French is the language spoken during the Samedies-meetings, therefore the content of this post is in French. Tx for your comprehension.
Au programme:
10:00 Accueil: koekjes, hugs & échanges matinaux...
10:30 Imagemagic: La magie continue / De magie duurt voort !
Nous donnerons un (…)
2010
- January
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Samedies #26: The magic goes on!
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Dorkbot: Softwearables
Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe will present her Softwearables trajectory during Dorkbot at iMAL. It will be a combination of softsensors, proximity and measurements.
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Linux & Audio
In this course, Lieven Moors will give an introduction to the GNU/Linux system from the viewpoint of a musician, and give an overview of some of the most influential open source projects for audio and midi.
As a musician, Lieven Moors always thought that commercial software offerings were too (…) - February
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Order now: Tracks in electr(on)ic fields
Tracks in electr(on)ic fields is a new Constant publication with texts and images documenting the 10th Verbindingen/Jonctions festival.
This publication contains contributions in English, French and Dutch and was edited by Constant featuring Clementine Delahaut, Laurence Rassel and Emma (…) -
Linux & Audio
In this course, Lieven Moors will give an introduction to the GNU/Linux system from the viewpoint of a musician, and give an overview of some of the most influential open source projects for audio and midi.
As a musician, Lieven Moors always thought that commercial software offerings were too (…) -
Remembering ...
Last year, two people who made important contributions to the project of Constant - and who, for some of us were close and important people - have passed away.
At the start of this new year, we have a special thought for Laura Couderc, who was a crucial accomplice in the development of (…) -
Linux & Audio
In this course, Lieven Moors will give an introduction to the GNU/Linux system from the viewpoint of a musician, and give an overview of some of the most influential open source projects for audio and midi.
As a musician, Lieven Moors always thought that commercial software offerings were too (…) -
Les caméras privées sont piratables
An article in La Capitale about private wireless camera’s and privacy.
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Internet vous menace
An article in le Soir on yoogle.
http://archives.lesoir.be/internet-vous-menace-une-fiche-pendant-une-semaine_t-20100222-00TG6R.html?query=yoogle&firstHit=0&by=10&sort=datedesc&when=-1&queryor=yoogle&pos=1&all=2&nav=1 -
Internet vous menace
An article in le Soir on yoogle.
http://archives.lesoir.be/internet-vous-menace-une-fiche-pendant-une-semaine_t-20100222-00TG6R.html?query=yoogle&firstHit=0&by=10&sort=datedesc&when=-1&queryor=yoogle&pos=1&all=2&nav=1 -
Fernand Baudin Prize 2009
The Constant book Tracks in elect(ron)ic fields won a Fernand Baudin Prize 2009. This exhibition in Brussels presents the bookawards and other nominations.
Opening, award ceremony of the honorary diploma’s and release of the catalogue: 25th of February 2010 at 6 pm
For it’s second edition (…) -
A society under surveillance
The great wish for the closing event of this conference was a showcase of
the Kaleidoscope project. Unfortunately the infrastructure of the
university makes it very difficult to set this up.
Therefore Constant member An Mertens will give a lecture on Kaleidoscope,
referring also to other (…) -
Poetics of Hybrid Space
Sonic Acts organises the Poetics of Space festival in Paradiso, De Balie, NIMK, Melkweg, Planetarium and STEIM in Amsterdam between 25 and 28 februari. Constant member Peter Westenberg will be talking during the panel "Poetics of hybrid Space".
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Samedies #27: Bash, Back-up ou les 2
The collective of women & free software will meet up again for a day of code, discussion, server management, exchange of ideas & experiences and writing & translating articles.
Programme :
10h : Accueil avec cramique et café
10h30 - 13h00 :
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Video surveillance walk
A walk under / about video surveillance followed by a discussion
This walk with many visuals will follow a chain of video surveillance camera’s of very different nature, ranging from shop security to baby sit and police camera’s. We’ll look at the images we capture. They will be discussed by a (…) -
Yoogle! workshop
Yoogle! is an online game allowing users to play with the parameters of the web 2.0 and to exchange roles between the different actors of its economy. At the occasion of 7/24:30! - Technologie, mon amour, organised by the Ligue des Droits de l’Homme, Michel Cleempoel will present the new version (…)
- March
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Yoogle ! cafte tout
An article in the French newspaper Liberation & ecrans.fr on Yoogle.
http://www.ecrans.fr/Yoogle-cafte-tout,9369.html
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Yoogle ! cafte tout
An article in the French newspaper Liberation & ecrans.fr on Yoogle.
http://www.ecrans.fr/Yoogle-cafte-tout,9369.html
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La condition humaine aÌ€ l’aÌ‚ge numeÌ rique.
