The important point here, it's that it doesn't cost anything to put pd
or supercollider on your mac or pc. you download it, install it and
use it! here we go.
so why those places (institutions, festival...etc), people... decided
to refuse art project that use free software (free and libre) or
create facilities, studios...space for artists, musicians,
students...etc that don't include those softwares? (specially in the
case of BEK, there are 100% aware of the existence of those software
as piksel & bek was one entity before).
it sound like a position against free software (more or less clear
depend the people/institutions...).
Obviously there is different vision of the world, I dunno about
revolution (not sure about that one either as sevy said) but it looks
like that there is people out there that are pissed off of the free
software (specially the freshly floss art community - around 5 to 8
years more or less) community excluding the artists and programmers
from the proprietary software community (is there such community?)
from their institutions(?), festivals, conferences...etc.
It could looks like a vendetta (unconscious?) related to some
frustration of not being part of the BUZZ ;-) (trying to make a bigger
one by refusing free software)...
Interesting threat indeed, many of you had heard already some max/msp
users complaining of not being able to come and present their things
in some of the festival/symposium/gig/conference...etc out there that
promote free software...(strongly recommended?)
Do you know any sociologist working on some of those issues? sound
like a very rich subject!!
cheers
Julien
Hello, interesting thread indeed...
2012/1/4 Mathieu Bouchard <[email protected]>
Le 2012-01-03 à 21:47:00, Pagano, Patrick a écrit :
Here is btw another call about a Pd workshop BEK held back in 2005.
http://www.bek.no/projects/35-**visiblesoundaudibleimage?**locale=en<http://www.bek.no/projects/35-visiblesoundaudibleimage?locale=en>but that was 7 years
ago...
So, why don't you give more recent examples, to show some kind of
continuity ? I know that in seven years, there can be a lot of change of
personnel (and thus mentality) in an art centre... I mean, from my own
personal experience (5200 km away from BEK).
The reason I put this was just because I wanted to see if they had anything
about Pure Data at all in BEK so I put
"Pure Data" in the search window on the main page at bek.no and that was
one of few entry that showed up in the search result. I didn´t spend much
time on that - antd didnt compare with other things thay might have done
with open source resources. Also agrees and knows institutions and arts
center changes with the staff involved.
Found this about the equipment/softwares in some studio of theirs - and
really they don´t seem to have Pd or other open source resources there:
http://bek.no/pages/fascilities?locale=en
Here is what they state under "sound" and "other":
*Sound*
Ableton Live
Amadeus
Cubase
Logic Pro
Max4Live
Soundbooth
Wave Editor
Wavelab *Other*
Photoshop CS5
Illustrator CS5
Indesign CS5
Compressor
iShowU HD Pro
Max Msp Jitter
Also, preferably, something with more hours... that's 25 hours, probably
minus food time, let's say 20 hours. That's better than most workshops, but
there have been significantly longer ones.
In a way it would be cool to just send back this e-mail exchanges to the
call-makers? - so they see how stupid this call is - and anti-productive.
Is it stupid or is it just a generous rebate plan from two software
companies ? Just an honest question, no insinuations.
Well, I think so called marketing from software companies could maybe be
that aggresive (that they can have some specific deals with
people/institutions receiving generous discounts)... I don´t know about how
the discussion goes. It would be an interesting topic to lift up. Are there
huge rebate plans for instituions / schools / - and how are (generally) the
conditions to receive these?
Here in Sweden I know that Steinberg has rather hefty rebates of up to 50%
for students and academic institutions, but they don´t state any exclusive
conditions for the academic institutions. I think Digidesign (Avid) has
about the same deals. Institutions & associations that are not academic
might be another thing with... (just raising perspectives, know nothing
about this really)
All the best,
Björn Eriksson
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APO33
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http://www.apo33.org
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