osp blog - Stephanie

OSP retreat in the Netherlands

2016-04-25T11:36:00+02:00

Two days together to think about OSP in the future.

Discussion + Updating the website + Party.

Cuisinières électriques ET?OU ordinateurs

2012-02-06T01:04:00+01:00

Encore une histoire de "et-icien"/"ou-icien" et encore une nouvelle raison de faire de la cuisine dans OSP!
Bernard Vaudour -Faguet, "Histoire des cuisinières électriques et des ordinateurs"

PZI final show

2011-06-28T12:34:00+02:00

This Friday, opening of the final show of the Piet Zwart Institute Master Media and Communication: Networked Media. There, you can get this year's catalogue we were proud to design as alumnis! Flyers and catalogues made only with free software (more about the process very soon!).

Friday 1st of July
19.00 to 23.00
Roodkapje, 119-133 Meent
3011 JH Rotterdam, Netherlands

BXL -> HCMC

2011-04-02T20:29:00+02:00

After a long journey, we eventually arrived 24 hours later to Ho Chi Minh City: 17.00 here is 12.00 there. To honour the tradition, a group picture in front of our gigantic plane!

A journey to Vietnam and an open call

2011-03-01T10:09:00+01:00

At LGM 2010 in Brussels, we met Hong-Phuc Dang, a young Vietnamese woman full of energy, willing to organize events around Libre Graphics in Asia in addition to her involvement in FOSS/ASIA, a meeting around Free and Open Source Software.

We can't believe it's been almost a year of planning and that the trip is actually happening in a month!

We will be 5 to leave for this adventurous exchange in the Vietnamese region of the Mekong, making a small tour of some cities, schools, design studios, working with Asian designers on 2 projects. The first one is to draw a typeface directly from the mix of our two cultures and not from the Occidental one adapted to the Oriental one, as it is often the case. The second project, using the first one of course, will be a publication around cartography, geography, cultures and customs.

Hong-Phuc Dang and Mario Behling, the team we're joining there, are organizing an exhibition of design works done with Free, Libre and Open Source software. This is an open call, and you are more than welcome to send your proposals to them: dhppat[at]gmail.com or mb[at]mariobehling.de.

acsr

2011-02-10T17:11:00+01:00

acsr (atelier de création sonore radiophonique) website is now online!
We are celebrating tomorrow listening to 2 radiophonic pieces and sharing a meal at La CompilOthèQue, 50 quai des Péniches, Brussels.

Website and identity in collaboration with Jérôme Degive (Pica Pica) and WordPress. Featuring Univers Else!

When Free Culture infiltrates art and design fields...

2010-12-05T22:59:00+01:00

We are always thrilled when we see design projects around free culture. Lately the blog Manystuff has enlightened a lot of this kind of projects, either on/with Open Source or around free of charge culture, public domain...

Here is a summary:

Free Kevin — A Hacker screening series — Can't find the torrent link anymore...
General Public Library — http://www.artingeneral.org/exhibitions/504 and http://www.generalpubliclibrary.info/ : Nguyen invited designers, publishers, curators, artists, galleries, and musicians to contribute publications to the project that reflect the donor’s practice, methodology, inspiration and interest. Visitors are encouraged to donate a favourite book to the library during the exhibition. — Although the project shares the same acronym as GNU's General Public Licence, licenses are not the subject here. But the project has the merit to gather projects closer to this philosophy: aaaarg, Free Kevin...
Morf — A magazine for graphic design (in Dutch) — Free of charge for students, paying for non-students. Republication/translation of major articles together with new articles.
The Dor — The Dor is an ever-growing digital archive of out of print artist books. Eventually, it will culminate in an online database of hard to find artists books, which users may page through and print on demand. Currently, it finds form as a temporary office, where loaned titles are scanned, documented, and sometimes reprinted. Visitors may also contribute to this ever-growing library of titles. The project is made possible by collaborations with book collectors, artists, curators and friends.
Sexy Machinery — Architectural magazine as a way of exploring issues of copyright and ownership
Open Source Digest — Compilation of texts from the public domain. But if this digest is open source, where are the sources? ;)
A Wikipedia Reader — CC-BY-NC-SA — Artists are asked to make a parcours of reading in Wikipedia.
Free — Exhibition "explor[ing] how the internet has fundamentally changed our landscape of information and our notion of public space." A lot of material around this exhibition is available online, with long essays. Looks much more interesting than the introductory speech confusing free as in freedom and free as in free beer. Hopefully, during the exhibition, artist Steve Lambert made a speech/city-walk about the history of free culture as in freedom and/or as in free beer (punk rock culture, Free Software history...). No copyright/left mentions though, and without any notice it is "all rights reserved"...
Re-Applied Art — Workshop by Dexter Sinister asking the participants to re-use a hundred items from Dot Dot Dot magazine archive.
Agreement to Receive & Exchange this Book — An attempt at an alternative currency during an art book fair.

We can still see some confusion in some of this project about what is free or open source, but we welcome these initiatives. Hope this list will grow faster and faster!