In the framework of "The human condition in the digital age" organized by Banlieues and CFS.
Using the game Yoogle! as a starting point, we will analyze the traces we left behind while surfing and what can be done with them.
– WithMichel Cleempoel (Constantvzw), Nicolas Hanoteau (Banlieues (…) -
Radio La Cage / Berenkuil
Live street broadcast of Radio Berenkuil / Radio La Cage.
Place: Rue Van Ooststraat 52, on the pavement
A radio conversation between two groups of inhabitants around the use of language in the neighbourhood. The questions: do we speak in the same language with people we know, with friends, (…) -
Icarus film maker (or the history of a vertical movement of the sight)
Nicolas Malevé, Constant member, will take part in Icarus film maker (or the history of a vertical movement of the sight), an afternoon of reflections about the history of aerial view through art history, through the histories of thought, techniques and sciences, war imagery, cartography and of (…)
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Cinéma du Réel
Constant member Nicolas Malevé takes part in the panel discussion L’image écartelée entre mémoire collective, réappropiation et exploitation.
The panel is part of the professional day with the title: Main basse sur les archives ? taking place in the framework of the documentary festival Cinéma (…) -
Dingbats Liberation Fest III: Nancy
The Dingbats Liberation Fest adventure continues in Nancy.
Invited by the my.monkey gallery, OSP presents some of its works and will open a new workshop Dingbats Liberation Fest: into the grid.
The collaborative font project Dingbats Liberation (DLFo) proposes to redraw the Dingbats and (…) - April
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Samedies #28: Bash slash dash
The collective around the server Amaya meets up to continue explorations and exchanges in bash/mysql#free social networktools etc.
9.30h - 10h: welcome & breakfast
10h -13h: Collective presentations & work
13h - 14.50h: Open lunch - bring your food!
14.30 - 16.30h: Workgroups
16.30 (…) -
GenderArtNet’s presentation
Berlin
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OS Video meeting
A meeting open to everybody working with video, curious for free software and open source ways of creating video. This first meeting of the year will be to prepare the coming meetings, to fix some dates, to see what topics everyone finds interesting to work on, present, discuss. So we have an (…)
- May
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Objscrs online!
Object Score Notation is the software that co-performed in Kaleidoscope during VJ12, Nov 2010.
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View by Thread
View by Thread is an exhibition that looks at some of the key themes running through the practice of De Geuzen, with a.o. Femke Snelting, member of Constant.
The exhibition explores the tactics they have employed in their unique approach to multi-visual research. Among others, The Mobile (…) -
SILEX-LEX
What happens when a talented team of illustrators, graphic designers and graffiti artists starts working with Open Source softwares like Gimp, Inkscape and FontForge? What if the experimental results are printed on the press of Plus-tôt Te Laat and then handed over to students of the Ecole de (…)
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Ellentriek #9 Sensor me Sensor you
Are you currently working on an electronic tinkering project? Do you want to discover all kinds of buttons, potentiometers, infrared detectors, movement detectors, gassensors, coloursensors, pressure sensors, sonar etc? Are you curious to see how you can use these handmade - reused – new buttons (…)
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OSvideo ontmoeting
A meeting for people interested in working with video and open source tools.
Some tasks are easier done by typing commands in a terminal then by using a graphic interface software. Selecting cuts, sound replacements, working with stills ... Especially handy when there is serial repetitive work (…) -
Radio à La Cage/in de Berenkuil
The first radioshow of Radio La Cage/Radio Berenkuil will be broadcasted by Radio Panik 105.4fm on 13-5 from 7pm till 7.30pm. This show is the result of a collaboration between Feza asbl and Constant vzw.
For the occasion we warmly invite you to come and listen to the show with a glass of (…) -
DOMESTIC SCIENCE CLUB #3
Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe will present a chapter of her
Softwearables Trajectory during Gosie Vervloessem’s Domestic Science Club. She will move the focus from electricity in the body to measuring Ohm from the body. How much power do you need shake a hand? What factors are at play in (…) -
Samedies #29: Rendez-vous, socks & co
The working day of the women collective Samedies will be organised with morning sessions around Sox (soundfiles in bash) and rdvz, the free software alternative to Doodle.
