Piksel 08 Workshops StudioUSF, Bergen, Norway december 4-7 Free and Open Creative technology workshops at Piksel 08. All workshops are free to attend, but with a limited number of seats. To participate, please send a mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.piksel.no/piksel08/p08_workshops.htm
-- Thursday december 4th 10 - 14: Sound production made Easy with Seamus O'Donnell (aka LifeLoop) A workshop in sound production with audio tools from ubuntu studio. This should be an opportunity for people to learn the basics in creating a sound piece with easy, user friendly, tools. The end product could be anything from a radio show to a backing track for a video, or a straight sound collage. The workshop will concentrate on The recording of sounds, the editing and cleaning of sounds and the building of a piece with these sounds. Requirements: -a computer with audacity and ardour installed. -a recording device, or some previously recorded, but unedited sound files, preferably in wav. i will bring a device or 3, things of different quality, that can also be used by the participants. http://ubuntustudio.org -- Friday december 5th 10 - 14: Realtime animation with Animata by the Animata team Animata is a real-time animation software, designed to create interactive background projections for concerts, theatre and dance performances, and promotional screenings. The peculiarity of the software is that the animation is generated in real- time, making continuous interaction possible. This ability also permits that physical sensors, cameras or other environmental variables can be attached. The software can be connected with many pieces of external software in order to make use of the possibilities of these applications in the fields of image processing, sound analysis, or motion capture. These applications can analyse for instance sound input, or user movement, and this data could drive animations reacting to these environmental changes in real-time. http://animata.kibu.hu -- Saturday december 6th 10 - 12: software + craft+ art = fonts with Egil Moller An introduction to typefaces and digital typography. A workshop taking calligraphy as the origo all the way to your name written in your own font in OpenOffice; using only free software. Egil is a Swedish free software programmer and font-designer. He is the author of Aurora (GNU/Linux first graphical boot shipped with Mandrake) and Webwidgets (Application Framework which resembles Gtk/Qt for the web). Works at FreeCode. Requirements: -A computer (with any OS) -An external mouse and/or a drawing tablet -Creativity http://www.freecode.no -- Sunday december 7th 10 - 14: Hands-on web development with Jelly by Tristan Perich and Kunal Gupta Jelly is a new way of developing websites that works to close the gap between web users and web developers. The software, which is open-source, lives on the server of a user who maintains complete control over the data. Jelly wraps all the complex data processes that are needed to develop interactive, data- driven, social websites, into a web development environment that looks and feels much like the web services that users are used to, like Facebook, Flickr, or Youtube. By working to make the experience of developing a web service as fluid, natural, and beautiful as the experience of using a web service like Vimeo, Jelly hopes to empower the enthusiastic and creative class of web 2.0 service users to break free of static structures and begin to make the websites that they imagine. Basically, we offer a really fun, fluid, free tool that eliminates many of the barriers to building and running an web service. The entire interface runs inside the browser, and no additional software is necessary. http://jellyproject.com ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Piksel08 - 4-7 des 2008 www.piksel.no ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| -- -------------------- www.220hex.org www.piksel.no mob.bek.no ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre