Liberate yourself and your ‘friends’ with a web2.0 suicide!
The Web2.0 Suicide Machine lets you effectively delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your web2.0 alterego. The machine is developed in the moddr_lab at WORM (Rotterdam), and serves as a metaphor for the http://suicidemachine.org website which moddr_ hosts; the belly of the beast where the web2.0 suicide-scripts are maintained…

Our services currently run with Facebook.com, Myspace.com and LinkedIn.com; simply enter your username and password for the required service, and our machine will systematically login to your account, change your profile picture, and then one by one delete all of your friends.

For more specific information on the Web2.0 Suicide Machine please have a look at the videtour and FAQ on http://suicidemachine.org

‘unfriending’ has never been this easy,

Commit NOW!

http://suicidemachine.org
http://wormweb.nl
http://moddr.net

Making code and coding easier, Gamuza can be used like a standalone application or a platform of code to start from. Processing and PureData clients communicate with Gamuza through OSC protocol, offering different approaches and working strategies.

We’ll introduce basic concepts around CV techniques and spatial needs, moving around some artistic references, a short tutorial of the Gamuza graphical interface and some examples showing different kinds of project structures that can be built with the tool.

From this we can discuss specific project proposals that participants may have, setup a working environment on your own machines (bring yr laptop!), and exchange knowledge and ideas around these topics.

EMANUELE MAZZA

Emanuele Mazza’s is an independent researcher of LaboratoriodeLuz since 2005, he participated in the development of various interactive installation projects related with the electronic art area, like d3sombra, a personal work presented at Ars Electronica 2006.

this FOO_bar we will focus on our digital footprints in more-or-less analog soil, with a presentation of the Network Insecurity workshop by Danja Vasiliev and Julian Oliver, the final (or is it still beta?) release of our Web_2.0_SuicideMachine with Gordan Savicic, a live/compact workshop for generating VGA signals on a PIC-chip with Arjan Scherpenisse (bring yr own lo-res img’s!) and we will have a look at the Gamuza project with developer Emanuele Mazza, who will discuss the ins&outs surrounding this open-source Computer Vision application.

Furthermore a presentation by Julian Oliver on his recent work and finally a performance by Bluegrass Techno band MICRO-PHOBIC from San Antonio, Texas…

VGA-TESTER WORKSHOP
By using the very simple and cheap PIC Microchip micro-controller it’s possible to generate signals. With these signals you can display all kinds of pixel patterns on any VGA monitor or beamer. During the workshop participants will create their own “VGA test box” that will make it possible for you to do the same.

To sign up for this mini-workshop by Arjan Scherpenisse send an email to workshop@moddr.net

NETWORK[IN]SECURITY PRESENTATIE
presentation of results and occurrences from this workshop by Danja Vasiliev and Julian Oliver.

Borrowing tools and techiques from the field of network (in)security, Danja and Julian will expose the otherwise invisible layer of Wifi activity as a rich space for activism, performance, paranoia and audiovisual practice.

WEB_2.0_SUICIDEMACHINE RELEASE!
Screw your newbie friends with a collective Web2.0 suicide! We have conjured up a machine that lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 alterego. The machine is just a metaphor for the website which moddr_ is hosting; the belly of the beast where the web2.0 suicide scripts are maintained. Our services currently runs with facebook.com, myspace.com and LinkedIn.com!

Commit NOW!

COMPUTER VISION WITH GAMUZA
Gamuza is an open source tool based on OpenFrameworks, designed for prototyping and development of interactive installations using contemporary video tracking techniques.
Making code and coding easier, Gamuza can be used like a standalone application or a platform of code to start from. Processing and PureData clients communicate with Gamuza through OSC protocol, offering different approaches and working strategies.

MICRO-PHOBIC
Bluegrass Techno band from San Antonio, Texas

How?

The micro-controller will be programmed using the PIC assembly language. However, no assembly coding skills are required, as pre-programmed chips will be available, and participants can create and upload their own image / logo for their test box. Participants do need some soldering skills. The more adventurous participants can use the prepared micro-controller to hook it up to an Arduino or I2C chip, so that the VGA signal can be modified using a more powerful computer. (If you want to do this, please bring your own Arduino or I2C chip)!

ARJAN SCHERPENISSE

As a programmer and tinkerer, Arjan Scherpenisse’s work is about the exploration of
a new universe. Diving head-first into new technologies and unexplored media, he
works on the boundary between the physical and the virtual. New opportunities are
being measured and estimated, profoundly researching every possibility. Algorithms
are stumbled upon, datastructures are crashed into, concepts are wrestled with. In such
confrontations innovation meets emotion.

