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--- Begin Message ---Invitation to join in online at:Freestyle - FLOSS In Design A seminar on Free, Libre and Open Source Software in Design Dear friends and colleagues, V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, in collaboration with the Media Design Research group of the Piet Zwart Institute and the Interactive Media Dept. of the Amsterdam Hogeschool will be holding a one-day seminar and presentation on the use and impact of OS software on the media art and design professions. (full description/program below) FREESTYLE will take place Wednesday May 19th at V2_ in Rotterdam, Netherlands and will be streamed live. Together with the stream we will be opening an IRC channel in order to invite direct remote participation. The chat will be moderated throughout the session so that your comments and questions can be included in the discussion and the texted commentary will run onscreen during the event. We are interested in your opinions, critique and feedback, and invite you to join us from wherever you are that day! Wednesday, May 19 | 10.30 - 17.00hrs CET, GMT +1 | Rotterdam | STREAM and live IRC moderation via http://www.v2.nl/live/ We will hold a test stream/irc session between 16.00 and 17.00 (CET, GMT +1) on www.v2.nl/live the day BEFORE the event. If you think you may be able to join us, please drop me a brief line beforehand. Sorry also if you've been cross-listed already, this is meant as a genuine direct invitation! Best regards, hope to have you with us, Stephen Kovats **************************************************** V2_Institute for the Unstable Media www.v2.nl t_ **31 10 206 7272 f_ **31 10 206 7271 e_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***************************************************** Freestyle - FLOSS In Design A seminar on Free, Libre and Open Source Software in Design Wednesday, May 19 | 10.30 - 17.00hrs | Rotterdam | STREAM and live IRC moderation via http://www.v2.nl/live/ This seminar is jointly held by: Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/ Interactive Media, Hogeschool van Amsterdam http://www.hva.nl/ V2_Organisation, Institute for the Unstable Media http://www.v2.nl/ ----------------------------------------------- Freestyle - FLOSS In Design A seminar on Free, Libre and Open Source Software in Design Over the last few years 'Free Libre and Open Source Software' FLOSS, a form of collaborative software development has proven itself as a driving force of digital networks, especially the internet. Now this approach is beginning to open up new approaches in design and visual culture. This seminar will present clear information on this software and how it both challenges and provides new opportunities for media design. Art and design work using computers can often get stuck in the use of the same old tools. One thing that FLOSS does is to allow for new ideas to become software on a much faster timescale and with less reliance on conforming to a 'mass' market. Learning design increasingly means learning to use the applications of a smaller and smaller amount of companies. FLOSS offers one possibility for escaping such a trap. At the same time FLOSS itself could do with a good dose of design. Born as it is through the energy and imagination of software developers, FLOSS can in some cases fall behind in meeting the needs of users who aren't also programmers. On the one hand this creates an important demand for greater technical literacy amongst users, but it also means that interfaces to, for instance, cultural practices, need creating. The morning session will present an introduction to FLOSS software in design. The emphasis is on a realistic survey of the possibilities this way of working is opening up. The afternoon will present a number of case studies. Artists and designers using FLOSS software will show and talk about the tools they work with, the culture of use of the software. Software developers will present their projects and open them up to questions and debate. Speakers: Kit Blake - Silva, content management system, Rotterdam; http://www.infrae.com Erik Dooper - Open Source Software Lab, Amsterdam, will demo Scribus, SodiPodi and Inkscape. DTP and vector graphics applications. http://www.ossl.org/ Rishab Aiyer Ghosh - Economist and editor of FirstMonday, Maastricht; http://orbiten.org/rishab.html Graham Harwood - artist, London, speaking about The GIMP, image manipulation software; http://www.scotoma.org/ Jaromil - GNU/Linux developer, South Italy, currently resident at Montevideo, Amsterdam; Dynebolic, http://www.dyne.org/ Willi LeMaitre & Eric Rosenzweig - PlayList, software tools for collaborative video work; http://www.w----e.net Roger Teeuwen - Graphic Designer, Rotterdam Antoine van de Ven - V2_Lab, Rotterdam, presents V2_Jam, research on combining and integrating open source media software; http://lab.v2.nl Wednesday, May 19 | 10.30 - 17.00hrs | V2 Eendrachtstraat 10 | Rotterdam Fee for the day: 5euro, 2.50euro concessions Advance Reservations: