F/LAT - Free / Libre Arts and Technologies
F/LAT hosts several workshops & meetings, exploring artistic and technological practices through which we produce a basis of knowledge.
Those workshops are open to all and are fundamental to research and production, they engage everyone in exploration of new processes and technologies. We propose introduction to digital processes, from Network Interaction, sound processing, VRlabs, data exploration, to Linux architecture.
F/LAT is a horizontal research and production space focusing on free (as in freedom) software practices in art. The main cells structure the platform in 3 complementary dynamics:
Polymorph
Polymorph is a hub for artists, designers, academics, musicians, developpers et enthousiasts focused on experimental video games.
Its main goals are:
- promotion of libre vision & tools;
- empowerment of graphical exploration;
- investigation alternative gameplays.
http://f-lat.org/kiwi/doku.php/tmp:polymorph
VRLab
VRLab is an itinerant lab bringing enthusiasts of Virtual Reality in and around Brussels together. The principle is to foster discovery of virtual reality by trying and building. VR.Lab Brussels is thus an enabler, bringing together hardware and software for virtual reality to make participants build what they have in mind.
http://f-lat.org/kiwi/doku.php/tmp:vrlabbrussels-duoworkshops3
PySamedies
Pysamedies gathers a group of women interested in free software practices, practicing autonomous learning of different software we specifically have been addressing the permanent quantification process that our technological society organizes on a day to day basis, relating it to a feminist tradition of embodied practices, and activism.
http://f-lat.org/kiwi/doku.php/edu:pysamedies
RepFab
Repfab intends to imagine, design, build and share a reproducible fabricator machine, made mainly from plywood, build on top of the knowledge and principles of the reprap project and its children.
http://f-lat.org/kiwi/doku.php/dev:start#libre_hardware