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PH works on a teaser for the next LGRU Research Meeting. Launch at FOSDEM next weekend.
Future Tools grew out of a long interest in the relation between tools and practice. The blog runs parallel to activities at the Libre Graphics Research Unit that are developed in collaboration with Medialab Prado, WORM, Piksel and others.
PH works on a teaser for the next LGRU Research Meeting. Launch at FOSDEM next weekend.
A group from Chicago visited Constant Variable last week. One student explains his mother is a publisher and that she compiled an on-line glossary of terms used in her mixed practice of printing, publishing and writing. It is stunning. For example, under W: word spacing: The amount of space between each word in typeset text. [...]
Bravo was the first WYSIWYG editor (…) Previous editors rarely made any attempt to match the display to the printed page; this meant that users could not check whether they had formatted the document correctly, except by printing it out.1 Newman, W. (2012). Design case study: The Bravo text editor. Interactions, 19(1), 75-80
A conversation with Tom Lechner We discovered the work of Tom Lechner at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels. Tom traveled from Portland, US to present Laidout, an amazing tool that he made to produce his own comic books and also to work on three dimensional mathematical objects. His software interests us for several [...]
In an intense discussion about ‘the interface of the future’, John Lilly (then CEO Mozilla Corporation, now working for another company); Aza Raskin (then Head of User Experience at Mozilla Labs, now running his own company) and Dan Mills (then Lead Developer of Weave, now leading the Account Manager project at Mozilla Labs) debate what [...]
‘Dilettante expertise’ as a way to make practice meet theory: Expertise is the classical foundation of all geekdom, whether it is encyclopedic knowledge of Shakespeare, of the Star Trek universe or the registers of an 8-bit controller. Dilettantism is the unavoidable condition of drawing the bigger picture. It can end up badly like with the [...]
The first ever Research Meeting in the context of the Libre Graphics Research Unit took place now more than a week ago. Organised by Worm and themed Networked Graphics, 30 participants from across Europe gathered in Rotterdam for five days. We traversed “The extremes of Networked Graphics” as WL puts it: From demo-scene classics to [...]
In the summer of 2010, Constant commissioned artist and researcher Evan Roth to develop a work of his choice, and to make the development process available in some way. He decided to use a part of his fee as prize-money for The GML-Recorder Challenge, inviting makers to propose an open source device ‘that can unobtrusively [...]
WVW is making beautiful bristlebots from paper cups, felt-pens and the kind of vibrating motors you find in mobile phones. The drawings it makes are interesting too: video | more images
Last Friday, WORM opened it’s new location in the center of Rotterdam. It was nice to see lots of people show up to celebrate this event, to see their new book- and recordshop back in such good shape and to discover forms of architectural re-use we only dreamt of, until now. The first LGRU-research meeting [...]
Constant is a non-profit association, an interdisciplinary arts-lab working from Brussels since 1997. The artistic and activist practice of Constant is inspired by the way that technological infrastructures, data-exchange and software determine our daily life.
An evening of performances in dialogue mode. With amongst others Alexandre Quessy (CA). Alexandre will perform Toonloop, a live stop motion animation software. It aims to show the creation process the the audience as well as the result of the creation. http://toonloop.com This evening is hosted by FOAM in the context of the Libre Graphics Research Unit, a collaboration between Medialab Prado (Madrid), Worm (Rotterdam), Piksel (Bergen) and (…)
How can we re-imagine lay-out from scratch? What tools do we need to support decentralized collaboration? How can we bring together canvas editing, dynamic lay-outs, web-to-print and Print On Demand in more interesting ways? A conversation with designers and programmers about future Libre software for arranging texts and graphical elements. Discussion chaired by Angela Plohman (Baltanlabs, Eindhoven). This roundtable concludes the second ‘Research meeting’ organised by the Libre Graphics (…)
During the Belgian Big Brother Awards ceremony organized by the Ligue des Droits de l’Homme, Constant received the Winston Award for the game Yoogle!. This award is given to a person or project defending the privacy rights of the citizens.
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Digital Flux #2 is an exhibition organised by La Vènerie. The theme of the exhibition is the flow of digital data and how it infiltrates our daily life. Michel Cleempoel will present three projects among which the game Yoogle! The exhibition also presents works of Sylvain De Vreese and David Dufour.
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Yoogle!
Radio La Cage #14: La langue…oiseau avec Milady Renoir, écrivain, performeuse et schaerbeekoise et les créa-sons de Daniel Martin-Borret, artiste sonore
Poésie à l’écoute sur Radio Panik mercredi 1er février de 19h à 20h en direct sur 105.4 fm ou en streaming sur www.radiopanik.org Mélanie Godin invite les éditions Esperluète et La Langue Schaerbeekoise. plus d’info sur www.poesiealecoute.be
Poésie à l’écoute sur Radio Panik mercredi 1er février de 19h à 20h en direct sur 105.4 fm ou en streaming sur www.radiopanik.org Mélanie Godin invite les éditions Esperluète et La Langue Schaerbeekoise. plus d’info sur www.poesiealecoute.be
OSP (Open Source Publishing) is an interdisciplinary and international design collective. OSP tests the possibilities and realities of doing design, illustration, cartography and typography using a wide range of Free, Libre and Open Source Software tools.
