Implemented image reference update

_config.yml

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ description: > # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
   Our focus is on intermedia arts and technologies, but we love to be surprised..!
 baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog/
 url: "http://scopesessions.org" # the base hostname & protocol for your site
-paginate: 8
 paginate_path: "page:num/"
 # Build settings
 markdown: kramdown

_plugins/image-reference-update.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+require 'uri'
+require 'faraday'
+require 'yaml'
+
+class Localizer
+
+  IMAGE_FIELDS = ["media_artist_url"]
+
+  attr_reader :post_directory, :image_directory
+
+  def initialize(post_directory, image_directory)
+    @post_directory = post_directory
+    @image_directory = image_directory
+  end
+
+
+  def localize_images
+    Dir.foreach(@post_directory) do |file|
+      next if !(file.end_with?('md') || file.end_with?('.markdown'))
+      transform_file("#{@post_directory}#{File::SEPARATOR}#{file}")
+    end
+  end
+
+
+  private
+
+
+  def local_image_filename(url)
+    uri = URI(url)
+    "#{image_directory}#{File::SEPARATOR}#{File.basename(uri.path)}"
+  end
+
+
+  # downloads the file locally if it hasn't already been downloaded
+  def ensure_local_image(url, local_file)
+    return local_file if File.exist?(local_file)
+
+    connection = Faraday.new do |faraday|
+      faraday.adapter(Faraday.default_adapter)
+    end
+    response = download_file_helper(connection, url)
+    File.open(local_file, 'wb') { |file| file << response.body }
+
+    local_file
+  end
+
+  # helper to make sure that we can follow redirects, which can be important for
+  # many of the cloud file sharing services out there.
+  def download_file_helper(connection, url)
+    response = connection.get do |req|
+      req.url(url)
+    end
+
+    case response.status
+    when 302
+      download_file_helper(connection, response['Location'])
+    when 200
+      response
+    else
+      raise "Error downloading file: #{response.status}"
+    end
+  end
+
+
+  def transform_file(file)
+    puts "Transforming #{file}"
+    contents = File.read(file, encoding: 'UTF-8')
+
+    # Step 1: get all the images that must be downloaded
+    yaml = YAML.load(contents)
+
+    yaml['talks'].each do |talk|
+     IMAGE_FIELDS.each do |image_field|
+
+      image_url = talk[image_field]
+
+      next unless !image_url.nil? && (image_url.start_with?('http') || image_url.start_with?('https'))
+
+      local_image = local_image_filename(image_url)
+
+      begin
+        ensure_local_image(image_url, local_image)
+      rescue
+        puts "Error downloading locally for image: #{image_url}"
+        next
+      end
+
+      # talk[image_field] = local_image
+      contents = contents.gsub(image_url,"/"+local_image)
+
+     end
+    end
+
+    # Step 3: replace the file itself
+    File.unlink(file)
+    File.open(file, "w", encoding: "UTF-8") { |file| file.puts contents }
+  end
+
+end
+
+localizer = Localizer.new('_posts', 'images')
+localizer.localize_images

_plugins/jekyll-download-local-images-plugin.rb

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# module Reading
-#   class Generator < Jekyll::Generator
-#     def generate(site)
-#       test = True
-#     end
-#   end
-# end

_posts/2013-03-14-Scope020.markdown

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ talks:
 
 Her imagery plays with narrative structures, developing dreamy and intimate universes, exploring various forms of interplay between body, images in motion, deconstructive narrations and self-mythology. Her performances articulate live scenography protocols integrating video as an environment medium, often using real-time camera feedback, considering the black box as a possible oneiric space, where sounds and images communicate in a poetic and narrative journey."
   artist_website: "http://auderrose.de/"
-  media_artist_url: "http://aude-f.com/wp-content/gallery/foggriver/auderrose_brentsqar_river_fogg_proseco_blur_lubitel_02.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/auderrose_brentsqar_river_fogg_proseco_blur_lubitel_02.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "http://vimeo.com/57212575"
   talk_video_url: ""
 - title: ""
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Her imagery plays with narrative structures, developing dreamy and intimate univ
 David Sanz Kirbis is a multidisciplinary experimenter interested in how things work and in finding creative solutions to technical projects. He is currently working as researcher towards a PhD in the field of Art and Technology at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. With an eclectic background as computer technician, product design engineer, and independent filmmaker he is interested in design, mechanics, electronics, programming, robotics, philosophy and photography. David was recently hosted as fellow of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, directed by Golan Levin, at the Carnegie Mellon University."
   description: "David and Mey are currently working on their project Tower of Babel, an emergent robotic sculpture that builds itself. A pack of small, autonomous robots is trying to climb on top of each other in order to form a tower. At some point, the tower gets too high and the robots fall down. This project is supported by Fundacion Telefonica’s VIDA Art and Artificial Life International Awards."
   artist_website: "http://meyleankronemann.de, http://therandomlab.blogspot.de"
-  media_artist_url: "http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BlD_CjY8kRw/Ug4sqVsH0gI/AAAAAAAAA4M/YalNj2ETb60/s1600/IMG_20130714_163720.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/IMG_20130714_163720.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "http://www.vimeo.org/1234"
   talk_video_url: "http://vimeo.com/63363297"
 ---

