Last weekend I attended Open Sourcei City, a festival exploring open source practice in the production of media art and music, a collaboration between folly and Sound Network.

I was there to help out, but one of the perks of this type of job is that you get to attend the event and I certainly appreciated the opportunity to listen to the enlightening talks, attend the evening performances and observe the workshops.

I'll be very interested to see how usefult this is.... http://www.amee.cc

In the same month that folly and Soundnetwork's micro-festival of open source technology, art and culture is launched in Liverpool, Vienna, a city much more advanced than almost any city in the UK, has undergone a regrettable back-slide to using (and paying through the nose for) proprietaryi systems, in this case, Windows Vista.

There's an interesting article on 24 hour museum about how the potential of the internet has helped re-imagine Artranspennine for 2008.

The festival's official site is at http://atp08.blogspot.com (which is where the nice landscape photo above comes from)

Reports from labforculture blogi:

Exploring the opportunities of digitali tools – part 1

http://www.labforculture.org/en/labforculture/blogitem/27743

Exploring the opportunities of digital tools - part 2

http://www.labforculture.org/en/labforculture/blogitem/27984

Researchers at the University of Bath have developed a low-cost 3D printer which can create plastic objects designed on a PC.  Story here:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/04/reprap_machine/

How to speak English via the British Council's English Online website:

Uh! Ah! Erm ooh

Try it here:

http://www.englishonline.org.cn/en/learners/vocabulary-grammar/sounds

folly presents Digial Artists Handbook at a workshop exploring the opportunities for digitali tools at the 13th Biennale Des Jeunes Créateurs De L'europe Et De La Méditerranée www.bjcem.org.currently taking place in Bari, Italy.

A new report by Professor David Gauntlett and Lizzie Jackson of the University of Westminster show that virtuali worlds are beneficial for children's development. They are also a "powerful and engaging" alternative to more passive pursuits such as watching TV, said the BBC-sponsored study.

As we are planning to open Digitali Artist's Handbook to wider contributions and discussion (as with Wikipedia) here is a quick overview of the term 'produsage'.

From http://produsage.org