Might interest someone in the area. We are organizing the seventh edition of Live Performers Meeting: International encounter of *live video performers*, *visual artists *and *vj meeting*, dedicated to* **live audiovideo performances*. From *28th to 31st of May 2009*, at Brancaleone in Rome (subscriptions still open until 10th May).

The first day is dedicated to Digital Freedoms and among the other workshops and presentations (i will make a brief presentation of C::NTR::L) we have a Pd workshop hold by Husk - member of Estereotips ( http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/2009/en/artists/dett_5580.htm).

PureData for beginners (fee 40 euro - 3 hours a day / 4 days)

Workshop's aim is to give the basic knowledge about this powerful tool for interactive audio/video creation. This time we will work on video size, learning GEM library and his connection with external devices. We will work on practice examples and at the end every participants will made her/his video tool. Workshop will be a tree hours for day meeting, during LPM, with a small fee for participating. Personal notebook it's needed.

Program:

DAY 1*: Historical introduction Puredata introduction presenting some relevant project DAY 2: How to use it: basic programming concepts

From the basis: Gui and Configuration

Make Image Move: GEM library introduction DAY 3: In depth: using GEM in a interactive way Lego's game: collective building sharing data structures DAY 4: Sharing data: network communication (udp and OSC protocol) Control the data controller: how to use external devices** My first patch: every one work on her/his project

*every class session will be about 3 hours except first day (about 2 hours) **Bring with you your Ipod touch/iPhone, your NintendoDs with homework bootloader, your wiimote, your gamePad, your Arduino, or what you thik useful!

MORE INFOS: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net FIRST ARTISTS IN THE PROGRAM: http://www.liveperformersmeeting.net/2009/en/artists/

cheers