After each session I will set tasks with a view for attendees to create their own works based on each day’s focus which will be shared at the beginning of each session.

• Day 1) Introduction – Discussion of my own influences and views on what video is and what it can be. Finding primary sources to work with, how to know what is copyleft, public domain or creative commons. Checking what you can do with material depending on creative commons licence. Simple download strategy using transmission or youtube-dl. What to do with it. Saving time by working out what material works best with what process. Thinking about formats and size, re-baking and resizing with FFmpeg or handbrake. Preparing video for different processes.
• Day 2) What to do with video once you have it – bake it break it remix it, FFmpeg from the command line, on the fly hex editing using FFmpeg and ffplay from the command line, capturing ffplay output in real time using obs-studio or simplescreenrecorder, FFglitch on Linux and Windows, extracting sound from video for later, tomato, tomato sound, best formats for tomato, FFglitch etc, advantages disadvantages, basic scripting, black and white dithering.
• Day 3) How to edit video using only open source editing tools, being guided by the material and not ideas of narrative or traditional structure, non traditional editing practice, output formats, tailoring work to where it’s going to be seen i.e. YouTube Instagram Peer-tube elsewhere. Discussion about what constitutes a finished work.
• Day 4) Adding sound – what sort of sound do we want to add to our video? Creative commons options, reusing sound from video, ways to treat that using audacity or cd scratching and recording methods. Turning sound into video operating on that then reversing that process to retrieve sound, using audacity and the gimp to modify sound based on Letsglitchits’ reverse sonification methodology optimised for open source software.
• Day 5) What is the desktop anyway ? Using the Desktop as a live creative environment, referencing Jodis’ ‘my%desktop’ – creating ffplay feedback loops with or without webcams, capture tools, recording what you do.

Ian Keaveny aka Crash-Stop

I gave up traditional media after downloading images from a cheap digital camera and becoming fascinated with how they had become inadvertently glitched. My work is based on forcing software, hardware and codecs to function in unintended ways, through hex editing, sonification, misinterpretation, circuit-bending and the exploitation of hardware flaws found in older computers when mismatched with obsolete operating systems. As well as my own video I use a variety of found sources including VHS, out of copyright silent movies, government information films, ad-breaks from satellite television and footage of modern politicians – I treat the internet as an environment to work within, comment upon and as source material. I use and endorse open source software and publish my work under creative commons as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

crash-stop.blogspot.com

Ian Keaveny aka Crash-Stop

Odustao sam od tradicionalnih medija nakon što sam preuzeo fotografije s jeftine digitalne kamere i postao fasciniran slučajno nastalim greškama. Moj rad je baziran u tjeranju softvera, hardvera i kodeka da funkcioniraju na načine za koje nisu namijenjeni, kroz hex uređivanje, sonifikaciju, krivu interpretaciju, izmjenu električnih sklopova (circuit-bending) i eksploataciju hardverskih grešaka starih računala u kombinaciji s krivim i zastarjelim operativnim sustavima. Osim osobnih videa koristim i materijale nađene na VHS-u, nijeme filmove s isteklom vlasničkom licencom, institucionalne informativne videe, oglase sa satelitske televizije i snimke modernih političara. Internet komentiram, koristim kao izvorni materijal i kao okruženje za rad. Koristim i podržavam softver otvorenog koda a svoja djela objavljujem pod creative commons licencom CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

The workshop is part of the Inquiry Inc. 2021 x /’fu:bar/ extended program.

Organizers: Format C Artist Organization

Producers: Vedran Gligo (web design, hypermedia systems), Dina Karadžić (production, multimedia, curatorial concept), Bojana Vojvodić (communication, coordination)

In collaboration with: CIM APURI and PEEK&POKE

Financially supported by the Kultura Nova Foundation and the City of Rijeka