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|Name=Get the font and Zine Karaoke
|Name=Get the Font and Zine Karaoke
|Location=De Punt, Frans de Wollantstraat 84, 1018 SC Amsterdam
|Location=De PUNT
|Date=2015/11/19
|Date=2015/11/19
|Time=19:00
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Open mic!!
[[File:Getthefont.png|Get the Font]]
Hackers & Designers will present The Momentary Zine installation. Make your own unique zine by speaking into the mic.


getthefont.com
Arjan and Eric will present the github scraping project "getthefont.com".
       


19:00 doors open   


19:30 Presentation The Momentary Zine  
=== Momentary Zine installation: Make your own zine by speaking into the mic ===


20:00 Presentation getthefont.com   




Entrance: free     
The event started with a presentation of the H&D webpage, and continued with an open mic session, introducing the Momentary Zine project. Momentary Zine 
is an open publishing station, exploring the temporality of a printed matter. At this publishing station everyone is invited to co-create and examine editorial design matters such as cross-media publishing. By using a thermal (receipt) printer, visitors could become a subject of accumulating a publication and to provide content for the zine.


Beer for 2€ or 0.0099 ฿*     


Thermo print has the characteristic of temporality, as it vanishes after a while. By hacking the printer software we captured the temporality and the actuality of the event and printed matter as such. The zine content was exclusively accumulated by visitors, speaking into a microphone. Spoken words were translated into a text with the use of a text-to-speech technology. Simultaneously with the text-to-speech conversion, another algorithm ran an automated image search on Google, using  randomly selected words to search for pictures. Both words and pictures were printed assembled into a zine and printed on the spot.


[[File:Zinefest-momentary-zine.jpg|Zinefest|400px]]


About The Momentary Zine
The installation was followed by an essential conversation about the font scraping, where [[Arjan Scherpenisse]] and Eric Holm presented [http://www.getthefont.com/ Get The Font], a platform created by scraping GitHub.
             


Hackers & Designers build an open publishing station. At this publishing station everyone is invited to co-create and examine editorial design matters such as cross-media publishing.
[[File:Zinefest-momentary-zine.jpg|Zinefest|thumb|]]
Using a thermal printer (receipt printer) as a point of departure the visitors were be the subject of the accumulating publication and simultaneously active content providers.
 
Thermo print has the characteristic of vanishing after a while. With an easy hack of the printer software we capture the temporality and actuality of the event and printed matter as such. The zine content is exclusively accumulated by speaking into a microphone. With text to speech technology the spoken word translates to text. Simultaneously an algorithm is will run an automized image search on google, grabbing some of the words randomly and adding them to the zine.
 
H&D IS AN INITIATIVE THAT BRINGS TWO PROFESSIONS CLOSER TO EACH OTHER IN ORDER TO DEVELOP A COMMON VOCABULARY AND COLLECTIVE CONCEPTS.
 
hackersanddesigners.nl
meetup.com/hackers-and-designers-amsterdam-nl
 
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De Punt
Frans de Wollantstraat 84, Amsterdam
Check depunt.org for more info
 
 
 
*Bitcoin beer price based on the rate of August 31st 2015

Latest revision as of 16:35, 12 January 2020

Get the Font and Zine Karaoke
Name Get the Font and Zine Karaoke
Location De PUNT
Date 2015/11/19
Time 19:00
PeopleOrganisations Hackers & Designers, Arjan Scherpenisse
Type Meetup
Web Yes
Print No

Get the Font


Momentary Zine installation: Make your own zine by speaking into the mic

The event started with a presentation of the H&D webpage, and continued with an open mic session, introducing the Momentary Zine project. Momentary Zine is an open publishing station, exploring the temporality of a printed matter. At this publishing station everyone is invited to co-create and examine editorial design matters such as cross-media publishing. By using a thermal (receipt) printer, visitors could become a subject of accumulating a publication and to provide content for the zine.


Thermo print has the characteristic of temporality, as it vanishes after a while. By hacking the printer software we captured the temporality and the actuality of the event and printed matter as such. The zine content was exclusively accumulated by visitors, speaking into a microphone. Spoken words were translated into a text with the use of a text-to-speech technology. Simultaneously with the text-to-speech conversion, another algorithm ran an automated image search on Google, using randomly selected words to search for pictures. Both words and pictures were printed assembled into a zine and printed on the spot.


The installation was followed by an essential conversation about the font scraping, where Arjan Scherpenisse and Eric Holm presented Get The Font, a platform created by scraping GitHub.


Zinefest-momentary-zine.jpg