[LAA] FLOSS+Art: Book preview, panel discussion and software party

Oi! Sorry for >< please >> -- FLOSS+Art: Book preview, panel discussion and software party Thursday 23 October 18:30 - 20:30 @ Mute Magazine HQ The Whitechapel Centre 85 Myrdle Street London E1 1HL With Adnan Hadzi, Anthony Iles, Aymeric Mansoux, Dave Griffiths, James Wallbank, Matthew Fuller, Olga Goriunova, pure:dyne developers, Taylor Nuttall, and more friends... -- GOTO10 and pure:dyne host an evening dedicated to Free Software and art... * BOOK PREVIEW: Be the first to check out FLOSS+Art, a new openmute publication reflecting on the growing relationship between Free Software ideology, open content and digital art. Edited by Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk. * PANEL DISCUSSION: Anthony Iles moderates a panel discussion on communities of collaboration, online and off, with book contributors Matthew Fuller, Olga Goriunova, Aymeric Mansoux; and artist/activist Stefan Szczelkun. * SOFTWARE PARTY: Check out the new Debian-based pure:dyne system - the GNU/Linux distribution for media arts. Meet the developers and hear about pure:dyne projects by our friends at Folly (Taylor Nuttall), Access Space (James Wallbank), HTTP/Furtherfield (Marc Garret & Ruth Catlow), Dave Griffiths and Adnan Hadzi. * PLUS: pure:dyne promo goodies, Free Beer and more! More info at: http://www.goto10.org http://puredyne.goto10.org Live interview 16 - 23 October on Netbehaviour: http://www.netbehaviour.org/ -- ABOUT THE BOOK: FLOSS+Art critically reflects on the growing relationship between Free Software ideology, open content and digital art. It provides a view onto the social, political and economic myths and realities linked to this phenomenon. With contributions from: Fabianne Balvedi, Florian Cramer, Sher Doruff, Nancy Mauro Flude, Olga Goriunova, Dave Griffiths, Ross Harley, Martin Howse, Shahee Ilyas, Ricardo Lafuente, Ivan Monroy Lopez, Thor Magnusson, Alex McLean, Rob Myers, Alejandra Maria Perez Nuñez, Eleonora Oreggia, oRx-qX, Julien Ottavi, Michael van Schaik, Femke Snelting, Pedro Soler, Hans Christoph Steiner, Prodromos Tsiavos, Simon Yuill Compiled and edited by Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk. With the support of the University of Huddersfield and the Willem de Kooning Academie. http://goto10.org/flossart -- ABOUT THE SOFTWARE: pure:dyne is an essential tool created to provide a complete, Free/Libre/open source (FLOSS) custom and ready-made GNU/Linux computer environment for media artists. The pure:dyne CD can be inserted and run on a computer without the need to install anything, with an aim to make it simple to use on many types of hardware. It contains FLOSS programs for recording and manipulating sound, making live visuals and creating interactive media in installation, and more. Powered by the Debian-Live project. This event is part of the pure:dyne for everyone project, a national series designed to make pure:dyne more accessible through special events with partnering media arts centres across the country. Supported by the Creative Partnerships programme of Arts Council England. -- :*