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FYI, i guess Alejo intended to let you know too :) - ----- Forwarded message from alejo <[email protected]> ----- Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:12:04 -0500 From: alejo <[email protected]> To: Bricolabs startup mailinglist <[email protected]> Subject: [Bricolabs] BIOS ei all, just a short report on something we (un/loquer) just "finished" here in medellin. we got like 40 old computers that were stock by the local Museum (MAMM), AMD/Athlon 256ram - 1,6ghz processors. With a customized puredyne in hand we got rid of their Windows XP systems and had them running Software Libre in just one day (intense install fest). Once ready we followed onto introducing via informal workshops applications like toonloop and sooperlooper to a varied group of stundents, all ages, that came every day for a week to visit us in "our" temporary lab within the "sacred" space of the Museo, a bold step done by the director and her team. we built some networked circle of 20 computers or something that serve for the workshops but also as an open infrastructure for playing with sound (from puredata to basic one liners using cat and pipe lines) anyone that came to visit was welcome to add samples and play them through the 40 speakers arranged. At the other side of the hall we had a video wall (video yubarta), 9 screens presenting one video or running a spectrum analysis tool to help us visualize the sounds of our voices or the birds from the valley. It took 2 weeks to have this wall running (gstreamer based system) but the result was really encouraging since this machines lack fast network cards, not to mention there's no proper video card on them. In the times of the "urban screens" and hi-tech vizualisations it was a pleasure to feed the machine with one Harun Farocki's video that, highly compressed, served well the case of study. War at the Distance. it was really great to relate to few of the many projects i've had the chance to follow during the last decade in "my safe european home", many of those trace lines that i see extend -in good balance- within local socioeconomical restrains, to say the least i could see Exyzt, re-lab / rixc, hackerspaces, puredyne, toonloop, hackitectura, bricolabs.. all here resonating. here 2 short clips: http://tinyurl.com/yj3w97u http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PQnqlGz-Io (more documentation to follow) looking fwd to the brazilian connection to happen! - ----- End forwarded message ----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQQcBAEBCAAGBQJLfqvaAAoJEAslGzkIl3JRJNEgAKtppY3XHfb3oDrU+8dojzSb 2v5ou8H+p2dIlCn9XTWi8H/f13sstDkpqx8WqUXp8jofKDWptxQ2qqxWtzkj2DhY pu0lNaed19LnbLeETgDx1DTQCEkOANcHCCOs0F5KVFUJNO2ZvszIReDiDAzRlZqn /HT2NyaSqErZoQBFfJ7dX2hyvrw8X90V2gTeB+JzxKCr7XLbPtUNL7xBtycU8Avo h/VR4FTrgcnaaXtrmppy3nv+VNDtYyXodirfTdaR9voLYJeLU8C2XoQyqKfpfas9 EXsqRcROPMSHi//jqhKBFCGgHELInz86FOoXNnISI84/tT8wP+ICouDhEhGnf6HD Sq49wRNQ5sNiIjJcDyu82CIHrJTevBtD+ZLFurc+VaJaBFz+VVp5aDbaed3d1r9g BRm/O2qYDQBsjK/kh4vCaLzUGOkRrwVqq8gOeT1a1YlT+xJNw90QtwgqSKMvvh0N zxGZA/+aCMGrguYALm2ltCCFdBj8sjwwkDa8VEn0c+viO2ZQm7JEOz4JDSxZNDqx IBHqGVroMh34+ZoscZhzqJjjSojy1HViSY5x/+CEUOMl+P9QnELojqFCs8cr5Mo0 vU/5KaXJb+O0iYkAkScbZyOcW71COO6ScqM74aq+TQhV6KKEdVyGlGegvEzuvB3V IfXTlAPcjqhSidHqiKYReem3eJO2iZiwzAnxsWy+G6swszzW1+54y4+Lxf0hl982 litR1MghZo5jdiYT9W92zZWLeYMckRljct6O6cDGhsqj8pdyfnH1yhS5Uo92+Hag mSh3+l1vpY9BDusAOPYztZEnVzZAIumxhn2MA+tsMr3vBK+atG8HVWKayCGfC1qi RV/lRNL/HOakEEblWKLVgIEBQa7hj39VNo/y03g3uMnxuG82sqqrKRUmpZKTE2JR AWkRTpj4oE+iFiU0HuKxc7QTZNT1JftZhGOiwrCr8PT/peSeuyLxGq8R6oFOe0JC 4V05cNk/qBliopdmMO4lhUySSzBy/s91h5pDJBFYyLTM0vuzcFKrHl9xRQDX+4OJ XcYDUPTDQ8LA6NGHbHPgSKyJYiUsIB4O9OooIY/LZLasm1mRzkcbkmK1PYRwJq21 Ob8+bwarxMMDTb9ABdm4H9ixaI/wl4bpf1oyD86W3V5Hl32fusuLILM0xQg+LIjr M77KfHaOcraYf5v1BETLzSFVq3EG3h7/d9jlR+Sh5l/rpaCJLhOnKIjOujoMxrW8 ej+FYKKAI509BhKSbmDoRJ4GalZf2rWVQ2VslPUgRp/evrmk4Wz9G20A9WtF/9Oi bNuJ9yM7knoqY1rYjeadoV3HpwyRFYoO+jhiSpJ70M+wgKeYhfN4dBhsevhDB24= =ytWP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --- [email protected] http://identi.ca/group/puredyne irc://irc.goto10.org/puredyne
