OSP

OSP (Open Source Publishing) is Harrisson, Pierre Huyghebaert, Femke Snelting, Nicolas Maleve, Yi Liang, Ludivine Loiseau and Ivan Monroy Lopez. OSP is an experimental graphic design bureau aiming to test the possibilities and realities of doing graphic design using Free Software tools.

Exhibition Prix Fernand Baudin

26 February – 10 March 2010

Exhibition in Brussels presenting the bookawards and nominations of the Fernand Baudin Prize 2009, the prize of the Most Beautiful Books in Brussels and Wallonia.
BIP
Rue Royale, 2-4
1000 Brussels
Opening, award ceremony of the honorary diploma’s + release of the catalogue: 25th of February 2010 at 6 pm

For it’s second edition 2009-2010, [...]

Cutting Edge

Libre Graphics Meeting 2010!

Download flyers: cuttingedge.zip

Collaborative Futures

“Collaboration can be so strong it forces hard boundaries. The boundaries can intentionally or unintentionally exclude the possibility to extend the collaboration. Potentially conflict can also occur at these borders”

For this years’ Transmediale Festival, the F/LOSS Manuals project took up the challenge to write, edit and publish a collaborative publication in 5 days while test [...]

Valentine scripting

Poster and flyer designed and produced in OpenOffice
This week and next, colleague and friend An Mertens (a.k.a. Ana Foor) works out of the Elsene local library Sans Souci. She’ll be listening to your account of meeting a loved one for the first time, those habits that keep your relationship alive or which imaginary place [...]

Tools for conviviality

In the train back from Stuttgart, I read Tools for Conviviality, a pamphlet by social philosopher Ivan Ilich (1973). A ‘convivial society’, he argues, is a society in which everyone can act autonomously, and this can be achieved through the design and use of ‘convivial tools’:
People feel joy, as opposed to mere pleasure, to [...]

nY-web, literary blogging

Alexandre Leray and Lauren Grusenmeyer just finished an intense collaboration for the website of the literary platform nY— website en tijdschrift voor literatuur, kritiek & amusement, voorheen yang & freespace Nieuwzuid.

nY-web exists indepently next to the paper edition with it’s own editorial staff, writers categories and settings. While nY is a magazine with a profound literary history it confirms it’s existence as an independent web platform, that is to say — it uses full virtues of publishing online.

Constant

Constant is a non-profit association, based and active in Brussels since 1997 in the fields of feminism, copyright alternatives and working through networks.

Samedies: Femmes & logiciels libres

Les Samedies est un groupe de femmes qui ont en commun le désir d’apprendre à construire un serveur, de le maintenir ou simplement de le comprendre.

Active Archives

Researching the radiated archive. Software experiments, workshops and events.

Fernand Baudin Prize 2009

The Constant book Tracks in elect(ron)ic fields won a Fernand Baudin Prize 2009. This exhibition in Brussels presents the bookawards and other nominations. Opening, award ceremony of the honorary diploma’s and release of the catalogue: 25th of February 2010 at 6 pm For it’s second edition 2009-2010, the Prize was extended to the Walloon Region thanks to the support of Wallonia-Brussels International (WBI) and the Walloon Agency for Export and Foreign Investments (AWEX). The international (…)

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Verbindingen / Jonctions

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Fernand Baudin Prize 2009

The Constant book Tracks in elect(ron)ic fields won a Fernand Baudin Price 2009. This exhibition in Brussels presents the bookawards and other nominations for the Fernand Baudin Prize 2009. Opening, award ceremony of the honorary diploma’s and release of the catalogue: 25th of February 2010 at 6 pm Opening, award ceremony of the honorary diploma’s and release of the catalogue: 25th of February 2010 at 6 pm For it’s second edition 2009-2010, the Prize was extended to the Walloon Region (…)

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Order now: Tracks in electr(on)ic fields

Tracks in electr(on)ic fields is a new Constant publication with texts and images documenting the 10th Verbindingen/Jonctions festival. This publication contains contributions in English, French and Dutch and was edited by Constant featuring Clementine Delahaut, Laurence Rassel and Emma Sidgwick. Its design by OSP won a 2009 Fernand Baudin prize. Printed copies (332 pages, color): € 10,— The pdf-version and sources can be found here: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/sources/vj10/ To order (…)

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Samedies #27: Bash, Back-up ou les 2

The collective of women & free software will meet up again for a day of code, discussion, server management, exchange of ideas & experiences and writing & translating articles. A detailed program of the day will soon be published on the website. Interested? Send your message to samedi at collectifs dot net

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De Geuzen

De Geuzen is a foundation for multi-visual research and the collaborative identity of Riek Sijbring, Femke Snelting and Renée Turner. Since 1996 they have employed a variety of tactics to explore female identity, narratives of the archive and media image ecologies.

On Gaps and Silent Documents

9-14 February 2010
De Geuzen participates in Artefact Festival, Leuven (Belgium) with a new version of the Global Anxiety Monitor

Celebrate With A Little Wearable Resistance @ StudioXX

Art’s Birthday is an annual event first proposed by French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou. Read more…

Wearable Resistance // Typographical Craftivism

Read more about our adventures with electricity, LED’s, typography and skill sharing.

FEED TO READ

Performed @ The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice (Bergen, Norway) View archived project.

Wearable Resistance // Résistance portable

15 > 17 October 2009
De Geuzen @ Artivistic, Montréal (CA)

Feed to be Fed: an evening of image and slogan mixing

Rotterdam / July 09 2009
FEED: is a multi-authored collection produced on the fly. You can see the archive here.

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Emma II

Add some Anarchist Feminism to your YouTube comments (Firefox Greasemonkey userscript)

/files/emmatube.user.js

Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever

“Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and create derivative works of. 9. We can analyze your application. We can remove any ad for any purpose, including Connect sites. * Payment Terms: These guidelines outline the policies that apply to users. 5. If any portion of this Statement must be the difference between a Mrs. Weston, only sixteen miles off, was always disagreeable”

/files/EmmaWoodhouse.odt

Playlist (caleidoscope version)

Developed with Michael Murtaugh for De Geuzen Feed: project.

Download scripts: /files/playlist.zip

Future Tools

Project New Media Pathway, Merz Akademie, Stuttgart
October 2009 – January 2010

/files/future_tools.pdf

Corset, Skeleton, Skin

Workshop with design students at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart (29-05 → 03-06)

/texts/skeleton.pdf
Project weblog

Feral Labelling

Catalogue text for Kate Rich’s exhibition Feral Trade in HTTP gallery.

/texts/labelling.pdf

As the commander of an army

Python script running through Isabella Beeton’s Book of Household Management.

Download script: /files/isabella.zip

Catherine

Een performatieve lezing die aan de hand van kookboeken, manuals en magische formules de parallel tussen code en recepten onderzoekt.

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CSS textures