Who KinocirKus
When Thu, Oct 13th 2016 - 12:00 until Sun, Oct 16th 2016
Where SIGNAL FESTIVAL 2016, Prague, Czech Republic

Signal festival 2016 (www.signalfestival.com/2015/en/) is the largest cultural event in the Czech Republic. But there is even more to discover beyond the official program - the SIGNAL OFF!

We are inviting VJs and VideoArtist to join us in Prague - please check the 3 calls and submit your application!

13.10 BYOB - One night DIY exhibit hosting VJs+Projectors
Open call ► http://bit.do/BYOB_call
14.10 MOSAIK - Collective site-specific video-installation
Open call ► http://bit.do/MOSAIK_call
15.10 VJ CONTEST- Prove yourself!
Open call ► http://bit.do/VjContest_call

Who Wisp
When Fri, Nov 18th 2016 - 10:00 until Sun, Nov 20th 2016 - 20:00
Where Gieszer '16, Gieszerstraße 16, Leipzig, Germany

Date: 18. - 20. November '16
Location: Bermudadreieck, 04229 Leipzig-Plagwitz, Germany

The „Wisp – Festival for Digital Arts“, from 18th - 20th of November in Leipzig, welcomes submissions on this year`s theme „The stranger within us“.

Under the theme "The stranger within us", based on a lecture of the german psychoanalyst Arno Gruen in 2009, the exhibition will invite the guests to experience several interactive artworks from international artists with all senses and to reflect the loss of empathy in our society with the consequently personal and political consequences.

You are welcome to submit media art projects, installations/sculptures, video-art and performance art works, according to the theme of the festival and/or to share your knowledge about a special hardware/software tool and/or working techniques with it. The festival appreciates beginner and professional workshops for "vvvv beginner/professional workshops" and "VR Basics.

Please send your works`submissions with some still images (for video-art), links of videos and pictures of artworks via email to festival@wisp-kollektiv.de or call 0170 4014232 for further questions or a brief talk.

We look forward to your submissions,
Your Wisp Team

Deadline for applications is September 20, 2016

The number of works you can submit is unlimited

Email Adress: festival@wisp-kollektiv.de

Who joreg
When Sun, Sep 11th 2016 - 11:00 until Sun, Sep 11th 2016 - 14:00
Where Education Lab at PostCity, Linz, Austria

On short notice,

anyone at Ars Electronica this year up for learning something new? I'll be doing a 4h introduction to VL.

What the VL?

VL is our next-generation visual programming language that combines dataflow with features known from object-oriented programming. Language features include but are not limited to:

As a proof of concept VL is now embedded into vvvv before it will later be available in a standalone development environment. In the workshop you'll learn how you can take your patching skills to the next level using the new features that distinguish VL from vvvv.

Workshop Requirements:

• Know your vvvv basics
• Bring your windows laptop with the latest vvvv alpha installed and running, if you want to patch along

Starts at 11h sharp, limited seats, first come first served. No festival ticket needed, just show up eager to learn and patient with alpha-grade software.

Know of any other vvvv related things during the festvial? Let us know in the comments. Looking forward to this very much!

previously on VL: VL Spring Update

Here we are now,

right when you wouldn't believe it could happen anymore: the cumulative changes on VL, which we've been talking about for months in previous updates (about an 80% rewrite of what we demoed at node15 - shall we even say something like this out loud?), have just landed in your belovvvved daily alpha builds.
In other words: No big deal.

What does that mean for you?

Get it, use it and please help us by reporting problems in our alpha forum. But always remember this is still alpha-grade code, we're still aware of quite some buggers. If you try it and still think it is too annoying to work with, fair enough, it is definitely not for everyone yet. But we are confident enough with the current state that we thought some of you will be able to handle it.

One important thing: As mentioned in the previous update, the file-format of .vl documents has changed, meaning: It can still open all old files but once you save them, your files are in the new format and will no longer load in older versions. Just so you know..

More new things

Apart from the changes mentioned previously here are some more things you should know:

• Reach the Document Patch via ALT+P
• Create new patches in the Document Patch via NodeBrowser: type Patch (for utility operations), Record (immutable datatype) or Class (mutable datatype)
• Add Inputs/Outputs for operations via NodeBrowser typing Input or Output or by doubleclicking while making a connection
• What was Reader/Writer is now Pad via NodeBrowser or: add a property via the explorer and give it a name, then find it as a pad in the NodeBrowser under its own name
• Also create IOBox, Loop, ForEach, Operation, Delegate via NodeBrowser
• Make comments in a patch by typing anything in the NodeBrowser that is not a node (just like in vvvv)
• Add/Remove pins to/from nodes like + by pressing CTRL+/-
• Nudge selected nodes using the cursor-keys and nudge them more by holding down CTRL while you do

Regarding Pins, we already mentioned the separation into "implementation" and "signature" for utility-operations in the last update. Here is how this is looking now:

The signature (which defines the order of input- and output pins) is now hidden by default. You can bring it up with a click on the little triangle to change the order of pins as they will show up on the respective node.

What we forgot to mention last time, is that we got completely rid of the pin-bars for member-operations. In order to manipulate the signature of a member-operation just head over to the explorer and interact with the signature there.

Next Steps

By having those major changes back in the alpha-builds we're finally in a position again to have quicker release-cycles for bug-fixes and features which we'll happily provide on our road to beta35, which will be the first vvvversion that includes VL as a first-class patching language.

We'll need to put out a preliminary video-tutorial and update all documentation to show you how to work with those latest changes.

And of course we don't forget about that library-thing where at some point we'll have to tell you how you can import/create your own nodes for VL. Pending... Just in case you missed it, the Arduino Second Service was our latest big addition to the VL library.

If you want to get started right now, here is what you do:

If you want to let us know that you like anything you just read...we're always up for a comment or even a flattr: