time: 7pm, Tuesday 30th November
venue: CCA, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
entrance: FREE (but ticketed)
A talk by Derek Holzer, sound artist, media activist and director for the Impulse festival, and member of the Umatic artists collective, Utrecht. Derek will provide an overview of FOSS tools available for artists, the kinds of creative possibilities they open up, how the social values of FOSS relate to artists' practice, and how FOSS is shaping the future of digital arts and new media internationally.
Derek is a sound and radio artist with a background in free radio, net.radio and streaming media technologies. He was involved with some of the first net.radio experiments in Hungary (Pararadio) and Czech Republic (Radio Jeleni). He has also worked with Re-lab, a net.radio group in Latvia who gradually shifted their focus towards broader issues of 'acoustic spaces' and networked audio communications. In August 2001, Derek participated in the Acoustic Space Lab, which brought together an international team of 30 sound artists, community radio activists, and scientists to experiment with a 32 meter antenna, recording sounds and data from planets, communication satellites and the surrounding environment. Recently, his work has focused on capturing and transforming small, unnoticed sounds from various natural and urban locations, on the electromagnetic resonances in our everyday environment, as well as the use of free software such as Linux and Pure-Data.
Derek Holzer homepage
Derek will also be presenting the PureData workshop.
See also Martin Howse's article Stay Free.
