I’ll be giving a talk and demo of PureData at the next Edinburgh Linux User Group Meeting on Thursday 3rd February.
The meeting is held at the Edinburgh Conference and Training Centre, St Mary’s Street Edinburgh (map at http://tinyurl.com/5r6ebgp ) and starts at 7:30pm. Tea, Coffee and biscuits are available free of charge.

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Creativity, hacktive behaviours, self-taught quasi-programming and new media openness.

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These keywords quite well summarize the personal artistic research I’ll be presenting at Edlug. From a concept to its practical realization, an artistic work is always a mixture of theories and technical skills and often the hardest task is to keep the work enough close to the original idea which it was generated from.
In these days digital multimedia tools are notably contributing to enhance, and somehow change, the human capability of creation; they can expand our abilities, be thought-provoking and change viewpoints on values and social idioms. This stands true unless we consider how capitalism affects innovators and innovation and the modalities by which we undergo a capital-guerrilla dissemination of closed source tools. In this perspective creativity looses its charachter of authenticness. However, a worldwide actual community of makers, developers, artists and geeks works relentlessy to provide an awesome and infinite set of free, open tools by which an artist can express a creative message and provide a socio-political declaration of intellectual and technical independence.

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My first approach to Pure Data dates back to 2004; during these years my work encompassed diverse topics such as biosensing technology, musical and theatrical performance, participatory practice and semantic hacking of Internet data set. These works would have not been possible without a growing awareness of the radical importance of openness of tools and techniques and I hope to provide a comprehensive insight about the possibilities and the challenges that an hacktive creative behaviour can foster.

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Talk will be followed by a demo presentation of a biosensing framework (hardware/software) for gestural control of music and responsive milieux I’m currently developing (with the support of The University of Edinburgh and the Dorkbot ALBA group at the Edinburgh Hacklab). Participants will be able to wear the devices and make some noise!

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http://marcodonnarumma.com

http://res.marcodonnarumma.com

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Thanks Jan at Edlug for organizing the event.
Back to EdLUG:Meetings

Original message from the Thimbl project team

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Hello! It’s been a long time since I’ve sent out a email newsletter, hasn’t it?

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As some of you may know, I’ve gotten drawn into the world of social media, and have been hanging around in places like Facebook and Twitter. There are a few reasons for this, one, to explore those platforms as ways to communicate, but also to very large degree, to understand the enemy. Much of what’s wrong with Web2.0 is covered in the Telekommunist Manifesto (

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/////// Don’t be a Twit, it feels good to be fingered!

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The platform is called Thimbl, and it also has a manifesto all it’s own:
http://www.thimbl.net/manifesto.html

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Thimbl is a microblogging platformed implemented as a specialized Finger & SSH client.

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Please take a look! We welcome feedback and participation, the Thimbl project is just beginning, we need your to help spread the word.

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What’s really great is that Thimbl has been nominated for the Open Web Award from Transmediale and the Mozilla Foundation, so we’ll be hanging around the OpenZone at Transmediale spreading the word and answering questions.

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Winning the Open Web Award would go along way to kickstarting Thimbl, and we really need your help here! You can vote for us! Voting for the Award is being done on the drumbeat.org platform, Thimbl is very new, and is up against two projects that are far better known, so we’re really need your vote. Please sign up to drumbeat and vote for Thimbl!

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Here’s how: http://www.drumbeat.org/content/how-vote-drumbeat-thimbl

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Also, we have a nice little video to introduce you to Thimbl, you can see it on the home page of our drumbeat project.

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http://www.drumbeat.org/project/thimbl-decentralized-micro-blogging-platform

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And after you vote for Thimbl, please make a comment on drumbeat, the Transmediale jury is very interested in hearing why you like the project and so are we!
Voting ends Feb 4th, so the time to vote is now! Also, please pass this on, share, blog, tweet, etc. Help us kickstart decentralized social media! With your
help, we can make this manifesto for the open web heard!

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Got Questions? Wanna Help?
We’ve also launched a public community forum for the Thimbl project:
http://www.thimbl.net/community.html

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Come by and say Hi!

via Piksel list

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Newstweek is a device to remotely manipulate news read by others on wireless hotspots.
A new video has been posted detailing the Newstweek device and demonstrating it in operation:

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Newstweek: The Thorough Demonstration from newstweek on Vimeo.

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An interview and article published today unpacks the conceptual background of Newstweek. It can be read here:
http://www.imperica.com/features/newstweek

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Newstweek can be found here:
http://newstweek.com

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Regards,
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Julian Oliver

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I just received this brief announcement via Pd mailing list.
Sounds interesting, if you’re in the UK, might be worth trying to participate. Some time after this the Linux Audio Conference will take place in Dublin too.

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The Department of Music is pleased to announce a Pure Data mini-Conference taking place 4-5 March 2011 in House 5, Trinity College Dublin. It will > feature lectures, papers, workshops and an evening of pure data music performed live.
Please submit abstracts/proposals by email to richard.duckwo…@tcd.ie.
Deadline is January 25th, 2011 – with notification a week later.
Information and schedule of events will be posted on this blog:
http://bluespetroleum.blogspot.com

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Rich Duckworth
Lecturer in Music Technology
Department of Music
House 5
Trinity College
Dublin 2
Ireland

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

via Openlab announce list

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Jaaga is a large creative hackerspace in central Bangalore, India. We are looking for smart, creative people who who want to spend a few months working on interesting projects which use some aspect of high tech to do something fun in our space or on the net.

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We offer a bed, homemade food, internet connection, small stipend, and a fun environment to create in. In exchange we ask that fellows blog regularly, open source code any code they may write, and generally contribute to the community.

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Videos & pics:
http://jaaga.in/gallery

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Details about the fellowship:
http://jaaga.in/fellowship

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Ongoing projects at jaaga:

http://jaaga.in/projects”>http://jaaga.in/projects

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Freeman /

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Andrew McWilliams

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.