Austria: meet the Smiths of the Schmiede festival
From September 13 to 23, the Schmiede festival took place, bringing together artists, hackers, coders, videographers and more. Makery was there and draws their portraits.
by Roger Pibernat
Roger Pibernat is an illustrator and musician with a severe tinkering itch. He was part of the Barcelona Laptop Orchestra and co-founded the Wú collective, with whom he has developed electro-acoustic instruments, interactvie installations, audiovisual performances and experimental software. He developed the *Superfm* synth for TydalCycles and the live coding dialect for SuperCollider Živa. Teaming up with programmer and artist Glen Fraser, they have developed Animatron as a playground for live coded 2D animation. He is currently an active member of the live coding community in Barcelona. In all of his inventions, he tries to find ways to connect apparently unrelated systems, making things talk. Rogerpibernat.com
PIFcamp : drawing report from the favorite Slovenian Summer Camp
It's the beginning of August. All Europe is taken by vacation. All? No! The small village of Soča, in Slovenia, is taken by hackers, makers, artists and other techno-explorers.