Open Source success for teaching fellow
Victoria University Media Design teaching fellow Birgit Bachler won the Open Art award at the New Zealand Open Source Awards last night.
The award recognises use of free and open source for creative endeavours of the arts and promotes the contributions of New Zealanders to free and open source projects and philosophy.
Birgit is a real supporter of the Open Source movement.
"The creative coding course I’m currently teaching is taught with open source software processing. I find it is good to introduce students to alternatives to the mainstream creative software company’s products, because different tools foster different forms of creativity."
Birgit taught Digital Video Creation last trimester and is currently teaching Creative Coding in the School of Design.
Birgit won for her exhibition Copy Wildly, which featured in the 2014 Wellington Fringe Festival. Birgit explains it as a playful electronic spectacle of internet culture, media interventions and data appropriation. The entire content and source code of the show was given to attendees on custom made USB-sticks.