... and for the same Cinema du Réel festival, OSP worked with Michael Murtaugh on HIC SUNT LEONES, a collective slideshow of on-line visual contributions gathered during the festival.
Javier Packer, director of the festival, describes the project as
follows: "HIC SUNT LEONES means 'Here are lions' in Latin. Romans used …
Felix Kubin writes:
"As an antidote to globalisation, Ich Bin suggest local megalomania: Mulhouse for capital! 'Avec le Gewuerz et le Schnaps.'
The record was designed by the talented Monsieur Harrisson, a French refugee now residing in Brussels (...)"
So, OSP makes an exception for Harissons' *last ever* design in proprietary …
Monday 24 March 2009
Ada Lovelace Day
"I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in
technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the
same."
http://www.promessotheque.com/AdaLovelaceDay
Friday 27 March 2009
Thank A Developer Day
"The …
(Call forwarded from Isabelle Massu)
The FLOSS+Art book is finally rolling off the print-on-demand press and in the spirit of the kinds of practices described in the book, GOTO10 distributes our 'source files' as a bittorrent: ((You can order a printed copy of the FLOSS+Art book here: http://www.metamute.org/en/shop …
"Only
rarely, if indeed ever, are a tool and an altogether original job it is
to do, invented together. Tools as symbols, however, invite their
imaginative displacements into other than their original contexts. In
their new frames of reference, that is, as new symbols in an already
established imaginative calculus …
(a postcard from Vienna)
Wishing you (OpenOffice, Ubuntu, Free Software Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Debian, Scribus, Creative Commons, One Laptop per Child, Open Clip Art, DejaVu project, Open Font Library or any other F/LOSS or Open Content project) were here, at the European Ministerial e-Inclusion Conference ...
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Ever considered applying as researcher for the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (NL)?
Extrastatecraft, a project led by Keller Easterling asks interesting questions about the relation between protocol and practice. The JvE offers great facilities (including financial support) for extra-academic research and with the appointment of Florian Schneider as …
Of course we discuss now and than amongst ourselves, whether it is better to change 'Open Source Publishing' to: 'Free Software Publishing' (FSP...), or maybe: 'Free, Libre and Open Source Publishing' (FLOSP!). Reading Rob Myers text 'Open Source Art Again' makes me bring it up here:
The name Open Source …
Out now: The Mag.net reader 3: Processual Publishing. Actual Gestures, edited by Alessandro Ludovico and Nat Muller.
From the introduction:
"a radical change is to be detected between the lines: publishing on
paper is not about rigorously selling and distributing content to a
specific target readership. It is more …
