DATA Workshop 16.0

DIY LIGHT GRAFFITI WORKSHOP by Recyclism (aka Benjamin Gaulon)

When: Saturday 22 October, 14.00
Location: Darklight Festval, The Factory, Grand Canal Dock, Barrow Street
Cost: Free for Darklight tickets holders

Learn how to create a simple Light Painting Software with Max/Msp and build your own Light Spray Can by creating a simple circuit using a battery, LED and push button.

You will learn how to create a software that mixes real time video and a light painting layer. All values, over a selected brightness level, are stored and drawn over the real time video. The drawing is refreshed over a defined period of time.
The final results will be presented in an interactive installation, where the public of Darklight will be invited to play with the various light graffiti tools made by the participants.

Benjamin Gaulon is a researcher, artist and has a broad experience of acting as art consultant, public and conference speaker and art college lecturer. His work focuses on planned obsolescence, consumerism and disposable society. He has previously released work under the name “recyclism”.

Since 2005 he has been leading workshops and giving lectures in Europe and US about e-waste and hardware Hacking / Recycling. Workshop participants explore the potential of obsolete technologies in a creative way and find new strategies for e-waste recycling.

www.recyclism.com

September 26, 2011 | Filed Under Workshops | Comments Off 

Data Workshop 15.0

When: 5, 13.00-18.00 & 6 September, 10.00-16.00 with a break for lunch
Location: Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin
Price: Bookings via the Science Gallery (opening soon)

Do you want to get plugged in? Build an instrument that amplifies your body’s electrical signals so that you can use them to control a synthesizer or other devices:

The Circuit Taco. Experimental audiovisual duo LoVid (NY), will lead a workshop where you will build a Circuit Taco that converts electrical signals from your body’s surface into signals that are suitable for controlling other electronic instruments. This will include assembly of hardware on a custom printed circuit board with some basic soldering, along with discussion of and instruction about the electronics involved with the circuit.

WHAT TO BRING: PREPARE This workshop will run at a relatively basic level and does not require prior soldering, electronics design, programming, or sculpting experience. Participants will gain electronics knowledge, develop soldering skills, and enjoy the Fiesta while developing a tool that they will keep (the Circuit Taco) that they may use in their future music and art making.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own design materials for case assembly and customization to enhance the cardboard and fabric provided. Also, participants who have synthesizers that accept control voltages are encouraged to bring them, though some modules will be available for use in performance for participants who do not have their own.

TEACHER LoVid is an interdisciplinary artist duo composed of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus. Their work includes live video installations, sculptures, digital prints, patchworks, media projects, performances, and video recordings. LoVid combines many opposing elements in their work, contrasting hard electronics with soft patchworks, analog and digital, or handmade and machine produced objects. This multidirectional approach is also reflected in the content of their work: romantic and aggressive, wireless and wire-full. LoVid are interested in the ways in which the human body and mind observe, process, and respond to both natural and technological environments, and in the preservation of data, signals, and memory.

http://www.lovid.org/

August 17, 2011 | Filed Under Workshops | Comments Off 

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