Digital Design Drop-in: Paul Ferragut Saturday 12 November V&A Porter Gallery, Tinkerspace
Paul Ferragut is a digital media artist and visual designer dedicated to exploring new technologies as a craft. He currently develops inventive devices through programming and physical construction, in addition to creating interactive design experiences with the collective Midnight. His work aims to use new technologies to generate surprises and challenge our conception of tools as well as our experience of media. For his last project "Convivial Tools", he created a series of innovative machines that make art using serendipitous processes. This includes a custom-built time delay printer using felt-pens in collaboration with a photographer, a gesture controlled drawing machine for illustrators and a remote controlled helicopter and spray can producing graffiti for a street artist. Each device is used in a unique and expressive way and draws attention to the performance of the making. Paul is researching creative coding and physical interaction, seeking opportunities to bridge his practice with other artistic disciplines. Technology is becoming a medium that unveils traditional arts and crafts skills. Influenced by craft and the DIY philosophy, his motivation is to inspire people to feel less dependant on mass consumption by making unique objects that really suits their needs. Not only for the pleasure to grow and materialise ideas but also to create artistic wealth and to share it with other people. www.paulferragut.com & www.midnight-collective.com Moving Forest 500 Slogans workshop Furtherfield presents Moving Forest 500 Slogans workshop at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Join AKA the castle for up to 5 slogan workshop sessions, December 2nd - 4th at the V&A, as part of Moving Forest London2012 initiative. The Moving Forest 500 slogans workshop brings together writers, artists, performers, theatre practitioners, soundists, noisers, singers (of all genres), scholars and folks to decipher the 500 slogans written by Dr Matthew Fuller alongside Graham Harwood's 12 hour rendering of the final 12 minutes of Kurosawa's film version of Macbeth, Spider Web Castle. Read, recite, sing, shout, scream, murmur, memorize and burn the slogans and plot the 500 slogans as the main thread through the 5 acts of MOVING FOREST. Moving Forest is a 12 hour, five act, visual, sonic, digital, electronic and urban performance collectively realized by AKA the castle, a temporal performance troupe bringing together visual artists, writers, soundists, silk threaders, codedecoders, macromikro, boombox mass, mobile agents, wifi fielders and urbanites. 12 hours of sonic, coded action map an imaginary Castle and camouflage forest revolt onto a given modern day metropolis. We welcome public participation in Moving Forest 500 slogans workshops. By participation, you join AKA the Castle's collective reading and planning towards staging Moving Forest 12 hour performance in London summer 2012. Please sign up below to take part in one or more workshop sessions. *Free workshop admission* Friday 02 December, 6-9pm Saturday 03 December, 11-1pm Saturday 03 December, 2-4:30pm Sunday 04 December, 11-1pm Sunday 04 December, 2-4:30pm To sign up to one or more sessions please write to [email protected] or select your session on the 500 slogans wiki http://scrying.org/doku.php?id=500slogans Victoria and Albert Museum Seminar Room 1, Sackler Centre Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL http://www.vam.ac.uk/ *More information:* http://www.movingforest.net http://movingforest.net/html/slogans.html http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/event/moving-forest-500-slogans-workshops Moving Forest was first presented at Transmediale08 in Berlin. The partners for Moving Forest London workshop development are MA Interactive Media & Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, Furtherfield, Space, Digital Programmes V&A. _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
