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It looks like another Pd User Group was born in Taipei!
Here’s the announcement.

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Pd-Taipei is set up by a group of Pure Data users in Taipei, which aims to host regular gatherings to create a fun place where people can share their experience and trouble-shoot, just like Pd-Mtl in Montreal of Canada, Pd-Berlin in Berlin of Germany, Pd-La in the California of the United States etc.
Sign up today to learn more updates from the link of our online forum

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http://groups.google.com/group/openlabtaipei

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Gathering Time: 2011/10/01 Saturday AM11: 00
Location: 23Design (Chongqing North Road, Taipei, No. 25, Lane 3–5)

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Another brilliant, punctual and aesthetically awesome work from RYBN.ORG.
The work is developed in Pd aka Pure Data and GEM.

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Meta-economics or post-VR?

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Unfortunately I can’t find a way to embed the video, so please see it here.

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I’m quite excited about this new release of Gem, one of the most used video library for Pure Data aka Pd.
Check the highlights below to get a glimpse of new features and fixed issues.
Follows the original message from Gem mantainer IOhannes Zmoelnig:

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“After long years of waiting (foir you) and hard labour (for me), Gem 0.93 has been released today.
large parts of the underlying engine have been re-written to give you a better experience!
binaries are available for w32 (installer & zip), for the brave and adventurous there is the source code.
binaries for OSX and not available yet, but we hope to get them online soonish.

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grab it while it’s hot: http://gem.iem.at/releases/0.93.0

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alternatively you can get the files from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pd-gem

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highlights
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Objects
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frei0r video plugins support

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- [mesh], [surface3d],…
- [separator] now takes arguments to define which stacks to push/pop

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documentation
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- numerous bigfixes and improvements

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extra
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- [pix_fiducialtrack] is no more part of Gem (but comes bundled with Gem)
- [pix_artoolkit] fiducial tracking using ARToolKit
- [pix_drum], [pix_mano]: Jaime Olivier’s analysis objects!

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plugins
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image acquisition is now factored out into “plugins” this means that you can e.g. easily add new image acquisition methods to the existing [pix_video], [pix_film] and [pix_image] objects

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- still image loading/saving now uses plugins on all platforms on w32 you can now use ImageMagick and/or QuickTime for loading/saving images, which greatly increases the number of supported formats. you now get programmatic feedback on image loading success…
- video acquisition now uses plugins on all platforms uniform way to get or set properties/attributes/controls, like hue, saturation, shutter-speed, pan,… working DV support (on linux)
V4L also works with newer kernels (that dropped v4l)
support for IIDC
support for industrial grade GigE cameras using 3rd party libraries such as PYLON, Halcon or AVT’s PvAPI experimental UNICAP support
- film acquisition now uses plugins on all platforms (you could use gmerlin on w32 or osx…)
- recording (film output) now uses plugins on all platforms support for V4L2 (and V4L) loopback devices, in order to generate a fake live video from your Gem window – use it for recording, streaming,…

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settings
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global & local settings files to modify the overall behaviour of Gem you don’t like Gem’s default framerate, windowsize, font, texture mode,…? change it once and for all

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internals
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- API: this is the first Gem with a “public” API: a selection of headers that you can use to write your own Gem-plugins build-system
- build system: completely switched to a proper autotools
- openGL: updated bundled GLEW
- source organization: re-organized the entire source tree for hopefully better maintainability

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lowlights
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i need an OSX developer willing to spend some time in getting image acquisition and windowing to work on OSX>=10.6 (x86_64)”

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Piksel11
November 17-20 2011
Bergen, Norway
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Piksel is an international event for artists and developers working with
Free/Libre and Open Source technologies in artistic practice. Part workshop, part festival, it is organized 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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open CALL for PROJECTS
For the exhibition and other parts of the programme we currently seek
projects in the following categories:
1. Installations
Projects to be included in the exhibitions.
The works must be realised by the use of free and open source technologies.

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2. Audiovisual performance
Live art realised by the use of free software and/or open/DIY hardware.

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3. Presentations
Innovative DIY/open hardware and audiovisual software tools or software art released under a free/open licence. (Also includes presentations of artistic projects realised using free/open technologies.)

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4. Workshops
Hands on workshops utilising free software and/or open/DIY hardware for artistic use.

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5. Urban Interventions
Pikselert NovemberNatt is a specially curated project involving visual
interventions in selected parts of the Bergen urban environment.
We look for surface projections or media facade projects using video mapping or similar techniques to recontextualize the urban landscape. All parts of the projects must be realised using free and open source technologies.

