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    Interoperable play

    December 14, 2012 interface, LGRU, Networked graphics, News, play, standard, toy

    Forward compatible toys: The Free Universal Construction Kit

    ← Tools for a read-write world II How to communicate libre graphics? →
    ← Design practice, Free Software and feminisms. Fed by and feeding into various activities, networks and collaborations ↓ →

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    • a.pass
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    • Akademie Schloss Solitude
    • Constant
    • De Geuzen
    • Ecologies of dissemination
    • LGRU
    • Libre Graphics Meeting
    • Memory of the world
    • Mondotheque
    • OSP
    • Possible bodies
    • Samedies
    • The Darmstadt Delegation
    • The Underground Division
    • TITiPI
    • Uncategorized
    • Ustensile
    • xpub

    Links

  • artlibre.org
  • Constant Verlag A repository of texts from the depth of the Constant Archives
  • Domainepublic
  • Amateur Archivist
  • Waend A platform for subjective and collaborative spatial publication
  • Olia Lialina
  • – o r a m a
  • Consentsus A critical feminist theory of consent
  • BxLUG
  • Hackerspace Brussels
  • Memory of the World The world’s documentary heritage belongs to all
  • OSP Open Source Publishing
  • Potential Estate The most public secret society inspiring new folk rhymes
  • WVW
  • Ludivine Loiseau
  • +H+
  • calligraffiti
  • Scumgrrrls
  • Jeanne van Heeswijk
  • LAFKON Publishing
  • Rear Window
  • Trashwiki
  • http://l-o-c-a-l-h-o-s-t.com/
  • textzi.net
  • De Geuzen: a foundation for multi-visual research
  • Speculoos Centre de spécialités graphiques
  • 404: School Not Found
  • GRAPA A journey to the promised land of FLOS publishing
  • Genderchangers
  • F.A.T.
  • Permutations
  • Dragan Espenschied
  • Myriam Cea
  • Towards
  • a.pass
  • Constant Association for Art and Media
  • Matthew Fuller
  • Foam
  • Foomarx Reinventing Lorum Ipsum
  • Martha Rosler Library
  • videomagazijn
  • Revealing Errors We reveal errors that reveal technologies, learning how they affect our lives.
  • Copy Cult
  • Adashboard
  • Open Source Video
  • Artwarez Cornelia Solfrank
  • Archive Cultures
  • OSP-BLOG Open Source Publishing – Graphic Design Caravan
  • Radio Panik 105.4 fm
  • Femmes et logiciels libres
  • <stdin>
  • rmozone Robert Ochshorn
  • You are here / Vous êtes ici The online guide to Seda-think
  • Libre Graphics Meeting
  • Feral Trade Trading goods along social networks since 2003
  • El museo del autor
  • Manufactura Independente
  • Medialab Prado Madrid
  • Fudge The Facts
  • Le Syndicat des Robots
  • Girls of the internet museum
  • Urban(e)(istiques) Anomalie(ën)(s) Bru(x)(ss)el(le)(s) through the eyes of Peter Westenberg
  • Information Observatory
  • Rotor
  • Yi Liang
  • Automatist
  • b-l-u-e-s-c-r-e-e-n
  • Sabine Voglaire, Harrisson, Prof Papiko
  • Missdata
  • SICV Scandinavian Institute for Computational Vandalism
  • aaaaarg
  • Open Font Library
  • mathieu-g Mathieu Gabiot: Designer Industriel

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