Julien Deswaef

2023 resolutions

I thought I’d share with you some objectives I have for this year. So maybe I can also reference this post during the year and keep you updated about how things go. Here are 5 things I’ve promised myself to do by the end of 2023.

Sousveillance time with PineTime

After spending a few months with a Pinetime around my wrist, I thought I’d share some impressions about this open source smartwatch, with integrated step counter and heart rate sensor.

DeltaChat : la messagerie instantanée pour tou·te·s

Capture d’écran d’une conversation sur DeltaChat

Depuis la débâcle de Whatsapp, suite à leur changement de conditions d’utilisation, et le ras-le-bol général de se faire détrousser les données par des vendeurs de temps de cerveau disponible, beaucoup de personnes se demandent vers quelle application de messagerie se tourner. Au royaume des alternatives les moins connues, DeltaChat pourrait bien être la plus évidente à adopter et que tous vos contacts utilisent déjà sans le savoir.

#tinyCode

I’ve just submitted a short (255 characters) piece of code to be displayed on the media facade of the Medialab Prado in Madrid.

A screen recording of the piece running from p5js editor.

The code is available on p5js online editor: https://editor.p5js.org/XUV/sketches/OzIwTs5SP and you will be able to see it running from there by pressing the pink play button.

If you’d like to participate, the call is open to anyone. You’ll find the rules and details on how to submit at Creative Coding Madrid. You need to submit before December 11th, 2020.

The public streaming on the media facade will be done Dec 12th, 2020 at 18:30 CEST.

Mechanical 3D Printer

Using gravity and mechanisms inspired by the mechanical clocks, Daniel de Bruin created this analog 3D printer.

↬ @raphaelbastide

Portraits of the Next Iterations

The Next Iterations is over and deployed as an intense couple days of presentations and workshops, all confined behind our screens. This on-camera setting is a blessing for free portrait drawing.

Next Iterations

Join me online this Sunday May 17, 2020 to participate in the Next Iterations.

People posing for a group photo in front of a wall at Hangar, Barcelona. — Photo by Donatella Portoghese – Copyleft Constant – Free Art License

Iterations consists of a series of artist residencies, exhibitions, reflection meetings and exchanges that take place between 2017 and 2020. Artists and cultural practitioners are welcomed in situations to experiment with and reflect on what the future of collectivity, sharing and working together in digital and networked contexts can look like.
Iterations supports the use of FLOSS software and open content licenses and encourages everybody to download anything you find on this site.

SUNDAY 17 MAY
12:00 – hello coffee / informal gathering
12:30 – Introduction to the coming days, and the infrastructural setting
13:00 – Launch of Iterations book Jara Rocha and Manetta Berends
14:00 – 14:45 BREAK
14.45 – 15:00 Caterina Mora – bodywork for transfigurate our back: the future is behind
15.00 – 15.15 Julien Deswaef – A license written by machines
15:15 – 16:00 Patricia Reis & Lale Rodgarkia-Dara from Mz Balthazar’s Laboratory (feminist infrastructures of support)
16:00 – 16:15 (OFFTIME)
16:15 – 16:30 Nayari Castillo & Hanns Holger Rutz – Collective Divagation (Instructions for Rendevous)
16:30 – 17:15 Kym Ward: networked sonic spell-casting
17:15 – 17:30 (OFFTIME)
17:30 – 17:45Luis Rodil-Fernández...the body of a newborn squeezes itself into the world. Life’s tribulations on the outside begin…
17:45 – 18:00 Zoumana Méité – voice stacking choral
18:00 – 18:15 Fran Quiroga & Andrea Olmedo – Workshop I Communal Ethics
18:15 – 18:30 (OFFTIME)
18:30 – IRCBAR with cocktails by Rica Rickson
20:00 – Jamsession (fade out to night …)With a.o: BeHuKi (Mia Melvær, Maxime Stifinner and Yoan Robin): audio postcard