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audrey & i were practically running to keep up with aileen as she headed at high speed to one of her favourite wine-drinking places. it’s not that we were desperate for the wine (LiWoLi <\/a>had inexplicably run out of red wine after the first night) but aileen’s speed was more because the main street was clogged with dirndls, lederhosen & little wooden hutts selling beer, schnapps & leberkase – an austrian “cultural” event was in full swing, complete with music that would have gone down well in any bavarian biergarten. we nearly lost aileen when she made a sudden turn into a shopping mall (audrey & i exchanged worried glances – the bar is in a shopping mall?) but we came out the other side into a courtyard with an open-air bar where we proceeded to enjoy a very nice glass of red wine in a peaceful atmosphere; essential to do in the short break between a busy LiWoLi day & an evening of performances.<\/p>\n

i’d given my presentation, “performing open source”<\/a>, that afternoon. i wanted to talk about the artist-developer relationship in open source software projects, and my own personal transition from artist-in-need-of-a-tool to artist-collaborating-in-an-open-source-development. i talked about how the vocabulary – words like twisted, python, ant run, and so on – conjure up vivid images for me that bear little relation to their meaning in the world of programming. i talked about how i’d had to learn about tools such as sourceforge and subversion and trac, & gain an understanding of what’s involved in actually developing something like UpStage<\/a>. in order to “perform” this as part of my talk, i wanted to install & run an UpStage instance on my laptop. i’d worked with martin eisenbath<\/a> over the preceeding week to install all of the dependencies required (fink, ant, mtasc, python, swfmill, festival …. ) & finally UpStage. in the presentation, i launched a terminal window, navigated to the UpStage directory, checked that everything was there, & ran it. miraculously, it worked – apart from the voices. so i called on martin, standing by on skype & accessing my desktop through teamviewer; he suggested that i run it again, & that made the voices work. since UpStage is a server side application, the end-users don’t normally experience this side of the software, & this was the first time i’d installed & run it myself.<\/p>\n

the other presentations that afternoon were minipimer.tv<\/a> (whose workshop i’d done the day before) talking about their collective processes and methodology, & MAIS<\/a>, a collective of migrant women, presenting a self-defence IT project. after my presentation there was a short dinner break before the lecture series “plutonium striptease”<\/a>, curated by marloes de valk and exploring issues and ideas around social media, online privacy and the economy of open systems.<\/p>\n

\"Martin<\/p>\n

the red wine & conversation provided a good interlude before the evening performances, which began with martin howse<\/a> who extracted an intriguing soundscape from a table laden with old hard drives, other electrical devices, implements such as an art knife and a garden trowel, water & plaster, & other unidentified recycled objects. it was very fascinating to watch. then followed a live coding performance by claude heiland-allen, which effectively engaged the audience by including the code in the projection & incorporating humorous comments about what was happening.<\/p>\n

sleep was a little too short, then i got sidetracked by a fleamarket on the way to today’s workshop, but fortunately it started late & now i am learning about how a laser can be manipulated with sound waves to create interesting patterns. at the next table, the “LiWoLi, do you copy?”<\/a> workshop is continuing, creating wearable audio receivers from recycled materials, surrounded by soldering irons & hot glue guns & interesting electrical bits & pieces. i’m finding my attention quite split between the two workshops … i really want to have another go with a soldering iron …<\/p>\n

then there’s day three …<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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