--- On Tue, 18/5/10, Femke Snelting <[email protected]> wrote: > The day before LGM starts, Constant > hosts a small group of interested teachers and students @ De > Pianofabriek. If you happen to be already in Brussels ... > you are welcome to drop by and assist in one of the > workshops or participate in the discussion that starts at > 17:00.
Sounds interesting - If I had known ealier, I'd probably have planned my travel to arrive a day earlier. Possibly see you some what in the middle of the afternoon. Hin-Tak > ------- > > A day before the yearly international Libre Graphics > Meeting [1] starts, > art/design students and their teachers are welcome to join > LG-school for > an intense day. LG-school looks at the potential and > challenges of Free > Software for teaching, learning, experimenting and making > creative work. > > The day starts off with an introduction on why Free > Software could be > interesting for designers and artists, followed by hands-on > parallel > sessions. The day ends with a plenary discussion moderated > by Pierre > Huyghebaert and Femke Snelting. We'll share experiences > with each other > and with Free Software developers already arriving in > Brussels for the > Libre Graphics Meeting. > > At LG-school we will speak mainly English and some French > and Dutch; the > discussion has simultaneous translation in French. > > For participants there are computers available with Linux > installed, but > please bring your laptop if you can. If you plan to > participate in the > LUST workshop, try to come with Processing installed [2]. > > Looking forward to meet you at De Pianofabriek next week! > > > Femke Snelting > > > SCHEDULE > > 11:00 Introduction > 11:30 Presentations > 12:30 -- lunch > 13:30 Parallel workshops > 16:30 -- break > 17:00 Discussion > 18:30 -- end > > WORKSHOPS > > *Akkana Peck* [US] is a Linux software developer and writer > who has > worked on projects that include web browsers, HTML editors, > system > software, email programs, scientific visualization and, of > course, GIMP. > She is also the author of Beginning GIMP: From Novice to > Professional > http://shallowsky.com/ http://gimpbook.com > > Workshop: GIMP and GIMP Scripting: an introduction to the > GNU Image > Manipulation Program, what it can do, and how to extend it > by writing > custom scripts and plug-ins. > http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Writing_GIMP_scripts_and_plug-ins > > ---- > > *ginger coons* [CA] > ginger coons is a designer, artist, pseudo-academic, > occasional writer > and all-round renaissance woman. Her work specializes in > topics of > intellectual property, civil liberties and truth in > production. This > applies just as much to her writing as to her visual > practice. As a > research mercenary, she has examined the implications of > e-readers on > the environment, dynamic typography and geosocial > networking, among > others. She blogs regularly on the above topics and with > illustrations > at adaptstudio.ca/blog. > > Workshop: Digital illustration, lazy tactics and the public > domain. > > ---- > > *LUST (Daniel Powers) [NL] > LUST is a studio for graphic and interactive design based > in The Hague > (Den Haag), Netherlands. Their design philosophy revolves > around > Process-based and Generative-based Design. Interested in > exploring new > pathways for design at the precarious edge where new media > and > information technologies, architecture and urban planning > and graphic > design overlap. Topics include: graphic design, typography, > abstract > cartography, mapping, architecture, urban media > installations, archiving > data-visualizations, random mistake-ism, fonts, type > design, new media > interactive webdesign, internet art, big bang chaos. > http://lust.nl > > Workshop: an introduction to free software/building your > own tools, The > workshop which will focus primarily on processing. > > ---- > > *OSP (ALexandre Leray, Ludivine Loiseau, Stephanie > Vilayphiou e.a.)* [BE] > OSP is a graphic design agency using only Free and Open > Source Software. > Closely affiliated with the Brussels based digital culture > foundation > Constant, OSP aims to test the possibilities and realities > of doing > graphic design using an expanding range of tools. OSP is > serious about > testing the possibilities and limitations of F/LOSS in a > professional > design environment, without expecting to find (or offer!) > the same > experience as the ones they are used to. Actually, they are > interested > in experimenting with everything that shows up in the > cracks. > http://ospublish.constantvzw.org > > Workshop: please computer | make me design. A workshop on > fun poster > generation, using simple command-lines (especially GNU > textutils tools). > > ---- > > Address: De Pianofabriek, Fortstraat 35, Brussels (at 10 > mins. from > Brussels South Station) > > ---- > > [1] http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org > [2] http://processing.org/download > > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
