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Open Source Publishing Open Source Video adashboard.org Ellentriek Towards e-traces > informations or the whole site newsfeed: Global RSS Latest entries: (top) Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom ( From blog.wired.com ) Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday. Viacom wants the data to prove ... read ... --- YouTube Ordered to Give Complete User Logs to Viacom read on the original website: read ... --- Denis Wood on maps, neighborhoods and pumpkins From the archive of This American Life's radio, a wonderful broadcast described as: Five ways of mapping the world. One story about people who make maps the traditional way?by drawing things we can see. And other stories about people who map the world using smell, sound, touch, and taste. The world redrawn by the five senses. Especially moving is the interview of Denis Wood who creates maps of Boylan Heights, Raleigh, North Carolina, his neighborhood: a traditional street locator map; a map (...) - Blog / sensible, subjective, inspiration, U.S.A read ... --- 500 (continued) For a while already, we wanted to experiment with the Scribus Scripter API in a printed job and a catalogue for the Piet Zwart Institute?s Media design graduation show formed the perfect excuse. Mute?s Simon Worthington connected us with Identic, a digital printer based in Brussels. They can print as many different files as [...] read ... --- print, flip, and turn At the Polish print party, we tried a possible automation of the nineteen steps. We gave out numbered tickets at the entrance, and at the end there was a numbered copy of the booklet for everyone. The booklets were all different via Python and Scribus. The imposition and printing was very simple Perl. If you just [...] read ... --- Towards #2 is out Towards is a cartographic project close to OSP and the second publication is finally out and available after a long 9 months of preparation. Following our informations, it?s the last one that will be produced using proprietary software ;)? But the timeline present on the cover and backcover, made from all the posts written since [...] read ... --- Number two is out ! Nummer twee is uit ! Le num? deux est sorti ! [ EN ] The new towards publication is out. It contains : a history of the project including the numerous workshops and talks that happened the last two years. the schemes, ideas and plans for Tresor, a route accross free softwares for a subjective and collective cartography an overview of the maps collected in the framework of our nascent atlas of the subjective maps of Brussels Using the tools and ideas explained in the Tresor section of the publication, we produced the cover. The code (...) - Blog / Anouncements read ... --- sapins-sapins by hand Petit-Fays is a charming small village in the quiet remote pine covered mountains of the belgian Ardennes. Each year, there is the Ball of Petit-Fays village. During this week-end there are citizen diners, a big tent for feast and dance, an open air bar with cherry beer and barbecue, a nomadic friterie and a wild [...] read ... --- Quelques surprises polonaises _ _ \| \| o \| \| o _ __ \| \| , \| \| _ ,_ _ _ _\|_ \|/ \_/ \_\|/ \| / \_\|/ \ \|/ \_/ \| \| / \|/ \| \| \|__/ \__/ \|__/\|_/ \/ \| \|_/ \|__/ \|_/\|_/ \| \|_/\|_/ /\| /\| \\| \\| _ __, ,_ _\|_ \|/ \_/ \| / \| \| \| \| \|__/ \_/\|_/ \|_/\|_/ \_/\|/ /\| /\| \\| \\| vendredi le 27 juin 2008 OSP est très heureux de vous annoncer le lancement de sa première fonte en licence libre: la NotCourier-sans. Nous serions ravis de vous retrouver autour d?un live lay-out, des Jiaozi/Pierogi et de quelques surprises (polonaises) lors de cette Print Party qui aura lieu à: La Compilothèque vendredi le 27 juin 2008 à 20h00 50, Quai [...] read ... --- Open Movie Editor blog Check out the (relatively) new blog: Open Movie Editor News by Open Video enthousiast and developer of the open source video-editor Open Movie Editor Richard Spindler. Open Movie Editor is a video-editing software for Linux which can be downloaded here Some nifty tips and articles on the blog; among others ... read ... --- Lumiera first steps A new initiative on the Open Source Non Linear Editing video block: Lumiera started out as Cinelerra 3, a complete code rewrite of Cinelerra, but is now turning into an independent project. On the still very incomplete Lumiera.org website you can share your ideas on the GUI with the developers. As ... read ... --- The pearls you cast before swine make you seem alive Committed to sharing her music via the net, Kristin Hersh is throwing her muses at us in unconventional ways. In this small manifesto she writes: I think I need to engage in a grassroots kind of capitalism, choosing principles over profits, values over image, ideals over marketing. I have to ... read ... --- The power geometry of it all A Global Sense of Place ? by Doreen Massey From Space, Place and Gender. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1994. Imagine for a moment that you are on a satellite, further out and beyond all actual satellites; you can see 'planet earth' from a distance and, unusually for someone with only peaceful intentions, you are equipped with the kind of technology which allows you to see the colours of people's eyes and the numbers on their number plates. You can see all the movement and turn (...) - Blog / id?-th?ies, inspiration read ... --- TUG Interview Corner Dave Walden from the TeX User Group introduces his excellent TUG Interview Corner as follows: ?technology is created by and evolves with use by people, and the points of view and backgrounds of the people influence the technology? The ever growing list of interviewees include Barbara Beeton, Donald Knuth, Herman Zapf and numerous other less widely known [...] read ... --- Kanttekeningen / Sidemarks Kanttekeningen bij een databank documents our investigation into the inner workings of the database of BAM, the Flemish institute for visual, audiovisual and media art. To visualise the data stored, we wrote a plugin in Inkscape, manually generated graphs and scripted .svg - you can read everything about what we found and how we worked [...] read ... --- Polish Print Party June 27, 19:00 20:00 @ Compilothèque* Polish Print Party With: launch of NotCourier-sans, OSP FAQ, live lay-out, Jiaozi/Pierogi and more. 50 Quai des Péniches 