Background
Cyberpipe was established in 2000 to encourage and develop open information society in Slovenia. It was the first centre with free access to the Internet in Slovenia. It was a platform with contemporary equipment for education about computer science and modern information and communication technologies. It is still extending free wireless network in Ljubljana.
Venues
The spaces of Cyberpipe are situated in the centre of Ljubljana and consist of The main room, PostLab, Classroom, Cinema hall, Media production room, Store etc.
- The biggest room for events, exhibitions, lectures, meetings, workshops measures 100 m2. The space is well-equipped with up to 100 flexible seats, tables, stage reflectors and wireless microphones.
- The classroom (20 m2) is appropriate especially for computer education workshops. It is equipped with 8 computers, a board and a projector set.
- The PostLab (20 m2) is suitable for four people.
Cooperation
Cyberpipe co-operates with numerous organisations in Slovenia (the Slo-Tech and 3Delavnica teams, regional multimedia centres including Ljudmila - Ljubljana Digital Media Lab, KIBLA Multimedia Centre) and organisations abroad (Mama New Media Centre in Zagreb, HackLab in Pula for example). Cyberpipe is a member of the M3C Multimedia Centres Network of Slovenia.
Program
- HAIP Festival (Hack/Act/Interact/Progress Festival), an international biennial festival presents works of young or known artists and creative engineers who use open technologies to create multimedia art forms.
- Cyberpipe runs a Gallery g404, a gallery that offers space for diverse digital art of less known artist. It supports the Creative Commons licence.
- Cyberpipe has a collection of video documents of its activities. The lectures can be watched live stream or recorded.
- 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.
- FreeForAll LAN Parties are being organized to play open code, free games of different genres (for example parties for the lovers of old PC games from 80s and 90s).
- Err0r is a creative collective of people of various backgrounds united to spread their ideas, concepts and knowledge using new ways. They produce interactive inter medial art that goes beyond traditional ways of presenting information. The constant members are Boštjan Špetič, Daša Lakner, Martin Hribar, Anže Veršnik and Andraž Tori.
- Film'šteka are free movie projections. The purpose is to offer an alternative to cinema programs with less known low-budget movies presented in English.
- Kontaminator is a non profit mobile station that enables free distribution of music. It is realized as an object and can be also used as jukebox.
Educational events
- Cyberpipe organizes all kinds of workshops with software (Open Office.org, Linux, Blender, Tablix, Cinelerra, DTP, Mozilla Composer, Pure Data, E-mail culture ...) and hardware (how to assemble a computer, circuit board production workshops, soldering workshop, workshop of producing wireless antennas etc.)
- Pipini odprti termini (POT) are weekly meetings of Linux and other open products users. They are led by Andraž Sraka and consist of introduction lecture and discussion. Cyberpipe organizes them in collaboration with Lugos.
- Spletne urice (SU) "Web Hours" are weekly meetings of web professionals with presentations of current technology topics.
- VIP - »evenings for innovative and enterprising people« are organized by Cyberpipe and LUI (Ljubljana university incubator). The monthly meetings are proposed for people interested in selling new technologies and are moderated by Blaž Kos.
- MobileMonday is a monthly event in Cyberpipe, organized by @tomazstolfa and the @kiberpipa crew. It 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.