Solder Girls is a soldering circle with a whiteboard, for those who got a doll instead of a physics kit for Christmas. Come and learn the basic principles of electronics that will get you making and repairing your own cables opening up any box that takes a battery. Soldering irons provided.
What: Workshop
Where: Civic Arcade
When: Thursday 2nd October, 12:00pm – 15:00pm
Who: Sarah Davies (Sydney), Alicia Miller (Sydney) and you.
This hands-on workshop will explore Abelton’s LIVE software. Suitable for new users looking for more in-depth knowledge or those who have always wanted to make electronic music.
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Thursday 2nd October, 14:00pm – 18:00pm
Who: Julian Knowles (Brisbane) and you.
dyne:bolic is a GNU/Linux bootable operating system shaped on the needs of media activists, artists and creatives as a practical tool for multimedia production: you can manipulate and broadcast both sound and video with tools to record, edit, encode and stream, all using only free software! This is optimized to run on slower computers, turning them into a full mediastations. Please bring your Windows PCs along – sorry Macs won’t work.
More information available at: www.dynebolic.org
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What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Saturday 4th October, 15:00pm – 17:00pm
Who: Nancy Mauro-Flude (Tasmania), Scot Cotterell (Tasmania) and you.
This Berlin based collective explore the dynamics of the unconventional interplay between people, their environment and technology. A hands-on workshop will explore the techniques behind The Green Eyl’s installation and exhibition work.
What: Workshop
Where: TAFE Workshed
When: Friday 3rd October, 11:00am – 14:00pm
Who: Willy Sengewald (Berlin, Germany) and you.
Car-boot treasures and back-of-the-cupboard discoveries finally put to use: exploring the use of obsolete and circuit-bent video game systems for artmaking.
What: Workshop
Where: TAFE Workshed
When: Friday 3rd October, 14:00pm – 17:00pm
Who: Lauren Sutter (Adelaide), Seb Tomczak (Adelaide) and you.
pool.org.au is a new ABC website providing a space for Australian artists and media makers to present their work, discuss issues and collaborate. Learn how to set up and utilise your own Pool website space.
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Friday 3rd October, 14:00pm – 16:00pm
Who: John Jacobs (Sydney), Kate Gauld (Sydney) and you.
Lock-up and Electrofringe artist-in-residence Chris Poole presents a hands on workshop exploring self powered and sustained micro-projectors. Learn to use wind power for guerilla style public art. Chris will also demonstrate and explain his innovative laser based projector.
What: Workshop
Where: Lock-up – Exercise Yard
When: Friday 3rd October, 13:00pm – 15:00pm
Who: Chris Poole – Facilitator
Call out for the Interactive Narrative Co-lab at this years Electrofringe, see details here
Overview
Interaction designers and media artists often have great ideas for non-linear interactive story-telling frameworks, but they lack the writing skills to produce truly compelling work.
On the other hand, writers have no shortage of skills when it comes to storytelling, but are left a little confused when it comes to the technological expertise required to implement an online or interactive project.
This Co-lab is aimed at bridging that gap by connecting writers and interactive specialists. It will create a platform for discussing and implementing innovative interactive story telling frameworks, and act as a catalyst for the creation of exciting new work. We would like to explore everything from traditional game-play scenarios and multi-faceted video works through to avant-garde non-linear writing techniques with state of the art interaction methodologies.
Workshop
Electrofringe and the National Young Writers’ Festival are presenting an interactive narrative workshop at the 2008 TiNA festival. The session will be held in the Process Space on Friday 3rd October from 4-6pm, and is free and open to all. It will be the first meet up session to kick-start the process. Writers will be teamed up with interactive specialists and form groups for future collaboration. Following the initial workshop, the project will further organise frequent meet-ups in Sydney and Melbourne where collaborators can show their work and exchange ideas.
The project’s online home will be the ABC’s new POOL platform (www.pool.org.au), which will permanently form the goto and exchange place for people to post ideas and work in progress, and discuss projects as they unfold.