_posts/2013-04-11-Scope021.markdown

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Duo Ewelina Aleksandrowicz and Andrzej Wojtas (Tikul & Jendrek), known collectively as Pussykrew, make art that eludes convention and merges the erotic and the ethereal with exquisite finesse. Using both visual and sonic media, the two artists marry the maximalist sensations of glitch with minimalist destructiveness to give performances that are beyond experimental. They are Berlin based artists who are collaboratively working within the area of new media. Their interdisciplinary practices range from audio-visual performance, live coding, multimedia installations to sound experiments, sensor based technologies and DIY electronics. During their production of live visuals, video installations and videoclips they have collaborated with Leila, Darkstar (WARP Records) HTRK (Work, work, work Tour 2011 – Ghostly International), Raime (Blackest Ever Black) and Oni Ayhun amongst others."
   description: "In 2010 they’ve started their audio-visual noise project – Domestic Violence, which merges field recordings, live coding and audio-responsive glitches, by using self-made interfaces, controllers and patches. Domestic Violence performed in Finland, Germany, UK, Italy and Poland. work by Tikul & Jendre has been presented at digital arts and video festivals around the world. They are constantly trying to challenge the viewer, through exploration of identity / queerness of human body / architectural objects and their transformations, synthetic-organic textures, glitch aesthetics, physicality of image and sound.Their works are attempting to bend the perception of time – intensify the senses and reactivate the dismissed areas of psyche."
   artist_website: "http://niochnioszki.net"
-  media_artist_url: "http://niochnioszki.net/xxx/files/gimgs/72_MP9B3943_01_web.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/72_MP9B3943_01_web.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "http://vimeo.com/66639911"
   talk_video_url: "http://vimeo.com/65547327"
 - title: ""
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Gabriel Shalom is a director, audiovisual artist and composer living and working in Berlin, Germany. His signature work takes the form of rhythmically edited audiovisual compositions (videomusic). Taking inspiration from musique concrète, he explores the hidden musicality of everyday objects, unusual handmade electro-acoustic instruments, and manipulation of traditional instruments. He understands video to be a fundamentally audiovisual medium and strives to create highly synaesthetic works. His five channel videomusical installation The Tosso Variations premiered in his solo exhibition at MU Eindhoven. He has written and spoken extensively on Hypercubism, his theory of object-oriented aesthetics. He has been commissioned by brands such as MINI, Sony and BMW Italy. He has been an artist in residence at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, ZKM Karlsruhe and the CAMP Festival in Stuttgart. He is a member of the 2012 class of the Art Directors Club Young Guns. In addition to his audiovisual work, Gabriel is a director of experimental narratives. His video essays are meditative reflections on the zeitgeist, often influenced by his theory of aesthetics, Hypercubism. His company KS12, founded together with partner Patrizia Kommerell, is a creative studio for experimental storytelling. KS12 has been commissioned by various media arts festivals such as Transmediale (Berlin), STRP (Eindhoven), and NODE Forum for Digital Arts (Frankfurt), as well as companies and organizations such as Wieden + Kennedy, British Council, BOX 1824 and Meiré und Meiré"
   description: ""
   artist_website: "http://www.gabrielshalom.com"
-  media_artist_url: "http://www.gabrielshalom.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/WKV_980px.png"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/WKV_980px.png"
   video_artist_url: "http://vimeo.com/19459499"
   talk_video_url: "http://vimeo.com/65552132"
 - title: ""
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Kaska was born in Warsaw, was educated at the National Film School in Lodz (Poland), and now lives in Berlin. She has created visuals for Schneider TM, Murcof, Deadbeat, Lady Aarp, Makaruk, Vitor Joaquim and has performed her work at Electrovision (London), noise=noise, Transvisualia Warsaw, Cynetart Dresden, Unsound Krakow, wro, Hau and at the Volksbühne (Berlin)."
   description: "Kasia is a one man studio, audiovisual composer, video-maker and live performer who loves to experiment. She is driven by a desire to find beauty in an ugly world and amplifies images, sounds and lights with her inner emotions, feelings, intuitions. Her work is a combination of the harsh and delicate. Electricity is what she is sure of and relies on. Making narrative cinematic concerts, she invents new paradigms of audio-visual performance, installation art and short films."
   artist_website: "http://just-k.info"
-  media_artist_url: "http://just-k.info/k2.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/k2.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKg4NlUDbeI"
   talk_video_url: ""
 ---

_posts/2013-05-09-Scope022.markdown

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Tokyo Data is a creative collective who understands its mission to engage emerging contemporary New Media artists and initiate transdisciplinary work between the universes of video art, acoustic architecture, performing arts, motion, interactive design, photography and graphic arts."
   description: "Their performance De Koog is a multi-media exploration that fuses together electronics and acoustics, light and sound, man and machine. It can be watched, touched, played, heard and experienced both as performer or audience. Its eyes and ears take in data from the surroundings and it responds to these stimuli with jittering visuals, harsh synthesis and animal screams."
   artist_website: "http://tokyodatacollective.com"
-  media_artist_url: "http://tokyodatacollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/commandements-4.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/commandements-4.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/64406739"
   talk_video_url: "https://vimeo.com/65964829"
 - title: ""
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ talks:
 Her work deals with identity, humor, and acidity. She presented her work at audiovisual festivals like Mapping (Ch), LPM (It), Visual Berlin Festival (De), and Vision’R (Fr), including VJ solos and collective projects with ‘Homemade Collective’ and the duo ‘:NÄ:’. Her music videos and short animation movies have been screened in festivals as the International Animation Film Festivals of Moscow ( 2011) and Stuttgart (official music video selection, 2011), Cinemabrut (2010) and many more."
   description: "For this years LPM edition, she will premiere the Piece «Parade: Ouverture», which is the first act of the “Parade A/V live performance project”, inspired freely on “The Atrocity Exhibition” of the writer J.G. Ballard. In collaboration with the sound artist Swub, it deals with spam messages, white lights, birds, electricity, schizophrenia, and Abba music."
   artist_website: "http://www.a-li-ce.com"
-  media_artist_url: "http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/51673/2008102/managua_still02_web.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/managua_still02_web.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "http://vimeo.com/29071156"
   talk_video_url: "https://vimeo.com/65964830"
 ---