1000 Brussels read ... --- Mila Nesa Micronomics stadsvertelling - récit de ville - fairy city tale - cuento de ciudad y hadas - ? Stadsvertelling - wandeling en verhaal in mp3 in Nederlands, Frans, Engels, Spaans, Turks, (klassiek) Arabisch Récit de ville - promenade et récit en mp3 en Français, Néerlandais, Anglais, Espagnol, Turque, Arabe (classique) City tale - walk & story in mp3 [...] read ... --- What you won?t get for 100$ On his weblog Infinite Knots, Inkscape?s Bryce Harrington explains that if you want to have a feature implemented in an open source project, offering money will probably not help. He describes how ?folks who aren?t developers? challenged Inkscape developers to make the application work on MacOSX, after first having tried doing it themselves. if you want [...] read ... --- CROSS-over Hot off the press: CROSS-over, Kunst, media en technologie in Vlaanderen. Published by BAM / Lannoo and designed by OSP read ... --- Stray Cinema Stray Cinema is an open content filmproject. The idea behind it is that people from all over the world can download and re-edit raw footage, they make different films using the same footage. The films are then uploaded and voted on by the community. Stray Cinema organises 'real world' screenings ... read ... --- Open Source City festival A good way to start the summer: From 20th to 22nd June 2008 folly and SoundNetwork are bringing Open Source City; a micro-festival of art and music to Liverpool, as part of the European Capital of Culture. Read more about the festival. The promising festival programme includes interesting workshops and presentations. ... read ... --- Amphibian organilectric On the weblog of Yolande Harris, you will find the details of her project Satellite Sounders, which «maps» satellites positions into audio. Here is a note she wrote to explain her ideas on mapping by "mapping" i refer to decisions of how to transform data into sound this is a relatively simple example: GPS data is limited in its ranges and frequency of change the sound is limited by the computing power of the small device i need identify the prominent characteristics of movement and change in (...) - Blog / sound, Holland, Satellite read ... --- Then you win wgOggPlayer.msg = {"ogg-play": "Play", "ogg-pause": "Pause", "ogg-stop": "Stop", "ogg-player-videoElement": "video element", "ogg-player-oggPlugin": "Ogg plugin", "ogg-player-cortado": "Java", "ogg-player-vlc-mozilla": "VLC", "ogg-player-vlc-activex": "VLC", "ogg-player-quicktime-mozilla": "QuickTime", "ogg-player-quicktime-activex": "QuickTime", "ogg-player-thumbnail": "Image", "ogg-download": "Download file", "ogg-download-hd": "Download higher definition file", "ogg-dismiss": "Close", "ogg-player-soundthumb": "No player", "ogg-no-xiphqt": "You do not appear ... read ... --- Boektegoed Boektegoed Boektegoed was een installatie in de Beursschouwburg tijdens het Bronksfestival 2006 in samenwerking met Anne Van Wichelen aka Anne Wiel. Kinderen van 6 tot 10 jaar werden uitgenodigd om een herinnering te vertellen op de sofa van het schrijverskabinet, iets wat ze meemaakten en niet zo gauw zouden vergeten, omdat het zo vreselijk mooi, eng, [...] read ... --- Information design patterns http://niceone.org/infodesign/ A website that parallels a thesis titled The Form of Facts and Figures from Christian Behrer at the University of Postdam. It contains "a collection of 55 design patterns that describe the functional aspect of graphic components for the display , behaviour and user interaction of complex infographics ". For each of these patterns, there is a description, a layout example and a real world example. It is a bit unfortunate that this interesting and carefully (...) - Blog / Diagram, Potsdam read ... --- Smiling protest There is no category old news on this blog, but this image would definitely qualify: found stuck in between pages of a two year old agenda. Depicted is a loose protest in Mexico -city against the outcome of the elections in august 2006, supporters of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador demanded a re-counting of the votes. They [...] read ... --- Ellentriek mei 2008 Op 10, 11 en 12 mei 2008 hielden we in Gent de vierde ellentrieken sessie! Er werden casio?s (SA5, SA8) en een fisher Price telefoon gecircuit-bend, er werd een vloermatcondensator(sensor) en een leyden jar gebouwd, mini-bliksems werden d.m.v. statische elektriciteit opgewekt (om een miniatuurversie van het witte huis op te blazen). Er werd onderzocht hoe licht [...] read ... --- Discriminatory Mosquitos The controversial anti-teenager tool ?mosquito? has been turned against the generation that invented it. Using the principle of the ultrasone tone, kids have made a ringtone that is only audible for those under 30. A ringtone that can be used to set of mobile phones in classrooms without the teacher hearing it (assuming the teacher [...] read ... --- Pijl Left Right Puzzling correction by the Brussels public transportation company STIB / MIVB on Metro Rogier, Line 2, direction Simonis. An arrow is added to the information board already displaying an arrow. If that one was corrected, why not replace it entirely? Or does this mean that the metro which runs in the direction of Simonis (as [...] read ... --- CONNECTION INTERRUPTION blog under re-construction back this summer read ... --- Workshop Bookmarks - Guerilla Art Somewhere in the beginning of April I was contacted by two young ladies from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They were looking for an organisation to be able to launch their project concerning guerilla bookmarks. As I have fond memories of my "stage" in Montreal, I decided to say yes and this ... read ... --- Capsicum La quatrième et (provisoirement?) dernière page de Capsicum, la bd que j?ai écrite pour Wauter, est en ligne sur le site de Knack. On peut désormais lire l?histoire en entier (en néerlandais) et aussi voter et commenter, si l?envie vous prend de le faire. lien vers la bd read ... --- Guy Peellaert A partir de mercredi prochain, il y aura du Guy Peellaert à aller voir dans le cadre de l?expo Pop Eye, à Hasselt. read ... --- Années 80 La playlist du jour: un petit voyage dans les années 80. read ... --- Richard Thompson Tous les jours, je lis Cul de sac, sans doute le meilleur comic strip traditionnel pour le moment. Son auteur, Richard Thompson, a aussi un