A Hack a Day #12: Frequency Modulations With !Mediengruppe Bitnik (.ch /.uk)
June 5th 11am - 5pm At SPACE, Hackney, London Book here: http://ahackaday12.eventbrite.com/ Radio is a surprisingly straightforward media - you only need to assemble a few electronic components for a low-range broadcast with your own micro FM transmitter. In this workshop participants will solder their own low-range FM transmitter using a predesigned printed circuit board by piradio.de (a Berlin based free radio initiative). Once assembled, this board will give every participant a 0,15 Watt transmitter with mini-jack input and USB as power source. After a brief introduction from !Mediengruppe Bitnik to some of their more recent works related to media hacking, we will experiment with different ways to use our FM transmitters: As a tactical tool, an artistic device, a communications media. No soldering experience required! Bring along a laptop, MP3-Player or similar device to input sounds into the FM transmitter (mini-jack plug on device). !Mediengruppe Bitnik is an artists group based in Zurich, Switzerland. Their artistic practice is focused on medial systems, mediatized realities and live media feeds which they like to manipulate and reproduce so as to give the viewer a novel and refined understanding of their mechanisms. In doing so, Bitnik aims at revealing functionalities and operational methods which allow other uses and extend the utilities of these systems. http://www.bitnik.org http://ahackaday12.eventbrite.com/ Bitnik are currently in a three-month PERMACULTURES residency at SPACE media lab. PREMACULTURES is a series of residencies, talks and DIY technology workshops exploring the tensions between art, technology and ecology. SPACE is London's original radical artist support organization. Set up in East London in 1968 to provide affordable studio space for visual artists. Alongside this core support for artists we host exhibitions, courses and events including those with a focus on new media and technology, wherever possible offering these for free. http://www.spacestudios.org.uk Forthcoming Exhibitions: 14th May - 19th June 2010 Gavin Watson: RAVING '89 NEU! Ben Sansbury: AMAXAMA _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