Participate
To participate in this Co-Lab joing the INCoLab Google Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/incolab
Name:
Contact details:
Artform(s) (fiction / playwriting / video / web development / flash development / interactive media / artist / etc):
Any projects or ideas you’re working on, concepts, scripts, proposals, areas of interest or obsession. We will then put you in contact with people that have a complementary skill set. Alternatively you can simply come down to the EF / NYWF session at the festival. Ideally you should be able to attend this session in Newcastle, but if you can’t come please feel free to still submit and participate through the POOL platform.
Contact
Elmar Trefz: electrofringedirectos08@gmail.com
Nicolas Low: nic@dislocated.org
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Friday 3rd October, 16:00pm – 18:00pm
Who: Elmar Trefz (Sydney/Berlin, Germany) , Nic Low (Melbourne) and you.
Hands on soldering with Dorkbot. The Nibbler is an audio pattern generator and noise maker. Through the use of 7 knobs and 1 switch, the user is able to create a variety of different sounds and noises.
What: Workshop
Where: TAFE Workshed
When: Saturday 4th October, 10:00am – 14:00pm
Who: Pia van Gelder (Sydney), Aras Vaichas (Sydney), Nick Wishart (Sydney) and you.
Reaktor allows musicians to design & create their own instruments & effects in a relatively easy & musical format. Learn the basics of the ‘other’ patching software.
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Saturday 4th October, 12:00pm – 14:00pm
Who: Toby Burvill
A hands on session on Computer Vision – exploring ways computer based systems can interpret, track and relate movement through a camera.
What: Workshop
Where: Civic Arcade
When: Saturday 4th October, 12:00pm – 15:00pm
Who: Marco Bresciani (Melbourne) and you.
Quartz Composer (QC) is a powerful tool for digital video creation and propagation. QC can access a wide range of file formats and network resources, then process and display with hardware rendering. This means realtime manipulation of live data, at high frame rates and resolutions.
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Saturday 4th October, 14:00pm – 17:00pm
Who: Luke Toop (Adelaide) and you.
Hands on soldering with Dorkbot. The WävRuta (that’s Wave Rooter) is an audio effects box designed to demonstrate the power and simplicity of micro-controller design. It is provided as a counter-point and contrast to the Nibbler circuit. The WävRuta can be used in conjunction with the Nibbler’s audio output.
What: Workshop
Where: TAFE Workshed
When: Sunday 5th October, 10:00am – 14:00pm
Who: Pia van Gelder (Sydney), Aras Vaichas (Sydney), Nick Wishart (Sydney) and you.
This workshop on software-based art – Poetry on the Web – introduces notions of creating interactive flash animations for online engagement.
We take open source scripts that we find online from online web libraries and we work on them.
The themes of these pieces should be inspired by local signage. This can either be a drawing, a logo, a crest. (for example an old city emblem)
We can evolve these pieces with sounds and then place them on urls.
The workshop will be scheduled like this:
- Introduction to my work with a demo
- Divide people in short groups so they can handle few things at the same time.
- Propose ideas of the local signage.
- Start implementing the idea in Flash.
- Uploading every piece on a URL and a server
- insert it in Facebook as an application
Relevant Links: www.angeloplessas.com/work.html, www.neen.org/demo.html
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Sunday 5th October, 11:30am – 15:00pm
Who: Angelo Plessas (Athens, Greece) and you.
Learn about benefits of solar power for artists, media makers, researchers and others involved in electronic arts and culture. Get equipped with all the information you need to assemble an environmentally responsible and creatively liberating solar power system.
What: Workshop
Where: TAFE Workshed
When: Sunday 5th October, 15:00pm – 17:00pm
Who: Greg Simmons and you.
PD is a completely free, cross platform patching software that can create audio instruments and effects. First time users will be guided to get their head around this exciting software.
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Sunday 5th October, 15:30pm – 17:30pm
How-to hands-on Interactive Sound and Voice Synthesis for Media Art installations.
What: Workshop
Where: Process Space
When: Monday 6th October, 12:00pm – 15:00pm
Who: Chiara Passa (Italy) and you.