blog. read ... --- How to configure Jack In the past I had the entention to write a manual on how to configure Jack, for a good performance. Luckily the Ubuntu Studio blog called Ubustu beat me to it and they have published a great manual here: How to Configure JACK in Ubuntu Studio* read ... --- What soundcard(s) do you have? I have recently been working on a manual for a certain script with which you can easily record interviews, without having to edit them. More about this script will follow later. During the research and testing phase of this script, I have encountered many a challenge (euphemism for problem). At this ... read ... --- Street - Straat Froissart straat / Schuman plein Found on: http://www.loughrigg.org/belgium/ In the absence of a proper street name sign, somebody put up this substitute! This is where Rue Froissart leaves the Schuman roundabout, in the heart of the EU district in Brussels - both the European Commission and the Council of the European Union (Council of Ministers) have their [...] read ... --- BENT FESTIVAL - 2008 Even deze kleine aankondiging tussendoor: THE FIFTH ANNUAL BENT FESTIVAL - 2008- THURSDAY APRIL 24 - SATURDAY APRIL 26 - DCTV - 87 LAFAYETTE STREET -> www.bentfestival.org The Tank is pleased to announce The Fifth Annual Bent Festival of hardware hacking, DIY electronics, and circuit bending. Wie nog wil inschrijven voor het komende ellentrieken weekend ( [...] read ... --- Virgil Finlay: Complete book of space travel Et pendant ce temps, la dernière lubie de Golden age comic book stories est Virgil Finlay: toutes ses illustrations pour un livre intitulé The Complete Book of Space Travel, en 1956. read ... --- Evangelicals Le disque qui tourne en boucle ces jours-ci: une expédition pop franchement lysergique, avec un chanteur qui chante très soigneusement à côté de tout ce qui pourrait ressembler à une gamme normale. Il préfère rester sur sa propre petite musique intérieure. Et curieusement, ça donne quelque chose qui rentre dans l?oreille et n?en sort plus, [...] read ... --- Mervyn Peake illustrateur Galerie consacrée à Mervyn Peake (l?auteur de Titus d?enfer), qui, à partir de 1940, illustra Alice, La chasse au Snark, Bleak House, L?ile au trésor (un de ses livres favoris), ? Ses modèles: Hogarth, Cruickshank, Durer, Blake, Dore, Goya. read ... --- Genevieve Casey Cyberhéroïne du moment: Genevieve Casey, cinquante ans et pas mal de soucis avec ses implants militaires vieillissants. Le livre trainait dans ma bibliothèque depuis quelques années et a fini par arriver sur ma table de nuit. Mieux vaut tard que jamais, il va sans doute maintenant falloir que je me procure la suite. ?These books are [...] read ... --- The western nostril De temps en temps, on tombe sur un webcomic vraiment drôle. Aujourd?hui: the western nostril. read ... --- Collectors showcase Collectors showcase : une formidable collection de couvertures de livres et revues de science fiction, américaines et françaises. Les amateurs de Jean-Claude Forest, par exemple, ont de quoi se régaler devant des dizaines de merveilleuses illustrations pour Fiction et Le Rayon Fantastique. read ... --- R+R streaming walks As part of the exhibition Place@Space in art center Z33 I have made a 'Routes + Routines' installation and organise some walks that are streamed and can be viewed in the exhibition room. Clips from the stream are added to a random 'film' that is subtitled by a choice from ... read ... --- EINDELIJK, weer een ELLENTRIEKEN WEEKEND!!! Ellentriek, c?est chic! 10 en 11 én 12 mei 2008, (10h-18h, Kammerstraat 19, Gent) Pinksteren is een hoogfeest waarin de verlichting/uitstorting door de Heilige Geest wordt herdacht. (wikipedia) Dit jaar zal Pinksteren echter een ellentrieken uitstorting der verlichting worden. In deze driedaagse kan je: + je ellentrieken onderzoek verder zetten (research) + volop experimenteren en nieuwe zaken uitproberen (experiment) + een [...] read ... --- OVL Saturday: Miro We spent some saturday afternoon time installing the current version 1.2 of the Internet tv application Miro. Christina installed it on her G4 Power mac running Mac OSX 10.4.10 and I updated at the same time an old version 0.9.8.0 Beta on my Linux Ubuntu box. After a smooth upate ... read ... --- Boodschappenlijstje ellentrieken materialen voorbeelden van fijn materiaal om mee te nemen = natuurlijk afhankelijk van je eigen project!!! - cassetterecorder/walkman/dictafoon (motoren, raders, koppen) - bepaalde stukken van wasmachines (de pomp, de trommel, ?) - allerlei transfo?s/ adapters en voedingen - elektronische bellen - alarm - oude telefoons (zijn makkelijker om mee te werken) - fax-printers-scanners-kopieermachines: hoe ouder ze zijn, hoe mechanischer, en hoe interessanter om onderdelen [...] read ... --- Mapping Me / Mapping You April 25, 18:00 - 20:00, in Recyclart A roundtable meeting about cartography between An Mertens (and other members of Saturdays, Woman and Free Software) , Liesbeth Huybrechts (Cultural studies PHD KuLeuven, researcher, curator), Nicolas Malev?Tresor software, Towards.be) and Peter Westenberg (Routes + Routines) investigating GEO data control, different layers and perspectives on the art of mapping, subjective cartographic perception and /Home as private territory. w h e n : April (...) - Blog / collaborative, tresor, id?-th?ies, Brussels, Belgium, Surveillance, Diagram read ... --- The Map Is not the Territory ?! Wednesday, April 16th ; 19:30-22:00hrs_Piet Zwart Institute ; Mauritsstraat 36 ; 3012 GC Rotterdam (The Netherlands). Public event : "The Map Is not the Territory ?! - Mapping as critical investigation". With : Bureau d'Etudes (FR), Theo Deutinger (AU/NL), Christoph Wachter and Mathias Jud (CH), Michael Murtaugh and PZI Media Design M.A. students ; introduction by Florian Cramer. - Blog read ... --- SMplayer I never bothered to install it, thinking that Mplayer's command line options gave me everything I needed .. but finally gave SMplayer a try and I am enjoying it a lot. "One of the most interesting features of SMPlayer: it remembers the settings of all files you play. So you ... read ... --- Human Brain Cloud A massively multiplayer word association game, by Kyle Gabler. - Blog / inspiration, Diagram, Game read ... --- Projects in progress CIAO: writing a novel as a ?distributed practise? CIAO of het schrijven van een gedistribueerde roman CIAO is