folly and GOTO10 are pleased to announce the latest articles to be added to the Digital Artists’ Handbook at http://www.digitalartistshandbook.org

The handbook is a reliable and accessible source of information that introduces artists to different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art. With a focus on Free Software and Open Content, the handbook covers topics such as working with graphics, sound and digital video, software art, developing your own hardware, collaborative working and publishing your work.

The first of two new articles, “Video editing with open source tools”, has been written by Valentina Messeri and Eleonora Oreggia.
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ensa bourges
20/05/2009 – 9:00
7, rue édouard-branly
http://www.ensa-bourges.fr/

At a time when intellectual property is fiercely debated, while some people cling on to their little bits of territory, others have chosen to share knowledge, art and networks.

Why? How? And.. what can free and open culture contribute to artistic creation beyond the proposal for an alternative technological palette?

A presentation from aymeric mansoux, part of the conference cycle “Libre comme l’eau, l’air…” produced by Nathalie Magnan.

Monday 18 May 2009 / 10.00 – 17.00 / Amsterdam (FULLY BOOKED)

Expert meeting for practitioners, researchers, and policy makers in various fields related to online archives, primarily in the Netherlands but with an international focus. Based on 6 short presentations of case studies (below), we will raise a series of specific questions. How can a community establish its own archive beyond an institutional structure? Does a community driven approach with social software help develop innovative strategies for group archiving? How can new and traditional tools best be merged to increase access and improve usability?

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yourmachines.org is gone! but yourmachines.goto10.org is up and running!

Your Machines is a collection of tutorials and resources for working creatively with Free and Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) and related practices. It brings together contributions from artists, activists, community workers, and Linux advocates, all of whom use it within their work. Your Machines presents FLOSS not simply as a set of tools and applications but also as a way of working, which is reflected in the approach of many of the contributions.

The project was initiated by Simon Yuill and we are now keeping an archive of this excellent resource in the hope it will be brought back to life in the future :)

When: May 8 2009
Where: Winchester, UK

Openlab are providing a day of workshops & presentations about opensource software, and performances in the evening in front of Winchester Cathedral in Winchester. There is a venerable lineup of OpenLab and GOTO10 members providing some in depth knowledge during the day and some great performances at night.

CoMA, Contemporary Music for Amateurs, is joining them for exploration of music inspired by sculptures by Bridget Dumper, and will perform Kyklos, a new composition by Rob Canning.

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When: May 12th, 18th, 25th + June 1st
Where: London
Cost: Free!
booking+information: a.hadzi )at( gold.ac.uk

A series of workshops surrounding the deptford.tv project will be taking place throughout May.  The workshops will focus on Sousveillance, CCTV film making and collaborative editing.  The pure:dyne operating system will be the main platform for these workshops and there will be introductory workshops to both pure:dyne and FLOSS video editing tools amongst other things…

Workshops given by Adnan Hadzi (deptford.tv), !Meddiengruppe Bitnik, Lisa Haskel and Rob Canning (GOTO10)

FLOSS and GNU/Linux for Artists Working in the Field of Generative Music and Software Art.
New Article by Marloes de Valk.

The article has been published in Volume 28, Issue 1, 2009 of the Contemporary Music Review journal. This issue, “Generative Music”, has been edited by Nick Collins and Andrew R. Brown. It features other articles from Karen Collins, Andrew R. Brown, Andrew Sorensen, Robert Rowe, Palle Dahlstedt, Margaret Schedel, Alison Rootberg , Paul Berg and Nick Collins.

You can purchase the journal here or preview the article online on Marloes’ website. For full abstract click on more

Liwoli 2009
hacklab for art and open source
23 – 25 April 2009 – Kunstuniversitat Linz

Liwoli 2009 is a three day long Hacklab and an open invitation to all who would like to participate in an active process of learning, producing and sharing around the areas of Free/Libre Open Source
Software and Art. FLOSS developers, artists and programmers such as the collective GOTO10 or activists from HAIP (Hack Act Interact Progress) and many others form the basis for the event and share their knowledge in the form of workshops, hacklabs, presentations, installations and
performances.

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finally … believe it or not, this one was on the TODO for 5 years…

The new netlabel GOSUB10 today launches Substrate, its inaugural release. A 12-track compilation of music from across the electronic music genre, it features friends and family of the GOTO10 collective,
illustrating the strong networks by which the label will grow and providing insight into future directions.

Substrate features tracks by: Earweego, krgn, vacca, 0xA, Bazterrak, Frank Barknecht, Yee-King, Soudo, Julian Brook, Martin Howse, Rob Canning and Ultrageranium.

get the release ! http://gosub10.org
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Winter Camp is an event, organized by the Institute of Network Cultures and will take place 3-7 March 2009 in Amsterdam. Network Cultures Winter Camp will be a mix of presentations and work spaces with an emphasis on getting things done. It will be a four-day program of work spaces and plenary presentations, in which a dozen networks (each of which has 5-15 people) can work on their specific current topics.

GOTO10 has been invited to get things done, and we like it. We also plan to have several group hugs, to eat tons of stroopwaffels, to gossip about every networks and drink beers. No, it’s not easy to be a network.

more information: http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/wintercamp/