Presentation of Ljudmila

Ljudmila - Ljubljana Digital Media Lab is an open-access digital media laboratory with extensive experience since 1994 in connecting new media technologies and artistic projects as well as encouraging broader, savvier, and more creative uses of new technologies. Ljudmila is a digital media lab that focuses on digital production as well as education, research and development of hardware and software. It also provides knowledge, equipment, Internet access, server space, electronic publishing and other affordable networking services to non-governmental and non-profit organisations, art collectives, active individuals, and others.

Ljudmila organises regular workshops in basic and advanced use of open source software (Blender, Pure Data, MediaWiki), as well as the Free Circuit workshops and Digital Dish public lectures and artist talks by international new media artists. The Prosto-vezje programme in general engages in the experimental ("circuit bending", "tinkering" and "kits") development and making of the electronic circuit hacks based on the free software. The participants are encouraged to develop further uses and include the findings in their artistic work.

As a case of good practice, Ljudmila develops the project http://www.culture.si for the Ministry of Culture as a platform fo the international collaboration. It is made in MediaWiki and its content is free to use, licensed under CC, which is quite innovative in terms of governmental projects.

Ljudmila has produced the short film C-Man, Copyright defender: The Hand of the Justice Strikes Again! (12 min). Its  "world premiere" was at the Creative Commons Global Summit in Warsaw in September 2011. It presents the anomalies of the current copyright system in a humorous way: http://www.ljudmila.org/film/c-man/m.html *

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