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9.-12.mai 2013 / Linux Audio Confernce 2013 Graz
LiWoLi 2013 - canceled
Submitted by ur on Tue, 03/12/2013 - 11:50As a result of a 43% funding cut by the Austrian federal government for servus.at, this years LiWoLi festival has had to be canceled.
With the great support and interest of the Art University, servus.at developed "LiWoLi - Art Meets Radical Openness" into a bustling art festival over the past five years.
Reaching the tipping point, where international attention for the festival became noticeable, servus.at - the main host - is surprised by a dramatic cut in funding and has to cancel the event for 2013. The future is uncertain, but of course we hope for LiWoLi 2014.
The LiWoLi festival has its roots in the successful Free Software Events from early 2000s, which had been held yearly by local linux user groups, supported by servus.at.
As the success of Linux made that kind of events obsolete, servus.at -being an artist run data and competence center - re-created the event for artists and cultural producers while keeping focused on the spirit of the free software movements: Art met radical openness.
Over the past five years over 300 active contributors, from all over the world, visited Linz for the purpose of sharing skills, code, visions and experience. Artists, developers and educators worked together and discussed the benefits and challenges of openness. This year we take the opportunity to rethink our exhausted structure caused by constant budget cuts. A common decision is to keep things alive and so of course we will work to make LiWoLi 2014 happen. We hope to meet you soon again!
Uschi Reiter for servus.at
Art meets radical openness 2012
Submitted by ur on Wed, 06/13/2012 - 09:35
Wed, 23th of MAY
http://www.open-design.at
24-26 May 2012
LiWoLi is a community festival, open lab and annual meeting spot for artists, educators and developers using and creating Free Software (FLOSS), Open Hardware and Open Design in the artistic and cultural context. This event is all about sharing artistic skills, code and knowledge within the public domain and discussing the challenges of an open practice.
This year's edition had a special focus on artworks that can be created, performed or exhibited outdoors and in public space. Like every year, numerous activities such as lectures, workshops and audiovisual performances took place during the course of this three-day festival.
guests: open Design: Ronen Kadushin (IL/DE); Greg Saul (NZ/GB); Peter Kirn (USA/DE); Beste Nazilli (GB/DE); LiWoLi: Heath Bunting (GB/~); Eleanor Greenhalgh(GB/NL); Theremini Orchestra (SLO): Tina Dolinšek, Luka Frelih, Ida Hiršenfelder, Borut Savski, Saša Spačal, Robertina Šebjanič, Matic Urbanija, Dušan Zidar; Jakub Pisek (SK) & Roman Lauko (SK) & Erik Bartos (SK), Augsut Black (USA), Dmytri Kleiner (USSR/CAN/DE); Felix Stalder (CH/A), David Young (IRL/NL), Victor Mazon (ES/DE), Cimbalab (Chile): Constanza Piña Pardo (CHI), Claudia Gonzalez (CHI); EXPANDERR (A/~), Michael Schweiger (A); Awkward Family Photos: Orestis Plakias (GR), Niko Palamares(GR), Kyriakos Tsoukalas(GR), Linda Hilfling (DK/D); Malte Steiner (DE); Servando Barreiro (ES/DE); Mey Lean Kronemann (DE), Andreas Strauss (A/~); VALUG (A); Reinhard Gupfinger (A);
Art Meets Radical Openness (LiWoLi 2011)
Submitted by ur on Tue, 06/07/2011 - 15:15
12th - 14th of May 2011
LiWoLi is an open lab and meeting spot for artists, developers and educators using and creating FLOSS (free/libre open source software) and Open Hardware in the artistic and cultural context. LiWoLi is all about sharing skills, code and knowledge within the public domain and discussing the challenges of open practice.
This year's event offers an exhibition, artists' workshops and – like every year – lectures, presentations and sound-performances.
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LiWoLi 2010
Submitted by ur on Mon, 06/07/2010 - 00:00
With the development and the use of free and Open Source Software and Hardware the cultural practice of DIY (Do it yourself) emerges. DIY often means to those who practice it to see one’s self-believe and the own strength as a driving force for changes.
LiWoLi raises the question of whether a practice of "doing it together" (DIT) might be a more successful formula for developing free tools (FLOSS tools) for art & culture, learning & teaching. This also implies examining the motivation of active producers and making room for the aspect of "unpaid work".
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