_posts/2013-06-06-Scope023.markdown

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Rainer Kohlberger is an Austrian born Freelance Visual Artist living in Berlin. His work is primarily based on algorithmically generated graphics that are exposed in live performances, installations and mobile apps. For his work «field» he won the ZKM App Art Award for artistic innovation. He received the Crossing Europe Local Artist Award 2013 for his work «humming, fast and slow»."
   description: "«My talk will examine the colors of noise, the worms in my signals and the serendipity of music. The black square is the feeling. The white field equals the voice beyond this feeling. The metal machine will display my work.»"
   artist_website: "http://kohlberger.net"
-  media_artist_url: "http://kohlberger.net/wp-content/files/humming-fast-and-slow-1.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/humming-fast-and-slow-1.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/31265234"
   talk_video_url: ""
 - title: "Story and development of the Mixxeo digital video mixer"
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Sébastien Bourdeauducq is an inventor passionate about science, electronics and open source. After working for several small companies – which included developing the Wi-Fi driver infrastructure for the Nabaztag/tag – he founded Milkymist Labs in the summer of 2007."
   description: "Many video artists need a device that can blend video streams from two or more computers. A common solution is to use SD analog video and a commercially available mixer such as the Edirol V4. But the move to the better quality of digital video and the high cost of commercial digital mixers has prompted community developments of alternative devices."
   artist_website: "http://m-labs.hk"
-  media_artist_url: "http://m-labs.hk/m1.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/m1.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/30824902"
   talk_video_url: ""
 - title: "Kunst, Kultur & Kino Collage"
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "ReVerse Bullets is a rotating lineup of filmmakers, musicians and visual artists founded by filmmaker Jon-Carlos Evans in New York City in 2009. . Through a collision of industrial noise cum funk and psychedelic synths, ReVerse Bullets project audiovisual “anti-propaganda” and noise-collage molotovs like an amalgam of Stan Brakhage cum Sonic Youth and Sergei Eisenstein cum Massive Attack. Twisted samples of capitalist, western & religious propaganda collide with the band’s electronic cum noise funk and dialectic imagery to create a sensory experience that is part multimedia essay, improvisational electronica, performance art and rock concert."
   description: "“Kunst, Kultur & Kino Kollage” will be an examination of the process of re-appropriating the images and sounds of pop culture, propaganda, educational films, and the tools of the populist media to create subversive audiovisual art. The talk will feature an analysis of the creation of the debut ReVerse Bullets’ album, “Drapetomania!,” along with a preview of new material collaborated with Nicolo Sommer (BIINDS)."
   artist_website: "http://www.reverse-bullets.com"
-  media_artist_url: "http://media.tumblr.com/71f40e1b9cf8a73e73de0edf07303c57/tumblr_inline_mjlw1avNFu1qm6vsu.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/tumblr_inline_mjlw1avNFu1qm6vsu.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/45909687"
   talk_video_url: ""
 ---

_posts/2013-07-11-Scope024.markdown

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ talks:
 Dittrich teaches at five universities/colleges and engages in a number of projects in the realm of audio/visual and projection mapping, in Sweden as well as the rest of Europe and North America."
   description: ""
   artist_website: "http://joeldittrich.se/"
-  media_artist_url: "http://joeldittrich.se/wp-content/uploads/elektra03wp_edt.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/elektra03wp_edt.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "http://vimeo.com/69835639"
   talk_video_url: "http://vimeo.com/70332059"
 - title: ""
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Dittrich teaches at five universities/colleges and engages in a number of projec
 In 2004 Christopher Bauder founded studio WHITEvoid as a necessity to realize his large scale art and design pieces and environments. The studio is comprised of specialists in interaction design, media design, product design, interior architecture and electronic engineering. The interactive installations and products are created for museums, exhibitions and trade fairs, festivals, concerts and clubs. WHITEvoid’s designs are exhibited and experienced internationally and have gained worldwide recognition."
   description: ">lights are screens and screens are lights. pixels become physical and tangible. buildings and spaces are shaped by computer generated patterns and mathematical algorithms. in the age of projection mapping the real and the digital world are merging to form a new reality. real and virtual worlds are inseparable. Christopher Bauder talks about chances and challenges for computer aided design and scenography.<"
   artist_website: "http://www.whitevoid.com"
-  media_artist_url: "http://www.whitevoid.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/lichtgrenze_137-940x627.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/lichtgrenze_137-940x627.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/45859302"
   talk_video_url: "https://vimeo.com/70323838"
 - title: ""

_posts/2013-09-12-Scope025.markdown

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Tim grew up in a radio & TV shop. His experience that his father was a enthusiast hobby photographer and his mother beeing a seller of dance music in the store then might have lead him into live visualism, aka Vjing. After finding that visualist niche he started VJing in 2005 and developed his own styles using the Textmachine3D VJ software. From 2009 on he is co-producer of the B-Side Festival in Mannheim/Germany serving there as the technical manager."
   description: "Now that we have overcome the limited possibilites of old-style SD mixing by the development of new Hard and Software, there is the opportunity to redefine the VJ as a performer, not only beeing a controller of some software, which he was mostly after SD-Video outputs on the computers have been suspended. The talk is on concepts, ideas and the small tech-toys that make these reality."
   artist_website: "http://blog.timvis.de"
-  media_artist_url: "http://timvis.de/blog/wp-content/gallery/nachtwandel/p1000518.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/p1000518.jpg"
   video_artist_url: ""
   talk_video_url: ""
 - title: "Patch:audio_visual lab"
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Elwira Wojtunik and Popesz Csaba Láng :: Polish-Hungarian duet of visual artists, also known as Elektro Moon Vision founded in 2004 in Budapest. They design unique visual live-acts based on live experiments with the video surface, wide-format projections, mappings, audiovisual performances, interactive video-installations or video projections for theatre shows."
   description: "will present P a t c h :audio_visual lab – international festival dedicated to the contemporary digital art forms, which they organize in Krakow, Poland as an AV Node member. This year it will take place from 10-12 Oct at the Contemporary Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki in the center of Krakow (exhibition,performances and workshops) and Forum Przestrzenie (Audiovisual Night). They will present the concept and form of the event and also present selected artists and their artworks which will be presented on this year edition."
   artist_website: "http://elektromoon.co.nr"
-  media_artist_url: "https://elektromoonvision.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/dwojenahustwace.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/dwojenahustwace.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "http://vimeo.com/87604435"
   talk_video_url: ""
 - title: ""
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ talks:
 She has showcased her work at events such as Glastonbury festival (Uk), Leeds Festival (Uk), LPM (Italy), Sonica Dance Festival (Montenegro), AV playground (Austria), Burning Mountain Festival (Switzerland)."
   description: " She will talk about her personal approach to creating video material coming from a fine arts / printmaking and graphic design background and through a selection of projects. This includes ‘Memento Mori‘ which uses stop motion collages to remix religious iconography, and ‘The Space Between Us’ which uses physical performance art of walking between destinations in a landscape. She will also cover some of the experiences that have impacted on her practice such as working with the Australian collective Essence and undertaking a visual arts residency in Tallinn Estonia in 2012."
   artist_website: "http://vjradiance.com"
-  media_artist_url: "http://vjradiance.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/matrox_design1.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/matrox_design1.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "http://vimeo.com/39488403"
   talk_video_url: ""
 ---

