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    Toolbending

    October 8, 2012 Abstracting craft, Brussels, Co-position, Education, French, LGRU, Ustensile

    11 sessions @ ERG, Brussels.

    La plupart des auteurs contemporains (artistes, designers, cinéastes, écrivains), créent leur œuvre à l’aide d’ordinateurs. Ils utilisent les logiciels par défaut, les mêmes outils que tout le monde utilise. Imaginez que ces logiciels n’étaient pas seulement faits pour faire le travail, mais seraient des outils à penser, des instruments à développer l’imagination, qui produisent des nouvelles idées?

    Toolbending creuse des voies différentes dans le monde du logiciel, afin d’explorer les possibilités de réorientation d’applications habituelles. De façon collective nous développerons des méthodes pratiques et intellectuelles qui permettent de réfléchir de manière critique sur ce type de technologie compliquée mais omniprésente. Au cours de dix semaines, nous prendrons le temps de nous pencher sur la culture des logiciels, et nous trouverons les moyens d’y contribuer activement. Quelles sont les normes produites par les outils numériques? Comment sont-ils faits, et par qui? Qu’est-ce qu’ils rendent possible et quelles sont leurs limites? Pourquoi sont-ils faciles à utiliser dans certains cas, et pourquoi résistent-ils dans d’autres? Comment pourraient-ils fonctionner différemment et générer des résultats inattendus?

    En mélangeant l’exploration, l’interrogation et le développement pratique, avec des contributions d’invités proches et lointains, nous nous déplacerons au-delà l’horizon du logiciel conventionnel, et apprendrons à imaginer nos outils autrement que par leur application pré-déterminée.

    Comme nous interrogerons activement les outils numériques, afin de les comprendre mieux, et leur faire faire des choses surprenantes, nous travaillerons principalement avec des Logiciels Libres. Ce type de logiciel est licencié de sorte que vous êtes invités à apporter des modifications et à les partager avec d’autres. Toolbending offre un voyage pour les esprits curieux qui ne nécessite pas de compétences techniques particulières autres que du courage et un peu d’humour.

    http://snelting.domainepublic.net/bending

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  • artlibre.org
  • Sabine Voglaire, Harrisson, Prof Papiko
  • De Geuzen: a foundation for multi-visual research
  • Manufactura Independente
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  • Le Syndicat des Robots
  • Revealing Errors We reveal errors that reveal technologies, learning how they affect our lives.
  • Towards
  • mathieu-g Mathieu Gabiot: Designer Industriel
  • Artwarez Cornelia Solfrank
  • Feral Trade Trading goods along social networks since 2003
  • Yi Liang
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  • Foomarx Reinventing Lorum Ipsum
  • Speculoos Centre de spécialités graphiques
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  • Femmes et logiciels libres
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  • Dragan Espenschied
  • textzi.net
  • Constant Verlag A repository of texts from the depth of the Constant Archives
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