[spectre] Review - Libre Graphics Research Unit - Co-Position meeting.

[marc garrett]

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Libre Graphics Research Unit - Co-Position meeting.

Article by Antonio Roberts.

How can designers and programmers work more harmoniously? How can the 
tools being created better meet the needs of users? There is a need for 
designers to have a greater role in the production of the tools that 
they use, aside from just reporting bugs, requesting features or 
designing logos for open source projects. Antonio Roberts reports back 
from the Co-Position meeting of the Libre Graphics Research Unit and 
looks at how artists and developers are addressing these issues.

http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/libre-graphics-research-unit-co-position-meeting

The first meeting, Networked Graphics, took place in Rotterdam from 7-10 
December, 2011 and was Hosted by WORM. This second meeting, Co-Position, 
for which Antonio was present, took place at venues across Brussels from 
22-25 February 2012. Co-Position is described by LGRU as:

"[...] an attempt to re-imagine lay-out from scratch. We will analyse 
the history of lay-out (from moveable type to compositing engines) in 
order to better understand how relations between workflow, material and 
media have been coded into our tools. We will look at emerging software 
for doing lay-out differently, but most importantly we want to sketch 
ideas for tools that combine elements of canvas editing, dynamic 
lay-out, networked lay-out, web-to-print and Print on Demand."

The meeting saw the coming together of many international artists, 
theorists and developers for four days of work around this subject.

Antonio Roberts is a British digital artist whose artwork focuses on the 
errors and glitches generated by digital technology. Many people would 
simply discard such artefacts but Antonio preserves these errors and 
displays them as art. With his roots in free culture he develops his 
techniques using open source and freely available software and shares 
his knowledge through the development of software. 
http://www.hellocatfood.com/profile/

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