_posts/2013-10-10-Scope026.markdown

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ He will also premiere the latest soon to be released 6th version of his other ap
   artist_bio: "Malte Steiner is media artist, sound designer and software developer. Starting around 1983, developing his own vision of the interdisciplinary Gesamtkunstwerk, working with, and not limited to, film, theater, video games and interactive installations. Releases on cassette, vinyl, CD and online. Concerts, exhibitions, and collaborations in Europe, Asia and America. In 2011 he moved to Berlin and opened his own media lab to work on his projects like Notstandskomitee, Elektronengehirn, Akustikkoppler with Matthias Schuster from Hamburg and Restlichtverstärker with Servando Barreiro, but also mastering and remixing other artists. He organizes twice a month the Pure Data Berlin ‘patching circle’ at Berlins well known C-Base."
   description: "n his talk, Steiner will show the use of open source game engines for live visuals and interactive art pieces from the humble beginnings in late 90s towards today. He currently develops and shares a system based on the engine Panda 3D which can be programmed in Python. With the implementation of full OSC control it can communicate with any other data from applications, like Pure Data…"
   artist_website: "http://block4.com"
-  media_artist_url: "http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1EVfPwY9vYY/U0rqQ0tVcHI/AAAAAAAAAZE/dCriooDfiMY/s1600/solderWorkshop.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/solderWorkshop.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "http://vimeo.com/47792171"
   talk_video_url: "http://vimeo.com/78046414"
 ---

_posts/2013-11-14-Scope027.markdown

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ talks:
   description: "Tarik will present his ‘Versum’ software, which was originally developed as a 3D audiovisual sequencer for the purpose of creating music by flying through melodies within a virtual space. The software has been gradually adapted to be a purely visual tool and works with any kind of music.
 At the end of his talk Tarik will give a demonstration of his work by doing an audiovisual piece together with singer Lea Fabrikant, involving live audio/video recording and looping in 3D."
   artist_website: "http://tarikbarri.nl"
-  media_artist_url: "http://tarikbarri.nl/img/Atlas2.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/Atlas2.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "http://vimeo.com/109702847"
   talk_video_url: ""
 - title: "TelevisArte Installation"
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ At the end of his talk Tarik will give a demonstration of his work by doing an a
   artist_bio: "In TorpeDeArte’s audiovisual collective we don’t believe in definite unconditional concepts like truth, perfection or beauty and therefore we don’t seek a single artistic end. We believe in the beauty of the interactive process in itself. Our art is born from the participation with the medium and the people. The flexibility of our creative process defines the final expression and frees us from all categorical artistic objectives. We believe in not having a preestablished aim to allow the interaction to produce its own concept of beauty in a dialectic process.We are the interstellar multidisciplinary and undisciplined Dadaists of tomorrow. We firmly believe in art as the result of the collision of the work and the spectator. The coming together of the essence of the medium and the conscience of the audience. TorpeDeArte has the only purpose of artistic creation. Each member brings the best of his or her world to our common project, meeting up only for productive artistic creation. From our first steps as a community it became clear that we had no intention to submit or control our art. We don’t believe in the attitude of the autonomous-independent artist who must administer and preside over every single little detail. The richness of our project is the ultimate freedom of what we do. What will be, will be, in a self-determining artistic interaction."
   description: "The project is based on TorpeDeArte’s shared perception of art as an active form of research. We don’t believe in one path for the creative process. There are infinite means to reach any one end and infinite unimaginable ends awaiting to be discovered. All we need is to establish a creative public platform.The crowd becomes a basic part of the installation. The participants are transformed and deformed, while maintaining their intrinsic identities.Through the creative process the projected and physical images merge erasing the boundaries between fiction and reality, art and nature."
   artist_website: "http://lemonfacefilms.com/interactive.html"
-  media_artist_url: "http://lemonfacefilms.com/images/urbaniz1.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/urbaniz1.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/15252778"
   talk_video_url: ""
 ---

_posts/2013-12-12-Scope028.markdown

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Also in charge of a small co-working space, Atelier Äuglein, hosting nine cowor
   description: "Julien will present a selection of his past work, mostly video mapping,
 and also introduce a community event he will start in January : A video mapping jam evening, happening once every two months in the Atelier."
   artist_website: "http://julienbach.com"
-  media_artist_url: "http://julienbach.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Hanging_garden-Remastered_DEF-770x577.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/Hanging_garden-Remastered_DEF-770x577.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "http://vimeo.com/46736893"
   talk_video_url: "http://vimeo.com/88064242"
 - title: "Writing movement in interactive mediated spaces"
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ and also introduce a community event he will start in January : A video mapping
   artist_bio: "StratoFyzika is a collective creating movement-based interactive audiovisual performances. They are three artists of various backgrounds; each representing one “stratum” of perception: audio, visual and movement. We use the laws of physics (Fyzika) as a metaphorical way of explaining material states from the realms of imagination, emotions and spirit."
   description: "In this talk StratoFyzika will speak about their experience in experimenting with audio-visual-movement performances and recent collaborations with other artists. The use of sensors and wearable technologies, mapping the parameters of human movement to those possible in the world of sound and projection, as well as the use of physical and digital shadows together to visually represent the unconscious vibration of the ego in time."
   artist_website: "http://www.stratofyzika.com"
-  media_artist_url: "http://payload135.cargocollective.com/1/10/337062/5016687/DJL_00045606.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/DJL_00045606.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "http://vimeo.com/69121498"
   talk_video_url: "http://vimeo.com/88064243"
 ---

