[spectre] Heather Corcoran & Aymeric Mansoux interviewed on Netbehaviour about pure:dyne.

[marc garrett]

Heather Corcoran & Aymeric Mansoux interviewed on Netbehaviour about
pure:dyne.


The interview will commence on Thursday 16th Oct till 23rd Oct 08.

Marc Garrett will be discussing with Heather Corcoran and Aymeric
Mansoux about the pure:dyne project on the www.netbehaviour.org email
list. To take part subscribe to the list.

ABOUT PURE:DYNE:

pure:dyne is an operating system developed to provide media artists with
a complete set of tools for realtime audio and video processing.
pure:dyne is a live distribution, you don't need to install anything.
Simply boot your computer using the live CD and you're ready to start
using software such as Pure Data, Supercollider, Icecast, Csound,
Fluxus, Processing, and much much more.

http://code.goto10.org/projects/puredyne/

pure:dyne will work on any PC laptop, desktop, and single-board
computers, including the intel-based Mac, Asus' Eee PC, and any x86
netbooks.

pure:dyne is based on Debian and Debian Multimedia. All packages
provided by pure:dyne can be used if you are running these flavours of
GNU/Linux.

pure:dyne is: Rob Canning, Heather Corcoran, Antonios Galanopoulos,
Karsten Gebbert, Claude Heiland-Allen, Chun Lee, Aymeric Mansoux,
Marloes de Valk

WHO USES PURE:DYNE?

pure:dyne is developed by artists, for artists. Our primary users are
people like us – media artists who build all kinds of creative
projects, using pure:dyne to do anything from recording and
manipulating sound, making live visuals, creating interactive media in
installations, and more. We use ‘artist’ as a broad term for anyone
who is doing or wants to do something creative using their computer.

pure:dyne is also used by media art organisations across the world.
Galleries, production centres, school departments and more are finding
pure:dyne useful for teaching media art skills to their local communities.

ABOUT HEATHER CORCORAN:

Heather Corcoran (CA/UK) is a curator/producer with a specialist in
media art and music, currently working as Curator at FACT (Foundation
for Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool. Recently she has worked
at Space Media Arts in London and InterAccess Electronic Media Arts in
Toronto, as well as producing a number of freelance projects. She works
hands on with technology and technology communities - currently a
Developer of the free software project pure:dyne, the GNU/Linux
distribution for media art; co-organizer of Dorkbot London; and a
lurking-only member of OpenLab. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in
New Media at Ryerson University in Toronto.

http://guests.goto10.org/~heather/

ABOUT AYMERIC MANSOUX:

Aymeric Mansoux (FR) is an artist and musician, member of the GOTO10
collective (http://goto10.org). His main artistic and research interests
revolve around online communities, software as a medium and the
influence of FLOSS in the development and understanding of digital art.
His most recent projects and collaborations include 0xA the file
repository based music project with Chun Lee
(https://code.goto10.org/hg/0xa/), the digital artlife Metabiosis
project with Marloes de Valk (http://metabiosis.goto10.org) and the
pure:dyne GNU/Linux live distribution for media artists
(http://puredyne.goto10.org). Aymeric is editor of the FLOSS+Art book
(OpenMute 2008) as well as Folly’s Digital Artists’ Handbook
(http://digitalartistshandbook.org/) which was launched early 2008.

http://320x200.goto10.org/