and develop the content, framework and general setup of the festival.

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Read more:

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http://www.netaudioberlin.de/publications/introduction_antina/

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Find the table of contents here:

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http://www.netaudioberlin.de/publications/

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You might leave comments on the texts if you like – and we would really love to read your remarks, footnotes and opinions. We are curious about any of your comments.
I will answer your Emails – but it can take a while – because of my final episodes in pregnancy… For urgent requirements please contact Raimund ( raimund@netaudioberlin.de ).

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We kindly ask you to spread the word on your websites, social networks and where ever you think it’s relevant.

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Best greetings,

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Antina Michels and the netaudio team

P.S.: If you are still interested to purchase a Netaudio Book (“Netlabels -  Soziale Netze On- & Offline”), please let me know. More info:
http://antinamichels.de/wordpress/?page_id=2

Check the article about the research and outcome in English in this publication:
http://www.netaudioberlin.de/publications/netaudio-scene-article_antina/

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Netaudio Festival Berlin 2009
Antina Michels
Festival Management

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Tomorrow 13th November we’ll be gathering for the 2nd Pure Data Scots User MeetUp.

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The meeting kicks off at 3pm at the Electron Club, CCA, Glasgow.

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Meeting is free, public and open to all practitioners, beginners, artists, programmers, musicians, passionates of digital arts and simply anybody who might be interested in spending few hours patching, talking, sharing ideas, making some noise, teach and learn.

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We encourage you to actively take part in our newborn community and propose presentations or talks for next meetings.

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If you want to keep up to date with our activities, please subscribe to the Pd Scots User list at:

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http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pdusers

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Hope to see you soon!

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Thanks to the Electron Club and CCA Glasgow for hosting us:
http://www.electronclub.org/doku.php
http://www.cca-glasgow.com

via Pd announce list

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Claudius Maximus’s latest work made with Pure-data is available, including the source code so you can make your own generative fractal music:

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http://gosub10.org/GOSUB10-003.html

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The Mandelbrot set is possibly the world’s most famous fractal. z→z²+c is a series of sonifications, focussing on the periodic attractors found almost everywhere within the Mandelbrot set. Given just two real numbers (forming one point in the complex plane), dynamic patterns can emerge as the one simple equation governing the system is repeated over and over: z→z²+c

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The source code for this release (implemented in Pure-data using GridFlow and zexy) is free software distributable under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 3 or greater).

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Copyleft: This is a free work, you can copy, distribute, and modify it under the terms of the Free Art License.

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Released on 17th October 2010.

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Track listing:

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1. ClaudiusMaximus – The Military-Industrial Complex
2. ClaudiusMaximus – After The Despoilment
3. ClaudiusMaximus – Race Against Time
4. ClaudiusMaximus – Before Civilisation

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Dedicated to innovative music and audio/visuals, the GOSUB10 label will feature an eclectic group of musicians drawn together by their shared use of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS). Freely distributed by stream, download and special DVD releases, and made available through an open license, GOSUB10 is run by the GOTO10 collective – an international group of artists, musicians and programmers, dedicated to FLOSS and digital arts. Brought to life in a intensive four day work sprint but years in the making, the GOSUB10 netlabel is a natural extension of GOTO10’s activities supporting and promoting digital art alongside FLOSS tools through workshops, festivals, exhibitions, writing, and more.

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http://gosub10.org
http://claudiusmaximus.goto10.org

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solenoid concert, by Roman Häfeli

made with pd, an arduino and a selfmade relayboard

as an illustrating example, appetizer

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Pure Data (Pd) is a universal, Open Source software environment for real-time generation and processing of audio, graphics, video and sensor data. It’s a visual programming language which allows to program in an easy and intuitive way, and is therefore widespread in the artistic community.

• Date: Sat+Sun 27+28.11.2010, from 12:00 to 18:00 (with break)
• Costs: free
• Where: Metalab, Library
• Language: German or English
• Lecturer: grh

Workshop Contents

• General introduction to Pure Data
• Audio and Signal Processing
• Video and 3D Graphics (OpenGL)
• Special topics suggested by the audience

Find more info here.

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via Pd announce list

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libpd has reached a 0.1 release, enabling developers to use Pd as a sound engine in their applications. Out of the gate, we have extensive code samples for Android 1.5 and later, plus the basic tools to work on iOS (recent armv7 recommended for now, with other devices soon). In the near future, embedding Pd patches inside tools like Processing/Java, OpenFrameworks/C++, and Python should be just as easy. The library is based on Pd vanilla, so this is not a fork of Pd; you can use patches in it just as you would in any other version.

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Developers will find the library, code snippets (for Android; iOS is coming), and even some handy abstractions:
http://gitorious.org/pdlib/

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To learn more:
Article on the release at createdigitalmusic:
http://bit.ly/libpdishere

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Group for discussing Pd on mobile, embedded, and using libpd:
http://noisepages.com/groups/pd-everywhere/

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End users with Android phones or tablets can try out packages now:
http://gitorious.org/pdlib/pages/Packages
… in addition to patches from Chris detailed in the CDM post above.

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libpd available is thanks to the work of Peter Brinkmann, with testing, further development, documentation, and other contributions from the RjDj team (who are now adopting it in their future development work), Hans-Christoph Steiner, Chris McCormick (who has also added the ability to make HTML5 web interfaces), and Peter Kirn, along with members of the NYC Patching Circle at NYC Resistor.