a story that will exist as a novel in print and a digital narrative. The work-in-progress is part of the exhibition Place@Space until 25th May in Z33 in Hasselt. CIAO is een verhaal dat zal bestaan als roman en [...] read ... --- Digital Artists Handbook The Digital Artists Handbook is an up to date, reliable and accessible source of information that in read ... --- Les logiciels libres - découverte gratuite pour le secteur associatif Une matinée logiciels libres POUR LE SECTEUR ASSOCIATIF Le 20 mars 2008 à Bruxelles Inscriptio read ... --- Tell the EU: Keep Copyright Sound! From hsoundcopyright.eu A handful of major record labels are trying to break a fifty year-old promi read ... --- Telling Stories Telling Stories: Building bridges among Language, Narrative, Identity, Interaction, Society and Culture. Narratives have been studied in many different disciplines: linguistics, literary theory, clinical psychology, cognitive and developmental psychology, folklore, anthropology, sociology and history. The primary focus of GURT 2008 is the linguistic study of narrative, especially as it has developed within discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. As [...] read ... --- Redes digitales y espacio f?co Medialab Prado organises a «production workshop, talks and seminars around geospacial web and geosemantic web, web 2.0, place blogging, urban markup, open source mapping tools, locative art and locative gaming.» Their list of selected projects looks impressive. Earlier workshops include Visualisar and its Advanced Project Production Workshop Showcase. - Blog / inspiration read ... --- Gli esclusi http://www.politecalab.org/densityd... «Decisions are normally taken from the high, by a minority of players, leaving out those more related to the territory. How we can get them in? Through four steps: awakening, aggregating, activating, complaining» Gli exclusi is a map/diagram created by density design to illustrate a scenario to organise citizens response to the Italian National Action Plan. Read more about this map (and many more )on the density design's (...) - Blog / inspiration, Statistics, Diagram read ... --- Gather - it- yourself / event GATHER - IT - YOURSELF 8 Maart 2008 - 20 h - GRATIS Kammerstraat 19, 9000 Gent www.myspace.com/giy_project GIY is een gathering met een line-up (jonge)?artiesten? die werk presenteren rond (elektronische) DIY. (Performance, installatie, objecten, muziek,video, whatever, ?) In deze line-up dus niet per se technologische hoogstandjes, maar ook gewoon fijne, grappige concepten en invalshoeken rond dit thema! GIY [...] read ... --- Sliding doors Gare du nord / Noordstation, south entrance on bus platform. Some technical defect causes these doors to open and close endlessly. See a video clip in .ogg format Problems playing the video? see the How to play video page. read ... --- I-pac I-PAC, the world?s most advanced interface for buttons and joysticks! http://www.ultimarc.com/ipac1.html read ... --- Taxi walk Pictures from a rainy but beautiful exploration celebrating Laïa?s birthday, chasing the remaining traces of railroad tracks on the huge site of Thurn and Taxis in Brussels. The site is since a few years under construction, the main buildings of this former deposit and transition site have been converted to offices, conference and exhibition halls, [...] read ... --- Workshop City Browsing Link to images produced by Gable and the mirror shoe during the workshop of January 10, Apt Pictures Link to movies produced by Gable and the mirror shoe during the workshop of January 10, Apt Movies Link to documentary movies produced by Peter during the workshop of January 10, Apt Movies Link to snapshots of the workshop, January 10 + [...] read ... --- Life is Short and Getting Shorter All the Time an installation by Sam Ashley (part of The Oracle Project) sunday january 13, 2008 ? wednesday january 16, 2008 okno, brussels ? residency and installation Opening performance january 13th 15h00 First run of the exposition from january 13th to 16th, 14h to 18h (further dates to be announced) okno.be will premier a new work by Sam [...] read ... --- DIY Electronic Circuit workshop @ mediamatic Voor wie op 8 februari 2008 wil workshoppen in het immer fijne mediamatic in Amsterdam: DIY Electronic Circuit workshop: Leer snel electronische circuits maken met de FabLab freesmachine Onder begeleiding van de kundige en veelzijdige Marc Boon gaan de deelnemers door alle stappen om snel een simpel electronisch circuit te maken met de 3D frees machine. Wat? Er zijn veel [...] read ... --- Ellentriek december 2007 - de foto?s Op 8 en 9 december 2007 hielden we wederom een ellentrieken sessie in Brussel! Er werden toestellen gerepareerd, midi-syncs gesoldeerd, handclappers en ander speelgoed omgebouwd, videosignalen verkracht, metronomen bedacht, ? kortom amusement met 220V en alles daaronder! read ... --- LM317 regelbare voeding Een eenvoudig systeem voor een regelbare voeding ?> http://www.circuitsonline.net/circuits/view/97 read ... --- ostende read ... --- k & t read ... --- timpelbach read ... --- Net critique I found a first ?historical overview? about webcomics. The word ?historical? is dressed with quite a refreshing significance here. The overview comments on webcomics over the last ten years, which is logical. The word ?overview? also takes on a different meaning, as most authors that have been reviewed are Anglophones. Nevertheless, I find it quite impressive to know [...] read ... --- Ideas about Open Source This site is made in Wordpress. Wordpress is open source blogging software. It is a very nice tool grown out of a large community of users all over the world. The idea of sharing content goes with the idea of sharing the programs and the knowledge behind it. In 2006 I made my first practical steps into [...] read ... --- place@space Een participatieve wandelingenserie die resulteert in een database-film. Uitgangspunten Het gebruik van ruimte volgt instructies, sporen en routines. Gebruik laat ook sporen na, het slijt routes uit, letterlijk (holle paden) en figuurlijk (gewoontes, normalisatie). Enerzijds volgen we in ons dagelijks gebruik van de stad de manier waarop vorige generaties die ruimte hebben vormgegeven: infrastructureel, moreel, ideeel, fysiek en [...] read ... --- turkish flag read ... --- Is er muziek na Sabam? debatavond Door de opkomst van het