Autonomy and Activism: Multimedia authoring with Linux and Open Source Software

The workshop will give artists the opportunity to discover and develop the creative potential of multimedia design on the Linux platform. Participating artists will conceive and create a project and become proficient with the latest and most popular multimedia Open Source applications (freeware with Open Source code). Participants will work in a quickly evolving and dynamic creative space adapting the tools that are appropriate for them.

* Dates : Thursday evenings from 6:00 – 9:00 PM // November 19th to December 18th, 2009 and from January 7th to March 25th, 2010

* Cost: $400 full series (includes GST + TVQ)
Or individual sections:
Introduction: $24 (includes GST + TVQ) November 19th
The Gimp: $95 (includes GST + TVQ) November 26th-December 17th
Linux systems and Install fest: $95 (includes GST + TVQ) January 7th and January 14th
wordpress: $ 235 (includes GST + TVQ) February 4th to March 25th

General Introduction: This 3 hours session introduces participants to the world of Open Source software, its background principles and the way it operates using online tools like IRC channels and forums.

Introduction to image processing with The Gimp (12h): An introduction to image processing and image manipulation with GIMP freeware.

Linux Training and UbuntuStudio “Install fest” (12h): This introductory course aims to demystify the Linux operating system as well as other Freeware. By the end of this course, participants will be able to configure and adapt their operating system and be able to acquire and install the freeware that corresponds to their needs. The aim of this course is to make Linux more accessible to artists by giving them the opportunity to immediately put into practice what they have learned. Participants will also learn how to obtain a « Live » operating system like UBUNTU and UBUNTUSTUDIO which runs from a CD.

Initiation to creating Web pages with WordPress (24h): Introduction to creating Web sites with WordPress, the system for dynamic content management. Participants will produce a Web site to showcase a portfolio of their work such as: digital images, animations, video and sound.

Workshop sessions will feature talks, demonstrations and directed work.

* Prerequisite: The desire to work with free software.

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A selection of the works created in the context of these professionals workshops will be presented over the course of the upcoming year during Salons Femmes br@nchées and/or the international Biennale HTMlles at Studio XX.

For information: 514.845.0289 or via our contact form

Men are welcome on a space-available basis.