- Jaromil
Biography
Free Software programmer and streaming media pioneer, media artist and activist, performer and emigrant. Wired to the matrix since 1991 (point of NeuromanteBBS on Cybernet 65:1500/3.13), co-founded in 1994 the non-profit organization Metro Olografix for the diffusion of telematics, then founded in 2000 the free software lab dyne.org ; sub-root for the autistici.org /inventati.org community since 2001, also active within the italy indymedia collective. As a programmer he is author and mantainer of three free softwares (GNU GPL): MuSE ,FreeJ and HasciiCam , pionieristic in offering new possibilities for online radios and in dealing with audio streaming and realtime video manipulation in a unique way; also author of the GNU/Linux distribution [dyne:bolic] : a bootable CD offering an easy to use operating system (without the need for an hard disk installation) and a toolkit useful for media hacktivism and online radio streaming. Co-author of TUBOCATODICO , developed the software for Sophisticated Soiree (ZKM/intermedium02 award ) performing it on tour the 2001/2002; programmer and performer with the theatre company Giardini Pensili since several years having contributed to the realization of pieces like Animalie ,Metamorfosi ,Affreschi ,Il Cartografo . Recently co-curated the I LOVE YOU exposition about software viruses in the Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt. His most recent online piece is FARAH : the documentation of a travel thru the occupied territories of Palestine, in search for joy. Collaborations include: Ars Electronica Center / Futurelab ,PUBLIC VOICE Lab ,Giardini Pensili ,digitalcraft.org ,01001.org ,August Black ,[epidemiC] ,Florian Cramer ,92v2.0 ,LOA hacklab , Lobo, Freaknet Medialab ,CandidaTV ,the Mitocondri , the HackMeeting community.
jaromil@dyne.org