changed: - I, Artem Baguinski a.k.a. artm <artm@v2.nl>, work as a software engineer at v2_lab (http://lab.v2.nl/). Mostly my job consists in helping artists in residence implement their ideas in the field of digital / crossover media. In doing that I prefer to (ab)use existing open source software wherever possible. Already about a year I, together with my collegues, conduct lab's research and development project - v2_jam the scope of which is using open source software for creating real time multimedia art. One of the topics of research is improving InterOperability of existing software. as "...and development" part we'd like to contribute to some of projects represented on the workshop, and may be inspire the rest to adopt InterOperability proposols in their works :) I'm also interested in making OpenSource software driven computers more average artist friendly and in popularizing free operating systems and tools among media artists. In connection with this i'd like to know more about artists-oriented distributions like dyna:bolic and demudi.