Kinetica Art Fair 2011 Workshops. Presented by Openlab Workshops and Technology Will Save Us Friday, February 4 - Sunday February 6, 2011 from 10am until 10pm! For Kinetica this year, Openlab Workshops is pleased to partner with our friends from Technology Will Save Us to offer three fun filled days of drop-in workshops. We welcome everyone from artists, and designers to students, professionals, tinkerers and families. Join us to build lighting fixtures that respond to the world around us, or magically make music out of simple electronic circuitry. If you already have a project or idea and want to know how to bring it to life, enter our contest and win an opportunity to get personalised feedback from our professional panel of experts.
All workshops will include friendly instructions from our lovely facilitators and all the kit you need to make something and take it home with you when you leave. Three Workshops and One Special Event: The Art of Soldering (1 hr sessions, every hour from 11am-7pm, Friday- Sunday.Advance booking not necessary, please pay at the front desk). Drop into one of our hourly soldering sessions and learn how to make music out of simple electronic circuitry. We provide all the electronics, parts and guidance you need to learn basic soldering while building a sound and light toy. Level: Ages 9 and up, all skill levels (because: soldering irons are too hot for small fingers.) Cost: ?12/10 for individuals with group rates available (includes kit of parts to make an sound making instrument for you to take home) Synth Sounds of Circuits (2 hr sessions, 12pm & 4pm, Friday-Sunday. Advance booking recommended or pay at the front desk on the day) Using basic circuitry, we will create some sound-making machines to impress your friends and astound your enemies. Does not involve soldering. We provide an exploratory kit of electronic parts, sensors and expert guidance. You provide both yourself and your creativity. Result: sonic cacophony for people of all abilities. Level: All ages and skills (warning: Small parts are suitable for younger kids who might eat them.) Cost: ?18/15 for individuals with group rates available (includes kit of sound-making electronics and a snazzy booklet for you to take home) Interactive Lighting with DMX and Arduino (2 hr session, 2pm Friday- Sunday.Advance booking recommended) Fancy sending ripples of light shimmering through your bedroom, or building an stylishly interactive chandelier to impress dinner guests? Do all that and more using the DMX Arduino shield from this workshop and an open source Arduino device, combined with some off-the-shelf lighting fixtures. Good for designers, architects, VJs, and others who appreciate some responsive lighting. Level: Ages 15 and up. Some basic familiarity with programming required. Cost: ?34/28 (includes special DMX Arduino shield kit for you to take home) Requires: a laptop with Arduino downloaded (http://arduino.cc). Arduino Uno kits recommended. Experts? Surgery (Saturday Night Event) Do you have an idea for an interactive art project, but need some guidance as to how to pull it off? Are you immobilised by all of the options and technical possibilities? Propose a project to us for a chance to participate in a very small group session with our panel of top interactive artists. We pick a selection of the best proposals and invite their authors to come present their projects to our experts for some personal assistance. Cost: ?10 entry fee to submit a proposal, free to watch the event. To book a workshop, please either pay at the door at Kinetica (note: Kinetica entry pass is not included in the workshop price) or [email protected] to guarantee a place Openlab Workshops? mission is to use open source and free software tools and knowledge to both inspire and enable creativity. Since 2009 we?ve developed and taught over 24 workshops in such areas as Programming for artists, Processing for designers, Interactive lighting, Livecoding, Arduino, and Sound generation and analysis. Technology Will Save Us is Hackney based alternative education space and haberdashery for technology. We believe in lowering the barrier of entry to technology to enable people to produce and not just consume technology. OpenLab Workshops: About us: http://openlabworkshops.org/about/ Technology Will Save Us: http://www.technologywilsaveus.org http://learn.plankman.com _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