After the lunch (please bring something) the group will be split up in working groups according to the needs of the (…) -
LG-school
One day before the Libre Graphics meeting starts, Constant organises LG-school, aimed at teachers and students from art- and design schools in Belgium and abroad. LG-school is an intense day around the potential and challenges of Free Software for learning, experimenting and making creative (…)
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Libre Graphics Meeting 2010
From 27-30 May, Constant and De Pianofabriek host the international Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), a yearly event where developers and users of graphics tools such as Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus and Fontforge get together to work on better software.
You are welcome for a four day event including (…) - June
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LGM 2010: The Review
From May 27-30, more than 200 developers, designers and artists gathered in De Pianofabriek (Brussels) to discuss Free, Libre and Open Source Software for creative tools. Traveling from over 45 countries, the fifth edition of the Libre Graphics Meeting was an opportunity for collaborative work (…)
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Ensuite: ABC / ACB
enSuite is a series of meetings on the imaginary practice organised by Pieter Van Bogaert. From the everyday practice of media users, to the particular practice of artists and spectators or every other practice that makes the move from images to imagination.
enSuite is guided by the book: the (…) -
Open source video meeting
A continuation of the previous session when we looked into some basic mencoder / ffmpeg commands to edit video.
Based on the work of all participants we’ll investigate what these tools can mean to a workflow. Bring your video’s !
Program:
– Look at each others work
– Select and write (…) -
Publishing in convergence
As invited guest to the Empyre mailinglist, Andrew Murphie, Mat Wall" Smith and OSP will discuss design in relation to this months’ topic Publishing In Convergence.
From the introduction by Morgan Currie:
"Despite the recent hype around ebooks, the future of publishing remains uncertain. The (…) -
Pain dans la cage/Brood in de kuil
A visit, a conversation and a multi-cultural bread tasting activity.
The vocabulary discovered during this event will be recorded and added to the Schaarbeekse Taal Dictionary.
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Samedies #30: Liberation
Yet another meeting of women & free software. On the program: 10h -11h:30 (Constant) : Sécurité de base : nouveaux mdp pour Amaya en utilisant John the Ripper, croissants, café, thé 11h:30 - 12h.30 (Constant) : Discussion avec Aileen Derieg (live sur Skype / IRC) autour son reportage de LGM (…)
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EMF Orchestra workshop
EMF Orchestra Workshop Workshop leaders: Peter Westenberg and Wendy van Wynsberghe, Constant vzw (art and media), Brussels http://constantvzw.org
Participants: 15 (maximum) Fee: 20 Euro (lunch and drinks will be provided) Location: BALTAN Laboratories Glaslaan 2, SWA-8 5616 LW Eindhoven The (…) - July
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OSP-foundry
July 1st marks the long awaited launch of OSP-foundry, a small but growing collection of Libre Fonts designed by OSP with other type collaborators. Complete typefaces, typographic thoughts, works in progress, proofs of concept: these glyphs are free to be used, studied, copied and reworked.
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Radio La Cage/Berenkuil #2: Bread
Radio-uitzending rond de woorden die werden geregistreerd tijdens het gesprek ’Brood in de kuil’ op 24 juni bij Chez Angelo in Schaarbeek.
Listen to the radio: Radio Panik: 105.4 FM or online: www.radiopanik.org
Would you like to participate, please contact Peter Westenberg 0498 493018 or (…) -
Active Archives kitchentable presentations
Short and informal presentations in the context of the Active Archives worksession. Artists, developers and others interested in (re)working audio and video archives present projects in process.
Updates on the program: http://activearchives.org
The four-day worksession (15-18 July) aims to (…) -
Hard working idlers @ Dominokingdom
Constant member An Mertens is invited by architect Miriam Rohde and performer Adva Zakai @ Dominokingdom to talk about collaborative narrative practices within Constant during a workshop on ’Real Time Composition’ with Joao Fiadeiro and others.
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OSvideo meeting
Video camera’s and still image camera’s that record video produce a range of different file types. Working with these files can be a challenge. Codecs and compressions are not always compatible with your timeline editor, many file formats are too heavy to play on your computer.
