tag: Workshop

This workshop will demonstrate the power and ease of use of Textpattern, a free and open-source content management system that is highly flexible and versatile, which makes it suitable for all kinds of websites, even weblogs. The demonstration will take you step-by-step through the installation, customisation and more advanced features of this web application, enabling you to effortlessly create dynamic websites that are easily updatable, standards-compliant, RSS-able and even multi-lingual. No prior HTML/CSS skills are necessary but a basic understanding of web-design/publishing concepts would be beneficial to follow the workshop.

Take the next step towards creating that hit app as we look at iPhone-specific functionality, location-based services, tilt mechanisms and networking, as an extension of the Pong app from Workshop Day 1. The workshop will include a review of what is currently out there and discussion of how existing apps work and the capabilities they use.

This workshop is for people with some experience of the Arduino system.
It is NOT suitable for complete beginners. It will show you how you can
use RFID (radio frequency identification) technology (contactless
smartcards like the Oystercard) with the Arduino system. It will also
show you how to get the Arduino to communicate with software such as
Processing running on a laptop. You must bring your own laptop (Windows,
Mac or Linux) and attend at least the morning session.

The workshop will provide an introduction to all things video in Flash.
You will be looking at converting a video file of your choice into a Flash FLV file for delivery for the web touching upon different formats and encoding set ups. This will involve the use of default Flash components for a quick set up as well as an introduction to Object Oriented Programming and alternative working environments to Adobe for more complex deliveries such as custom built players and handling of interactive features using cue points.

Bring along a laptop with Flash CS4 installed (you can get a trial version at Adobe) and a video file of your choice, ideally quicktime.

11.00 - 1.00 Introduction to SDK and the development process
Introduction into Objective C
Result: Small Application i.e. Hello World, simple display of
graphics

1.30 - 4.30 Depending on what has been covered in the morning session, the afternoon session will look at a more complex application. i.e. Pong to guide through the different aspects of graphics, sound, user interaction.

*NB In order to attend this workshop you should have knowledge of object-oriented programming, ideally C, C++, Objective C or Java.

Arduino.
This workshop is for complete beginners to the Arduino, a
microcontroller system aimed at artists and designers (www.arduino.cc).
It will get you up and running with the system and introduce some of the
things you can do with it in the field of Physical Computing (sensing
and controlling the physical world with computers). You must bring your
own laptop (Windows, Mac or Linux) and attend at least the morning session.

Processing is an open source programming language and development platform. It can be downloaded for free at the processing.org website.

By simplifying the syntax and compilation process of the programming language Java whilst simultaneously extending its visual capabilities, Processing makes computer programming more accessible for people with little previous experience, especially those "visually minded".

It is being utilised by a large and lively community composed of students, artists, musicians, architects, designers and researchers.

Another workshop held by David Muth in TAKEAWAY Festival: Creative Computing

The creative computing workshop introduces the visual programming language PD, a highly modular open source development environment. It has a long tradition of being used by composers, performers, researchers and artists interested in creating interactive software. PD offers a very playful approach to modifying an existing program, as it blurs the distinction between authoring, compiling and testing. Its particular strength, apart from its appeal to people without any knowledge of scripting languages, lies in sound and imagery.

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.

Mute is a magazine and open contributions website dealing with 'Culture and politics after the Net'. Having started as The Art and Technology Newspaper in 1994, our present strapline is intended to question the way in which the network paradigm come to be embedded in culture, politics and the economy. Mute's engagement with the Net extends to DiY software tools and services, which it distributes and sells at Openmute.org. In this workshop Mute show how to use it's OPenMute platform and become a self-publisher with Print-on-Demand.