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A part of the K6/4 Institute, Cyberpipe is a cultural and multimedia centre focusing on open source and other free technologies. Cyberpipe offers a computer laboratory and Internet café, and engages primarily in open code programming and the recycling of computer devices.

Cyberpipe is a contemporary-equipped open platform for experimental research of new ways of using technologies of digital production. It has about two hundred educational, cultural and artistic events attended by 60,000 visitors each year. Accessibility is enhanced even more with Cyberpipe's online streaming and video archive, which includes video documentation of all of its activities. Most of the Cyberpipe team are volunteers who are interested in technology, computers, and art.

Background

Cyberpipe was established in 2000 under the slogan "all our code are belong to you" to encourage and develop an open information society in Slovenia. It was a platform with contemporary equipment for education about computer science and modern information and communication technologies, and still extends a free wireless network in Ljubljana.

Venues

Cyberpipe is located in the centre of Ljubljana. Its premises consist of a main room, a post-production lab (PostLab), a classroom, a screening hall, a media production room, etc:

main room (100 m2): suitable for events, exhibitions, lectures, meetings, workshops; well-equipped with up to 100 flexible seats, tables, stage reflectors and wireless microphones
classroom (20 m2): appropriate especially for computer education workshops; equipped with 8 computers, a board and a projector set
PostLab (20 m2): suitable for four people working on post-production

Cooperation

Cyberpipe co-operates with numerous organisations in Slovenia (for example, the Slo-Tech and 3Delavnica teams, regional multimedia centres including Ljudmila - Ljubljana Digital Media Lab, KIBLA Multimedia Centre) and abroad (Mama New Media Centre in Zagreb, HackLab in Pula, for example). Cyberpipe is a member of the M3C Multimedia Centres Network of Slovenia and supports the Creative Commons project.

Programme and activities

Cyberpipe organises the HAIP Festival (Hack/Act/Interact/Progress Festival), an international biennial festival that presents works of young or established artists and creative engineers who use open technologies to create multimedia art forms. It also runs the Gallery 404 (g404), which offers space for diverse digital art by emerging artists.

It organises also FreeForAll LAN Parties to play open code, free games of different genres (for example, parties for the lovers of old PC games from the 1980s and 90s). It nourishes Err0r, a creative collective of people of various backgrounds engaged in experimental intermedia art and alternative ways of its distribution. The core members are Boštjan Špetič, Daša Lakner, Martin Hribar, Anže Veršnik, and Andraž Tori.

Computer museum

Cyberpipe houses the first computer museum in Slovenia and organises many events or projects dealing with computer history. The museum is interactive so that visitors can use Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Atari 1040ST, Macintosh SE, IBM PS/1, IBM PC XT, etc.

Educational events

Cyberpipe organises all kinds of hands-on software workshops (Open Office, Linux, Blender, Tablix, Cinelerra, DTP, Mozilla Composer, Pure Data) and hardware (how to assemble a computer, circuit board production workshops, soldering workshop, workshop of producing wireless antennas, etc.). The Pipini odprti termini – POT (Pipe's Open Slots) are weekly meetings (an introductory lecture is followed by a discussion) of Linux and other open products users. They are led by Andraž Sraka and organised in collaboration with Lugos.

Other series of educational events include Spletne urice (SU) (Web Hours), weekly meetings of web professionals with presentations of current technology topics, and VIP – "evenings for innovative and enterprising people", organised in collaboration with LUI (Ljubljana University Incubator). The monthly meetings are proposed for people interested in selling new technologies and are moderated by Blaž Kos. The MobileMonday is a monthly event and connects mobile industry visionaries, developers and influentials and creates an informal community of people from 90 countries.

Cyberpipe also runs Net Art Pipe (NAP), which is dedicated to the exploration of computer-based art and to facilitating discussions on this topic. The programme also features so-called Open Dates – weekly meetings for information exchange – and a monthly LAMM (LinuxAudioMeetMe) that focuses on issues and sound/music production connected with the Linux platform.

External links

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