apertus° AXIOM: The first Open Source Cinema Camera

Presented at 32C3 (2015), Dec. 28, 2015, 4:45 p.m. (30 minutes)

AXIOM is the first professional, extendable, affordable and modular cinema camera platform based on Free ("libre") Software, Open Design, Open Hardware, transparent development processes and extensive documentation. The community project establishes an ecosystem that offers a sustainable basis for a broad spectrum of imaging applications and empowers enthusiasts, videographers as well as developers in the technology and creative industry sectors.

Since 2006 the apertus° community has been developing open tools to tackle demands of professionals working in contemporary video and film production. The community extends from renowned Directors of Photography in prominent Hollywood studios to emerging independent filmmakers, developers, artists and researchers all working from different locations around the world. AXIOM is a very ambitious project, using principles of FLOSS, extended on the whole design, production and software of a professional, modular cinema camera. With AXIOM, our ambition is to free film makers of the artificial limitations introduced through the “closed” products being available.


Presenters:

  • Matthias Tarasiewicz (parasew)
    Matthias Tarasiewicz, researcher, technology theorist and project developer located in Vienna, Austria. Topics: artistic technology, open source cinema, cryptocurrencies. Matthias Tarasiewicz co-founded the <a href="http://codedcultures.com">CODED CULTURES</a> initiative (media arts festival and research platform) and is active as curator, researcher and technology theorist since the last millennium. Deeply involved in coding and decoding (both literally and theoretically) he researches in the fields of artistic technologies, experimental documentation and cryptocurrencies. His work BitcoinCloud received various prizes and has been shown internationally since 2010. He currently works as editor of the <a href="http://researchcultures.com">Journal for Research Cultures</a>, runs the <a href="http://artisticbokeh.com">Artistic Bokeh</a> initiative and is project lead of <a href="http://artistictechnology.at">Artistic Technology Research</a> at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. He co-founded the <a href="http://riat.at">Research Institute for Arts and Technology</a> > and is ambassador and researcher of the <a href="http://apertus.org">Apertus AXIOM</a> (open hardware cameras and open source cinema).

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