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!!!!!!!!!! Deadline – august 15. 2011 !!!!!!!!!!
Please use the online submit form at:
http://piksel.no/ocs
or send documentation material – preferably as a URL to online
documentation with images/video to piksel11 (AT) piksel.no

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Piksel11 is organized in cooperation with Galleri 3,14, Bergen
Kunsthall/Landmark, USF and HackBergen. Supported by the Municipality of Bergen, Arts Council Norway, Hordaland County Council, KORO and others.
more info: www.piksel.no
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I Cntrl Nature | Audiovisual concert for augmented electric bass guitar, self-designed software and butterfly

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I Cntrl Nature (Marco Donnarumma, 2009) is an unambiguous, synesthetic action of audiovisual improvisation.The live act represents the sarcastic celebration of the human instinct finally able to govern the nature. The improvised body gestures of the performer sculpt in real-time the soundscape and the moving images. The living creature on the screen reacts to the movements of the performer on stage in a mutual agreement and attraction.
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Work info: http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/i-cntrl-nature/
Author info: http://marcodonnarumma.com
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The WRO Biennal is the leading international forum for new media art in Poland and Central Europe.
Other artists performing at WRO2011:
Stelarc, Istvan Kantor, Incite, Noriko Yamaguchi, Cécile Babiole.

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http://wro2011.wrocenter.pl/site/en
Other upcoming events http://marcodonnarumma.com/calendar

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Briefly to mention I’ll be playing Music for Flesh II tonight at the Linux Audio Conference in the section Electro-acoustic concerts.

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Concerts starts at 7pm.

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Music for Flesh II is a solo sonic piece for augmented muscles sounds.
It aims at demonstrating an experimental coupling between theatrical gesture and biophysical generation and control of music.
Based on the Xth Sense wearable technology (open source and DIY based).
I’ll also give a related paper on Sunday.

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Info: http://marcodonnarumma.com/works/music-for-flesh-ii/
http://res.marcodonnarumma.com/

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Find here the complete schedule of LAC concerts:
http://lac.linuxaudio.org/2011/?page=program&mode=table&day=0

I forward a message by Chris McCormick to the Pd list.

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“PdDroidParty is, I think, the easiest way to get your patches running on your Android devices. It emulates Pd native user interface elements (only toggle and slider implemented so far) so all you need to do is name your patch droidparty_main.pd and copy it to your SD card.

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Download and install the apk from here, and then try out the drum machine example by unzipping it to your SD card:

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http://mccormick.cx/projects/PdDroidParty/

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This is beta software hot off the compiler, but I think it’s just ready enough for use. As always, patches welcome!

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Chris.

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PS oh yeah, get the source like this:
bzr co http://mccormick.cx/dev/PdDroidParty/”

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http://www.nycresistor.com/2011/04/07/class-pd-as-your-embeddable-audio-engine/

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“Pd as your embedded audio engine” will teach all about embedding libpd as the sound engine for your app, whether its iPhone, Android, Java, OpenFrameworks, Processing, etc. This workshop provides a broad spectrum of different ways of connecting Pd to other things. Having hardware isn’t a requirement either. The workshop will cover ways of interfacing with Pd from computer to computer. Bring your laptop and devices that you want to install libpd on (Android, iPhone, etc.)

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HTML and/or programming knowledge will certainly help. The aim of this workshop is to give a broad spectrum of different ways to interface to Pd. So it will be dipping very slightly into Python, C, Java, Javascript, but this is usually “glue code” and all of the code will be fully provided. You do not need to be proficient in these languages at all, the workshop will also cover methods that also just use Pd with no code at all.

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Here is an outline of topics:

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* Introduction
* History of Pd as an engine
* Ways to interface with a Pd process
* Midi & OSC
* FUDI
* stdout
* Python + sockets
* pdsend/pdreceive
* Parsing patches in three languages
* libpd on Android and iOS
* PdWebKitDroid
* RjDj and ScenePlayer
* WebPd

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Purchase a ticket here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1491957485

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Workshop: Pd as your embedded audio engine
Taught by: Chris McCormick, http://mccormick.cx/chrism
When: Saturday, April 23, 2011 from 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM (EDT)
Where: NYCResistor, 87 3rd Ave, Brooklyn, http://nycresistor.com

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Register now!
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1491957485

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Picture by Patrick Sébastien.