internet is Sabam teruggekatapulteerd naar de middeleeuwen. Terwijl de laats read ... --- ottotel 02 . istanbul read ... --- istiklal read ... --- turkish flag read ... --- ottotel 01 . istanbul read ... --- SABAM charged with fraud. In 2004 (see previous post), the judge Frédéric Lugentz from Brussels started an investigation for f read ... --- Yes, I recognize the facts, I whistled L'Internationale Hard times for the marxists. On Amolosh' blog: Pierre Merejkowsky whistles "L'Internationale" for read ... --- J'embrasse/J'embrasse pas From the Edge, Boston Herald, by Associated Press AVIGNON, France - A woman who planted a lipstic read ... --- +NURSE+ MIX read ... --- The Professional Suicide of a Recording Musician An article by Bob Ostertagon AlterNet In March 2006 I posted on the Web all of my recordings to w read ... --- A Gift 2NICE FROM J.DEAR read ... --- MiiVi, a honeypot? Interne mails over nepdownloadsite uitgelekt AMSTERDAM - De videosite MiiVi was wel degelijk opge read ... --- +NURSE+ MIX At the KAAI theatre saturday 2.00 am read ... --- MMMMMMMINIMMMMMAL LISTEN 2 THIS EXELLENT MIX BiS-ArT sHaKeR 19-09-2007 part01: 10 years retrospective vol 01 RASTER/NOTON mix by dj athome listen to that here read ... --- Hors Service Metro Ribaucourt The new anti cellulite revolution has arrived! l?Oreal?s Perfect Slim solution. Somebody must have had something against the billboard and smashed the glass. The transportation company STIB MIVB reacted by swiftly pasting a sticker on the smashed glass. Not on top of the hole though, but just above it, right over the depicted anti [...] read ... --- Record of the month J'ADORE Odessa's new ep "DONNA" is out on Doxa. 0704 - DOXA- ODESSA "DONNA" THREE HIGHLY AMAZING TRACKS. A VOCAL TECHNO TRACK WITH ODESSAS BEAUTIFUL VOICE, AND TWO OTHER HOT AND SMASHING TECHNO PRODUCTIONS. THE EXTENDED SIDE IS REALLY WORTH LISTENING TO! (quote from Kompakt website) http://www.myspace.com/odessatechno read ... --- Plastic cover Place Simonis, in front of Metro station A plastic cover waiting to be replaced by a more solid solution. See its history of deterioration in previous posts: read ... --- moteurs-de-recherche lire sur le site originel: read ... --- Données privées lire sur le site originel: read ... --- Tous fichés lire sur le site originel: read ... --- Cybersurveillance au travail (2ème partie) lire sur le site originel: read ... --- Cybersurveillance au travail (1ère partie) lire sur le site originel: read ... --- Conférence internationale des commissaires à la protection des données et de la vie privée lire sur le site originel: read ... --- Premier centre de données canadien pour Iron Mountain lire sur le site originel: read ... --- Des entreprises peu soucieuses lire sur le site originel: read ... --- Commission de la Protection de la Vie privée (Belgique) lire sur le site originel: read ... --- Vie privée : Ask va offrir le contrôle total lire sur le site originel: read ... --- Mexicomystico Diego Riviera's beautiful murals in the Secretaria de educacion Publica. read ... --- Copyfarleft and Copyjustright Challenges to traditional copyright resulting from peer-to-peer applications, free software, files read ... --- or? vue read ... --- R read ... --- Reading Department Today I participated in the online reading session organised by Sönke Hallman and Falke Pisano, exploring the idea of a #collective textual performance#, approaching the text by #reading with the intention that the text becomes a place#. After reading the excerpts, we all started to invest the ?text-place?, straight onto the wiki, while we shared our [...] read ... --- Record of the month AWESOME read ... --- Neighbour numbers Rue Washington Straat Two neighbouring houses with similarly DIY adjusted house numbers. Number 59 is drawn slender and solidly with upright tendencies, whereas number 63 is voluptuous and round, keeping in paste with the intentions of the original design. The imitation copper 6 has been neatly integrated in the permanent marker lay-out. read ... --- Orange hook Financial Tower, Kruidtuin / site former RAC CAE Many examples of reparations done with tape can be found in this category, most of them are small scale DIY temporary solutions. These two construction workers use tape on a larger scale: on the 20th floor (or there about) of the Financietoren [...] read ... --- ho ho here we go? A German balade with Emma, Lucy and friends. To get into the mood, we started off with a retrospective of graphic designer Anton STANKOWSKI (1906-1998) at the IDZ in Mitte. Really excellent work, with handmade typography and layouts. Simple, precise, legible, inspiring. He did a lot of work for the city ... read ... --- brussels stadsgeruis - 1 Een eerste duik in html en css Lees hier: stadsgeruis read ... --- Dêchets upside down This sign asking to separate trash in different coloured containers was mounted upside down. It seems the mistake has not gone unnoticed; the plate has been turned back to its normal position. The above photo?s were taken by Tineke van Engeland at Metro station Ceria-Coovi, Brussels, in November 2006. Among many other excellent pictures they can [...] read ... --- Klink, poignée Ladies room, Bozar / Palais des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles Bilingual alteration on a note pasted inside the women?s toilets of the Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, explaining how this doorknob works in dutch and french. To close the door Push the button in the middle To open the door Turn button handle to the right If my debutant level of french doesn?t [...] read ... --- Rorty? Filosoof Richard Rorty overleden De Standaard: De Amerikaanse filosoof en cultuurwetenschapper Richard Rorty is vrijdag in Palo Alto (Californië) op 75-jarige leeftijd na een slepende ziekte overleden. Dit heeft de Universiteit van Stanford maandag op haar internetsite gemeld. Rorty gold als een van de meest invloedrijke hedendaagse denkers. Tot de belangrijkste werken van de postmoderne taalfilosoof worden [...] read ... --- Linux Audio Workshop Brussels This is actually the fourth Linux audio workshop! Some details: What: Workshop ARDOUR Where: Atelier du web, Rue du Fortstraat 39, 1060 Bruxel When: 14/06/07, 19:30 ? 