January 30th Finally a moment of meeting with you for 9000 km of drawings, tools, stories. Interested in the libre? Curious about our practice? OSP studio welcomes you for a first public session at Variable. 18h30 – Welcoming Presentation and dis…
A conversation with Tom Lechner We discovered the work of Tom Lechner at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels. Tom has traveled from Portland, US to present Laidout, an amazing tool that he made to produce his own comic books and also to work on…
Over at the Libre Graphics Research Unit we are preparing a second ‘Research Meeting’ that will take place in Brussels from 22 to 25 February 2012. Developers, designers and theoreticians from all over Europe will gather to imagine future L…
Our friends Nadine and Überknackig have opened a nice place, the Might shop, just a few hundred meters of our Variable house using the Crickx font at its full potential!
We used Reglo Bold for the new identity of Radio Panik and we are happy to release it today on the OSP foundry under open source license
OSP is invited to talk on friday at Designblast’11 — Toys, Tricks & Tools — 18.11.2011 “Is it better to restrict yourself or to allow everything?” Stand up talk by OSP Canal Historique. An open code to Love, Destiny, Fate, Pa…
Un essai en plusieurs parties, écrit pour ∆⅄⎈, la nouvelle revue des éditions BAT. 5 ans après le début d’OSP, il est temps de faire un point sur les influences sociales des logiciels libres sur notre pratique du design. Aussi disponibl…
From Thursday 20th to Sunday 23rd November OSP went to contemplate the Bolwerk archives landscape from the window of Frans Masereel Centrum. As part of Bolwerk‘s residency, we were invited to propose a reading of Bolwerk’s material inbetwee…
Invited at Interpunctie project van Bolwerk, we excavate into the 10+ years of archives by building the first bricks of tools to draw a landscape thanks to bash and python scripts + the legacy Fontforge scripting language.
Housewarming October 14th 15:00 onwards / Constant Variable / Rue Gallait 80 Brussels The 19th century town house at Rue Gallait 80 is now known as Constant Variable. For three years, it will house an arts lab for free, libre and open source software. …
Les Samedies (Femmes et Logiciels Libres) rassemble un groupe de femmes très différentes qui ont en commun le désir d’être maîtresses (ou du moins avoir la possibilité de l’être) des outils et donc des normes qui définissent notre travail avec la machine.
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. Exhibitions, workshops and online projects operate as thematic framing devices to investigate and test ideas collectively with different publics.
2-5 June 2011
http://www.oddstream.org
Layered on-line maps for Mappamundi at the Museu Colecção Berardo (Lisbon, January 2011). Also on display: The Dress of Jeanne Terwen-de Loos and The Dress of Here, There and Other Dislocations.
Workshop with students from the typography masters at the Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel (DE)
Workshop in the context of Open Code vs. Military Culture / Israel Digital Artlab Holon (November 2010)
De Geuzen @ STUK
Leuven (B)
04/05 – 06/06 2010
9-14 February 2010
De Geuzen participates in Artefact Festival, Leuven (Belgium) with a new version of the Global Anxiety Monitor
Art’s Birthday is an annual event first proposed by French Fluxus artist Robert Filliou. Read more…
Read more about our adventures with electricity, LED’s, typography and skill sharing.
Performed @ The Network as a Space and Medium for Collaborative Interdisciplinary Art Practice (Bergen, Norway) View archived project.
15 > 17 October 2009
De Geuzen @ Artivistic, Montréal (CA)
Dealing with database forms, filing-cabinets and Resource Description Frameworks, archivists carefully prepare objects before they can enter the archive. This talk knits together snapshots of archival work, zooming in on the specialist tools that support such a process of fitting, the serial micro-decisions which ultimately define any collection.
At Shared Memory, Merz Akademie Stuttgart
Imposition plays a key-role in a pre-press workflow. Working with the constraints of paper size, creep and standard folding plans, imposing is also an act of imagination, a fantasy about the potential of a digital object to become physical and vice versa.
Antwoord op de vragen van Mandy Cobussen (ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arnhem)
Texts performed and added to on various occasions since 2007
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Developed with Michael Murtaugh for De Geuzen Feed: project.
Download scripts: /files/playlist.zip
Project New Media Pathway, Merz Akademie, Stuttgart
October 2009 – January 2010
Workshop with design students at Merz Akademie, Stuttgart (29-05 → 03-06)
Catalogue text for Kate Rich’s exhibition Feral Trade in HTTP gallery.
Python script running through Isabella Beeton’s Book of Household Management.
Download script: /files/isabella.zip
Een performatieve lezing die aan de hand van kookboeken, manuals en magische formules de parallel tussen code en recepten onderzoekt.