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A re-assessment of free and open technologies for image creation: both pixel, vector and generative softwares that support the creation and manipulation of visuals. A critical reflection on current technologies as well as a brainstorm on improvements and potential connections between existing tools.

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Tools for a read-write world II

A-synchronous collaboration on what could be an image for Interactivos?'13: Tools for a Read-Write World1 And sketches are being plotted by Manufactura Independente! Featuring Pierre Huyghebaert, FS, Manufactura Independente, Dia, Inkscape and Roland [↩]

Posted on November 23, 2012 by FS Posted in Abstracting craft, Co-position, Networked graphics, Piksels and lines | Tagged Madrid, plotter, Porto, Tools for a read-write world |

Turning tools into instruments

The Piksels and Lines Orchestra (PLO) If we turned our tools into instruments, could we experience Libre Graphics as an ensemble? What would be the performative potential of lay-out and drawing, and how to listen to the sound of a pixel, or to the tune of a line? In response to these curious questions, The [...]

Posted on June 13, 2012 by FS Posted in Piksels and lines | Tagged GIMP, MyPaint, performance, playing, Scribus, sound |

LGM 2012

This year I could only make it for a few days to LGM, but I am glad I came. First of all to meet friends and colleagues, to find out how they and their projects have been. I enjoyed getting hold of a fresh issue of Libre Graphics Magazine for example; The Physical, the Digital [...]

Posted on May 9, 2012 by FS Posted in Abstracting craft, Co-position, Networked graphics, Piksels and lines, Report | Tagged conference, Vienna |

Écriture automatique

WVW is making beautiful bristlebots from paper cups, felt-pens and the kind of vibrating motors you find in mobile phones. The drawings it makes are interesting too: video | more images

Posted on November 3, 2011 by FS Posted in Abstracting craft, Piksels and lines | Tagged drawing, ecriture automatique, writing | 1 Comment |

A frog and a rooster

"A story, doubtless true in the life of such a man, tells us how Hokusai tried to paint without the use of his hands. It is said that one day, having unrolled his scroll of paper on the floor before the Shogu, he poured over it a pot of blue paint; then, dipping the claws [...]

Posted on September 22, 2011 by FS Posted in Abstracting craft, Piksels and lines, Reading | Tagged drawing, frog, hand, hands, touch, without hands |

Calligraphie lumineuse

Wanting to go see the fourth edition of Graphology in Antwerp (the show opens only next weekend), I end up at Explosition instead. The exhibition in the Museum of Ixelles is only half interesting but the catalog is nice. I also like the video registration of Human Brush, a performance by the Brussels street-drawing phenomenon [...]

Posted on August 21, 2011 by FS Posted in Piksels and lines | Tagged body, dance, digital drawing, performance | 2 Comments |

Motion from an odd angle

// // Video Streamer // // a look at motion from an odd angle // // or // // an attempt at resolving these three: // // space = view(time); // // time = change(space); // // view = space + time; // // // ---> interesting patterns emerge when looking at space and time [...]

Posted on July 27, 2011 by admin Posted in Abstracting craft, Piksels and lines | Tagged 3D, animation, hand, hello world, video, writing |

Blackboard

Posted on July 22, 2011 by admin Posted in Abstracting craft, Piksels and lines | Tagged blackboard, writing |

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