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Onderwerp: Re: [dyne:bolic] [Fwd] [Bricolabs] BIOS
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:18 AM, jaromil <jaromil@???> wrote:

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> FYI, i guess Alejo intended to let you know too :)
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certainly yes, i was just a bit carried away helping here some friends
setting up a new endeavor!
have to say i have had mentioned one amsterdam map i saw at your place back
in march2009 full on red head pins.. we are setting one here to reclaim the
use of the land inside the city.. will see how it goes, but yea you people
in amsterdam have been present here also.

word,
/a





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> - ----- Forwarded message from alejo <alejo@???> -----
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> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:12:04 -0500
> From: alejo <alejo@???>
> To: Bricolabs startup mailinglist <brico@???>
> Subject: [Bricolabs] BIOS
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> ei all, just a short report on something we (un/loquer) just
> "finished" here in medellin. we got like 40 old computers that were
> stock by the local Museum (MAMM), AMD/Athlon 256ram - 1,6ghz
> processors. With a customized puredyne in hand we got rid of their
> Windows XP systems and had them running Software Libre in just one day
> (intense install fest). Once ready we followed onto introducing via
> informal workshops applications like toonloop and sooperlooper to a
> varied group of stundents, all ages, that came every day for a week to
> visit us in "our" temporary lab within the "sacred" space of the
> Museo, a bold step done by the director and her team.
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> we built some networked circle of 20 computers or something that serve
> for the workshops but also as an open infrastructure for playing with
> sound (from puredata to basic one liners using cat and pipe lines)
> anyone that came to visit was welcome to add samples and play them
> through the 40 speakers arranged. At the other side of the hall we had
> a video wall (video yubarta), 9 screens presenting one video or
> running a spectrum analysis tool to help us visualize the sounds of
> our voices or the birds from the valley. It took 2 weeks to have this
> wall running (gstreamer based system) but the result was really
> encouraging since this machines lack fast network cards, not to
> mention there's no proper video card on them. In the times of the
> "urban screens" and hi-tech vizualisations it was a pleasure to feed
> the machine with one Harun Farocki's video that, highly compressed,
> served well the case of study. War at the Distance.
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> it was really great to relate to few of the many projects i've had the
> chance to follow during the last decade in "my safe european home",
> many of those trace lines that i see extend -in good balance- within
> local socioeconomical restrains, to say the least i could see Exyzt,
> re-lab / rixc, hackerspaces, puredyne, toonloop, hackitectura,
> bricolabs.. all here resonating.
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> here 2 short clips:
> http://tinyurl.com/yj3w97u
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PQnqlGz-Io
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> (more documentation to follow)
>
> looking fwd to the brazilian connection to happen!
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