i++ Records dreamTeam


bio osc [Grégoire Lauvin]

workshop day

Le Rhinoceros et ses instruments culinaires

belle performance de projectSinge


it's over

@ /tmp/lab, Vitry sur Seine, France - 16 to 22 june 2008

"The Road Between Us" [installation, beta version] :





"Social Bending" [conference] :




"i++ records" [performance] :

What would the Internet look like without hackers ? What would computing look like without free and open source software ? What would the culture look like with DRM and closed media channels everywhere ? Where do art and technology merge ?

Many questions will be debated during the first Hacker Space Fest from the 16th to the 22nd June 2008 near Paris, in the industrial outskirts of Vitry-sur-Seine (/tmp/lab).

I'm really happy to be in this festival about hacking. I'll participate in different ways :

• the google Earth & Flickr based project The Road Between Us
• a conference about viral art & social bending
• a performance with Gregorth for k.ROCKSHIRE
• and an other performance with I++ Records.

'hope you'll be there :) > location <

Dates : The Road Between Us (installation, du 16 au 22 juin) :: L'art viral / détournements artistiques dans le champ technosocial (conférence, mardi 17 juin à 11h) :: A Gang of Bad Dogs - k. ROCKSHIRE (performance live, vendredi 20 juin à 14h) :: i++ Records (performance live, 20 juin à 17h) :: Processing+Arduino - HyperOhm (workshop, jeudi 19 à 10h)

Manifeste d’intérêt général pour l’art et la culture
mardi 22 avril 2008

La remise en cause brutale de nombreux financements liés au soutien à la création, à la démocratisation de l’accès à la culture, à la politique de la ville, à l’éducation, l’enseignement supérieur et la formation professionnelle artistiques ou encore aux actions internationales, suscite inquiétude, indignation et colère chez tous ceux qui œuvrent au quotidien pour l’art et la culture.

Rendez-vous à cette adresse pour signer la pétition (ça va vite :)

lire la suite / read next

the reacTIvision team :
http://reactable.iua.upf.edu/?software
http://reactable.iua.upf.edu/?related

Social Fiction [crystal punk] :
http://www.socialfiction.org/n.php?nski=541&submit=send

Theoretical Playground :
http://theoreticalplayground.co.uk/index.php/2007/03/18/chessynthesis/

Nautilus.Cet & Zoom de J. Quélo :
http://www.maisonpop.net/spip.php?article741
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=181337139&blogID=395979291

xRings :
http://www.xrings.net/xrings/breve.php3?id_breve=1134

Innovation le Journal :
http://www.innovationlejournal.fr/spip.php?article2707

:: Chessynthesis & Monkey_Party
:: par Maxime Marion et Project Singe

:: du 13 mai au 30 mai 2008
:: Maison Populaire de Montreuil
:: 9 bis rue Dombasle - 93100 Montreuil
:: M° Mairie de Montreuil

Last month I've spent one week in Nancy in the Atelier de Recherche Typographique (located in my old school of art) to work with very nice people on a p2p & collaborative based project : InOut, initiated by the CiTu.



The idea is very simple : each artist or searcher present in this workshop came with an idea of an installation which needs some INs, exploits it, and then gives some OUTs (sound, video, or data). The installations are all connected together. The whole system exchanges are made in p2p, and the connections are reconfigurated when the needs change, so each work has to survive in a kind of organic system where data are like fluids.
This project isn't autistic, so there is a global monitoring system, and each piece has to offer an interface, or at less something to see.

With Emilie, we proposed a project without any interface, a kind of tempo tapper using inherent feedbacks of the system, and only visible in the other works because of the rythm of its impulsions. We'd like to create some choregraphies of connections.

It was a very nice week, as you maybe can't see with this freaky patchwork :)



It was only the first workshop ; we just started to define together all the protocols of the system. I'll tell you more about it later.
Complete information (in french) : http://in-out.citu.info/

Second Life, création virtuelle et musique automatique

Dorkbot Paris présente sa neuvième édition à La Cantine le vendredi 21 Mars 2008 à 20h30, en collaboration avec Dorkbot Second Life. Après plusieurs dorkbots plutôt tournés vers les ateliers et les bidouillages matériels, cette édition sera essentiellement dédiée à la création et au détournement de logiciels…

La Cantine :
151 rue Montmartre, dans le Passage des Panoramas, 75002 Paris
Métro Grands Boulevards
Entrée libre

Programme de ce Dorkbot : Dorkbot Second Life, Machinima et Musique expérimentale.

¤ Dorkbot Second Life et Machinima par Evo Szuyuan ;
¤ Performance par Second Front
¤ Bases du “building in Second Life” par Nicolas Barrial / Extralab
¤ I++ Records avec Maxime Marion
¤ Opendork, session libre ouverte à tous

En espérant vous voir nombreux,

Thanx to Jocelyne Quélo, Stéfane Perraud, Joëlle Bitton & David Steinberg :)

 I've just finished a first version of a new
 project realized with Emilie Brout :
 the Road Between us.
 It's a work between net-art, ready-made
 2.0, social hacking & geolocalization.

The road between us exploits the proliferation of geo-localized images on Flickr, constructing fictitious journeys from the position of these images on the world-wide territory. These routes will be integrated like real traces in the already existing multitude.
Our program allows you to choose a place on earth where you want to find a route. In this area, it selects a first shot at random. From that image, it then determines the closest photo, and draws the link that connects them. It continues like this until there are no longer pictures nearby.



You can then view the route, the photographs that make it up (one by one or in a slideshow), as well as the avatars and the names of the authors of these images.
The route is also exported to a KML file, viewable in Google Maps or Google Earth.



Once the trails recorded, we send an email to the authors of the photos, thanking them for their participation in this wonderful ride :) We send it to everyone in claiming to be the others, being as a server waiting for the results of these exchanges.
Although they've traveled into the same spaces, the authors don't know each other, and find themselves forced against their will to remember a ride they haven't done.
Faced with these routes that are as micro-narratives, we personally have a hard time imagining that they haven't been together.

The road between us can too be viewed in physical installation :



We're working right now to adapt the program into a web application, so that everyone can create its own routes. The app was built with Processing, using the proXML library. Flickr offers the use of its databases with this API.

more informations at http://theroadbetweenus.net

the Road Between Us project was published on the rhizome.org artBase :)

I just realized that I never wrote anything about k.ROCKSHIRE, and that's a shame (again). k. ROCKSHIRE is a music band created by Gregorth aka Grégoire Lauvin and myself, with a happyful and simple pop concept, that stands in three words : bending - dogs - kitchen.
We work about vegetables, electronic, low-fi toys bending and the top of hi-tech numeric sequencers. Our universe is an analogic-numerized doghouse ambiance plugged into a patatoe organ. We do it for fun, but there are a lot of great references in the art history to justify it (I'm sure).

Oops, I pointed out that I didn't post anything for three months ! Shame on me :/
There are several reasons for this : I'm not fallen into a coma, but I moved to Paris, where I started to work in the CSRCI (a kind of hypermedias lab), which has just started in the ENSAD (the oldest school of fine arts in France, like says the director).
My axis (about locative medias) was initiated by Jean-François Depelsenaire and Jean-Louis Boissier, notorious for his research into interactivity, algorithmic cinema, and a great book (the first I've read about new medias :') "La relation comme forme." For the moment, the lab is setting up ; I'll certainly speak about it later.
Otherwise, I'm also working on a project that may take some time to achieve, and which I prefer to write about later. And the RaMonSho project is almost completed :) With Emilie, we'll put images online as soon as possible. We think that we'll adapt it for Nintendo DS in the future.