fur piksel et al

We live in a world overly contaminated. Both material and inmaterial waste, remnants of human activities, toxic and poisonous imperialistic images flowing through mainstream media as: texts, sounds, videos electronically paired via metadata indexes; and every computer in the network feeding this manic vortex ad-infinitum.

Jean Baudrillard called out for a halt, a "stop!" for the production of more images, more "content", in an attempt to eventually find a way to rethink ourselves again.

Along the same lines we will like to ask if sometimes we reach a similar level in the universe of open source programming, particulary the scale of LiveCD's has proved that the offer surpases by far the demand and even the needs of a certain group of users. Becoming hermetic tools used only by their developers.

We believe that the act of trimming down and making simplified tools to develop precise and specific tasks might be the way to find in this very structure the sense for insurgent programming. And the adoption of this tools ba a wider audience.

But, is there a reason for stopping programmers from developing "new" applications? we tend to think that to call their attention at least, to force a pause from witch they rethink their many times loose efforts could be somehow a sane act. At least to re aim the targets and save the bullets, specially when artisticly driven programmers are so few and amunitions run low so fast.

What about concetrating efforts on instead of the development of "new" things, programming could be building bridges between many of those great software dispositivs that pre-exist. So to make our weapons more precise and stronger? There is no question about the fact that every programmer checks first what is out there before beginning, an economical attitude that could save menthal energy and phisical efforts to the task. Is his/her desition to embark in beginning from scratch, a desition based on a complex judgement of quality, originality, usability or simply another everyday egotistical selfish human act.

We think that in this very economical attemp a programmer that works for an artistic goal should invest his efforts on imbricating his work within the pre-existing world of applications.

We tend to think that in the realm of artistic production there might not be a need for new applications but a need for a creative enterprise that situates many of those pieces of software already written/growing out there in the Open Sorce universe. A process in witch one can trace that what holds together the artistic practices we work for in the less of the institutionalized ways.

"Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program". (basic unix principle)