OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE and DESIGN ALLIANCE

USE, MAKE, LEARN, SELL, CHANGE, COPY, MANUFACTURE, MASS PRODUCE, IMPROVE, DOWNGRADE, UPGRADE, REDISTRIBUTE, DO ABSOLUTELY WHATEVER YOU WANT

OHANDA is an initiative to foster sustainable sharing of open hardware and design. The proposed solution with it is a label in the sense of a non-registered trademark. The label will connect the 4 FREEDOMS with any kind of physical device through OHANDA and make the openness visible to everyone.

*/ Freedom 0: The freedom to use the device for any purpose

*/ Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the device works and change it to make it do what you wish. Access to the complete design is precondition to this.

*/ Freedom 2: Redistribute the device and/or design (remanufacture).

*/ Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the device and/or design, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits. Access to the complete design is precondition to this.

OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE and DESIGN ALLIANCE

USE, MAKE, LEARN, SELL, CHANGE, COPY, MANUFACTURE, MASS PRODUCE, IMPROVE, DOWNGRADE, UPGRADE, REDISTRIBUTE, DO ABSOLUTELY WHATEVER YOU WANT

OHANDA is an initiative to foster sustainable sharing of open hardware and design. The proposed solution with it is a label in the sense of a non-registered trademark. The label will connect the 4 FREEDOMS with any kind of physical device through OHANDA and make the openness visible to everyone.

*/ Freedom 0: The freedom to use the device for any purpose

*/ Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the device works and change it to make it do what you wish. Access to the complete design is precondition to this.

*/ Freedom 2: Redistribute the device and/or design (remanufacture).

*/ Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the device and/or design, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits. Access to the complete design is precondition to this.

LIVE PERFORMERS MEETING 2012 // CALL FOR WORKS IS NOW OPEN

LPM will take place from 31st May to 3rd June 2012 at MACRO TESTACCIO,Contemporary Art Museum in Rome, and from today THE CALL FOR WORKS IS OPEN! The registration form is available only on-line and the subscriptions will be accepted until the 12nd March 2012.

The venue of LPM 2012 ROME is the MACRO - Rome Contemporary Art Museum, a location that perfectly fit the needs of the Meeting, but also informs the event with a prestigious ‘touch’, both at national and international level.

LPM mantains the 4 days formula and, as usual, proposes a spectacular, innovative and engaging programme, and you too will have the chance to make our edition unique: send us your best project or performance, and come join the biggest live video event worldwide!

And you, VJ! If you think to have talent enough to compete in the VJ Contest, subscribe and show us what you can do! If you wish to participate to the Meeting, but you don’t want to perform, subscribe anyway as you will have the incredible opportunity to meet hundreds of live video artists, experts and practitioners, so to further your knowledge of the hottest topics related to live video performance.

The aim of LPM is to promote and diffuse the free circulation of ideas, knowledge, techniques and languages related to LIVE VIDEO practice, which will be the main focus of the Meeting. Languages, techniques, cultural derives, innovative technologies: these are the themes that we want to discuss during our seminars and workshops.

Send your proposal for a talk, a presentation or a workshop and help spreading knowledge!

Visit the official website & stay always up to date with the latest news!

Follow LPM on Twitter: twitter.com/liveperformers

Or, if you are a Facebook addicted: http://www.facebook.com/LPM.LivePerformersMeeting

LPM is produced and organized by Flyer Communication, with the support of the European Commission Culture Program.

ATHENS VIDEO ART FESTIVAL INTRODUCES LIVE PERFORMERS MEETING // 2012 PREVIEW

Athens Video Art Festival consists of a living cell of the community by which it gets daily inspired and within which it quickens. By developing a wide network of collaborations with relevant international organizations and with the aim of continuous expansion of its fields of interest, it overcomes any geographical or other limitation.

In the context of exploring diverse «meeting points» between arts and technology, the year 2011 was the starting point of its relationship with the Italian organization of Live Performers Meeting (LPM). During 2012 it introduces the festival to Greece by hosting a series of activities in conjunction, under the support of the European Commission Culture Program.

Occasioned by the announcement of the official call for entries of the eleventh edition of the Italian festival that is scheduled to take place in May 2012 in the Museum of Modern Art in Rome, the Athenian public will have the opportunity to view a comprehensive showcase of the history as well as the potentials of Live Performers Meeting (LPM).

