Playing the LGM Video Archives

Michael Murtaugh

Scraping the 2006-2015 websites of LGM, Michael Murtaugh is currently salvaging ten years of videos and websites. By doing so he activates the archives of presentations, talks and lectures that were recorded in Lyon, Montréal, Wroclaw, Brussels, Vienna, Madrid and Leipzig.

Nightlife

Tom Lechner

An animation done with Blender, Gimp, Kdenlive, and a sketchbook. Especially for this edition of LGM, Tom Lechner performs Nightlife with live voice effects! Tom is a cartoonist living in Portland, Oregon. He also makes Laidout, a software which he uses to produce his cartoon books.

Glitching a decade

Antonio Roberts

Antonio Roberts is a new-media artist and curator based in Birmingham, UK. Since 2007 he has curated exhibitions and projects including fizzPOP (2009 - 2010), GLI.TC/H Birmingham (2011), the Birmingham editions of Bring Your Own Beamer (2012, 2013) and Dirty New Media (2013).

He is artist in residence at the University of Birmingham where he is conducting research into copyright and the reuse and remixing of archive material.

Portrait of a community

OSP

How to portray the multi-faceted 'community' that makes up LGM since ten years? Is it a melting pot as Dave Neary stated in 2006 and if not, than what is it? OSP produced two sets of laser-cut party decorations, visualising the intricate network of people and projects present at LGM in the last decade. Some have only passed by once, others presented virtually every year. Let's celebrate!

Frequently asked questions

Christoph Haag

For LGM 2013 at Medialab Prado in Madrid, Christoph Haag produced an on-line tool that allowed participants to formulate questions and answers about LGM and Libre Graphics in general. These were used to generate posters for the event, and for an animated svg displayed on the electronic facade of Medialab Prado's brand new building.

Conversations

Agnes Bewer, Alexandre Leray, An Mertens, Andreas Vox, Asheesh Laroia, Carla Boserman,Christina Clar, Chris Lilley, Christoph Haag, Claire Williams, Cornelia Sollfrank, Dave Crossland, Dmytry Kleiner, Denis Jacquery, Dmytri Kleiner, Eleanor Greenhalgh, Eric Schrijver, Evan Roth, Femke Snelting, Franziska Kleiner, George Williams, Gijs de Heij, Harrisson, Ivan Monroy Lopez, John Haltiwanger, John Colenbrander, Juliane De Moerlooze, Julien Deswaef, Larisa Blazic, Ludivine Loiseau, Manuel Schmalstieg, Matthew Fuller, Michael Murtaugh, Michael Terry, Michele Walther, Miguel Arana Catania, momo3010, Nicolas Malevé, Pedro Amado, Peter Westenberg, Pierre Huyghebaert, Pierre Marchand, Sarah Magnan, Stéphanie Vilayphiou, Tom Lechner, Urantsetseg Ulziikhuu, Xavier Klein

Conversations is an extensive collection of conversations between developers and designers involved in the wider ecosystem of Libre Graphics. Speaking to each other about tools for typography, lay-out and image processing, they render a portrait of a community gradually understanding the interdependencies between Free Software and design. Edited by Femke Snelting in collaboration with Christoph Haag, published by Constant (Brussels, 2015).

20 copies for sale at a very special LGM price: only 10 CAD. You can also order on-line at conversations.tools