21:00 Info and enrollment: http://wiki.bxlug.be/ProjetAudio/Mini-atelier_2 Thursday june the 14th an Ardour worksession is on the agenda. Learn how to make a radiojingle with Ardour. ... read ... --- il n?est plus read ... --- dernier jour de st raphael read ... --- Geschiedenis van een boek Mc Kenzie Wark schreef A Hacker?s Manifesto, een boek dat pleit tegen het intellectuele eigendom van kunst en teksten. Hij verspreidde het vrij via het net en vond uiteindelijk een uitgever met klasse, de Harvard University Press, die weigerde het boek onder een CC-license te verspreiden. Met het boek legde hij een spannende weg af, [...] read ... --- A fairy use tale Open link Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms. read ... --- The month of May Aside all this wonderfulness, May was also the month of the contreversial French elections. For this occasion, our lovely friends ICH BIN produced an adorable record... This is what you're looking for It was released for the french elections. read ... --- A conversation with Marika 12:00, between morning and afternoon, April 21. The pier in Andernos-les-bains, France. While walking Marika and I have a conversation about digital archives and the problems they engender. The conversation lasts 24 mins. Topics : software, access, speed, the press, obsolescence of information, disappearing http://constant.all2all.org/%7Edigitales/sound.php#10 http://www.constantvzw.com/cyberf/book/articles.php?pg=art26 read ... --- Zelfbouwbus Rue du Rempart des Moines, corner Dansaert straat Rows of connecting holes, made in the metal plated door using a power drill, constitute this home made letter box. See earlier letter box related entries: Brievendoos Pas de boite aux lettres read ... --- Who is afraid of new media (bis) Kind of difficult to escape in the new media festivals or lectures to the supposed « crisis » of new media, Interact or die was the motto of Deaf this year, and « New media Arts at Crossroads » was the title of Geert Lovink?s lecture for Argos, i wont paraphrase him here, because when [...] read ... --- Cyborgs - interactive or indifferent kinds On this blog I already mentioned Ian Hackings groundbreaking work ?The Social Construction of What?? His central argument is that much of the work that has been done to ?unmask? certain phenomena as constructions often starts from the idea that these constructions are ?false? or in any case a ?bad thing? and according to Hacking [...] read ... --- Performative turn The last edition of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival was organised around the theme of interactivity. Interact or Die! focused on interactivity in general (?Interaction not as a deformation of existing forms, but rather an addition of information, an informing, a formation of forms?) and the notion of interactivity in art in particular (?Interactive art [...] read ... --- Kosmopolis ?The 16th -century humanists were the founders of the modern Humanities just as surely as the 17th -century natural philosophers were founders of modern Science and Philosophy: for instance, the ways of describing human cultures implicit in Book VI of Aristotle?s Ethics, and reintroduced in our day by Clifford Geertz as ?thick description?, were already [...] read ... --- Szusa Bánk - De Zwemmer De Zwemmer van Zsuzsa Bank is haar debuut en meteen een ijzingwekkend boek. Het is geen thriller, er komen geen grote complottheorieën aan te pas. En toch lees je elke zin met spanning, alsof het onweer in elke volgende zin zou kunnen uitbarsten. De toon van het boek heeft mij bij mijn kraag gegrepen. Het is [...] read ... --- Who is afraid of media art? Not even news, just notes ongoing, on-working, on-walking, unfinished? When did we stop dreaming, exagerating, being outrageous, being glamourous in the media art scene? When did we begin to complain about own categories, ontologies, folksonomies? When did we begin to behave properly, to get success, to long for belonging to the contemporary biennales, museum, art centres? [...] read ... --- Open Ars meeting Better late than never, we wanted to give a view on the different projects met during the Open Ars meeting organised by Apo 33 and Constellatio in Nantes in february 2006, so some pictures and above all links to organisations, projects interesting in open practices in cultural environment or in artistic practices in open environment? [...] read ... --- Open source alternatives for proprietary software Through the Make Magazine weblog I have found a website called Osalt (open source as alternative) which shows what alternatives there are for Commercial software in open source software. Now, of course it would be better to start with open source software in the first place, but more often than not ... read ... --- Fictions, diffractions and deconstructions In his phd thesis (Intertextual turns in curriculum inquiry: fictions, diffractions and deconstructions) Patrick Gough explores a ?methodology for curriculum inquiry? focussing on the ?generativity of fiction in reading, writing and representing curriculum problems and issues?. In his introductory chapter he explains how he used the original version versus the director?s cut of the SF-film [...] read ... --- Gimp 2 for photographers A while ago, there was a question for Constant, concerning The Gimp, GNU Image Manipulation Program and possible tutorials on The Gimp. I stumbled upon a review of the following book: Gimp 2 for photographers. And the review is positive! read ... --- Ubuntu studio My sharp eye is always on the lookout for "multimedia" applications and Linux, especially where audio is concerned. Five minutes ago I learnt about the development of Ubuntu studio, throught Boingboing. How far will Ubuntu go? What software and hardware support will be included? And above all, will it work ... read ... --- Webs of Significance ?We are animals ?suspended in the webs of significance? we ourselves have spun. Culture is that web. So: the analysis of it is therefore to be not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretative one in search of meaning? (Clifford Geertz 1973: 5). read ... --- Essays for the left hand According to the psychologist Jerome Bruner, there are two ways of looking at the world: logico-scientific on the one hand and narrarive on the other hand. These two modes of thought provide ?distincitve ways of ordering experience, of constructing reality?. In Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (1986) he explains how this idea is strongly linked to [...] read ... --- Foucault vs. Chomsky Thanks to the Cultural Studies mailing list (CultStud-l), I found this televised debate between Foucault and Chomsky on the relation between justice and power, on the ?situatedness? of human nature. Justice Vs. Power - Chomsky Vs. Foucault, Part 1 Justice Vs. Power - Chomsky Vs. Foucault, Part 2 read ... --- Edwards Interesting quote by Edwards coming from his Rhetoric and Educational Discourse, he starts by quoting Derrida: A Standard act depends as much upon the possibility of being repeated, and thus potentially of being mimed, cited, played, simulated, or in general ?parasited?, since all these possibilities depend upon the possibility said to be opposed to it. (Derrida 1988: [...] read ... --- Workshop Vrouwen & vrije software Locatie: Interface 3, Middaglijnstraat 30, 1210 Brussel Tijd: Zaterdag 18 november ? 