December news: Upcoming season + Community Projects and Calls
New season coming + Community Projects and Calls
We're wrapping a series of exciting episodes that we can't wait for you to listen to. We're in final production and transcription.
In the meantime, have you heard last season's final episode, a live conversation with artists held earlier this year in New York? New Rules: Conversations with New Media Artists was supported by supported by the National Endowment for the Arts grants for arts projects. Four of the artists from this season engage in a roundtable discussion on their art practice, teaching, pedagogy and more. Listen or read on our site or wherever you get your podcasts. Thanks to the New Media Caucus for co-organizing, and to our live event participating artists Chelsea Thompto, Sue Huang, KT Duffy, and Rashin Fahandej.
While we finish up production of the new season, we thought we'd highlight a number of calls for participation and current projects from the community. We'd also like to post more of these on our Mastodon and our Instagram, so look for us there.
From the community
Open Source Arts Contributors Conference - Call for Applications
We are looking forward to the Contributors Conference at University of Denver in Denver, Colorado, April 2023. From April 13-15, members of the community will gather together for a conference to contribute to and discuss the challenges and issues within the Open Source Software for the Arts (OSSTA) ecosystem. We are welcoming people who are current or potential contributors to the Open Source Software for the Arts communities. Contributors include those who are advocates, active forum participants, authors of documentation and tutorials, as well as those who contribute to the codebase or addons/libraries. We are especially interested in people who might be part of underrepresented identities within the OSSTA community. We are especially interested in finding new or less visible community members and those who will bring new ideas and perspectives to our community.
The application deadline is December 8 and you can read more about it and apply on their website.
NaNoGenMo 2023
NaNoGenMo stands for National Novel Generating Month, an originally satirical response to the idea of NaNoWriMo, a US-based non-profit based around the idea of writing a novel. Artist-programmer Darius Kazemi tweeted in 2013 that NaNoWriMo defines a novel as 50,000+ words, and promptly set up the idea for artist-programmers to generate a novel of at least 50k words. This is the 10th anniversary of that original year, and by our count there are least 17 completed novels this year so far.
Participation begins with folks creating an "issue" on the NaNoGenMo github page declaring their intent to participate and linking to their code, in-progress work and finished projects.
Just plucking out one of the completed novels, I really enjoyed Isaac Karth's You are now participating in the cultural event of NaNoGenMo, which uses what appears to be a digital version of Air Hockey (similar enough to Pong) to generate an announcer's commentary about a fictional sports game.
Isaac's progress log (and feedback from other NaNoGenMo participants) was also fun to read, and links to completed text and the ability to generate your own novel.
Lee participated with A list of publications, protest pamphlets, screeds.
Hydra documentation updates
We talked about livecoding web-based tool Hydra with creator Olivia Jack in Episode 10 of the podcast. Olivia recently completed a major documentation update for Hydra that includes interactive code blocks, a search bar, blog posts and more, and received support from the Clinic for Open Source Arts.
DecemberAdventure
I aim to do a little bit of programming every day in December.
An informal, decentralized group of people work on exploratory programming or a single tool, software or other work for the month, logging notes each day and posting their progress online.
An idea originally from Eli/Oatmeal, you can find a number of programmers and creative coders posting to Mastodon with the #DecemberAdventure hashtag.
The Public Domain Review's Countdown to Public Domain Day
The public domain is one of the topics in our upcoming season of the podcast, including in interviews with the Internet Archive.
You can read the Public Domain Reviews What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2024?.
In our advent-style calendar below, find our top pick of what lies in store for 2024. Each day, as we move through December, we’ll open a new window to reveal our highlights!
Mastodon
How do we find out about some of these things? We're on Mastodon! You can find us on Mastodon. We look forward to posting about more of your projects and open calls for participation.
Thanks
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Thanks!