[FM Discuss] FOO_bar >> feat. TagTool, FLOSS Manuals and Synchronator / 20 Nov / aanvang / The Netherlands

[Matthias Fritz]

Nice to get an audio stream from Berlin to aanvang!

Hope to see some Flossie´s around there.
Hit me back. Iam waiting with a beer at the bar after the show!

cheers mat,
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tagtool.org


Here is the program:

FOO_bar >> feat. TagTool, FLOSS Manuals and Synchronator

Location: WORM, Achterhaven 148, Rotterdam // 20 Nov / /
The Netherlands

5 Euro/entry

moddr_lab's 'FOO_bar' nights are a combination of presentation, 
installation and performance of digital art and music, showing current 
interests from the lab without excessive 2.0_fluff - enjoy true 
interactivity and have a drink while you’re at it…

on tonight's programme:

The Tagtool crew (AU) presents “Die haarsträubenden Irrfahrten des 
Hilti”, which can be roughly translated as “Hilti’s Oddyssey of 
Oddities”, and features the fearsome space mechanic Hilti who travels 
the universe together with, and inside, the careless spaceship known as 
Captain, on his way to the mythical Planet Huntopia, home of 
Commissioner Hun. The world’s first improvised animated live science 
fiction series.
Much of the performance revolves around the use of the 'TagTool', a 
performative visual instrument used on stage and on the street. It 
serves as a VJ tool, a creative video game, or an intuitive way of 
creating animation. The system is operated collaboratively by an artist 
drawing the pictures and an animator adding movement to the artwork with 
a gamepad. On the 21st and 22nd of November the crew will lead a DIY 
TagTool workshop at moddr_lab.


Streaming in live from Berlin, Adam Hyde will speak about the 
methodology FLOSS Manuals is pioneering to write a book in 2-5 days. 
These events are known as 'Book Sprints'. Adam will talk about this 
process, and the forthcoming collaborative authoring and Book Sprint 
platform 'Booki' which is being developed by FLOSS Manuals. Adam is the 
Founder of FLOSS Manuals, a community whose central purpose is to write 
free manuals about free software. FLOSS Manuals has been operating on an 
entirely voluntary basis since 2007, and there are now over 1500 sign up 
contributors. FLOSS Manuals won the 2008 Open Source awards and was 
recently awarded a Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica, 2009.
Adam's talk is an introduction the Ardour workshop + FLOSS Manuals 
booksprint which takes place at modd_lab from Monday 23rd till Friday 
27th of November.

In and around the bar area we will have a live-set by Logosamphia 
(Iran/NL) and an audio-visual installation by Norwegian artist Jade Boyd.


SYNCHRONATOR is a video and audio research project by Gert-Jan Prins and 
Bas van Koolwijk in an attempt to use a combination of current digital 
and analogue means in order to make more use of the characteristic 
visual qualities of such techniques.
Since the early years of video art, works have been made which do not 
actually produce a standard TV signal waveform and therefore cannot be 
directly recorded. Some are based primarily upon magnetic distortion of 
the normal TV scan pattern, others utilise a Cathode Ray Tube as if it 
were an oscilloscope screen. Bas and Gert-Jan will expand on this 
history in an introductory presentation, leading up to an audiovisual 
performance using their newly released SYNCHRONATOR device.