10.00 tot 16.30 Meer info op: http://samedi.collectifs.net/ In het kader van ADA (Netwerk voor vrouwen en technologie) insamenwerking met onder andere: Constant, Interface3, Domaine public, Scumgrrls, Bxlug. * Constant nodigt u uit voor een serie ontmoetingen, discussies en workshops met en door vrouwen over ?servers?. De serie [...] read ... --- Women & free softwares workshops Where: Interface 3 , Rue du Méridien 30, 1210 Brussels When: Saturday Nov. 18, 10 am - 4:30 pm Info: http://samedi.collectifs.net In the framework of ADa (Network for women and technology), a collaboration between Constant, Interface 3, Domaine public, Scumgrrls, BxLg, among others * Constant invites you to series of meetings, debates and workshops with and by women [...] read ... --- Book presentation Language of Sharing Book presentation VJ9: The Language of Sharing / Deeltaal / Protocoles d?échanges Location: Constant office: Fortstraat 5, 1060 st. Gillis, Brussels, +32 (0)2 5392467 Time: Friday 17 November 2006, between 17.00 - 20.00 Constant proudly presents the publication: VJ9 The language of sharing. We invite you to join us in our office on November 17, between 17.00 and 20.00. Copies [...] read ... --- karhozat, again? ce soir, pour la derniere fois, encore une fois. read ... --- Dead Media Revival Garnet Hertz is working on a doctoral dissertation in Media Theory & History based on the ?The Dead Media Handbook? as initially proposed by Bruce Sterling in 1995 in his ?Dead Media Manifesto? (http://www.deadmedia.org/modest-proposal.html). His plan is to actually publish a book, taking into account, and using the work, notes and collections assembled on Deadmedia.org Hertz? curatorial [...] read ... --- Prolétaires du monde, reposez-vous ?Following Karl Marx?s wayward son-in-law Paul Lafargue I support the right to be lazy.? In the article ?The abolition of work? Bob Black states his conviction that the world would be better off without employment. ?Leftists favor full employment. (?) Trotskyists agitate for permanent revolution. I favor full unemployment. I agitate for permanent revelry.? (French [...] read ... --- A line made by walking read ... --- Jorn on Automation A revised translation by Ken Knabb of a short text by Asger Jorn who played an important role in merging theCOBRA movement with the Lettriste Internationale and the London Psychogeographical Association to form the Situationist International (SI). Written in the late fifties, before the boom of technological media, Jorn?s scetchy text on automation, leisure time [...] read ... --- constance Bernanos-Del Amo, dialogues des carmelites read ... --- Heroes - Heroines I guess I don't have a lot of heroes nor heroines. But today I am going to write a little rambling about a hero of mine (from when I was a little girl...). Sir David Attenborough, renouned nature documentary maker (from the BBC website: "On his 80th birthday in May ... read ... --- Gimpshop For those of you struggling in the world of images and free software (resizing, reworking photographs, drawings etc), there is of course Gimp, The GNU Image Manipulation Programme. For those people using a certain proprietary sofware with a name ending with ...shop, having difficulties to leave their ...shop habits behind, ... read ... --- Laboratorium impressions The idea of the crealab was formulated inside a larger ESF framework; The Memory project, which has been supported and developed for one year by a european team of volunteers, proceeds from different experiences of collecting and emphasizing the data produced during the ESF. It [...] read ... --- Constant at European Social Forum This year the European Social Forum has landed on the grounds of the former Olympic Village in Athens. On the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th of May 2006 many European social non-governemental organisations gather to participate in an extensive program of seminars, talks, workshops, concerts and presentations. Constant is part of the ?Crealab?: a temporary [...] read ... --- Dilbeek -> Zaadstraat Demo description Walk the line: 8 9 From the Ninoofse Steenweg, we turn right and enter the Dilbeekstraat. A bit hard to find since the street names are gone. A descending street with yellow brick houses with big gardens. There is a sandy footpath on your left hand. When you go in and turn around facing [...] read ... --- Apodio - linux distribution If you work with multimedia and you are on linux, you will know that it is not always an easy marriage... Getting all the libraries, making sure that all your hardware (camera, soundcard, graphics card...) is compatible and recognized... We have recently installed Apodio, which is Mandriva based and it seems ... read ... --- adam Adam Fuss, From the Series ?My Ghost?, 1999 Gelatin silver print photogram. read ... --- Foley workshop - Bruitage - Geluidseffectenworkshop Cybersoda - Fête de l?internet - Digitale week - Celebration of internet On March the 22nd I gave a workshop in Interface3. My prime public was between 9 and sixteen years old. I started out by explaining a little what downloading is and where you can download films legally. I gave one example, also the [...] read ... --- behind takumi kubilai khan investigations, gyrations of barbarious tribes read ... --- Apo33 workshop SInce yesterday, Constant is the happy owner of a PC reborn as an Apodio Multimedia GNU/Linux box. This distribution is developed by the Nantes based collective Apo 33. Thanks to Julien, Sophie and Jean-Francois