[image:112,left,10,10,0]Dyne.org is a network and free software atelier gathering young artisans of different kinds to produce free and open technologies, multimedia performances and workshops. Dyne researches the 'hybridisation' of various art practices within the digital domain.

In Dyne, the group say, 'communication flows between individuals, without any hierarchy or power structures. The fundamentals of our community are identities, defining themselves with and through their activities: dyne.org doesn't aim to in any way represent or subsume them.'

Dyne.org is lead by a grassroots committee of young hackers sharing their research to achieve common goals: pro-knowledge, freedom of speech, aesthetic vocation, united in the search for a sustainable model in free software development and better sharing of free technologies and
informations among those who have less opportunities to access them.

For Dyne, freedom of software is 'a political choice, a matter of liberty, not price'- the group stand for the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change
and improve their software.

People interested in joining Dyne can join an existing project or propose an entirely new one.

Projects and Activities

Dynebolic

Dyne:bolic is a free software operating system that runs on a PC from a CD. It is shaped to meet the needs of media activists, artists and creatives, being a practical tool for multimedia production which can manipulate and broadcast sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream-- all using entirely Free Software.

HasciiCam

HasciiCam allows live ASCII video on the web. It captures video from a TV card and renders it into ASCII letters, formatting the output into an HTML page or a live ASCII window, or in a simple text file. HasciiCam allows people to show live ASCII video to be viewed without any need for extra applications, plugins, Java etc.

FreeJ

FreeJ is a digital instrument for live video sets, featuring real time rendering of multi-layered video and chained
effect filtering directly on the screen. FreeJ treats every video source as a layer, making it possible to dynamically apply on each a chain of filters, loadable as effect plug-ins. Layers are implemented to mix together live inputs, DIVX/AVI files, PNG images and TEXT files word by word. Other layers are being implemented.

MuSE

MuSE provides the free software community with a user friendly but powerful tool for network audio streaming, making life easier for independent free speech
online radios. It is an application for the mixing, encoding, and network streaming of sound: it can mix up to 6 encoded audio bitstreams (from files or network, mp3 or ogg) plus a soundcard input signal. The resulting stream can be played locally on the sound card and/or encoded at different bitrates, recorded to hard disk and/or streamed to the net. When sent to a server, the resulting audio can be listened to t by a vast number of players available on different operating systems.

Dyne are also involved in art installations, performances and theatre pieces throughout Europe and the world.