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The [http://dyne.org dyne.org foundation] runs free software workshops to introduce partecipants to the use of a 100% free GNU/Linux operating system for media production and artistic creativity.

Every partecipant receives a [http://dynebolic.org dyne:bolic] CD with all necessary software, free to be used and redistributed (GNU GPL license). The notions acquired will not make it necessary to buy any commercial software, the students will be free to produce and distribute their own creations without depending from the speculation of commercial companies.

There are three different workshops we run for classes of 10-20 people, each one focusing on a particular aspect of multimedia production, the language used can be english or italian.

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About the software adopted

dyne:bolic is an operating system providing several instruments for creativity with multimedia: all that is needed to produce and share audio, video and images, from recording to editing and live streaming... as well a complete software development environment. Besides the particular attention to multimedia, dyne:bolic is extremely easy to employ and use, plus it runs efficently even on less recent computers.

100% free

All components in dyne:bolic can be freely redistributed, copied and modified according to basic freedom rights for users indicated by the GNU license guidelines. This ensures students to be free to produce anything they want with what they learn, as their knowledge is openly shared and exchanged, not owned by any company that can restrict their rights to produce and redistribute creations.

In education we believe that independence from commercial influences is an important point to make it available to the most and to not endorse or promote merchantile interests within public institutions.

Since 2001 dyne.org is independently developing one of the few GNU/Linux operating systems considered 100% FREE by the Free Software Foundation itself, as they are also mirroring it on the gnu.org server, see:

• http://www.gnu.org/links/links.html#FreeGNULinuxDistributions

• ftp://ftp.gnu.org/mirrors/

quality

As a real proof of quality and artisanal passion we dedicate in developing our tools, our creation has been nominated in the top 10 open source software of 2005, when we also became part of the Linux Audio consortium of professional open source audio software.

wide adoption

Since its existance dyne:bolic GNU/Linux has been redistributed all across the world by magazines and of course being freely downloadable online, summing up to a reasonable estimation of half a million copies burned all across the globe. As of today our documentation base is rapidly growing and the community around it is fervently partecipating with experiences and ideas, while dyne:bolic comes complete with all compiler tools and documentation to be re-adapted by anyone to his or her own needs.

Academies and educational institutions

["Jaromil"] held lectures and workshops in

• Netherlands Media Art Institute - BigM, Visual Sensations (NL)

• National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad (India) http://www.nid.edu

• Sarai Medialab New Delhi (India) http://www.sarai.net/events/ip_conf/ip_conf.htm

• Museo delle Genti d'Abbruzzo (IT) http://www.illudiamoci.net

• Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (ES) http://www.cccb.org

• King's College Cambridge (UK) http://www.nomadit.co.uk/dnc

• Bergen Center for Electronic Arts (NO) http://www.bek.no

• ESC Media Labor Graz (AT) http://esc.mur.at

• DANA Centre / Science Museum London (UK) http://www.danacentre.org.uk

• Centre pour l'image Contemporaine Geneve (CH) http://www.centreimage.ch

• Jauno mediju kultūras centrs RIXC (Latvija) http://www.rixc.lv

• medien.KUNSTLABOR Kunsthaus Graz (AT) http://kunstlabor.at

• Conservatorio Musicale Boccherini Lucca (IT) http://www.boccherini.it

• institute of Digital Art and Technology Plymouth (UK) http://i-dat-fusion.plymouth.ac.uk/newsletter/nov_05.cfm

• OTOKULTIVATOR youth camp Vis (KR) http://www.otokultivator.org

• Progressive Youth Union Gaza (Palestine) http://farah.dyne.org/youthcamp

• Universita' La Sapienza (MEDI/AZIONI) Roma (IT)

• Next 5 Minutes tactical media Amsterdam (NL) http://www.next5minutes.org

• Transmediale art and digital culture Berlin (DE) http://www.transmediale.de

• Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Pecci Prato (IT)

dyne:bolic is mirrored and redistributed by

• Montevideo / Time Based Arts (NL) http://montevideo.dyne.org

• Ircam, Centre Pompidou (FR) http://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/dynebolic/

• Vienna Univ. of Technology (AT) http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/dynebolic/

• Providence Univ. Taichung (TW) ftp://ftp.cs.pu.edu.tw/Linux/dynebolic/

• Tecnhische Univ. Ilmenau (DE) ftp://ftp.tu-ilmenau.de/Mirrors/dynebolic/

• Instituto de Computação Universidade Estadual de Campinas (BR) http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/dynebolic/

• Politecnico di Torino Univ. (IT) http://linux.studenti.polito.it/download.php?version=42

Freedom of creation workshop

In the world of artistical creation, free software means freedom of expression. We will examine the various software available for recording editing and publishing of audio/video materials, drawing possible paths for the creativity of the students which can openly choose a direction within the vast choice of possibilities offered. Progressing thru the workshop each student will be encouraged to use and adapt the software that suits best to his or her own ideas and needs.