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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ talks:
   description: "The talk will be about the role of custom software and manufacturing techniques as part of the design and prototyping process in our daily work and thinking.
 We will present some of our recent projects and discuss the processes and technologies behind them."
   artist_website: "http://www.feld.is"
-  media_artist_url: "http://www.feld.is/content/3.projects/201301.luminous-sculpture/_teaser/04_LS.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/04_LS.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "http://vimeo.com/78064366"
   talk_video_url: ""
 - title: ""
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ We will present some of our recent projects and discuss the processes and techno
   artist_bio: "Valentina Ferrandes is an italian artist living in Berlin. Her video and sound pieces explore possible connections between micro-narratives, landscapes and urban geography."
   description: "Valentina will present her project “Berg“, an exploration of Teufelsberg Listening Station comprising a video and a GPS triggered soundscape for iPhone and iPad."
   artist_website: "http://www.valentinaferrandes.com"
-  media_artist_url: "http://www.valentinaferrandes.com/images/Video/Berg/berg-1.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/berg-1.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/94533312"
   talk_video_url: "https://vimeo.com/89011441"
 - title: ""
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ We will present some of our recent projects and discuss the processes and techno
   artist_bio: "Italian artist, born in 1987, lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His works encompass from Vjiing, Audio/Visual Interactions, Mapping, Interactive installations to Scenic-design and investigate mostly on the decomposition of micro/macro cosmos."
   description: "Drøp is an electronic music project born in Berlin in 2010 by Giuseppe Bifulcosound designer and engineer. It focuses on sounds investigation and experimentation, not that much in an aesthetic meaning, rather than in a perceptual and sensorial one, considering the sound as a bundle of informations that deal with psycho-acoustic and music therapy."
   artist_website: "http://famifax.com"
-  media_artist_url: "http://i60.tinypic.com/kdx1g2.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/kdx1g2.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "http://vimeo.com/90115592"
   talk_video_url: "http://vimeo.com/88436760"
 ---

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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Martin Mayer is a visual artist and VJ based in Munich, working under the alias sinsynplus since 2001. He studied media art at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts and is co-founder of the multimedia art duo mayer+empl. In this multimedia art duo Martin Mayer and Quirin Empl are specialized in interior and exterior 3D video mapping – an art form that uses architecture, shape and conditions of the room to project moving images, light or graphics on abstract surfaces, and thus creating entirely new atmospheric spaces."
   description: "After his talk, Martin will immediately change spaces and head back to zeitraum.exit to prepare his performance project , that will be performed at 10pm! Will will join them after our session!"
   artist_website: "http://sinsynplus.de/"
-  media_artist_url: "http://31.media.tumblr.com/91a7bfc9d38f8d97cb90ed6353851984/tumblr_n67e9uMKjJ1rutzzso1_1280.gif"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/tumblr_n67e9uMKjJ1rutzzso1_1280.gif"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/81605066"
   talk_video_url:
 - title: "ë - anya orel and e"
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ talks:
   E aka Torsten Höhle is a native Berliner – kindergarten ost, punk, postpunk, graffiti, graphics, upcycling art, techno. With his collective E-Gruppe, founded 1995, they are indefatigably activ in vjing and visual installations since 2002."
   description: ""
   artist_website: "http://jjio.soup.io/"
-  media_artist_url: "http://asset-9.soup.io/asset/8967/9694_9e8e_500.jpeg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/9694_9e8e_500.jpeg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/82451996"
   talk_video_url:
 - title: "Mixing art and science – enthalpy, entropy, visual narration, and dance"
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ talks:
   Some concepts, like macromolecular flexibility, protein ensembles, or enthapy- entropy compensation, which are often difficult to explain, can be portrayed by dance and video art in a form that is readily accessible to non-scientists. This is of a crucial importance for explaining the concepts to children or otherwise popularising life sciences. ! This also goes the other way round. Science itself can be the source of inspiration for the art. Protein dynamics and ligand-protein interactions can serve as a canvas for story-telling, and the concept of periodic boundary conditions (PBC) used in molecular simulations can be exploited as a parallel to the concept of social roles, etc etc. Last but not least, structural biology, structure-based molecular design, and molecular modelling use tools which can also be used by visual artists for other purposes."
   description: "In my talk I will briefly introduce the concepts, data sources, and tools, which can be used by visual artists in their work. I will focus on the need for motion graphics, especially in depicting the phenomena which involve dynamic components hence the entropic terms (e.g. drug-receptor interactions, rational drug design). Finally, I will ask for ideas and feedback from the audience about the future directions in visualising the dynamic and multi-scale data."
   artist_website: "http://www.trashpuzzle.com/"
-  media_artist_url: "https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5499/11372298575_76b899b854.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/11372298575_76b899b854.jpg"
   video_artist_url:
   talk_video_url:
 ---

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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Chuuu is a painter, vj and live performer. He grew up in Kyoto, Japan, and graduated at the Kyoto Seika University, that is well known for its faculties for manga and anime. After moving to Berlin he got involved in more action based art practices. As a VJ he got famous for his elaborate visual animations turning on the vinyl player, telling handdrawn stories. In fact a very traditional way and once pioneering discovery for moving images – so called Phenakistoscope. "
   description: "Chuuu recently works on the intersection of noise music and live drawings. In his talk, we will give some close-ups to art practices. Follow him on his blog: chuuu.hateblo.jp"
   artist_website: "http://chuuu.xxxxxxxx.jp/"
-  media_artist_url: "https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3849/14606037617_5198f60407.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/14606037617_5198f60407.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/9282362"
   talk_video_url:
 - title: "Mahir Duman"
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "In May 2010 “trashpuzzle” was born. Their aim was to entertain people on a party by performing a handmade live-collage, that was projected on a wall. They used an old technology – episcope and a little transport band to let the pictures move automatically. The effect was fantastic. The dancefloor turned into a colorful carpet made of our pictures. People were fascinated with their spontaneous creations. Some even joined their session."
   description: "During three years Trashpuzzle developed. New people joined the group, equipment has evolved and they gave dozens of shows in clubs around Berlin and other cities. Antique episcope has been replaced by beamer. The transport band is filmed by a live mix of two cameras that are hidden in a black box. And the group expanded to five members, who are pushing the idea forward and have a lot of fun."
   artist_website: "http://www.trashpuzzle.com/"
-  media_artist_url: "https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5499/11372298575_76b899b854.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/11372298575_76b899b854.jpg"
   video_artist_url:
   talk_video_url:
 ---