>> two day workshop
>> on 10 and 11th of December,
>> 15.00 till 21.00 (GMT+1)
>> participation fee: 30 euros (dinner included!)
>> (includes entry fee for the FOO_bar event on 11th! )
>>
>> Location: moddr_lab, Willem Buytewechstraat 188a, Rotterdam

The increasing dependence on wireless communication appears at odds with notions of public space: while the air we breathe is considered public,the signals passing through it are often not.

Borrowing tools and techniques from the field of network (in)security, Danja and Julian will expose the otherwise invisible layer of WiFi activity as a rich space for activism, performance, paranoia and audiovisual practice.

Over the course of the workshop participants will prototype ideas using a software toolkit given to participants. In parallel we welcome a lively discussion around the ethical and political implications of this area of study more generally.

This course is open to anyone with a healthy dose of curiosity, creativity and paranoia.

Topics covered include:

• Network packet capture, analysis, creation and manipulation.
• HTML page reconstruction from network packets: what websites are people around me viewing?
• Spoofing remote browser sessions: how can I change the text and images in other peoples browsers?
• Intercepting chat sessions: how can I change what people say to each other?
• Image and streaming media reconstruction from network packets: what video and audio are people around me downloading?
• Traffic shaping/routing: changing the shape of the network in your favour.
• A creative introduction to the GNU/Linux command line.
• Network security crash course.

The Network (In)security course is open to anyone with a healthy dose of curiosity, creativity and paranoia. No prior technical experience is required.

register for this workshop by sending a short motivation to workshop@moddr.net

http://hotglue.me
http://hotglue.org
http://hotglue.org/forum

Our upcoming HOTGLUE workshop is your best chance for a sneak preclick of our new content-manipulation-system:

• Make websites without any restrictions for layout design
• Mimic and parody websites you love or hate
• Create art online, trash all design dogmas
  

Lead by the developers of HOTGLUE, these two days will be an intense beta testing session - a collaboration between users and developers, and the first public release. You will get free hosting webspace at www.hotglue.me for your first HOTGLUE project, and will be introduced to all the details of creating your web collage.

There’s still some places left to take part in this workshop:
participation is >> 10 euro’s for both days! >>> bring your laptop!

to sign up please send a short motivation to workshop [at] moddr.net

The Tagtool crew (AU) presents “Die haarsträubenden Irrfahrten des Hilti”, which can be roughly translated as “Hilti’s Oddyssey of Oddities”, and features the fearsome space mechanic Hilti who travels the universe together with, and inside, the careless spaceship known as Captain, on his way to the mythical Planet Huntopia, home of Commissioner Hun. The world’s first improvised animated live science fiction series.
Much of the performance revolves around the use of the ‘TagTool’, a performative visual instrument used on stage and on the street. It serves as a VJ tool, a creative video game, or an intuitive way of creating animation. The system is operated collaboratively by an artist drawing the pictures and an animator adding movement to the artwork with a gamepad. On the 21st and 22nd of November the crew will lead a DIY TagTool workshop at moddr_lab.

SYNCHRONATOR is a video and audio research project by Gert-Jan Prins and Bas van Koolwijk in an attempt to use a combination of current digital and analogue means in order to make more use of the characteristic visual qualities of such techniques.
Since the early years of video art, works have been made which do not actually produce a standard TV signal waveform and therefore cannot be directly recorded. Some are based primarily upon magnetic distortion of the normal TV scan pattern, others utilise a Cathode Ray Tube as if it were an oscilloscope screen. Bas and Gert-Jan will expand on this history in an introductory presentation, leading up to an audiovisual performance using their newly released SYNCHRONATOR device.

HOTGLUE is the new project by Danja Vasiliev of our moddr_lab. It is a website to build websites. Super easy. Pure creativity will prevail again. It’s as easy as making a collage, no technical skills are required. This night you’ll get a glimpse of HOTGLUE Content Manipulation System and a chat from developer Danja Vasiliev if the internet at the Piksel Festival (NO) is okay ;)
Also there will be an introduction of the upcoming workshop on the 28th and 29th of November. For more info check the WORMagenda…

Streaming in live from Berlin, Adam Hyde will speak about the methodology FLOSS Manuals is pioneering to write a book in 2-5 days. These events are known as ‘Book Sprints’. Adam will talk about this process, and the forthcoming collaborative authoring and Book Sprint platform ‘Booki’ which is being developed by FLOSS Manuals. Adam is the Founder of FLOSS Manuals, a community whose central purpose is to write free manuals about free software. FLOSS Manuals has been operating on an entirely voluntary basis since 2007, and there are now over 1500 sign up contributors. FLOSS Manuals won the 2008 Open Source awards and was recently awarded a Honorary Mention at Ars Electronica, 2009.
Adam’s talk is also an introduction to the Ardour workshop + FLOSS Manuals booksprint which takes place at moddr_lab from Monday 23rd till Friday 27th of November.

