Snow seems to be a good projection screen. On new year´s eve our friends from klubarbeit.net used their Tagtool suitcase to paint a ski slope in Fieberbrunn.

Photos of a presentation about the Tagtool project by Das Gnu at the Guerilla Convention 08, organized by Arge Kultur Salzburg, Austria.

An interesting new take on making the Tagtool a real performer’s instrument.

Made by Dave aka ibnutty, who will demonstrate the Tagtool at SIGGRAPH 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center:

• Monday 8/11 2:15 - 3:15 pm
  Intro to Tagtool and its interface: Nodekit
• Tuesday 8/12 9:00 - 9:30 pm: Tagtool intro
  9:30 - 10:30 pm: Tagtool session
  
• Wednesday 8/13 6:00 - 6:30 pm: Tagtool intro
  6:30 - 8:00 pm: Tagtool session

For more information you can contact Dave.

23rd of July, Spratzener Kirchenweg, home of Lames, St.Pölten

On the 23th of July, starting at 14:00 there will be a DIY Workshop at the Parque Del Sol 08 Festival in St. Pölten, Austria. Sign up here to join and build your own Tagtool Mini. Materials cost about 60 Euros.

We are happy to announce two upcoming Nodekit Events in Germany.

Breakpoint 2008, world’s biggest pure demoscene event. For the 6th time, up to 1000 creative participants from more than 30 nations are once again expected to gather in the beautiful town of Bingen am Rhein, Germany, from the 21st to the 24th of March 2008, enjoying 4 days of round-the-clock activities in arts, technology and international socializing.

Richard and Markus will give an introduction to the Nodekit, which is a node-based programming environment for interactive graphics that runs the Tagtool program. Richard, as the lead programmer, will explain the software architecture of the Nodekit and demonstrate how to program your own nodes. Markus, as the application designer, will talk about how the project evolved so far, the implications of offering the software under an Open Source licence and about the future roadmap of the project.

Saturday, 22. April 2008, 14:45
Seminar: Introducing the Nodekit - An Open-source Node-based Programming Environment for Interactive Graphics

NODE08 provides an event to the ever growing vvvv community, to get to know each other, to present, to exchange and share with a curious and interested audience. NODE08 is also part of the Luminale light art festival, which takes place at the same time in Frankfurt and will be supported by lighting art and lighting installations created by our participants.

The goal of the workshop is to communicate between vvvv and the Nodekit. We will send the data collected by drawing onto the Tagtool to vvvv to create parallel visual remixes.

Attention! Date has been changed to Thursday, 10th of April
UPDATE: The workshops take place on Wednesday, 9th of April
10am-1pm: Tagtool & Nodekit Workshop
2:30-5:30pm: Nodekit talks to VVVV over OSC Workshop