who helped installing this beautiful collection of mainly audio - visual open softwares running on a Mandriva system at [...] read ... --- A conversation with Kavita 12:30 in the afternoon, January 6. Kavita?s kitchen, Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic. Kavita and I have a conversation about accessing online archives (equipment, site design). We click through the online Digitales archives while we talk. The conversation lasts 21 mins. Topics: access, technical knowledge, equipment, compatibility, design, language, time http://www.constantvzw.com/cyberf/reload-en.html, http://www.constantvzw.com/digitales/2004.html, http://constant.all2all.org/%7Edigitales/video.php#11 read ... --- night burning read ... --- English Step one: Duration: approximately 1 hour. You will need a computer with an internet connection. Find something that interests you in the online archives of Digitales. Your interest could mean that the item (text, image, audio file or video file) reminds you of an event you experienced, or it could relate to your day-to-day life, etc. Please [...] read ... --- Digitales is several days of conferences, workshops, forums, and art presentations where people come together to talk about women and technology. As this is a broad topic, the areas of interest vary. To give some examples, the programming for Digitales can include: a lecture about the relationship between gender and desire as it relates to [...] read ... --- English In January 2004 Anja Westerfroelke and I held an open workshop at the Digitales meeting days in Brussels, Belgium. We were experimenting with a way of archiving by using a MOO (an online text-based virtual environment, originally used for networked gaming). Our aim was to take the contents of several cardboard boxes full of archive [...] read ... --- met read ... --- hier, vernissage read ... --- vernissage, jeudi read ... --- Radia 04 I have made an hour of radio, content-wise made with the material of read ... --- General atmosphere SolidARTcit?teliers Mommen VJ8 took place in Ateliers Mommen, in order to give as much attention as possible, to try and save this special place for artists in the city of Brussels. This weekend there was BRXL Bravo. Cuisine Interne Keuken set up here. There was a very nice varied exhibition. This is an overview: Guided tours of Ateliers [...] read ... --- Bravo? Mommen! I am here at Atelier Mommen, during the ?Brussels art weekend? BRXL Bravo. We have put up the installation of Cuisine Interne Keuken. The 16 questions are on the wall, the robot is set up. I will give a guided tour of the installation, as it is now. The robot represents the ?ideal cultural worker?. It?s head [...] read ... --- In Spain, mainly in the gain I guess rhyming was never a great talent of mine? In Spain Creative Commons is launched on january the 24th, in Madrid. But, next to that a certain subject will be touched upon, which concerns this blog deeply? ££€€$$ ping ping dosh slappe was? Mud of the earth (slijk der aarde)? Namely there will also be an animated [...] read ... --- Workspace drawings Just click and browse through three lovely pages of drawings - yes, handmade? Let?s start with a link.. In October 2004 we went to Ljubljana, and we asked people the questions you can read below, in post 1 of this blog. Next to that, we also let them draw their workspaces. Finally I have put two and [...] read ... --- Building ? We are building, now, and it proceeds very slowly. One thing at a time - can I use this piece of electronics or not??? What do I want it to become - hmmm, not sure. Halfway now, in the workshop. Only two more days to go? Mr.the made a nice robot, which at one point lost its foot, but [...] read ... --- sidedishes Hi, With ?Cuisine Interne? approaching. I just wanted to post some sideDishes. ° Yesterday I saw a film about recup. An older woman-filmmaker, follows people picking up left-overs of the fields, junk on the streets, whatever. It fitted within this context of ?making installations? with used material and the idea of alternative economies. Watch it if you [...] read ... --- or(does all this sound more than a marteking strategy???)? 3.75 euro getest my toolbox ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????- ° ° ° °° ° read ... --- On the road One week and a half before the festival, we have been driving round and doing some research.. Things have been bought : look here at the treasures we have found. There will be updates. So far we have been to some regular second hand collecting points, such as Oxfam (Beekkant and Kolomstraat), Televil Kringloopwinkel (Dilbeek and Vilvoorde), [...] read ... --- Previously, on this subject? Making an installation, the pro?s and contra?s. Interactivity? Necessity? When does something go beyond gimmick, what is a ?good? and what is a ?bad? installation? How do you ?make? a public listen/read understand/grasp? Should these questions even be asked (does all this sound more than a marketing strategy???)? Also, we have decided to build a no-budget installation, [...] read ... --- the archives of digitales workspaces one mutation of the work found here - i have a new joint workspace (online and rl): http://www.digitales-online.org/digA read ... --- putting in place the digital material the idea is to organise the digital material as sets of tools ex: digitales outils - outils cybersoda - analyse, photos,resources -outils de communication - photos, analyse,resources,mode d?emploi -les metiers etc. read ... --- the room the digitales archives have changed residence: last week we moved the physical archive material from constant to their new home. they are now in a cozy room under the roof at interface 3. read ... --- A discussion with De Geuzen This discussion with De Geuzen was recorded november 23, 2003 during VJ7. de_geuzen_discussion.ogg read ... --- Selected Bibliography Aristarkhova, Irina. Virtual Chora: Welcome. http://www.aristarkhova.org. Bernadac, Marie-Laure and Hans-Ulrich Obrist, eds. Louise Bourgeois: Deconstruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998. Carnegie, Elizabeth. ?Trying to Be an Honest Woman: Making Women?s Histories?. Making Histories in Museums. Gaynor Kavanagh, ed. London: Leicester University Press, 1996. Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art and Society. Third Edition. London: Thames and [...] read ... --- (top)