_posts/2014-05-08-Scope032.markdown

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ talks:
   dass nichts aussehen muss wie es gerade scheint
   langsam begreifen wir, dass wir in einer kuenstlichen welt leben, die aussieht wie sie aussehen soll. die oberflaeche der dinge die uns bestimmen sind erdacht, gestaltet und in unseren alltag geschmuggelt. die LiCHTPiRATEN kapern das antlitz von etwas, uebernehmen darueber kontrolle, zeichnen um, deuten an. Schicht fuer schicht verschmelzen die ebenen der wahrnehmeung und hinterlassen ein vibrieren in der seele, dass daran erinnert: es ist leicht frei zu sein."
   artist_website: "http://lichtpiraten.net"
-  media_artist_url: "http://lichtpiraten.net/images/dynamic/W1siZmYiLCIvaG9tZS9kZXBsb3kvbG9jb21vdGl2ZS9yZWxlYXNlcy8yMDE0MDcxNjA4MzMxMS9wdWJsaWMvc2l0ZXMvNTQ1NGViOTc5NWFlMGFhZjJlMDA5MzZmL2NvbnRlbnRfZW50cnk1NDU0ZWJhMjk1YWUwYWFmMmUwMDkzOGQvNTQ1OWY1YmM5NWFlMGEyMTA1MDAwMGViL2ZpbGVzL0lNR18wMDk1X3NtYWxsLXVyaWViZS5qcGciXSxbInAiLCJ0aHVtYiIsIjkwMHg2MDAiXV0/IMG_0095_small-uriebe.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/IMG_0095_small-uriebe.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/86825341"
   talk_video_url:
 - title: "Conquering the world though Art & Science"
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Peter Kolski grew up in the environment, which seems to leave no other choice than becoming an artist. In Berlin. The fascination of a digital world, led in early years to program own games. To express himself, first movies were done in school. To investigate the depth of the universe, he studied physics. First steps in the art world began in 2001 with visuals installations in exhibitions. So did he do first live visual shows as a VJ to live music. The VJ work was performed internationally in widely renown night clubs. Bildpeter played in multiple bands as live visualist to support the bands music experience. The film-work ranges from experimental films to visual poetry, from political activism to band videos. Science is seen by Peter Kolski as the beauty of thoughts and curiosity between nature and philosophy. His scientific work is strongly influenced by his art, as an unconventional way of investigation. The fields of self-organisation and complex systems are approached strongly visually."
   description: "The talk will give an overview of the three main fields of BildPeters work: digital art, film/photography and science. It will touch fields like: VJing with Quartz Composer. Video generation with Processing and OpenFrameworks. Filming with DSLRs. Science with an iPad."
   artist_website: "http://www.bildpeter.de"
-  media_artist_url: "http://www.bildpeter.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/The-glow-in-my-soul-300x200.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/The-glow-in-my-soul-300x200.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/19297541"
   talk_video_url:
 - title: "Breaking the Screen"
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Fader is a visual artist who works with multimedia in a variety of disciplines. From video mapping, generative animation, music videos, stage design to art installations, his work has been shown to broad audiences around the world. He has exhibited at numerous festivals such as Coachella (Indio), Burningman (Black Rock City), Insomniac Events (Los Angeles), Fuji Rock Festival (Japan) and the Mapping Festival (Geneva)."
   description: "I will discuss how my work have progressed into areas such as video mapping and stage design in the past 10 years. My presentation will focus on the deconstruction of the rectangular video screen where the form is just as important as the content."
   artist_website: "http://www.vjfader.com"
-  media_artist_url: "http://www.vjfader.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/vjfader_h.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/vjfader_h.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/44354614"
   talk_video_url:
 ---

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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "In the late 1980s and early 1990s Richard Tuohy was an active member of the Melbourne Super 8 Film Group.  He suspended his work in film for several years, studying philosophy, music and botany, before returning to the medium in 2005.  Since then he has created almost 40 films, first on Super 8 and more recently on 16mm.  His films have screened at venues including the Melbourne IFF, EMAF (Osnabruck), Rotterdam IFF, New York Film Festival and Media City and he has toured  Europe and North America presenting solo programs of his work.  His films are part of the ‘hand-made’ film tradition.  His films to date have shown two principal concerns: a fascination with abstractions from nature and with the materialist film tradition.  His films are typically highly structured and formalist.  As well as running the only lab for small gauge film in Australia – the artist-run lab nanolab – Richard was also one of the founding directors of the Australian International Experimental Film Festival.  He is also the convener of the Artist Film Workshop – an artist run laboratory and screening initiative in Melbourne."
   description: "After a brief contextualising introduction, I will perform my two x 16mm projector expanded cinema piece Dot Matrix (2013, 16 minutes).  I will then give an account of the works origins and my working proceedure for its creation.  I will contrast this film with two earlier works of mine - Flyscreen and Dot Matrix.  I will also endevour to give a brief account of the place of Dot Matrix in the structuralist film tradition."
   artist_website: "http://nanolab.com.au/richard_tuohy.htm"
-  media_artist_url: "http://nanolab.com.au/web_images/richard%20tuohy%20photo%20web%20photo.JPG"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/richard%20tuohy%20photo%20web%20photo.JPG"
   video_artist_url:
   talk_video_url:
 - title: "VGA-Hacking or Materiality in a Digital World"
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ talks:
 