This workshop explains various techniques of multimedia production using various free and open source software, it suits well a class that is just beginning to approach the topic.

Subjects of the workshop

This workshop is available as a quick 2 hours presentation or in a longer format of 4 sessions of 2-3 hours each, or even longer.

The following topics can be explored (can be adjusted to fit particular didactic plans of tutors)

FLOSS and the GNU generation

How to fix a PC computer

• Suggestions on recycling hardware components and how to assemble a PC computer

How to make Radio

• Recording, editing and encoding of sound, interviews etc. how to broadcast voices and music on the Internet with online radio

How to make Music

• Recording, editing of audio samples, equalizing and editing on multitrack, encoding and online publishing, live instruments for mixing and realtime performance

How to make Video

• Recording, introduction to some editing applications, encoding, transcoding and online publishing, live instruments for veejaying and realtime manipulation, mathematical and algorithmical theories of video manipulation

Freej realtime vision mixer workshop

FLOSS Programming workshop

Italiano

Nel mondo della creazione artistica, software libero significa liberta' di espressione!

dyne:bolic e' un sistema operativo che mette a disposizione svariati strumenti per la creativita' multimediale: tutto quello che serve per produrre e condividere audio, video e immagini, dalla registrazione, all'editing, fino allo streaming live... e non ultimo un completo ambiente di sviluppo software. Nonostante questa inclinazione multimediale, dyne:bolic e' una distro estremamente leggera e facile da usare, capace di girare in modo dignitoso anche su computer meno recenti.

Seminario di creativita' libera

Il seminario introdurra' i partecipanti all'uso di questo sistema GNU/Linux completamente libero e che puo' essere scaricato, adoperato e copiato senza alcuna restrizione: ogni partecipante ricevera' il CD contenente tutti i software necessari, liberamente utilizzabile e redistribuibile (licenza GNU GPL).

Le nozioni acquisite nel seminario non renderanno necessario l'acquisto di alcun software commerciale, gli studenti saranno liberi di produrre le proprie creazioni senza dipendere dalla speculazione di alcuna azienda o corporazione.

Programma del seminario

Per la durata di 4 incontri di 2-3 ore ciascuno, verranno affrontati i seguenti argomenti:

• Spirito e filosofia del software libero
• Introduzione alla preparazione di un PC per la produzione audio/video
  • consigli sul riciclaggio di componenti hardware
  • assemblaggio di PC
• Fare Radio
  • Registrazione, montaggio e preparazione di materiali sonori, interviste etc.
  • Internet radio: come trasmettere voci e musica in rete
• Fare Musica
  • Registrazione
  • Editing di campioni audio
  • Equalizzazione e montaggio su multitraccia
  • Codifica e pubblicazione in rete
  • Strumenti di mixing e performance dal vivo
• Fare Video
  • Registrazione
  • Introduzione ad alcuni programmi di montaggio
  • Codifica
  • Strumenti per veejaying e performance dal vivo
  • Teoria della manipolazione video matematica ed algoritmica

Requisiti

Per la realizzazione del seminario e' necessaria un'aula corsi provvista di proiettore e postazioni PC (requisito minimo Pentium3) complete di schede sonore, cuffie e microfono. I computer devono essere collegati tra di loro in rete locale (LAN) per poter effettuare in maniera completa il seminario.

Maggiori informazioni

E' possibile scaricare e provare tutto il software impegato nel workshop con la sua documentazione e le specifiche tecniche; sono messe a disposizione anche immagini descrittive, materiali per la stampa e l'accesso ai forum di discussione della vasta comunita' di utenti dei software prodotti da dyne.org: tutto liberamente disponibile in rete (in lingua inglese) ai seguenti indirizzi:

• http://dyne.org

• http://dynebolic.org

• http://muse.dyne.org

• http://freej.dyne.org

• http://ascii.dyne.org

• http://www.linuxaudio.org

• http://www.piksel.no

Per informazioni sui costi del seminario si contatti http://dyne.org/hackers_contact.php