Eliane Roest (V2_), (010) 206 72 72, eliane at v2.nl This seminar is jointly held by: Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/ Interactive Media, Hogeschool van Amsterdam http://www.hva.nl/ V2_Organisation, Institute for the Unstable Media http://www.v2.nl/ STREAM: This seminar will be streamed and IRC moderated via http://www.v2.nl/live/ _____________________________________________________________ ***************** NEXT ONLINE EVENT: <UNDER FIRE> WITH JORDAN CRANDALL MAY 29, 2004 Witte de With | 15.00 - 19.00 CET, GMT +1 | Rotterdam Under Fire explores the organization and representation of contemporary armed conflict. The project consists of a series of presentations and discussions that occur online and live in Rotterdam. The discussions involve participation from individuals working in politics, theory, criticism, the arts, and journalism from both the West and the Middle East. This first symposium bringing the together the lead participants in the project, including John Armitage, Asef Bayat, Susan Buck-Morss, Brian Holmes, Gema Mart�n Mu�oz and Loretta Napoleoni will be moderated by Jordan Crandall. WEBARCHIVE of the project at www.wdw.nl STREAM and live IRC moderation via http://www.v2.nl/live/ Online moderation by Stephen Kovats, V2_. PROGRAM 15.00 - 15.10 welcome by Catherine David 15.10 - 15.30 introduction by Jordan Crandall 15.30 - 15.50 Brian Holmes 15.50 - 16.10 Asef Bayat 16.10 - 16.30 Susan Buck-Morss 16.30 - 17.00 discussion and live feedback 17.00 - 17.30 break 17.30 - 17.50 John Armitage 17.50 - 18.10 Loretta Napoleoni 18.10 - 18.30 Gema Mart�n Mu�oz 18.30 - 19.00 discussion and live feedback SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES John Armitage is Principal Lecturer in Politics and Media Studies at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle (UK). He is the editor of Paul Virilio: >From Modernism to Hypermodernism and Beyond (London/Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2000), Virilio Live: Selected Interviews (London/Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2001), and the co-editor, with Joanne Roberts, of Living with Cyberspace: Technology and Society in the 21st Century (London/New York: Continuum, 2002). His writings have appeared in journals such as New Left Review, Theory, Culture and Society and Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. Asef Bayat is the Academic Director of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and the ISIM Chair at the University of Leiden. He has taught sociology and Middle East studies at the American University in Cairo an has held visiting positions at the University of California, Berkeley, Columbia University and the University of Oxford. He is the author of Workers and Revolution in Iran (London: Zed Books, 1987), and Street Politics: Poor People�s Movements in Iran (New York: Colombia University Press, 1997). Susan Buck-Morss is Professor of Political Philosophy and Social Theory in the Department of Government at Cornell University, where she is also Professor of Visual Culture in the Department of Art History. Her publications include The Origin of Negative Dialectics: Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt Institute (New York: Free Press, 1979), The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project (Massachusetts: MIT, 1991), and Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left (London: Verso, 2003). Brian Holmes is an art critic, activist and translator, interested primarily in the intersections of artistic and political practice. He is a member of the editorial committee of the journal Multitudes (Paris) and the art magazines Springerin (Vienna) and Brumaria (Barcelona), and a founder, with the French conceptual art group �Bureau d'�tudes,� of the new journal Autonomie Artistique (Paris). He is the author of a collection of essays, titled Hieroglyphs of the Future: Art and Politics in a Networked Era (Zagreb: Arkzin, 2003). Gema Mart�n Mu�oz is Professor of Sociology of the Arab and Islamic World at the Madrid Aut�noma University. She is a columnist for the newspaper El Pa�s on Arabic and Islamic subjects. Her recent publications include Islam, Modernism and the West: Cultural and Political Relations at the End of the Millennium (London/New York: IB Tauris, 1999) and Iraq, un fracaso de occidente (Iraq, a failure of the West; Barcelona: Tusquets, 2003). Loretta Napoleoni is an economist and journalist, specialized in terrorism. As an economist she worked for several banks and international organizations in Europe and the US. As a journalist she has worked as a foreign correspondent for several Italian financial papers. Her publications include Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks (London: Pluto Press, 2003), and Dossier Baghdad (Rome: Newton & Compton Editori, 1997), a financial thriller set during the Gulf War. Under Fire is a project by Jordan Crandall organized by Witte de With in collaboration with V2_, Rotterdam.
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