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Gabriella Coleman: The Politics and Poetics of DeCSS
Witnessed during the Open Video Conference in NY, 19 june 09, The Politics and Poetics of DeCSS: Featured Talk – (5:25 PM – 5:45 PM) Here’s an audiorecording in ogg/vorbis of the firy and energising talk given by Gabriella Coleman on the moral and ethical importance of the DeCSS tool. She makes beautiful links between […]
Further reading, NewsInterview Raffaella Traniello
Raffaella Traniello is a Venice based videolover and teacher. She is an active member of the Cinelerra and Lumièra communities and worked on several handbooks that testify of her enthusiasm for working with free software. Following Q+A attempts to unfold some of her energetic activities.
Collaborative filming, Films and Projects, Further readingZimmermann + Latrive
Jeremie Zimmermann and Florent Latrive talked during the debate ‘Are we all pirates’, part of the Imaginary Property program in Cinema Nova, Brussels. “There is not a week going by without media attention for the dangers of “piracy”, which is depicted as an attack on creativity and innovation, an harassment of cultural heritage of authors […]
Copyrights and licenses, Films and Projects, NewsAnimated Route in Cinelerra
Have a look at this excellent explanation of how to achieve something so simple, yet complicated as visualising a line that moves from A to B, by our favorite Cinelerra hacker the Mule. The wackiest bit in this guide is a project in itself: how to the customise shadewipes in Cinelerra, which is well described […]
Editing software, ManualsArticle: Blender, working in 3d
Sumit Sarkar, a visual artist whose character based artwork takes the form of digital and canvas paintings, digital sculpture, and aerosol art, was invited to write Blender: working in 3d for the Digital Artists Handbook. The article offers a helping hand to anybody who would like to start working with Blender. Written by an artist […]
Editing software, Manuals, NewsArticle: Video editing with OS tools
“Video editing with open source tools”, a new article written by Valentina Messeri and Eleonora Oreggia, has been added to the Digital Artists Handbook. After a quick-step through the most common workflow (capture, edit, manipulate, export), the article ‘showcases’ quite a number of available FLOSS video softwares, mostly for time-line editing, which is quite useful […]
Editing software, Manuals, NewsJournées du libre 09
Find here a video registration of the conference ‘Free software in education’, which took place in the context of the yearly festival Journées du libre, on 9 may 2009 in the Maison des Cultures de Saint-Gilles in Brussels. In this framework, Constant invited teachers connected to various art and design schools to discuss the way […]
Copyrights and licenses, Films and Projects, SoftwarePsycho theora
Working with Ogg/theora encoded videofiles in Cinelerra does not always result in clean films, but sometimes produces errors in the coding. Based on this defect I am producing some clips that try to use the generated defects as a visual effect.
Films and Projects2008: Man with a movie camera
Image left: Vertov, image right uploaded by Jerome Ming, Hanoi Man With a Movie Camera: The Global Remake is a participatory video-work to which people around the world are invited to contribute by capturing videos that interpret the original shots of Vertov’s film Man With A Movie Camera and upload them to the website. The […]
Collaborative filming, Films and Projects, Hardware, Manuals, Media archives, NewsHarley Totally Busted
Ross Rudesch Harley contributes an article titled “From Open Circuits to Open Distribution: Can Video Artists Adopt FLOSS Strategies as their own?” to FLOSS+ART , an indispensible resource book for artists interested in Free Software, published by OpenMute and edited by Goto10 FlOSS+ART “critically reflects on the growing relationship between Free Software ideology, open content […]
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