Based on files (…) - August
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Surveillance workshop
A preparatory workshop for the walk on 7 august (see link) to map surveillance camera’s in public places.
In collaboration with the Nova in the framework of the Pleinopenair festival
Participation is free,
Reservation is required.
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Surveillance camera map POA 2010
In 2010 + 2011 Denis Devos and Peter Westenberg made with Constant and La Ligue des Droits de l’homme several works around camera-surveillance.
We organised walks across the city + the law, to match the legal framework and the reality of the city. We captured videos from wireless surveillance (…) -
Video Surveillance wandeling
During our daily movements through the city, even in public transport, we are being observed by camera’s. During these walks that are a collaboration between Nova, Hacklab, League for human rights and Constant, we’ll see in how far it is childs play to gain access to camera’s placed by shop (…)
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E-Culture Fair
As part of the E-CULTURE FAIR 2010, BALTAN Laboratories is organising a
presentation of Dutch, Belgian and German media art laboratories in
Dortmund. Constant is one of the labs presented at the fair.
During the fair, in workshops and through live presentations,
international creatives (…) - September
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GML Field Recorder Challenge
Constant supports the GML Field Recorder Challenge, an initiative of Evan Roth to launch a contest for the design of an easily reproducible DIY device that can unobtrusively record graffiti motion data during a graffiti writer’s normal practice in the city.
The challenge is open to artists, (…) -
The Future of the Lab
Constant member Peter Westenberg co-wrote with Marcos García (Medialab Prado, Spain) and Catherine Lenoble (Crealab, France) a text on the future of the labs as a contribution to this collection of essays and statements that challenge and debate future strategies and forms of the laboratory (or (…)
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OS Video meeting
USB video / Video4Linux
A meeting in two parts:
We will look at individual projects that participants are currently working on + start a quick collective investigation how to work with video through USB on a Linux system. What possibilities do different USB cameras, capture devices, real time (…) -
Green expressions
In the shadow of Schaerbeek, people grow vegetables.
Green expressions is an occasion to visit this green corner and chat with fellow passionate gardeners. During the meeting, we will record words, expressions and terminology that will be added to the ’Langue Schaerbeekoise’ database. -
City Garden@Festival du Canal
Along the canalside, before and after the Kanal Labs, from sunset onwards, you’ll be able to listen to the hidden sound world of bats. Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe will use ’bat detectors’ to make these ultrasonic waves (sounds which are so high, the human ear cannot detect them) (…)
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Radio La Cage #3: Green expressions
Radio broadcast with words & sounds that were recorded in the popular gardens of Infrabel, Rue Navez-Portaels, on 12th September 2010.
Listen to the radio: Radio Panik: 105.4 FM or online: www.radiopanik.org
Would you like to participate, please contact Peter Westenberg 0498 493018 or (…) -
Eclectic Tech Carnival @ Samedies
The Brussels based collective Samedies (Women and Free Software) host their colleagues from the Eclectic Tech Festival for a weekend of workshops, presentations, discussions and more.
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Fernand Baudin Prize on tour
The Constant book Tracks in elect(ron)ic fields won a Fernand Baudin Prize in 2009. This month, the accompanying exhibition travels to Paris for the avant-première of a tour throughout France.
- October
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Open Video Conference
At the upcoming Open Video Conference, Michael Murtaugh and Peter Westenberg will present the current state of Active Archives. The presentation is part of the session "Preserving Our Audiovisual Heritage: Archives Show & Tell, on the Open Floor.
The talk includes demos of the several (…) -
Cartography as a common good
Cartography as a common good is a contribution by Rafaella Houlstan-Hasaerts (La Cambre) and Nicolas Malevé, member of Constant, to the book Human Cities, Celebrating Public Space, edited by Barbara Golicnik Marusic, et al, (Brussels: Stichting Kunstboek, Urban Planning Institute of the Republic (…)
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Safe(ty) words
Meeting, discussion & walk for women about (in)security in the public space around La Cage aux Ours/Verboeckhovenplein.
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Talkeoke European Women’s Lobby
Constant member An Mertens, will be moderating the mobile talkshow Talkaoke during the 20th anniversary of the European Women’s Lobby (EWL). Everyone is warmly invited to come & talk about your ideas, visions, accomplishments.
