[CREATE] [Fwd: LG-school // Wednesday 26 May @ De Pianofabriek]

[Hin-Tak Leung]

--- On Tue, 18/5/10, Femke Snelting <snelting at collectifs.net> wrote:

> The day before LGM starts, Constant
> hosts a small group of interested teachers and students @ De
> Pianofabriek. If you happen to be already in Brussels ...
> you are welcome to drop by and assist in one of the
> workshops or participate in the discussion that starts at
> 17:00.

Sounds interesting - If I had known ealier, I'd probably have planned my travel to arrive a day earlier. Possibly see you some what in the middle of the afternoon.

Hin-Tak

> -------
> 
> A day before the yearly international Libre Graphics
> Meeting [1] starts,
> art/design students and their teachers are welcome to join
> LG-school for
> an intense day. LG-school looks at the potential and
> challenges of Free
> Software for teaching, learning, experimenting and making
> creative work.
> 
> The day starts off with an introduction on why Free
> Software could be
> interesting for designers and artists, followed by hands-on
> parallel
> sessions. The day ends with a plenary discussion moderated
> by Pierre
> Huyghebaert and Femke Snelting. We'll share experiences
> with each other
> and with Free Software developers already arriving in
> Brussels for the
> Libre Graphics Meeting.
> 
> At LG-school we will speak mainly English and some French
> and Dutch; the
> discussion has simultaneous translation in French.
> 
> For participants there are computers available with Linux
> installed, but
> please bring your laptop if you can. If you plan to
> participate in the
> LUST workshop, try to come with Processing installed [2].
> 
> Looking forward to meet you at De Pianofabriek next week!
> 
> 
> Femke Snelting
> 
> 
> SCHEDULE
> 
> 11:00 Introduction
> 11:30 Presentations
> 12:30 -- lunch
> 13:30 Parallel workshops
> 16:30 -- break
> 17:00 Discussion
> 18:30 -- end
> 
> WORKSHOPS
> 
> *Akkana Peck* [US] is a Linux software developer and writer
> who has
> worked on projects that include web browsers, HTML editors,
> system
> software, email programs, scientific visualization and, of
> course, GIMP.
> She is also the author of Beginning GIMP: From Novice to
> Professional
> http://shallowsky.com/ http://gimpbook.com
> 
> Workshop: GIMP and GIMP Scripting: an introduction to the
> GNU Image
> Manipulation Program, what it can do, and how to extend it
> by writing
> custom scripts and plug-ins.
> http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Writing_GIMP_scripts_and_plug-ins
> 
> ----
> 
> *ginger coons* [CA]
> ginger coons is a designer, artist, pseudo-academic,
> occasional writer
> and all-round renaissance woman. Her work specializes in
> topics of
> intellectual property, civil liberties and truth in
> production. This
> applies just as much to her writing as to her visual
> practice. As a
> research mercenary, she has examined the implications of
> e-readers on
> the environment, dynamic typography and geosocial
> networking, among
> others. She blogs regularly on the above topics and with
> illustrations
> at adaptstudio.ca/blog.
> 
> Workshop: Digital illustration, lazy tactics and the public
> domain.
> 
> ----
> 
> *LUST (Daniel Powers) [NL]
> LUST is a studio for graphic and interactive design based
> in The Hague
> (Den Haag), Netherlands. Their design philosophy revolves
> around
> Process-based and Generative-based Design. Interested in
> exploring new
> pathways for design at the precarious edge where new media
> and
> information technologies, architecture and urban planning
> and graphic
> design overlap. Topics include: graphic design, typography,
> abstract
> cartography, mapping, architecture, urban media
> installations, archiving
> data-visualizations, random mistake-ism, fonts, type
> design, new media
> interactive webdesign, internet art, big bang chaos.
> http://lust.nl
> 
> Workshop: an introduction to free software/building your
> own tools, The
> workshop which will focus primarily on processing.
> 
> ----
> 
> *OSP (ALexandre Leray, Ludivine Loiseau, Stephanie
> Vilayphiou e.a.)* [BE]
> OSP is a graphic design agency using only Free and Open
> Source Software.
> Closely affiliated with the Brussels based digital culture
> foundation
> Constant, OSP aims to test the possibilities and realities
> of doing
> graphic design using an expanding range of tools. OSP is
> serious about
> testing the possibilities and limitations of F/LOSS in a
> professional
> design environment, without expecting to find (or offer!)
> the same
> experience as the ones they are used to. Actually, they are
> interested
> in experimenting with everything that shows up in the
> cracks.
> http://ospublish.constantvzw.org
> 
> Workshop: please computer | make me design. A workshop on
> fun poster
> generation, using simple command-lines (especially GNU
> textutils tools).
> 
> ----
> 
> Address: De Pianofabriek, Fortstraat 35, Brussels (at 10
> mins. from
> Brussels South Station)
> 
> ----
> 
> [1] http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org
> [2] http://processing.org/download
> 
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