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October 2010

a poetic and political necessity

October 29th, 2010 · Tags: · · · · · 1 Comment

Next week another delegation of OSP travels to Tel Aviv to present at the conference Open Code Versus Military Culture? Aspects in Israel Digital Culture organised by the Shenkar College for Engineering and Design. Following the talk, there will be a worksession at the Israeli Center for Digital Art. From the conference description: “The interest […]

./configure && make art

October 26th, 2010 · · Comments Off on ./configure && make art

The 2010 edition of the Make Art festival will take place at Maison de l’Architecture in Poitiers, France, from the 4th to 7th of November. This year theme is in-between design: rediscovering collaboration in digital art. OSP will give a small lecture and be part of the exhibition with the project Nancy, an installation for […]

Open Sauces

October 25th, 2010 · Tags: · · · · Comments Off on Open Sauces

Just out: The fOam Open Sauces book + insert! The book contains essays, recipes and images documenting Open Sauces: “a sequence of experimental courses, matched with drinks, improvised music and esteemed guests. While savouring the foods, the guests will be engaged in table conversations, sharing experiences, recipes and ingredients needed to demystify cultural, environmental, technical […]

diff git imagemagick

October 19th, 2010 · Tags: · 1 Comment

From wikipedia: In computing, diff is a file comparison utility that outputs the differences between two files. We have been playing with git. There’s more coming! For now, this quick prototype (30M) illustrates some ideas about diff, and images files. It will hopefully be improved in the future 🙂 In the context of a configuration […]

Impossible choice

October 10th, 2010 · Tags: · · · 1 Comment

Packt-publishing, big on books about Open Source, now wants us to ‘Vote for our favorite Open Source Graphics Software to win‘. It is a clever campaign I guess: data about popular applications should be useful in deciding what books will sell. Packt gives away one proprietary e-reader to a random voter and I only hope […]

OSP-summit

October 10th, 2010 · Tags: · · Comments Off on OSP-summit

Last Thursday and Friday OSP gathered in Heure-en-Famenne to discuss future plans and current projects. After almost 5 years of work we wanted to take a bit of time to look back and forward. We made several resolutions and decisions. Some will be already visible in the coming weeks now, others only in the years […]

This Fall

October 3rd, 2010 · Tags: · · · 1 Comment

This fall @ OSP: Prix Fernand Baudin Prijs Tournée française (Paris, Valence, Nancy, Besançon et Amiens 30/09/2010 → 30/01/2011) Teaching Images numériques – Open source – Chaîne (typo)-graphique ouverte at ERG Submitted proposal to the The Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) to fund a Libre Graphics Research Unit Thinking about The Praise of […]