Este articulo escrito durante la primavera del 2013 y publicado en principio de 2014 es parte de un numero monografico de la revista española Injuve, N* 102, con el titulo “jovenes, tecnofilosofia y arte“, publicado por el Ministero de la juventud de españa.
Desde la reforma protestante hasta el movimiento zapatista se puede ver la historia moderna como una lucha constante entre los que se apropian de recursos y los que en cambio abocan su protección como bien común. El ejemplo surgido dentro del mundo de la informática, el software libre, ha sido capaz de repensar modelos de creación y distribución individual y colectiva. Frente a la omnipresencia del software en el tejido social el modelo propuesto por el movimiento del software libre es una propuesta capaz de imaginar un futuro más sostenible situando la defensa del procomún en el centro del discurso.
Only available in spanish.
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Orbitando Satelites Manual comes out from Orbitando Satelites workshop.
The workshop Orbitando Satelites, at Laboral centro de Arte y Creación Industrial [Gijón, Spain] was a poetic, political and technical research workshop on satellites runed in may 2011. During the workshop organized by Pedro Soler and animated by many artist and activists with different skills we set up a space for collaboration where investigating satellite science and philosophy.
Orbitando satélites proposed an exercise on the visibilisation of these objects which hold a great and hidden influence on our daily lives in spite of being concealed from the human eye. Research was conducted on how they operate, gaining access to their signals by fabricating antennae and using radio systems; showing how to locate and observe them through the use of free software.
Following the tradition of independent communities involved in the creation of Free Information infrastructures, the meeting brought together experts and amateurs from different countries and cultures to draw up a declaration that poetically sketches a map of the possible uses of satellite-technology based systems.
As results of the workshop we released a collective manual using booki.cc open publishing platform.
It gives ideas, resources, techniques and inspiration for others who want to hold similar workshops. Our wish is also that it will be used as a guide to reuniting people with a commons of sky and waves. In observing the ways that technologies both of space and the electromagnetic spectrum are produced by too narrow a culture, which undermine a multitude of nuanced and provocative relations with the skies and wave frequencies worldwide, we offer here alternative pathways. Over five days we became a temporary autonomous space agency. What we offer in this manual is a route to non-government, non-commercial spaceflight and communications.
Orbitando satelites manual: http://www.booki.cc/orbitandosatelites/
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During the workshop we will present some theoretical concepts based on works of experts in this sector and at the same time it will work on the creation of case studies using real-time production techniques, audio/video synchronicities and multimedia scores. You will use the visual development environment PantaliQa, based on Pure Data, and therefore free and cross-platform (Linux, Mac, Windows). In addition we will use other free and cross-platform programs like IanniX.
The workshop is aimed at vjs who want to expand their live-set with interactive elements, to sound artists who want to work on the relation audio/video and digital artists who want to learn the basic techniques of human-machine interaction.
PureInteractions is ideally the continuation of the workshop “MotionTracking and Vj“.
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GemQ is a vj software developed primary for GNU/Linux Operative System and working on all platforms (with little effort). GemQ is based on Pure Data framework, a real-time programming language for multimedia.
GemQ is the new version of Qeve, the first version of this project developed with the economic help of catalan association Telenoika and Hangar centre de Arts.
GemQ uses Gem Video Library, a porting of opengl library for Pure Data, many externals built-in in the pd-extended version and objects written through python bridge (pyext).
The aim of this project is to have an easy to use program for make visuals and video editing in real-time primary on linux platform. It was developed on a ubuntu jaunty/lucid machine, but it should works in others distributions. GemQ is also avaiable for Mac and Windows.
– 3 channel mixer
– 4 different kind of media players
– a video player with freeframe effect and more filters
– a text player with concept shooter design
– an image player with filters
– a webcam player for make live video editing (3 cam support)
– Record and re-use your clips in real time
– a video step-sequencer
– connect every propriety to audio analysis or master clock
download, instructions and manual at www.gemq.info
A demostration:
A presentation at Cannibal Caniche Festival in Berlin
gemQ free VJ software for linux workshop from Spuk Kommune on Vimeo.
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This workshop will give an introduction to Pure Data and to the treatment of video sources in real-time, starting from the use of the main libraries designed with this programming language. Participants will work in groups, carrying out small audiovisual projects that use effects, composition redistribution and video reproduction. Practices from the outside world will be incorporated in order to relate them to the visual compositions through interfaces like USB, ethernet, wifi, firewire and audio signals. The main objective of OpenPixel is to put this knowledge into practice through various applications that allow experimentation with the possibilities that this tool provides to audiovisual creators, musicians and vjs.
Workshop’s goal is to learn to edit video with free software. This workshop is organized in 4 different session, each one about 4 hours, more one day more of practice. It is divided in two moduels; pre-production and editing.
In the first one module you will learn to think about video, grab from a handycam and organize your video material for editing. In the second one you will learn how to use video editing application like Cinelerra and Open Movie Editor.
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Only available in italian.
Download lecture notes (in italian)
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