- Rain pipe repairThis crushed rain pipe has been temporarily repaired using a plastic bottle.
- Smoke divideThis post is for the archive of odd regulations. The dotted line on the ceiling of café Verschueren has been put in place to indicate the separation between the smokers and no smokers side of the café. Before the law required that smokers spaces need to be closed off spaces, there was a brief period […]
- Bakken danceNew developments around the wooden boxes filled with gravel in the Haeckstraat. First the six boxes have shifted position, diminishing the space thy occupy. Next, see the picture above, one of them has disappeared. Also visible is that dragging the boxes around has worn of the marking on the street surface which indicated a no […]
- Festival Mondial des Cinémas SauvagesAPPEL A FILMS SAUVAGES ! jusqu’au 30 mars 2017 Inscriptions des films en ligne : http://www.festival-cinemas-sauvages.net/fr/formulaire/ Le Festival Mondial des Cinémas Sauvages veut montrer des films libres dans leurs manières de se fabriquer, libres dans leurs manières d’être diffusés. Pas de critères de durée, de genre, de date de réalisation, de nationalité, de support (nous […]
- Everything old is new again…HMMMM… the continuing legacy of patented video compression. But now rather than the David vs. Goliath of Theora/Xiph.org vs. MPEG LA it’s Google vs. MPEG-LA. Interesting though how this coverage in the main stream technology press doesn’t even once mention free software, nor even open source. What’s also not discussed is the relation to hardware […]
- AXIOM Beta Crowd Funding Launchhttps://www.apertus.org/axiom-beta-crowdfunding-launch AXIOM Beta: The first open digital cinema camera apertus° was started by filmmakers who were fed up with the limitations of the tools they had to work with every day. Compared to 50 years ago, cameras today are technologically far superior, but at same time a lot less accessible. AXIOM Beta intends to fix […]
- Public Domain 2019 @ NovaIn the course of 1948, the lives of the authors Sergej Eisenstein, Louis Jean Lumière, Marie-Elisabeth Belpaire, Jacques Feyder, Cissy van Marxveldt and many others came to an end. Seventy years later, in 2019, the intellectual property protection on their oeuvre expires. Finally, their works enter the Public Domain and are from now on available […]
- The Computational ScrawlThe members of Algolit are very happy to invite Allison Parrish for a workshop in the framework of the exhibition Data Workers. The evening before she will give a talk in Passa Porta. This two-part workshop examines the physical gesture and material artifacts of the act of writing, as seen through the lens of computation […]
- About automatic writing and autocomplete: the poetics of technologyWriting and reading are no longer the exclusive right of the paper. For most authors, their practice is intimately intertwined with software and a networked infrastructure. What does it mean to consciously include this technological context in the literary creation process? How does the use of code - active or passive - change the notion […]
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