Monday 21 May 2007

still open workshops

There are some very interesting workshops coming up in September in brisbane, melbourne, and believe or not, Perth! Here's the blurb from the stillopen website:

Still Open will be as a series of free two-day workshops in Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane, each accompanied by a public evening forum. Facilitators will work with 15 artists, scientists, writers and developers in each city to introduce open source modes of thinking and resources for collaborative and distributed development; to provide hands on experience; and to initiate local networks and projects.

Still Open focuses on both the practice and theory of open source which can be applied through networked art and software development, print and online publishing, and in the scientific arena where the open science movement encourages a collaborative environment in which science can be pursued by anyone who is inspired to discover something new about the natural world.

Lab Facilitators are publisher and media artist Alessandro Ludovico (Italy) editor in chief of the online and print publication Neural; free software hacker and new media activist Andy Nicholson (Australia) who is part of the Engage Media collective; and interdisciplinary artist and researcher Beatriz da Costa (USA), who works with open science.

Workshop dates

Melbourne: 6th, 7th September 2007 at Digital Harbour
Perth: 11th, 12th September 2007 at The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex
Brisbane: 15th, 16th September 2007 at the QUT Creative Industries Precinct
Lets hope some of us NUB*s get in and can report back!

*should we be worried about this acronym? :-)

2 comments:

Cynthia said...

I just signed up for this - looks great - I'm pretty keen on exploring collaboration as open sources visa versa... may offer some interesting prospects and discoveries about creative collaborative technology based projects! They wanted a photo though..it was a choice of me with the stuffed gorillas at Leidon Natural History museum or me pointing to an imaginary body on a dissection table...hmmm why do they need a photo? *looking for an amoeba piccy*

Helen Merrick said...

I'd go for the glam one myself - tho the amoeba one does appeal... looks like the pics are for their web publicity. at least, thats what they're telling us!

p.s. you've got to do up your profile so we know who you are! well, people other than me :-)