Founded in 1990, the European Women’s Lobby (EWL) is an NGO (…) -
OS Video meeting
Osvideo meetings are for artists and video-enthousiasts who share an interest in open source software. During this informal get together, artist Stéfan Piat will talk about the way he uses PureData for video in theater performances. PD offers many opportunities for working with real-time video. (…)
- November
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OSP/Nancy@Make Art
The theme of the 2010 edition of the Make Art festival is in-between design: rediscovering collaboration in digital art. OSP will give a presentation and will be part of the exhibition with the project Nancy and Dingbat Liberation Fest III, an installation for distributed symbol font creation.
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(a little step) Beyond prototyping
Ellentriek (Constant & Pianofabriek) meets Code, Arts & Crafts (iMAL) to propose an advanced level workshop on building Arduino-like constructions. A little step towards autonomy and sustainable prototypes.
When building a physical computing construction using a microcontroller, you (…) -
objscrs/Kaleidoscope@Make Art
Simon Yuill & Dorothé Depeauw will present the collaborative way of working of Object Score Notation in Kaleidoscope at Make Art, the international festival of free art and technologies in Poitiers with this year’s focus on «in-between design: rediscovering collaboration in digital art». (…)
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Territorial Practice
A two day workshop on F/LOSS cartographic tactics
Even if cartography is generally produced from a bird’s eye perspective, details cannot be drawn from a remote location; they must be confirmed/corrected/added on the spot. The territory must be litteraly practised by annotating and drawing. (…) -
Territorial Practice
A two day workshop on F/LOSS cartographic tactics at the Israeli Center for Digital Art in the framework of the International Conference ’Open Sources versus Military Culture?’ organised by Tsila Hassine & Shenkar Forum for Culture and Society, Jan van Eyck Academie, in collaboration with (…)
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Open Archives, Active Archives?
An evening with Ronny Heiremans & Katleen Vermeir
In dialogue with artists represented in the Argos collection, Constant interrogates the active potential of the online media archive. Mixing screenings, live-interviews and presentations, we will discuss moral and legal ownership, contracts (…) -
Samedie #31: Organisation chitchat
A meeting of the collective Women & Free Software without workshops or productive code reading, rather a discussion about future plans & organisational resets.
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pad.ma@opensourcevideo
Sanjay Bangar, Sebastian Luetgert and Jan Gerber came to visit and showed their projects pad.ma, 0xdb. With Pan.do/ra they are fusing both projects into one codebase. It will become possible to install a pandora version with the option to include features from padma and/ or 0xdb. New feautures (…)
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Saint Gilles surveillance camera’s map Plein Open Air Carto
Result ofmapping workshop
Saturday 7 August 2010 13:00-18:00
@ Plein Open Air
see article
http://constantvzw.org/site/New-translation-Video-Surveillance.html - December
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Osvideo meeting
Open Source Video meetings are loosely organised meetings for artists who are interested in open source tools for working with video.
This meeting several participants will show works made in several time-line editing softwares under Linux, such as: Cinelerra, some command line tools and (…) -
Stitching Stories
a textile sound & digital cartography, based on interviews, between testimony and fiction
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Radio La Cage #5: Arabistix II
Radio broadcast with words & sounds related to Arab languages that were recorded during the encounters of Schaarbeekse Taal/La Langue Schaerbeekoise. In collaboration with Najet Boulafdal, graduate in Arab Languages.
Listen to the radio: Radio Panik: 105.4 FM or online: www.radiopanik.org (…) -
Electromagnetickal Arts
Interference-free Foraging Mobility in Brussels on Electromagnetism, Psychogeophysics and Urban Beekeeping
Electromagnetic fields can have adverse effects on living organisms - honeybees are especially sensitive.
Although urban environments provide beneficial habitats for bee colonies, the (…) -
Open Archives, Active Archives?
An evening with Pieter Geenen
In dialogue with artists represented in the Argos collection, Constant interrogates the active potential of the online media archive. Mixing screenings, live-interviews and presentations, we will discuss moral and legal ownership, contracts and licenses, (…) -
Samedies #32: Man Special +*
The collective of Women & Free software meet for a special session around MAN + bash, how to get the best out of man; followed by a work session around VOIP & the installation of the telephony server Asterisk.
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re/touches
In the weekend of the 17th of December we will look at the act of repairing. We focus on textile and clothing, looking how something is woven, stitched together, consisting of threads and layers, and how these structures break, wear and tear with a body inside.
The Friday (…)