The event is planned to include workshops, audiovisual performances, DJ sets, products/projects presentations on the 18th and 19th of February at the venue of Tora K44 (Konstantinoupoleos 44, Gazi).

Collaboration between: Multitrab Productions & Flyer communication

With the support of: European Commission Culture Program

VJ TORNA: THE ANNUAL VEEJAYING APPOINTMENT RETURNS! DON’T MISS IT!

VJ Torna is world touring VJ contest which offers an inspiring and entertaining experience both for visual pros and both for the general audiences. The first competition was organized in 2004 in Budapest, Hungary with the aim of gathering and stimulating video artists from the local and from the international VJ scene.

The success of the event has been confirmed by the recent collaborations born worldwide: in the past twelve moths, VJ Torna went to Sao Paulo (Brasil), Budapest (Hungary) and Rome (Italy). In the next twelve it is planned to land in Berlin, Barcelona (Spain), Lisbon (Portugal), Bogotá (Colombia), Sao Paulo (Brasil) again and hopefully in Mexico City (Mexico).

After fulfilling a super-sized compo in Rome, the year 2012 still hasn’t come to an end as we’ll step on land of German in October to do our favorite thing in Berlin and November Mexico City. We carry on with the fruitful co-operation between Live Performers Meeting and VJ Torna to evolve to something bigger. Again, we’ll be having fierce duels for three days between VJs coming from distant countries, and besides our part of the show, there’s the ever morphing, organically hiving Italian live video meeting to give the frames.

The Vj Torna International has a new category in 2012. After the champion, battle and online categories, we have now the BEST LIVE MAPPER category.

There are 1 home-production and 2 live tournament categories you can choose to enter. In the live mapping category we’re looking for applications from those who would like to make out- or indoor show.

The jury is a sworn body of people convened to render an impartial judgment on the performance of each competitor. They are 3 to 5 industry professional and visual aesthetics masters originating both from the host country and from other parts of the world.

For more information about the concept and rules of VJ Torna, please visit our website at www.vjtorna.org

More info on the categories:

VJ Torna: Championship

VJ Torna: Battle VJ Torna:

Pre-Production

VJ Torna: Live-Mapping(rules coming soon)

PARTICIPATE NOW

NEW CODES */ AVAF 2012

Athens Video Art Festival (AVAF) is an annual digital arts and new media festival taking place in Greece, mainly Athens. Being part of an international art network, it reflects a wide range of ideas and developments in the art world.

It aims at bringing together experimental projects of contemporary artists and at promoting free expression, exchange of ideas, and creative interaction while exhibiting new media and new technologies application in arts.

Through a variety of creative forms, it presents alternative ways of “viewing” urban landscape and of perceiving art, and new codes of interaction between art and contemporary societies.

2012 EDITION

In a spirit of renewal and reorganization that is dictated by the new social conditions of our time and the consequently changing social role of new media, AVAF renews its program based on the concept of new codes, while retaining an important number of its structural components.

By helping create new perspectives in digital arts’ presentation and their perception by society, this new code constitutes a powerful tool for redefining AVAF in its entirety.

NEW CODES

The units forming a whole create, by the use of symbols, codes and languages, in order to perceive, understand, and communicate with each other. A whole, a code, a language or communication in general must begin with the formation of a sequence of cohesive meaning.

The innate need of human beings, as units forming a whole, to express themselves leads them to discover a code, whose starting point is their perceptive ability. Every code as an active structure, a communication system, influences the social structure, while the transient nature of society causes the continuous development of new codes and the redefinition of existing ones.

The artistic medium is condusive to the development of the code: through creative dialogue it enriches the sensory experience of the viewer. The recorded material resulting from the artistic activation of space and/or appropriation of the body is filtered and forms a new language, new communication potential. The exploration of the new communication code then brings together, in an original way, artist and viewer, and forges a two-way relation between them, as demanded by the times.

Athens Video Art Festival is a living organism created and developed within the contemporary art and society environment to address a wide range of artistic and social issues. It aims at contributing to the strengthening of the ties between audience and artists, on the foundation of a multipurpose program seeking to enhance artistic and social awareness and understanding.

The New Codes concept establishes an alternative view of digital arts history and of their relation to an ever changing everyday life, thus reintroducing AVAF.