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Aymeric Mansoux (FR) is an artist, musician and media researcher.
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Aymeric Mansoux (FR) is an artist, musician and media researcher, with a background in economics, fine art, graphic design, and computer programming.
  
In 2003, he founded [[goto10]] with [[Thomas Vriet]], a non profit organization and artist collective, with the goal to promote the use and support of free software in electronic music and media art creation. Aymeric has been active in the collective until 2010 and initiated several projects such as: [[Make Art]], a yearly international festival for software artists and musicians using and writing free software; '''Puredyne''', a popular live GNU/Linux distribution for media art and design (with [[Chun Lee]] and [[Antonios Galanopoulos]]) and the ''FLOSS+Art publication'', the first collection of essays on FLOSS and digital art production.
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In 2003, he founded [[Goto10|GOTO10]] with [[Thomas Vriet]], a non profit organization and artist collective, with the goal to promote the use and support of free software in electronic music and media art creation. Aymeric has been active in the collective until 2010 and has initiated several projects such as: [[Make Art]], a yearly international festival for software artists and musicians using and writing free software; '''Puredyne''', a popular live GNU/Linux distribution for media art and design (with [[Chun Lee]] and [[Antonios Galanopoulos]]) and the ''FLOSS+Art publication'', the first collection of essays on FLOSS and digital art production (co-edited with [[Marloes de Valk]].
  
Since 2009, he is a core tutor and co-supervisor of study for the networked media branch of the [[Networked Media Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam|Media Design and Communication Master of the Piet Zwart Institute]] in [[Rotterdam]]. Aymeric is also a PhD student at the [[Cultural Studies PhD Goldsmiths, London|Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London]], researching the creative misunderstandings between art and politics within copyleft practices.
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In 2009, he is invited by [[Florian Cramer]]to join the staff of the [[Networked Media Piet Zwart Institute Rotterdam|Media Design and Communication Master of the Piet Zwart Institute]] in [[Rotterdam]], where he currently works as senior lecturer. Aymeric is also a PhD candidate at the [[Cultural Studies PhD Goldsmiths, London|Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London]], under the supervision of [[Matthew Fuller]], researching the creative misunderstandings between art and politics within copyleft practices.
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His latest collaborations are '''Naked on Pluto''' (with [[Marloes de Valk]] and [[Dave Griffiths]]), a project that aims at unfolding the issues of software mediation in the context of privacy and communication within a proprietary and commercial social network such as Facebook; The SKOR Codex with La Société Anonyme, a limited edition of eight hand bound books of raw data dumps that mimic NASA’s Golden Disc Record, aiming at documenting the life at a Dutch institution before it ceased to exists with the 2012 Dutch art funding cuts; FREE?! (with [[Eric Kluitenberg]], a conference and exhibition on the current state and future of free culture; and LURK (with [[Alex McLean]]), an independent e-mail and web discussion platform for computational culture.
  
His latest collaboration, '''Naked on Pluto''', is a Facebook interactive fiction that investigates and highlights privacy, ownership and identity issues surrounding centralized proprietary commercial social networks. His projects include the mysterious packets toolkit (with [[Tom Schouten]] and [[Marloes de Valk]]), the 0xA band (with [[Chun Lee]]), and the alife art Metabiosis project (with [[Marloes de Valk]]).
 
  
 
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* http://su.kuri.mu/publications/
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* http://texts.bleu255.com
  
 
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* http://su.kuri.mu/
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* http://bleu255.com
* http://320x200.goto10.org
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* http://lurk.org
* http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media/2010/01/02/aymeric-mansoux/
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* http://societeanonyme.la
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* http://naked-on-pluto.net
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* http://makeart.goto10.org
  
 
[[Category:Writers|Mansoux, Aymeric]]
 
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Revision as of 15:12, 11 June 2015

Aymeric Mansoux (FR) is an artist, musician and media researcher, with a background in economics, fine art, graphic design, and computer programming.

In 2003, he founded GOTO10 with Thomas Vriet, a non profit organization and artist collective, with the goal to promote the use and support of free software in electronic music and media art creation. Aymeric has been active in the collective until 2010 and has initiated several projects such as: Make Art, a yearly international festival for software artists and musicians using and writing free software; Puredyne, a popular live GNU/Linux distribution for media art and design (with Chun Lee and Antonios Galanopoulos) and the FLOSS+Art publication, the first collection of essays on FLOSS and digital art production (co-edited with Marloes de Valk.

In 2009, he is invited by Florian Cramerto join the staff of the Media Design and Communication Master of the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, where he currently works as senior lecturer. Aymeric is also a PhD candidate at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, under the supervision of Matthew Fuller, researching the creative misunderstandings between art and politics within copyleft practices.

His latest collaborations are Naked on Pluto (with Marloes de Valk and Dave Griffiths), a project that aims at unfolding the issues of software mediation in the context of privacy and communication within a proprietary and commercial social network such as Facebook; The SKOR Codex with La Société Anonyme, a limited edition of eight hand bound books of raw data dumps that mimic NASA’s Golden Disc Record, aiming at documenting the life at a Dutch institution before it ceased to exists with the 2012 Dutch art funding cuts; FREE?! (with Eric Kluitenberg, a conference and exhibition on the current state and future of free culture; and LURK (with Alex McLean), an independent e-mail and web discussion platform for computational culture.


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