Photo provided by organizer
OSA is presentation of the most interesting niche music and video projects which were created with the use of open source software tools. It spans concerts, screenings and workshops with artists whose aim is to look at sound, image, motion and possibilities of their use in full, multidimensional perspective.
OSA promotes the use of alternative, interdisciplinary tools in self-expression and creation of public space and immediate surroundings. Open source software used by artists in their works constitutes a pretext for discussion on free media and freedom of art and life. Open source movement emerged as an opposition to privatization policy and denying access to software codes through patents and copyrights.
This Project is addressed at anyone who is interested in development in the fields of music and video art. OPEN nature of the project assumes a wide group of active audience members who can join the activities.
The central point of the programme is an initiative entitled ‘Otwarte Projekty Eksperymentów Narracyjnych – OPEN’ (Open Projects on Experiments in Narration). ‘OPEN’ meetings will take place in the new multimedia space of the State Art Gallery in Sopot. Simultaneously, narration space for creating alternative art experiments will be arranged in the center of Sopot.
The following artists have been invited to participate in the project:
TRUPWZSYPIE
DEMONSZY
KALeKA
Roman Bromboszcz
REC&ABSTRAKT
Borys Kossakowski
Jacek Stroński
Jakub Noga
Jarek Marciszewski
Maciej Wojnicki / Libretto GSM
GABINET MASAŻU UCHA WEWNĘTRZNEGO: spec. PATRYK ZAKROCKI, spec. JACEK MAZURKIEWICZ
Dorota Walentynowicz
PGR ART – OPEN – Monitoring
Curators: Sylwester Gałuszka, Mikołaj Jurkowski
Local organisers The Baltic Sea Culture Center in Gdańsk and Artists Colony Fund
Institutional organisers National Audiovisual Institute, Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The event is part of Attention Culture!, the Cultural Programme of the 2011 Polish EU Presidency, which comprises a six-month series of exceptional events and artistic projects, including the European Culture Congress, held as a part of the Polish presidency in the EU council.
Source: National Audiovisual Institute