STARTING AT 15:00 The last Samedies before summer is an occasion to get together and discuss past, current and future projects. On the table: Informal discussions, ad-hoc performances, improvised food and hands-on worksessions. Welcome!
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Samedies
The Piksel & Lines research seminar is the third international meeting in the context of LGRU. This edition is organised by Piksel and will have a particular focus on improvements, interoperability between and fringe use of F/LOSS graphic bitmap and vector softwares, as well as generative softwares used in performative contexts. Artists, programmers, designer and theoreticians from all over Europe are invited to imagine the future of image creation and processing softwares in (…)
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Libre Graphics Research Unit
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Body and software,
Walk,
Research,
Free, Libre and Open Source software,
Meeting Days
The work at the Libre Graphics Research Unit (LGRU) is now almost halfway. Since June 2011, the Unit functions as a traveling lab where new ideas for creative tools are developed. LGRU is an initiative of four European media-labs actively engaged in Free/Libre and Open Source Software and Free Culture. At the annual international Libre Graphics Meeting in Vienna, Marcos Garcia (Medialab Prado) and Femke Snelting (Constant) will give a presentation of methods and ideas that have been (…)
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 (…)
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Libre Graphics Research Unit
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Presentation,
Design,
Free, Libre and Open Source software
OSP (Open Source Publishing) is a graphic design collective that uses only Free, Libre and Open Source Software. At the first OSP Public Meet you are invited to finally discover 9000 km of drawings, tools and stories. Interested in the libre? Curious about their practice? OSP studio welcomes you for a first public session at Constant Variable. 18h30 Welcoming Presentation and discussions around recent and ongoing OSP studio works. 19h30 Exiled Cuisine (Ivan Monroy Lopez, Mexico City) (…)
The second ‘Research meeting’ organised by the Libre Graphics Research Unit takes place in Brussels. LGRU is a collaboration between Medialab Prado (Madrid), Worm (Rotterdam), Piksel (Bergen) and Constant. Developers, designers and theoreticians from all over Europe will gather to imagine future Libre Graphics tools together. The upcoming research meeting Co-position focuses on digital tools for arranging texts and other graphic elements: How can we re-imagine lay-out from scratch? What (…)
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Libre Graphics Research Unit
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Counter cartographies,
Featured banner,
Research,
Free, Libre and Open Source software,
Meeting Days
Sneak preview by Sarma & Constant Oral Site is a new open source software and website that Myriam Van Imschoot develops with a team of programmers, writers and sound specialists of Sarma, Constant and Rits. Oral Site enables users to publish online multimodal publications that merge sound, image, text and graphics. Members of the team present the instrument, sketch the genealogies and future possibilities, by way of demo and presentations. An introductory workshop follows on November (…)
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Presentation,
Notation,
Free, Libre and Open Source software,
Archives,
Orality
The Samedies is a collective of women using free software, meeting up every six weeks on a Saturday. This session looks at how to make a Debian package. The language spoken at Samedies is French. Please confirm your presence by sending a mail at samedies[atttt]collectifs.net.
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Samedies
For the next three years Constant runs a F/LOSS Arts Lab in the rue Gallait straat 80. This modularly conceived workspace and its makers cordially invite you to come and have a look at what they create, using free software only. Program: 15:00:door opens & welcome drink Guided tours: 15h30, 17h30, 19h30 19:00: welcoming speech by the secretary of the state Bruno De Lille 20:30:Open Software Concert by Anton Aeki (Martiensgohome, Anouk De Clerq) www.aeki.be 21:30:PARTY ! With the (…)
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Presentation,
Collaborative,
Organisational structures,
Encounter,
Party,
Free, Libre and Open Source software
The Samedies will meet around the practices of installing from source (a.o. freeplane, fontmatrix, scribus….) Samedies is a collective of women using free software. The language spoken at Samedies is French. Please confirm your presence by sending a mail at samedies[atttt]collectifs.net.
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Samedies
Femke presents the Libre Graphics Research Unit, a traveling lab where new ideas for creative tools are developed. Its diverse activities range from the practical to the theoretical via writing, research meetings, experimental prototyping, conferences and workshops. The Research Unit is an initiative of four European media-labs actively engaged in Free/Libre and Open Source Software and Free Culture. This cross-disciplinary project involves artists, designers and programmers and is (…)
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Libre Graphics Research Unit
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Presentation,
Fiction as tool,
Research,
Free, Libre and Open Source software
Digital lay-outing tools are path dependent in their way of mimicking the past processes of 600 years of moveable type (and maybe even beyond). Often practice proceeds without extensive critical reflection by practitioners themselves. Practice is spoken of in a ‘living language’ that addresses day-to-day actions and gestures. To re-dream lay-out practice from scratch, we start with developing a vocabulary of lay-out in order to better understand relations between workflow, material and (…)
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Libre Graphics Research Unit
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Workshop,
Vocabulary,
Free, Libre and Open Source software,
lay-out