Apologies if people tried to register before today, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] email address was not working properly. Registration is now open.
best from Berlin! d. Derek Holzer wrote: > xxxxx-workshops: [in]tolerance > 29 Janaury - 2 February 2008 > Club Transmediale > Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin > > xxxxx-workshops: [in]tolerance presents a series of constructivist > workshops specially programmed for the ClubTransmediale 2008 festival, > emphasising making and connection within the field of the existent. > Workshops are led by international, field-expert practitioners, > extending over realms of environmental code, noise, signal transmission, > reception, and electromysticism. The workshops will utilise household > materials and chemistry, readily-available electronics components, free > software and the GNU toolbase. > > Over the course of five days, participants will have the opportunity to > construct a set of various electronic audiovisual artifacts (being > either code or hardware) with which a final presentation/performance > will be made. In learning how to create complex sound and image > generators from the most basic elements, the participants will explore > liminal electronic experiences and intriguing phenomena where > carefully-engineered borders and parameters are twisted and > transgressed, producing unexpected results in performance. > > Workshops: > 29.1. NOISE_PRODUCE by Martin Howse (UK) & Martin Kunetz (DE) > 30.1. ONE BIT MUSIC by Frederik Olofsson (SE) > 31.1. DIGITAL THEREMIN WORKSHOP by Andrei Smirnov (RU) & Derek Holzer > (US/NL) > 01.2. CHAOS IN NODES AND NETWORKS by Jessica Rylan (US) > 02.2. BASTARD NATURES by Alejandra Nuñes Perez (CL) > > The series takes inspiration from and continues the development of the > (semi)weekly xxxxx workshops held at the Pickled Feet space in Berlin > over the last year. It is supported by Arduino. > > Theme: > "...in the good old days of Shannon's mathematical theory of > information, the maximum of information coincided strangely with maximal > unpredictability or noise..." [Friedrich Kittler: There is no software] > > Engineers and scientists are concerned with prediction and thus > predictability. Inside black-boxed apparatus the faint markings of > tolerance, deviations from a predictable scenario towards the encryption > of noise, can well be observed by the wily artist. Technology is thus > exposed as a material expressing a certain chaos, pure noise of all > voices. In return, materiality and an artistic concern with the matter > of technology allows for the entry of the unpredictable, environmental > noise within an otherwise closed circuit or economy. > > Registration: > xxxxx-workshops is open to anyone, from novice to experienced electronic > artist. The workshops will be held in English. You can register for > single workshops or for the whole series. In addition to the actual > daily workshops, a free open work-area gives everyone opportunity to > pursue projects begun in one of the workshops over the course of five > days. The registration fee for a single workshop is 10.- EUR, the fee > for the series of all five workshops is 30.- EUR. > > For descriptions of the workshops and workshop leaders go to: > http://www.clubtransmediale.de/club-transmediale/xxxxx-workshops.html > > You can register till January 14, 2008, by sending an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Please don't forget to indicate which of the workshops you wish to attend. > > xxxxx-workshops: [in]tolerance is curated by Martin Howse and Derek > Holzer, and produced by Jan Rolf and Anke Eckhardt for Club Transmediale. > -- derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ::: http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista ---Oblique Strategy # 18: "Balance the consistency principle with the inconsistency principle" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
