[spectre] Workshop Packet Forth -- 18 - 20 May

[Marieke Istha]

Workshop Packet Forth
18 - 20 May

Invited guests: Aymeric Mansoux, Tom Schouten and Marloes de Valk

This 3 day workshop is an introduction to generative visuals using the 
open source programming language Packet Forth. The workshop is aimed at 
artists and programmers interested in generative art, animation, 
audiovisual performances, and installations. No previous knowledge of 
programming is required, but a good general knowledge of computers is 
necessary. The entire workshop will be taught using the pure:dyne 
GNU/Linux distribution. If you're not familiar with GNU/Linux, this is a 
great opportunity to get started!

During the workshop we'll take you through some of the main features of 
Packet Forth. It's impossible to learn how to program in 3 days, so this 
workshop is just to get you started and get you through the first steps. 
We'll show you what is possible, and how to go about creating your own 
applications, starting at the very basis. We'll cover both drawing and 
animating, 2D and 3D, and how to link PF to other applications using 
Open Sound Control. It's a hands-on workshop which provides each 
participant with a workstation and 3 days packed with food for thought.

You'll go home with a pure:dyne live cd, containing all the software 
used in the workshop (and much much more). Go Forth! is based on 100% 
FLOSS (Free Libre Open Source Software).

Application: before April 25th (incl cv and motivation max 150 words) 
to: anouk at montevideo.nl.
Costs for three days: 150,- (studentcard or membershipcard Netherlands 
Media Art Institute 75,-).

Packet Forth
Packet Forth is an open source scripting language for artists and 
programmers interested in generative art, animation, audiovisual 
performances, installations, visualisation systems... Packet Forth is 
used for rapid prototyping, research and professional production.

Some features: fast image processing code, OpenGL bindings, can run as a 
Pure Data plugin, easily linked to other applications using OSC or 
streams, execute Unix commands from within PF, and it's easily 
extendible using a simple plugin system.

More information about Packet Forth: http://packets.goto10.org

Pure:dyne
pure:dyne has been created to provide a complete and ready made 
environment for artists and developers who are looking for a free 
operating system dedicated to real-time audio and video processing.
pure:dyne is a GNU/Linux live distribution based on the new dyne II 
core. You don't need to install anything, pure:dyne is running from the 
CD itself. It can directly boot from virtually any PC machine, or Intel 
Mac, and the optional hard-drive or USB-key installation is just a 
matter of copying one folder.
This particular live cd brings you the latest exotic 
FLOSS(Free/Libre/Open-Source Software ) such as Supercollider, Icecast, 
Csound, Packet Forth, Fluxus and much much more, including of course 
Pure Data and a great collection of essential externals and abstractions 
(PDP, PiDiP, Gem, GridFlow, RRadical, PixelTango ...).
For more information about pure:dyne: https://puredyne.goto10.org

Day 01
* Introduction to the Pure:dyne GNU/Linux distribution
* Introduction to Packet Forth, a programming language for visual artists
* The Stack is your friend
* Defining Words in (Packet)Forth
* Typos, simple 2D graphics and texturing

Day 02
* Console and scripting: interaction and automation
* 3D mode
* animation mode
* Introduction to generative art techniques

Day 03
* Using Open Sound Control (OSC) to link Pure Data and Packet Forth
* Live Interaction between Packet Forth and Pure Data with the PF external
* working on your own (audio)visual application, assisted by the 
workshop leaders

Aymeric Mansoux (FR) is an artist and co-founder of Goto10, an 
organization dedicated to set up, produce, and support FLOSS+ART. He has 
taken part in many artistic experiments based on the Internet and the 
emergence of networks. Any form of data is a new clay that can be used 
to develop autonomous artistic processes. Currently part of the Digital 
Research Unit of the University of Huddersfield, his most recent 
projects include the mysterious packets toolkit (with Tom Schouten and 
Marloes de Valk), the 0xA band (with Chun Lee), the alife art Metabiosis 
project (with Marloes de Valk), the pure:dyne GNU/Linux LiveCD(with Chun 
Lee and Antonios Galanopoulos) and an ongoing theoretical research on 
the role of authorship in digital autonomous processes.
http://320x200.goto10.org

Tom Schouten (BE) is an independent software developer, artist and 
member of digital art collective goto10. He has been working with Free 
Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) for about a decade, and this has 
warped his mind to the point of no return. In 2002 he started developing 
PDP, an image and video processing extension for Pure Data. Later he 
created Packet Forth, a scripting language for media processing to 
further explore the interface between artist and computer from a 
programming language perspective. Currently he is working on PURRR, a 
forth based interactive programming language for PIC microcontroller 
chips. He uses the tools he develops to create musical and audiovisual 
performances that investigate (semi-) generative systems. His main focus 
here is to maximize actuation without sacrificing coherence.
http://zwizwa.goto10.org

Marloes de Valk (NL) is an audiovisual artist, part of digital art 
collective goto10. She studied Sound and Image at the Royal Conservatory 
in the Hague, specializing in abstract compositional computer games, HCI 
and crashing computers. Her work consists of performances and 
installations. She builds her own digital instruments in which sound and 
image are of equal importance, created simultaneously, influencing and 
distorting each other. Currently she is collaborating with French artist 
Aymeric Mansoux on Metabiosis, a project investigating the ups and downs 
of data packets living in a world of connected ecosystems. Marloes is 
part of the Digital Research Unit at the University of Huddersfield.
http://no.systmz.goto10.org


Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst
Montevideo/Time Based Arts
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
T 020 6237101
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