   Digital is not always virtual. It is sometimes real, too."
   artist_website: "http://wolfgang-spahn.de"
-  media_artist_url: "http://wolfgang-spahn.de/Bilder/Installation/Elephants_Graveyard_175216_WSpahn.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/Elephants_Graveyard_175216_WSpahn.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/85103965"
   talk_video_url:
 - title: "Making the Picture of the Early Universe"
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Ercan is an information scientist born in Turkey. He received his PhD degree from Cambridge in 1998 on information engineering. Upon graduation, he worked in Xerox Research Center, Cambridge in the Collaborative Multimedia Systems group and then in INRIA-Sophia Antipolis, France. He currently holds a permanent senior researcher position in Italian National Research Council, CNR, Pisa and is an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics. His research interests are in signal processing and information theory with applications in image processing, telecommunications, astronomy and genetics. He is also the Editor in Chief of Digital Signal Processing: a Review Journal. He held visiting Professor positions in Georgia Tech Shanghai, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Izmir Institute of Technology."
   description: "This talk will summarise the efforts to make a picture of the universe just after big bang. We will introduce the big bang theory, the satellite missions to measure cosmic microwave radiation and how we utilized the Information Theory of Shannon to obtain the earliest picture of the universe. We hope that these images will be inspiring for the audience for their own creative work."
   artist_website:
-  media_artist_url: "http://forskning.no/sites/forskning.no/files/styles/full_width/public/255422_PLANCK_FSM_03_Black_1_None.jpg?itok=20gGL9k2"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/255422_PLANCK_FSM_03_Black_1_None.jpg"
   video_artist_url:
   talk_video_url:
 ---

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@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ talks:
   Juliane Götz: is the latest member of Quadrature and fills the missing link between hardware based pragmatism and digital utopics in Quadrature’s projects. Her design and handcraft skills as fashion designer are combined with the abiltiy to quickly understand and implement new dynamic workflows and structures into the group. They all share a love for machines and outer space."
   description: "After introducing themselves and their work, they will focus on the problems for media artists to be part of the traditional gallery-marked in the art business. Even so a lot of Art projects, which use modern technology and try to bring it into a different not consumer-based context, are quite successful, a lot of them are being displayed only in festivals or as digital copies in the internet, rather then being shown in privat galleries. This implements that the creators make a living either from grants, teaching, very small fees or they finance their free art work with client-based commissions. The reasons for this are manifold. A lot of projects are technical experiments on a larger scale, which can hardly be sold as an peace of art that the client could simply place or even hang in his home. Another reason is the fact that a lot of Media Artists rather work on a very conceptual level, creating work that is either only excisting in digital form,very much created for certain spaces or react to certain appearings of modern society. So whenever you would take this projects out of their context they would not make any sense at all."
   artist_website: "http://quadrature.co/"
-  media_artist_url: "http://quadrature.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/loop_1_medium.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/loop_1_medium.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/89172355"
   talk_video_url:
 - title: "How to have fun with a six channel guitar pckup"
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Miller Puckette is best known as the author of the Max/MSP and Pure Data software environments, which are widely used in electronic music and the electronic arts.  He usually teaches music at the University of California, San Diego, but is now a guest professor at TU Berlin.  He performs with the Convolution Brothers and in a duo with the singer Juliana Snapper."
   description: "Puckette demonstrates what happens when you put individual pickup coils on each string of your guitar, opening up a wide range of sonic possibilities beyond what you can get out of an ordinary pickup.  Techniques like filtering and distortion can be applied to the signals before they're mixed.  This makes it possible to get results that are both rich sounding and precisely controllable.  The software to do this is open source, free to download."
   artist_website: "http://msp.ucsd.edu/"
-  media_artist_url: "http://msp.ucsd.edu/msp-8-2013c.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/msp-8-2013c.jpg"
   video_artist_url:
   talk_video_url:
 - title: "From a visual journey into another dimension."

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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Derek Holzer (1972) is an American instrument builder and sound artist based in Berlin DE, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, the relationship between sound + space, media archaeology and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music. He has performed live, taught workshops and created scores of unique instruments and installations since 2002 across Europe, North and South America, and New Zealand."
   description: "The utopias of electronic sound have hardly changed in its hundred-year history. We still want to imitate existing instruments, create sounds which have never been heard before and realize complex compositions without the need of an orchestra. It is only the tools which have become more complex. But there are dystopias as well, which come especially from using tools designed around other people’s way of creating sound, rather than your own. Instrument builder, teacher and performer Derek Holzer of Macumbista.net will discuss the inspiration of some of the pioneers of 20th Century electronic sound as springboards to some of his own creations, which the audience will have a chance to explore following the talk."
   artist_website: "http://macumbista.net/"
-  media_artist_url: "http://macumbista.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/apokalypsegeraet-01-400x300.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/apokalypsegeraet-01-400x300.jpg"
   video_artist_url:
   talk_video_url:
 - title: "Science Inspires Art"
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ talks:
   description: "The talk will focus on how art and science are moving towards one another. It should not be forgotten that both have always been characterised by creative and imaginative processes. Many artist have found their inspiration by the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.  Today, new media artist are working on novel ways of scientific communication, searching for the aesthetics on research data and experimenting with new scientific tools.
   Anyway, who doesn’t take a look at the universe, with its sublime and redemptive quality? It makes us all feel small but peaceful."
   artist_website: "http://imanolgomez.net/"
-  media_artist_url: "http://i0.wp.com/imanolgomez.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/rsz_12584734735_ab5af0f254_o.jpg?w=500"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/rsz_12584734735_ab5af0f254_o.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/26318965"
   talk_video_url:
 - title: "Audiovisual Interactions and ludic design for ludic interfaces"
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "With a background in Audiovisual Media studies, Juan Duarte is based Helsinki Finland, since 2011 carries out studies in New Media, in the field of interaction design for media installations, and interfaces in live performance.His work aims to explore creative coding for sound and visuals, analog electronics, techno ecologies and media archeology."
   description: "The talk will review some own project and other state of art related examples around the interactive aspect of live visuals. The use of open source technologies expertise and knowledge share has enhanced the scene of creators and artists looking to use alternative tools for creation of locative and or gesture based media."
   artist_website: "http://www.juanduarteregino.com/"
-  media_artist_url: "http://media.cargocollective.com/1/7/245613/headerimg/pd-2013-11-20-at-21.14.14.png"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/pd-2013-11-20-at-21.14.14.png"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/103660850"
   talk_video_url:
 ---

