[-empyre-] ex.s: OpenSource > Opening Art Events

[joncates <joncates@criticalartware.net>]

During criticalartware's initial planning as an application/platform 
we (internally) operated forums for discussions amongst the 
developers. I built one called "OpenSource > Opening Art Events" and 
began posting to it. I have cut-n-pasted it below, w/dates and 
formats intact, in order to address Felix's earlier question 
regarding examples. I offer these entries as a log of my attention to 
Open Source in the context of art during the the timespan from 
08.03.02 to 11.16.02.
An entry that isn't in the log, but should be mentioned is OpenMouse 
organized by rhizome.org and SoundLab.
http://rhizome.org/info/spex_openmouse.htm
I believe Remote Lounge does something along these lines as well.
http://www.remotelounge.com/
To many of you who are on the same listservs this log will be 
familiar and/or redundant. For those that aren't, I hope this is 
useful and/or interesting. It's a very partial offering from a 
localized time.
Jon
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OpenSource > Opening Art Events

Topic: Opening Art Events, developing increasingly open structures
Posted: Aug. 03 2002,22:01
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This thread aims to discuss recent events which (in one way or another) open
or distribute their structures in such a way as to develop less hierarchical
environments for art theorypractice.

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 Posted: Aug. 03 2002,22:36
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This year the Backup Festival will feature the ">>backup.lounge|lab<<" which
the organizers are positioning as "a dynamic network of international creators
from differing areas of art who dare the experiment of defining art as an open
system".
Alexander Klosch's <loungelab@web.de> nettime.org post (Subject: loungelab is
looking for you! Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 13:52:24 +ACs-0200) , which called for
particpants stated:
"This years exhibition will intensively deal with the transformation of the
"open source"-theory/practice into "open art"." According to Klosch, all
participants in the lab will be "invited to share a common "source code" and
to act as an interdisciplinary collaborative artistic network." making the
.lounge|lab a transitory or temporary field of artistic activity.
Submissions and proposals of participation have been called for from artists
of multiple disciplines who are prepared to collaborate across media, sharing
resources and encouraged to produce works which will locate them "in areas
such as electro-acoustic, source code, streaming media, mobile movies,
net.art, performance and theatre".
The call for participants has closed and the date for the event approaches.
Artists will be assembled in Weimar beginning November 1 2002 and collaborate
during the week prior to the official opening of the festival which runs
November 7+IBM-10, 2002. During the run of the festival the artists remain
present and active in the .lounge|lab.

For more info check:
www.backup-festival.com

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Posted: Aug. 03 2002,22:53
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As a part of this years' Ars Electronica Festival, a radio-based project
called "OpenAir - a radiotopia" seeks open input and redistribution from and
by participants. Interested parties can upload sound works as audio files to
the "OpenAir - a radiotopia" server and download other participant's
contributions. All material recieved will in the words of the organizers
"remain on our server, freely accessible for all to listen to or download and
use as audiomaterial for re-input." This decentralization of the submission
process is further encouraged by partipants abilities to re-cast or mirror
audio streams of the resulting output during the run of the festival itself.
This nodal system of reception and distribution opens the traditional
boundaries of exhibition, allowing for a more networked approach. As the
organizers state on their site: "These audio streams will be mixed
(transformation) at each node in the network and redistributed (output) in one
form or another."

For more info check:
http://www.aec.at/radiotopia/

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Posted: Aug. 11 2002,13:01
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> From 16 August to 11 September,  the "Tech_2/Grow Your Own Media Lab" event
takes place in rural settings in the North of England. Offering free resources
(including code, food and shelter) and running projects which will include
"free software, recycled hardware, mobile computing, wireless networks, small
renewable energy systems and community media resources", this event promises
to invest technological theorypractices with a socio-economically informed
sense of collaboration and experimental approaches.
For more info check:
http://tech2.southspace.org

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Posted: Aug. 17 2002,19:35
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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:11:09 +ACs-0100
From: "plug and play" <pnp@gabba.net>
Subject: PLUG_AND_PLAY - 18th AUGUST @ PUBLICLIFE

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SUNDAY 18th AUGUST @ PUBLICLIFE

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- -Sunday 18th/
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OPEN_SOURCE event =
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bring laptop/tech/
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Plug and Play is a monthly London art/music 'event'

anyone can come along and PLUG in their laptops,
or any other a/v technology and PLAY music
or visuals they have made, whatever.....

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http://www.gabba.net/pnp - event info
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http://www.gabba.net/bluescreen - message boards
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http://www.gabba.net/amp - MP3s for the download
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Posted: Aug. 17 2002,23:18
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"The TAZ or Temporary Autonomous Zone was introduced to Next 5 Minutes in 1999
for the first time, and proved a more-than-worthwhile addition to the official
festival program. The TAZ is essentially a fully equipped presentation space
that is entirely unprogrammed at the start of the festival. Participants can
register themselves for a presentation block and use the facilities for
whatever presentation they want to hold, i.e. film, video, internet, CD-ROM or
live performance. There is no editorial control but also no editorial
responsibility for these spaces, save for the presenters themselves. The
presenters are furthermore responsible for their own p.r. to attract an
audience during the festival. We firmly believe that it is impossible to be
fully inclusive in a completely pre-programmed schedule, and welcome
spontaneous interventions to complement the festival's main program."

-from
http://www.n5m.org/n5m4/core/index_en.html#3_10

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 Posted: Aug. 18 2002,09:59
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"Share is a weekly assemblage of portable computing, founded in 2001 by Barry
Manalog, geoffGDAM and Newclueless that is providing an open forum, in real
life, for data exchange and media performance.
Patrons are encouraged to show and exchange ideas freely, giving each other
feedback, catalyzing development of techniques and philosophies in new
media."

-from
http://share.ffem.org/

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Posted: Nov. 16 2002,04:48
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From: "Luka Princic" <nova@skylined.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 01:18:04 +ACs-0000
Subject: [PLUG AND PLAY / SUNDAY / 17/11/2002 / 6PM]




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// PLUG AND PLAY - SUNDAY 17/11/2002 - //
// http://www.gabba.net/pnp  bring your laptop and plug in.. //

// ---------------------------------------------------------- //

// so far confirmed to play this month... //

// CEDRIC PIN : minimal electronics ( )
http://www.coriolislab.org/

// DORON SADJA : sonic innovator from 12k ( )
http://www.12k.com

// LUKA PRINCIC
http://letusplay.net

// SIMON KEEP : araucaria araucana ( )
http://www.google.co.uk/search?....h&meta=

// EVIL TWIN : pop subversion ( )
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22cut+ACs-cut+ACs-cut+ACs-cut+ACs-cut%22

// GO SUENAGA : collaborative jam ( )
http://www.gosuenaga.com/

// RGB invaded / The Ponks / Miu and Somadril /  ( )
http://www.newbleep.com

entry is free

anyone can come along and PLUG in their laptops,
or any other a/v technology and PLAY music
or visuals they have made, whatever.....

// ---------------------------------------------------------- //
http://www.gabba.net/pnp - event info
// ---------------------------------------------------------- //
http://www.gabba.net/bluescreen - message boards
// ---------------------------------------------------------- //
http://www.gabba.net/amp - MP3s for the download
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:)

_
:: open mind, open source, open future ::

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