USERLAND OPENMUTE UK TOUR

 

Workshops and collaborative events in March and April

 

March and April see the final three dates of the Userland OpenMute tour, we have been touring the UK visiting media arts venues introducing people to the OpenMute web-based tools and to cutting edge free software cultural practices. If you haven’t attended one of the workshops, now is the chance and there is even more reason to visit again as with these last three events we are collaborating with some amazing diy media-makers working with free software

The Cube Cinema, Bristol - 14th & 15th March
w/ Agnese Trocchi, Candida TV

As part of a national workshop tour, Mute Magazine and the Cube co-present a 2-day introduction to free and open source software & culture.

Daily (Tuesday & Wednesday)

11:00 - 14:00 workshops: expect practical, hands-on help in building a community web project using the OpenMute toolset

16:00 - 18:00 presentations: retire to the Cube auditorium for

free, public talks presenting the history and contextualisation of free

software through practical application. 

Wednesday 15^th March

20:00 Candida TV, Agnese Trocchi will introduce the

New Global Vision Project, an online video archive for sharing video related to

the global movement against corporate capitalism

 

More info

http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cgi-bin/diary/programme.pl#2126

 

Dove Street South, Bristol BS2 8JB
Booking : cubeadmin@microplex.cubecinema.com or Bristol Ticket Shop Tel: 0870 4444 400 Web: www.bristolticketshop.co.uk

 

The Whitechapel Centre, London - 24th & 25th March
w/ Aymeric Mansoux & PURE:DYNE

As one of the final dates on the national workshop tour OpenMute will host a workshop and the UK launch for Pure:Dyne a GNU/Linux Live CD incorporating Pure:Data externals.

 

Friday 24^th March

10:00-13:00 OpenMute workshop – introduction to free and open source software and the OpenMute toolset. Registering for your free OpenMute site.

14:00-17:00 Pure:Dyne workshop – using the live CD, features, PureData and externals, docking Pure:Dyne on a hard drive or usb key.

18:00 Pure:Dyne presentation and launch with Derek Hales and Aymeric Mansoux.

 

Saturday 25^th March

10:00-17:00 OpenMute workshop – using the OpenMute tools and webspace, building your site.

19:00 Online Art Commissions and Public Library Launch Party

 

Info : Pure:Dyne https://puredyne.goto10.org/ OpenMute http://www.openmute.org/

 

Mute, Unit 9, The Whitechapel Centre, 85 Myrdle Street
London E1 1HQ
Booking : (0)20 7377 6949 / services@metamute.org

Artsway/SCAN, Sway New Forest - 3rd & 4th April
w/ Diane McCarty, ReBoot radio network

 

In collaboration with SCAN media arts network OpenMute will hold two days of workshops in the New Forest with a special presentation by Diana McCarty of Reboot Radio.

 

Daily
10-4pm OpenMute Workshops

Monday 3rd April
17:00 Presentation by Diana McCarty

ArtSway, Station Road, Sway, Hampshire, SO41 6BA
Tel: +44 (0)1590 682260 Fax: +44 (0)1590 681989
Booking : mail@artsway.org.uk

 

ABOUT OPENMUTE

 

OpenMute is an online collaborative software tool initiative, and the latest in a cadre of projects by Mute Magazine. OpenMute provides 'free as in beer' web space, tools and services to the non-profit and creative sectors.

 

The OpenMute tour is a varied set of two-day workshops with an aim to familiarise audiences, practitioners and interested parties with the current concepts and practices of Free Open Source Software (or FOSS) as well as practical hands-on help building a website or creating a community project using the OpenMute toolset.

The workshops are geared towards teaching 'you' how to use the OpenMute FLOSS software for your cultural or community needs, and these workshops are geared towards a novice to intermediate user of these systems.

 

http://www.openmute.org/