radio.territories workshop #1
Nextlab / Szövetség 39
1074 Budapest, Szövetség u. 39.
This is a continuation of the Sonic Tags series organized last fall, together with radio.territories and the Re:activism conference.
The first workshop concentrates on building your own radio transmitter.
Processing with Processing
Nextlab / Arcus műhely
1074 Budapest, Szövetség u. 39.
Processing is a JAVA based open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound. It is used by artists, designers, architects, researchers, and for learning, prototyping, and production.
Free copy of Processing - http://www.processing.org
Registration:
please send an email to tszakal at nextlab hu to register.
Workshop is held by: Adam Somlai-Fischer interaction designer
Lecture by Andrew Gryf Paterson
Nextlab / Szövetség 39
1074 Budapest, Szövetség u. 39.
Locative Media: Rautatieasema returns
"The deep-local Helsinki culture of mobility, systems and networks is manifested at the site of Rautatieasema (Railway Station). With it's interior, exterior, surrounding subterranean public-spaces, it is a centrepoint of urban Finland; A cartographic and temporal framework for partings, convergences, paths and destinations, all wrapped up in objective data and personal story. The tangible, intangible, physical and informatic.. The static and mobile.."
The presentation will speak of ways of engaging and documenting the site of 'Rautatieasema' at the Locative Media workshops at the Pixelache Festival of Electronic Arts and Subcultures in 2004, and forthcoming in 2006.
Sonic Tags
several locations
As an offshoot of the Re:Activism conference, Sonic Tags workshop aims to do a bit of city-programming, filling dedicated parts of Budapest with unusual sounds, words, atmospheres, through creating event triggered, localized broadcasts of poetic instances.
The one-week workshop is planned to embrace both
- hands on prototyping of simple broadcast technologies, as well as
- developing the poetics of micro-broadcasts,
- defining and recording event triggered messages, ending with the results broadcasted over special parts of the city.
It is a cooperation between conference organiser MOKK, community radio Tilos and Nextlab with active artists, poets, architects, creative technologists and DJ's.
Interactive composition
Nextlab / Arcus műhely
1074 Budapest, Szövetség u. 39.
Interactive and live composition possibilities with short-time and algorithmic composition methods, use of scripting with thispatcher (Max/MSP) etc.
Workshop was held by: Balázs Kovács (xrc) musician
Lecture by Usman Haque
Műcsarnok (Kunsthalle Budapest)
From haque.co.uk:
The domain of architecture has been transformed by developments in interaction research, wearable computing, mobile connectivity, people-centered design, contextual awareness, RFID systems and ubiquitous computing. These technologies alter our understanding of space and change the way we relate to each other. We no longer think of architecture as static and immutable; instead we see it as dynamic, responsive and conversant. Our projects explore some of this territory.
...Sky Ear is a non-rigid carbon-fibre "cloud", embedded with one thousand glowing helium balloons and several dozen mobile phones. The balloons contain miniature sensor circuits that respond to electromagnetic fields, particularly those of mobile phones. When activated, the sensor circuits co-ordinate to cause ultra-bright coloured LEDs to illuminate. The 30m cloud glows and flickers brightly as it floats across the sky.
This lecture was organised by Nextlab.
Low cost alternatives in art-technology projects
Kultiplex
1092 Budapest, Kinizsi utca 28.
Art-technology hands-on workshop, that investigates low cost alternatives in art-technology projects and how to work with them. We will learn how to make wearable digital sound generators, using electronic sensors and basic concepts of physical interactiviy.
Workshop was held by: Adam Somlai-Fischer interaction designer
Digital signal processing and sensor analysis using Max/Msp/Jitter
Kultiplex
1092 Budapest, Kinizsi utca 28.
Max/MSP is a graphical programming environment, in which you create your own software using a visual toolkit of objects, and connect them together with patch cords. The basic environment that includes control, user interface and timing objects is called Max. Built on top of Max are hundreds of objects, that do a variety of rad stuff, including Jitter.
Jitter is a set of video, matrix, and 3D graphics objects for the Max graphical programming environment. Jitter is useful to anyone interested in real-time video processing, custom effects, 2D/3D graphics, audio/visual interaction, data visualization, and analysis.
(30 day demo available from http://cycling74.com)
Workshop was held by: Tamás Szakál, media artist, Guy van Belle (be), media artist
Audio Streaming workshop
Kultiplex
1092 Budapest, Kinizsi utca 28.
A hands-on workshop, dealing with audio streaming, using free and open
source tools. The whole process of setting up a streaming server, live
streaming encoders and producing live streams will be covered.
Tools used will include:
icecast, ices - http://www.icecast.org
darkice - http://darkice.sourceforge.net
Workshop was held by: Ákos Maróy
