After having finished the Deptford.TV workshop some of the participants gathered together at the Takeaway Festival which was held at the Dana Center to take part in two workshops. Dynebolic & Hivenetworks. Dynebolic is the media plattform used for producing content for Deptford.TV. . Hivenetworks is linked to the Boundless.coop network in Deptford which is the distribution channel of Deptford.TV. Xavier made a small film for Canal + in France.
quoted from Takeaway:
Jaromil: dyne:bolic
dyne:bolic – Held by Jaromil
29th March 2006
The new 2.0 release of the free multimedia operating system dyne:bolic GNU/Linux will be presented and introduced with its functionalities for streaming and producing audio/video materials employing only open source software, for the freedom of speech.
In the panorama of existing operating systems we see that there are a great number of possibilities to listen: all kinds of “free to download” players for audio and video, but no easy way for everybody to speak out loud and spread their words.
The way communication is structured follows a hierarchy of well established powers and, worst than ever, money is the main requirement for making a voice spread and possible to be heard by others.
About the lecturer:
Jaromil the Rasta Coder is a Mediterranean GNU/Linux programmer, author and maintainer of three free software programs and operating systems: MuSE (for running a web radio), FreeJ (for veejay and realtime video manipulation), HasciiCam (ascii video streaming) and dyne:bolic the bootable CD running directly without requiring installation, a popular swiss army knife in the fields of production and broadcasting of information. All his creations are freely available online under the GNU General Public License (Free Software Foundation).
He is a featured artist in major new media art exhibitions and publications, from CODeDOC II (Whitney Museum Artport), to Read_Me 2.3 (runme.org software art) and Data Browser 02 (engineering culture). Jaromil has been artist in residence at makrolab (Venice Biennale), medien.kunstlabor and the Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst / Montevideo Time Based Arts where he is now in charge of several open source research and development projects.
Alexei Blinov: Hive Networks
Hive Networks – Held by Alexei Blinov
31th March 2006
HIVE Networks – wireless networks of things, built and owned by users, using open source software and cheap disposable appliances.
Alexei Blinov of Raylab and a group of collaborators have set out to create an exciting project, HIVE Networks, which promises to change the perception of ubiquitous or pervasive computing.
HIVE combines the virtues of free software, free networks and open hardware to generate a framework for virtually any type of networked media application on small and cheap consumer devices. In this workshop he will show how HIVE devices can be customised to a range of applications.
About the lecturer:
Alexei Blinov is a Russian born artist/engineer living and working in London. He was and is strongly involved with wireless community networking. His areas of expertise include sensors, lasers, hardware design and programming. He has created his own projects as well as working with many artists and groups such as Take2030, audiorom, Tanaka, Hobijn and others.
Jamie King: Copyright and the new technological environment
Two recent technological developments – the digital format and the network – are starting to make the old model of distributing and paying for cultural content based on copyright protection seem antiquated.
Copyright – the right of a creator to exert control over the reproduction of a work and to sell others this control – is a legal device which was designed for an earlier social/technological moment.
Digital copies – whether of text or anything else – can now be produced almost infinitely at next to zero cost.
We need to examine new models for funding creative works – to address the central question of how cultural producers will survive under the new paradigm. Where many in what is loosely referred to as ‘industry’ regard the challenge to copyright as essentially hostile, others see it as positive, and potentially socially transformative – seeking first and foremost to explore positive models for creativity in the new technological context.
Jamie King is a writer and activist. He is involved with projects such as Open Business (www.openbusiness.cc), Pretext ( www.pretext.org) and Creative Commons UK. He lectures contemporary studies at Ravensbourne College Postgraduate Programme.
and Rama was chilling on our couch…
Rama/Platoniq.net: Burn Station
Burn Station – Held by Rama/Platoniq.net
30th March 2006
Burn Station is a mobile copying station which – as it travels through suburban spaces – supports the free distribution of music and audio. Above all it is a social event which congregates people together for listening, selecting and copying net label and net radio audio files with a Copyleft Licence. Burn Station is an open-source, non-commercial project involving the new means of free networked distribution. It is based on the Burn Station software which was developed by Platoniq and Rama as a 100% free software. Burn Station aims to establish links between the media space and the physical space of the city.
About the lecturer:
Rama (Ramiro Cosentino) is an internet and PureData developer exiled from Buenos Aires (Argentina) during the last economic crash. Previously based in Barcelona as main headquarter, he moved to Graz (Austria) for a residency at the Medien.KUNSTLABOR; currently based in Vienna, he is further developing media/art distribution platforms. (i.e. Burn Station and R23.cc)
Rama is member of several mediahacktivist collectives: hackitectura.net, riereta.net, platoniq.net bcn, straddle3.net bcn, developing open source systems for global communication, developer and administrator of media streaming servers/applications; user-friendly PD works for video (based on PiDiP) and audio mixing, processing and streaming.