June 13, 2012
Future Tools, Gimp, MyPaint, Performance, Piksels and lines, playing, Scribus, sound

Turning tools into instruments

The Piksels and Lines Orchestra (PLO) If we turned our tools into instruments, could we experience Libre Graphics as an ensemble? What would be the performative potential of lay-out and drawing, and how to listen to the sound of a pixel, or to the tune of a line? In response to these curious questions, The [...]

May 9, 2012
Abstracting craft, Co-position, Conference, Future Tools, Networked graphics, Piksels and lines, Report, Vienna

LGM 2012

This year I could only make it for a few days to LGM, but I am glad I came. First of all to meet friends and colleagues, to find out how they and their projects have been. I enjoyed getting hold of a fresh issue of Libre Graphics Magazine for example; The Physical, the Digital [...]

November 3, 2011
Abstracting craft, Drawing, ecriture automatique, Future Tools, Piksels and lines, writing

Écriture automatique

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

September 23, 2011
Abstracting craft, Drawing, frog, Future Tools, hand, hands, Piksels and lines, Reading, touch, without hands

A frog and a rooster

“A story, doubtless true in the life of such a man, tells us how Hokusai tried to paint without the use of his hands. It is said that one day, having unrolled his scroll of paper on the floor before the Shogu, he poured over it a pot of blue paint; then, dipping the claws [...]

August 21, 2011
Body, dance, Digital drawing, Future Tools, Performance, Piksels and lines

Calligraphie lumineuse

Wanting to go see the fourth edition of Graphology in Antwerp (the show opens only next weekend), I end up at Explosition instead. The exhibition in the Museum of Ixelles is only half interesting but the catalog is nice. I also like the video registration of Human Brush, a performance by the Brussels street-drawing phenomenon [...]