Workshops

Posted by admin on March 20th, 2008 filed in art, openness

Two great looking workshops coming up:

1) A four day SuperCollider summer school will be held at the University of Westminster, Room 206 Wells Street, London W1T 3UW, Tues July 15 to Friday 18th 2008. Both beginners and more advanced students are welcome and will be catered for. The course will culminate in a public gig for participants at Public Life in Shoreditch on the Friday night. The organisers are John Eacott and Nick Collins, who will also be the main tutors.

The course is being run at minimum costs on a basis of pay-what-you-like (you pay once at the workshops). In order to avoid time wasting, a minimum of £10 is required, and a £20 course fee is suggested as a basis for students, benefits etc (pay more if you can). However, bear in mind how much other workshops of this nature tend to cost, and you‘ll get an idea of how we’re going out of the way to make this as non-commercial a venture as possible. The tutors are accepting no fee apart from travel expenses, and any excess will go to subsidising the Friday night performance opportunity, and if we go beyond that, to a dementia charity.

The maximum number of participants we can take is 30. Please email John Eacott off list in order to register (john atsymbol informal dot org). Note also that the organisers are not responsible for finding London accommodation for international participants; travel and lodging would have to be dealt with by you.

read this thread for more information and contact details.

2) pure:dyne is an essential tool created to provide a complete, custom and ready-made computer environment for media artists.

On Saturday 5th of April we have a pure:dyne workshop at Access Space. It will run from 12 noon to 5pm. The workshop is free, but spaces are limited so please contact jake {AATT} access-space {DDOTT} org to reserve a place.

This workshop introduces participants to the pure:dyne operating system, giving an overview of what it can do, and why you should use it!

Developed by GOTO10 and friends, pure:dyne is a complete GNU/Linux Operating System dedicated to live audiovisual processing and streaming, and focuses largely on Pure Data, SuperCollider, Csound, Chuck as well as live video-processing systems such as Processing, Packet Forth, openFrameworks and Fluxus.

pure:dyne also comes with a complete friendly desktop and a vast range of classic graphics software (Gimp; Inkscape, Blender…) and Music production tools (Ardour2, Hydrogen, Audacity…).

The system provides particular optimizations at the kernel and compilation level, when necessary, to take the most out of i686 machines for real-time audio and video. As a consequence, this operating system is well suited for live performances and art installations. Its live form makes it also a perfect system for workshops or installations on locked down workstations which is the case in most universities and institutions.

The tutor for the session will be one of pure:dyne’s developers Antonios Galanopoulos.