Date: Thursday, July 24, 8pm onwards

Cost: Free! Yes, FREE.

No need to register- come one, come all!

With Celebrity Guest Host Misha Glouberman

Competitors: Frank Tsonis vs. Dafydd Hughes and David McCallum

Site: http://interaccess.org/studio/grudge.php

Come take sides in this fight to the death between those open-source Pd Commies and the right-wing, proprietary, puppy-hating MAX/MSPers.

There has been a long and bloody rivalry between those who would make new media art with Pure Data, a free, open source graphical programming language, and proponents of MAX/MSP, Pd's slick, commercial half-brother. We intend to open these old wounds, pour salt, beer and whatever else we can find into them, push both programs and programmers to the brink of collapse and determine once and for all which is better.

Join host Misha Glouberman as he leads our contestants through a series of increasingly difficult challenges with play-by-play commentary by Nicholas Stedman and game show music with Graham Collins. Watch as Frank Tsonis (team MAX) and David McCallum and Dafydd Hughes (team Pd) try to come up with the fastest, sexiest and most effective solutions, all the while fighting against each other, the clock, and the inevitable nerds who think they can do it better.

If you have experience with either of these programs (or if you don't) and you think you can do better than our resident gurus, or even if you just want to play along, feel free to bring a laptop, work on the challenges, aid or abuse our contestants or just check your email. The popcorn's on us; it's free to watch, participate, heckle, throw fruit, and bet on who's gonna get an ass-beating.

Information and downloads

Pure Data: http://puredata.info/

MAX: http://www.cycling74.com/products/max5

Interaccess Electronic Media Arts Centre: http://interaccess.org/

9 Ossington Ave, Toronto ON Canada

Facebook event is here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=19191668235