[Scottish] Machinista 2004 festival: micro presentation at febuary meeting?

[machinista host]

Dear LUG list,

As you may or may not know, the Machinista
<arts+science> festival is coming to Glasgow on the
7-9th of may 2004.

We have 130 online projects that have been submitted
to the online gallery over the last month at:
http://www.machinista.org
submission deadlines is saturday 28th of feb. 2004
(call for entries at the end of this mail).

This year's programme will showcase several Open
Source projects and there will be  a side project
called the FOSS cafe curated by Simon Yuill.
We hope this project may be of interest to members of
the ScottishLUG with possible room for  involvement as
the project develops.

Simon Yuill is a Glasgow-based artist (currently in
working residency in Holland) who works with code. He
is interested in both the formal aesthetics of code
and its relationships to societal structures. He makes
software, organises public events engaging in these
issues and writes. He is part of the code art group
slateford.
www.spring-alpha.org
www.slateford.org
www.lipparosa.org
www.livingzeroes.org


As one of the Machinista Glasgow organisers, I would
be happy to fill you in on the project so far and. I
know it's short notice and that there is a  schedule
for tomorrow's meeting, but i was wondering if there
would be a 10 minute slot at some point in this to
introduce Machinista+ quick Q/A session. 

CAN ANYONE SUGGEST AN APPROPRIATE TIME? 

(start or end of Livingstone Tower Session ,
after-session pub meeting or next month?).
I have to add that I am a Linux novice, my practice
being mostly music/visual hardware design+performance
and event organising.
You can find links about my other projects from this
page:
http://www.expo2002.org.uk

Most info relating to Machinista can be found online.
our report on last year's first Machinista festival in
Perm (russia) can be found at:
http://www.thesoundsurgery.co.uk/pointless/machinista/page1.html


thanks a lot for your time and may be see you
tomorrow.
David Bernard.

*** START ***
FOSS Cafe

FOSS stands for Free and Open Source Software.  FOSS
Cafe will run as 
part of the MACHINISTA festival in Glasgow, 2004.  It
is intended as an 
informal meeting ground for people interested in all
aspects of FOSS, 
from dedicated Linux hackers to the curious.  It is
hoped that the cafe 
will help bring together FOSS practitioners from
across Scotland and 
the international scene.  Some guest speakers are
being invited as are 
all the artists participating in MACHINISTA.

FOSS Cafe will be the first of an ongoing series of
events called YOUR 
MACHINES which will be a series of talks and workshops
introducing 
people to the ideas and practices of FOSS.  These will
include hands-on 
workshops in FOSS audio and video tools (such as Pure
Data and the 
dynebolic broadcast system), DIY wireless networks and
PC recycling.

YOUR MACHINES events will take place in the weeks and
months following 
MACHINISTA.  They will bring some of the key
developers and 
practitioners from the field to Scotland.  They are
particularly 
intended to make FOSS available to artists, media
practitioners and 
non-profit groups but are open to everyone.

*** END ***

Apologies for cross-posting

-------------------------------------------------
Call For Entries -  DEADLINE: 28th February 2004
-------------------------------------------------
MACHINISTA 2004
Submissions for the following three themes are
welcomed in all media.

1. "Art from the Machine: gleams of the inhuman" 
Works created completely or mostly by a machine or an
artificial intelligence system.

2. "Artists Against Machinic Standards"
Breaking, destroying, hacking, unexpected
(non-utilitarian?) usage of customary programs as an
art experiment.

3. "Full-Screen Robovision" 
Moving image works (experimental/scientific imaging,
audiovisual code, short films, animation and VJ mixes)
illustrating "the world as seen by machines" 

see http://www.machinista.org for more details and how
to participate. 
(Deadline: 28th February 2004)
Machinista is a yearly unmediated open-submission
online exhibition.
Creative and technological practices including visual
and software art, science and design projects, moving
image, experimental music and performance are featured
in various scales and stages of development ranging
from documentation of prototypes and exploratory
installations to fully operational systems.

In 2003 there were 128 submissions featured in
Machinista plus offline events in Moscow and Perm in
the Urals.

MACHINISTA GLASGOW*
An offline festival each year in a different host city
showcases key entries to the online exhibition.
Participants in www.machinista.org are commissioned to
travel and present/ exhibit/install/ perform to wide
audiences.  This year, Machinista talkes place in
Glasgow, Scotland on the weekend of May 7-9 2004 with
some additional events later in the year in Perm,
Urals.

Machinista 2004
http://www.machinista.org

Machinista 2003 
htttp://www.machinista.ru  (Russian)
http://www.machinista.ru/en (English)



*Supported by the Scottish Arts Council & CCA Glasgow 
(please forward)




	
	
		
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