In and around the bar area we will have a live-set by Logosamphia (Iran/NL) and an audio-visual installation by artist Jade Boyd ((AU/NO).

Hosted by: moddr_lab/WORM, FLOSS Manuals and Derek Holzer

Monday 23 November to Friday 27 November, 2009
Day session: 13:00-17:00 (GMT +1)
Evening session: 18:00-22:00 (GMT +1)
Location (physical): moddr_lab, Willem Buytewechstraat 188, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Location (online): http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Ardour/

Introduction to FLOSS Manuals by Adam Hyde

21.00, Friday 20 Nov at WORM, Achterhaven 148, Rotterdam
http://agenda.wormweb.nl/agenda.php?id=2888

Ardour is a full-featured, free and open-source hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation software suitable for professional use. New and experienced users of Ardour are invited to “learn by documenting” during this combination workshop and book sprint.

A book sprint brings together a group of writers, editors and artists to go from an outline to a published book in just five days. We will use this format to give workshop participants tasks which they will learn to complete in Ardour, and which they will then document for the Ardour FLOSS Manual. This is an exciting opportunity both to acquire new skills
as well as share them with others in the form of a book!

The workshop will be split into two sessions: an evening session focusing on learning the software and creating chapters for the FLOSS Manual, and an afternoon session focusing on editing, proofreading and correcting the workshop texts. At the end of the week, we hope to have a beginner’s manual covering these and other topics:

Introduction: What is Ardour?

Installing Jack & Qjackctl: Linux
Installing JackOSX: OSX
Installing Ardour: Linux
Installing Ardour: OSX
Installing Jamin: Linux
Installing Jamin: OSX

Getting Started: the user interface
Getting Started: using JACK to interface with the soundcard and other applications

Audio Tutorial: editing and arranging existing audio
Audio Tutorial: multitrack recording with the soundcard
Audio Tutorial: multitrack recording with other applications
Audio Tutorial: using automation
Audio Tutorial: using LADSPA and VST plugins
Audio Tutorial: mixing down tracks
Audio Tutorial: mastering with Jamin
Audio Tutorial: exporting to file and CD

Participants who would like to join us in Rotterdam should sign up via:
workshop@moddr.net

Interested remote participants should create a login on the Ardour FLOSS Manual page: http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/Ardour/ and communicate with us via the FLOSS Manuals chat interface on the website or at: irc.freenode.net #flossmanuals
during the working times listed.

Further info/references:

Ardour: http://ardour.org/
Ardour reference manual (in progress):
http://vm-nice.stackingdwarves.net:8888/ardour-en/1-ARDOUR.html
Old Ardour tutorial (cached): http://tinyurl.com/ardour-tutorial
FLOSS Manuals: http://en.flossmanuals.net/
moddr_lab: http://moddr.net/
WORM: http://wormweb.nl/
Derek Holzer: http://umatic.nl/info_derek.html

http://1010.co.uk/org/workshop.html

information excavation, digital archeology, offline privacy

CheatSheet available http://www.moddr.net/wp-content/datacarving_cheatsheet.png!

During the workshop we will explore the contents of found hard-disks (hard-disque trouvé). Using methods borrowed from computer digital forensics participants will peek into the lives of others - former owners of scavenged hardware. Hard-disks as the most intimate part of any computer system. In case of a personal computer - the most intimate part of person’s life. Deductively, we will try to discuss and recreate ‘psyche’ portraits of those strangers and restore the time-lines that otherwise would have faded away. In the times of paranoiac privacy awareness we forget that online is not the only place to loose your identity. Although more and more personal data is stored on the Internet servers it is still written to hard-disks. There were several reports about Internet server’s hard-disks ending up on flea-markets, being sold for little money.

http://www.eworldwire.com/pressreleases/16402
http://redtape.msnbc.com/2006/06/one_year_ago_ha.html
http://homepage.cc/harddisk
http://mareichelt.de/pub/notmine/sanitizing.html

By the end of the workshop all the hard-disks and/or the data will be destroyed!

Workshop prerequisites:

All participants are asked to go local flea-markets or second-hand shops to pick up few old hard-disks. You may try eBay as well. Older = better, those disks don’t need to be of large capacity, in fact 8-16 Gigabytes is the best size to be able to analyze it during one-day session. They also don’t need to have any operating system. Make sure the disks are 3.5” and have standard IDE interface, this is how it might look like:

Everybody is also expected to bring laptops (PC, Intel Macs) capable of booting from USB-sticks or CDs and equipped with USB2.0 interfaces. GNU/Linux command line knowledge will be advantageous, however it is not required.

Workshop is lead by moddr_ - Danja Vasiliev and Gordan Savicic, experimentalists and interventionists on the edge of digital life and everyday technology. http://moddr.net

Fee: 10 euros (all materials and food!)

Please email m@1010.co.uk to reserve a place (strictly limited)