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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Process Reversal is a U.S. based collective which seeks to preserve celluloid film practices through research, resource development, and film productions focused on advancing the aesthetics and technology of the medium itself. In this sense, the times that we are facing with celluloid today are in fact the most exciting opportunities in the history of the medium — as the industry collapses all around us, we are being left with a chance to re-invent the medium in an image that was neither intended nor desired by the commercialism of the medium; one that explores new ways of seeing, new ways of hearing, and new ways of speaking about film."  
   description: "Kevin Rice, a member of Process Reversal, will be presenting on behalf of the collective. He is a self described ‘film archivist’ whose practice focuses on the study of photochemical theories, the development of lab resources for filmmakers, and the documentation of various darkroom odysseys on motion picture film.The talk will expose his perspectives on contemporary film practices today, as well as the artist run film lab community, by discussing the formation, development, and infinite struggles of their collective, Process Reversal. In this, he will be sharing several works from members of the collective, including his own, and discussing their process and how it has evolved since the formation of our group. Along the way, he will explain several aspects of the photo-chemical process in film making and attempt to perform a live demonstration of a technique or two."
   artist_website: "http://processreversal.org/"
-  media_artist_url: "http://scopesessions.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/logo-480x480.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/logo-480x480.jpg"
   video_artist_url:
   talk_video_url:
 - title: "Signal, noise and machine"
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Using technology and focusing on some specific matters of technology like relation between signal and noise, error and glitch. Making things that KANNO want to see and observe. Such as drawing machines which is not perfectly controlled by numbers, 3D printed sculpture and garment which uses errors and imperfectness of system intentionally. Predicting the future but not forgetting critical point of view for technology."
   description: "Such as drawing machines which is not perfectly controlled by numbers, 3D printed sculpture and garment which uses errors and imperfectness of system intentionally. Predicting the future but not forgetting critical point of view for technology."
   artist_website: "http://kanno.so/"
-  media_artist_url: "http://scopesessions.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/polygonView-480x273.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/polygonView-480x273.jpg"
   video_artist_url:
   talk_video_url:
 - title: "On improvised Cinema"
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ talks:
   artist_bio: "Kris Limbach is a sound artist residing in Berlin. Although his focus is on sound, he is involved in film projects since 1998, exploring always formats and aesthetics of cinema. His first experimental film, Cuento Incompleto was published in 2005 and since then he has collaborated with various artists performing live film screenings using expanded cinema techniques. This work for film has an outstanding influence on his current sound-art works, using film-editing techniques and film sound aesthetics for his sound pieces like the ongoing begin_ if _ () sound project and live performances. He released on labels such as Richard Garets´s Contour Editions, Staaltape, Modisti, Framework Radio, Agxivatein and more. His current project 'Music for dysfunctional airports' will be premiered at Media Art Friesland in the in November."
   description: "Kris Limbach will perform a short improvised piece to give an insight in his techniques and workflow"
   artist_website: "http://krislimbach.com/"
-  media_artist_url: "https://krislimbachdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/dsc08301.jpg?w=640&h=359"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/dsc08301.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/106323654"
   talk_video_url:
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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ talks:
   description: "This Session will attempt an open discussion that addresses issues of privacy and online freedom of expression.
   We want to discuss if and why privacy matters. How does that relate to contemporary artists and the tools they (we) are using? Is there a space for a political statement? How much strength does artistic expression have in the cyberworld? What are the chances and responsibilities of artists confronted with the omnipresent power- and control-structures in the wake of the revelations of Edward Snowden and other whistleblowers."
   artist_website: "http://ioannmaria.com/"
-  media_artist_url: "http://ioannmaria.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/about_d2.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/about_d2.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/11284125"
   talk_video_url:
 ---

_posts/2014-12-11-Scope038.markdown

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ talks:
   He is working with digital technology as his main tool. As most of his work is necessary to be realized in the context of generative, real-time software systems, he is usually creating computer programs which are instructed to carry out his thoughts and ideas."
   description: "It's just me showing my work."
   artist_website: "http://www.mrzl.net"
-  media_artist_url: "http://mrzl.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/photo_cropped.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/photo_cropped.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/113216773"
   talk_video_url:
 - title: "Crossing the border - RANDOM IN ANALOG AND DIGITAL MEDIA"
@@ -39,6 +39,6 @@ talks:
   description: "Generative factor in a visual message, connected with electronic devices, used in a set of variable objects.
   Hybrid of media and cultural&philospohical garbology. Reverse engineering."
   artist_website: "http://marcelinawellmer.com"
-  media_artist_url: "http://marcelinawellmer.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/scanned1popraw_www.jpg"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/scanned1popraw_www.jpg"
   video_artist_url: "https://vimeo.com/96049211#at=0"
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_posts/2015-01-08-Scope039.markdown

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   artist_bio: "Nicolas Wiese, born 1976, is an audiovisual artist, designer and composer/performer of electroacoustic music, living in Berlin since 2006. He creates works in different formats and media, for various contexts – installation and spatial performance, contemporary electronic composition, relational / improvised music, graphic art, drawing, collage, text collage, radio and experimental film."
   description: "Post-digital layers, ambiguities and background noise. An associative lecture-­performance. A draft out of post­-utopian fragments. An invitation to exchange thoughts, while blurring the line between focus and diffusion."
   artist_website: "http://nicolaswiese.com/"
-  media_artist_url: "http://nicolaswiese.com/images/Wasteland2013-3frame.gif"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/Wasteland2013-3frame.gif"
   video_artist_url:
   talk_video_url:
 - title: "50, that next big thing"
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   artist_bio: "We're two developers of vvvv, a live-programming environment commonly used to implement large scale media projects and digital art. It’s been around for more than a decade used and cultivated by a strong international community."
   description: "In the past few years we’ve been eagerly working on a complete rewrite of vvvv which lead to a new visual programming language in combination with a development and runtime environment. In this talk we’ll give you a short introduction into the key features of this new language we’re internally calling “50″."
   artist_website: "http://vvvv.org/"
-  media_artist_url: "http://vvvv.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/screenshotviewer/screenshot1420807005.png"
+  media_artist_url: "/images/screenshot1420807005.png"
   video_artist_url:
   talk_video_url:
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