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April 14 2012
RåFILM pres: PIXELARIUM – WORKSHOP: 8-BIT POLITICAL TEXT-MODE GRAPHICS
Our friends Raquel Meyers and RåFILM is holding a awesome workshops, check below for more info:
Are certain kind of aesthetics connected to certain kinds of political issues!? Does it always have to be like that? What if you altered the aestethics connected to the issue? Could you reach new audiences with altered visual styles?
Come and create your own political graphics in 8-bit aesthetics! Learn how to perform visuals using 8-bit pixel graphics and/or text characters (letters, numbers and other symbols). No previous experience is needed.
Bring your own media to convert, it can be stills, interviews, video material and more! Create a theme that connects visual form with your political issue of choice.
Raquel Meyers and RåFILM is holding this unique workshop in Malmö 28-30 of april!
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This workshop will cover for example Ascii, Ansi, PETSCII and Teletext (“Text-TV”). The purpose of the workshop is to find new ways of expression in these unique media environments. Although often misunderstood as limiting and difficult, these tools are often quite helpful to develop new procedures, ideas and motivations. New ideas don’t require new technologies. Sometimes it’s even easier to be progressive with old tools.
RAQUEL MEYERS
The workshop will be held by Raquel Meyers who works with low-res graphics and photography for performance, web, video and installations. Since 2004 she has performed at VJ-festivals like Mapping and Cimatics, at 8bit events like Tokyo Blip Festival and the Playlist exhibition, aswell at Transmediale, LABoral and LEV Festival. She currently lives and works in Sweden.
Read and see more on: www.raquelmeyers.com // http://text-mode.tumblr.com/
RåFILM
RåFILM is a film collective that for over a decade has worked with finding new ways of connecting art and activism, doing animations, documentaries and more. Read more at; www.rafilm.se
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– 28 – 29 April – a two day workshop at Kontrapunkt in Malmö. 1-8PM
– 30 April - screening on a local wall near you! We gather at Möllevångstorget at 8PM. (If it´s raining we´ll come up with a plan B.)
- No previous experience is necessary!
- Bring a computer. We have some extra computers that people can borrow if you ask us in advance. Most of the software works in Windows, but there will be options for Mac & Linux too.
- If you have material you want to use, bring that.
- The workshop will be held in English.
- Location; Kontrapunkt Kollektiva Verkstäder, Norra Grängesbergsg. 26
- Limited amount of participants to 10 people! Please e-mail (veitch@rafilm.se) or call
(0735-538344) to Alex Veitch to book a place.
Puss och Kamp!
///RåFILM och Raquel Meyes
March 22 2012
Hackathon 2012!
Nu är det dags för det så många har frågat efter!
För ganska exakt ett år sedan var vi mer än 100 pers som under den kallaste helgen i mannaminnen spenderade 48h i en hangar i Västra Hamnen för att starta Malmös finaste Maker-space. Nu ett år senare har Fabriken levererat otaliga timmar av hackande och skapande.
Nu är det dags igen.
23-25 Mars från kl 17.00 fredag till 17.00 söndag. På lördagskvällen blir det även musik o häng på STPLN.
Varmt välkomna!
Mer info finns på Stapelbäddsparkens sidor
P.S. Av någon anledning har vi missat att nämna det här tidigare. Vi ber om ursäkt om du på grund av detta inte kan komma.
March 08 2012
March 01 2012
February 28 2012
February 25 2012
February 23 2012
Lördagsforsk aka Saturday Forsk on February 25
Another Lördagsforsk event will be held this Saturday, Feburary 25.
Theme: GSM and osmocom-bb
Place: Norra Grängesbergsgatan 26, at high noon – 12:00
Entrance fee: Free!
A presentation and workshop about the Open Source GSM baseband software osmocom-bb. With osmocom-bb you can do anything a regular GSM phone can do. The difference is that osmocom-bb is Open Source all the way into the airwaves. Using only a Motorola mobile phone, you can learn everything about GSM.
February 14 2012
February 08 2012
Science Report: Hexayurt model, osmocom cable, remote control tricks
We have been silent for a while; the winter is quite cold here. But, hey, let’s brag instead! This week’s Tuesday meeting saw diverse activity:
- Olleolleolle and Jimmy built two projects: a photo lightbox and a Hexayurt for Barbie.
- stg and Terninator opened up some old remote controls, and begun playing music with the trackball in there
- an osmocom link to be able to fill old phones with interesting firmware was built by phrst and it begun working at the “hello firmware world” level. jonas assisted with cross-compiling and general trouble-shooting.
When we were done with the photo box and the scale model, we had to store them somewhere. The photo box sits in the ceiling, on top of some well-insulated pipes. The model was dismantled, to be re-built and perhaps even painted, at a later date. Needing a Barbie to stand next to it.
In the near future, we will host a Saturday Forsk – yes, the plan is really to host one once a month. A Saturday Forsk is a prolonged slack event with a theme. The upcoming theme is “Luften är fri”. (Thanks for the name, we will only borrow it, Sparvnästet!)
Watch this space!
February 01 2012
January 24 2012
January 20 2012
January 19 2012
Vi bygger LEGO och tittar på nya lokaler
Ave nördæ!
Kommande tisdag (24/1) tänkte vi komma igång på riktigt i de nya lokaler vi fått tillgång till och inleder detta genom samkväm och hack med LEGO Mindstorms (a.k.a. “Robotlego” (’nuff said)).
Ni är varmt välkomna att komma förbi, och ta gärna med er egna saker att pilla med/fundera kring — ensamma eller med andra, man bestämmer helt själv…
Vi tänkte sätta igång kring 18:00, på hackerspacet FALKEN, som landat i
Studiefrämjandets lokaler vid Redbergsplatsen (Falkgatan 7, Göteborg). Kartan som länkats kunde inte ta emot specifika husnummer, så ni får själva leta upp sjuan. Falkgatan ligger norr om Redbergsplatsen. Se det som ett litet pussel! 
Ses där!
January 14 2012
January 10 2012
Sci-rep for past Thursday
The past Thursday looked something like this, in Swedish, reported by Olle:
Dundrande syntar och fabriksoväsen samt en pajad lösenordsfil hindrade lite, men jag fick visat programmet Animata för salkinitzor och linde. S jobbar Max/MSP, och det lirar med Animata, som låter en göra sprattelgubbeanimation.
NoSubstitute förklarade CACert jättebra för alla, han var en duktig assurer.
Quinn byggde en fin pappershållare till sin käresta på lasern. Inspirerade mig till att skära ut en bokstav som kan backlightas.
Terninator routade kretskort.
stg Flashhackade med libraryt Starling.
jonasb androidpratade med RoboCortex.
virtuald kom med en kamrat som jag missade att prata med.
Det kom ännu en person till som stg introducerade stället för. Tack stg för allt sånt.
Annika kom vidare med tillverkningen av sin trehjuliga hoj.
Tantverket fick fart på sin mattvävstol. Den behöver förstärkas med ett stag på något sätt för ökad hastighet.
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