Jaromil: dyne:bolic

dyne:bolic - Held by Jaromil
29th March 2006

The new 2.0 release of the free multimedia operating system dyne:bolic GNU/Linux will be presented and introduced with its functionalities for streaming and producing audio/video materials employing only open source software, for the freedom of speech.

In the panorama of existing operating systems we see that there are a great number of possibilities to listen: all kinds of "free to download" players for audio and video, but no easy way for everybody to speak out loud and spread their words.

The way communication is structured follows a hierarchy of well established powers and, worst than ever, money is the main requirement for making a voice spread and possible to be heard by others.

About the lecturer:

Jaromil the Rasta Coder is a Mediterranean GNU/Linux programmer, author and maintainer of three free software programs and operating systems: MuSE (for running a web radio), FreeJ (for veejay and realtime video manipulation), HasciiCam (ascii video streaming) and dyne:bolic the bootable CD running directly without requiring installation, a popular swiss army knife in the fields of production and broadcasting of information. All his creations are freely available online under the GNU General Public License (Free Software Foundation).

He is a featured artist in major new media art exhibitions and publications, from CODeDOC II (Whitney Museum Artport), to Read_Me 2.3 (runme.org software art) and Data Browser 02 (engineering culture). Jaromil has been artist in residence at makrolab (Venice Biennale), medien.kunstlabor and the Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst / Montevideo Time Based Arts where he is now in charge of several open source research and development projects.