hi,

I'm very please to announce a call for submission to my project FLOSS IN MEDIA ART. The first stage will be a one-month workshop introducing PD and media art.

May be it doesn't mean anything for you guys since you are too far, but in case, any PD users/ developers "accidentally" do come to Hong Kong or someone interested in joining the workshop, please let me know. Here's the call

Call for Submission

FLOSS AND MEDIA ART PART I Pure Data and Media Art

15th Jun - 9th July 2005 at Gulldy, 9/F, Fu Tak House, 356-357 Hennessy Rd, Wahchai, Hong Kong by - slimboyfatboyslim (a.k.a Annie On Ni Wan)
(http://slimboyfatboyslim.org)

8 sessions (15/6/2005 - 9/7/2005, Wed 1900-2200, Sat 1400-1700) $980

2 sessions of free introductory talk + party for public 21/5/2005 (Sat) 1700 - 2000 @Gulldy 4/6/2005 (Sat) 1700 - 2000 @Gulldy

Workshops can be conducted either in Chinese or English.

ABOUT

Pure Data and Media Art (http://slimboyfatboyslim.org/floss_hk.html)

Pure Data (http://pd.iem.at), similar to max/msp, is a visual, object-oriented data-flow programming language
which can be used for a wide variety of multimedia purposes. It is an international open source project; anyone can download the software and the source code for free. It can be installed almost any existing platforms, e.g Windows, MacOSX, Linux, Irix, etc. The workshop will give an introduction into the theory and practice of pure data as well as excursions into art, design and media theory. Our course includes audio and visual development, syntax, externals + data structure, audio synthesizing + analysis, motion detection + tangible media and development of interactive installation

The workshop is for beginner. At the end of the workshop, creations of participants will be shown in a public jam session & presentation session.

WORKSHOP PARTICIPATION

The workshop is for media art theorists/ academics, artists, practitioners, students, programmer and designers interested in audiovisual tools development, theory and practise in opensource softwares and interactive installation.
Linux will be our workshop platform but NO PREKNOWLEDGE necessary.

Anyone interested in participating are asked to apply either via online submission form (http://www.slimboyfatboyslim.org/floss_hk_submission.php)
or email (gulldy@gmail.com)

FLOSS IN MEDIA ART PROJECT FLOSS IN MEDIA ART project URL (http://slimboyfatboyslim.org/floss_hk.html)

Past workshop:

JULY, 2004: Introduction to Pure Data

Upcoming workshops:

JULY, 2005 : Introduction to An Artistic Operation System AUG , 2005 : Processing and Media Art

slimboyfatboyslim http://www.slimboyfatboyslim.org