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admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:56:39 +0000

liebe wearable tech crew!
vielen dank für den schönen workshop! ich hoffe, ihr werdet weitermachen und eure guten, noch ausstehenden ideen bald umsetzen.
hier ein paar orte, wo ihr dafür vielleicht hilfe bekommt:

http://core.servus.at/projects/workshops
http://metalab.at/
http://www.happylab.at/

websites:

http://www.ladyada.net/learn/arduino/
http://www.makingthingstalk.com/
http://www.learningprocessing.com/
http://www.tigoe.net/
http://www.tigoe.net/pcomp/index.shtml

datenbank über sensoren (von studenten meiner ehemaligen uni):
http://itp.nyu.edu/physcomp/sensors/Reports/Reports

hier die präsentationen:

http://grenzartikel.com/daten/wearable_tech/Arduino_introduction.ppt
http://grenzartikel.com/daten/wearable_tech/Processing_intro.ppt

hier könnt ihr elektronikteile bestellen:
http://www.physicalcomputing.at/shop/article_A-1108000/LilyPad-Einsteiger-Kit.html?shop_param=cid%3D1%26aid%3DA-1108000%26

schönen sommer noch und alles liebe!
stefanie

[tagr - workshop] Wearable Technology by Stefanie Wuschitz

admin — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:55:31 +0000

20th August – 9am to 6pm @ tagr.tv office, MQ/quartier21

In this art-technology workshop Stefanie Wuschitz introduces wearable circuits to playfully demystify technology and open up an atmosphere where learning new technological tools is fearless, interesting and clear for artists. Using different materials that include fabric, conductive thread, recycled electronics, microcontrollers and various sensors, participants learn to create simple systems for interactive art by merging both digital and analog materials in fluid, poetic ways.

The workshop begins with several simple circuits that can be quickly built and realized with little knowledge of the technology at work. As participants begin to understand how these circuits operate, they can then comfortably move forward, learning at their own pace to introduce microcontrollers to build complex interactive systems that link together materials such as fabric, speakers, lights and distance sensors.

The final product is an interactive bag with an inbuilt microcontroller called Arduino Lilypad.

firefox introduction

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:55:24 +0000

firefox ist ein open source internet browser.

mz gabi wird diesen mittwoch eine einführung über plug-ins, lesezeichen und andere spompanadln geben, die der firefox drauf hat.

metalab 19.30h

bei jedem wetter

Elektra Elektronik

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:20:17 +0000

Elektra Elektronik Workshop
Donnerstag, 29.7.2010 14:00 – 31.7.2010

Spratzerner Kirchenweg 81-83, 3100 St.Pölten

http://blog.lames.at/goto/blog/details/events_parque_del_sol10_-_symposium_of_interdisciplinary_art

WO:

PARQUE DEL SOL 10 – SYMPOSIUM

SYMPOSIUM OF INTERDISCIPLINARY ART

Informationen

In unserem Workshop mixen wir analoge, sinnliche Materialien mit high Tech.
Wir basteln einerseits von Sonne betriebene Zoetropen (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoetrop),

verwenden andererseits Mikrocontroller und Micros, um die Zoetropen mit interaktivem Sound auszustatten.

Der Workshop ist auch für AnfängerInnen geeignet, da keine Vorkenntnisse über Elektronik nötig sein werden. Mit gehackten und selbstgemachten Sensoren werden wir Körpersensorik und Bewegung in unsere gemeinsam ausgedachten Projekte einbinden und in Teamarbeit Schaltkreise für Freiluft Elektronik entwickeln. Dabei geht es auch darum, Technologie zu demystifizieren und neue Ideen auszutauschen (Sharing culture).

Zielgruppe: wir wollen besonders Frauen ermutigen mit Elektronik zu arbeiten

TAG 1: Teufelskreise
Wir bauen mehrere, mit Solarzellen betriebene Zoetropen , die von den Teilnehmerinnen entwickelte Minifilmen enthalten.

TAG 2 Einführung in Arduino

Arduino ist ein Microcontroller mit dem Licht, Ton oder kleine Motoren koordiniert werden können. Einführung in interaktive Software wie PD (http://puredata.info/) und Processing (http://processing.org/).

TAG 3 Filmmusik mit Arduino:

Sensoren selbst bauen (Videoband, Graphit, Körper, Stetoskop, Lack) Soundspur durch Photowiederstände dazukomponieren. Widerstände, Herzschlag, Berührung als Input einbinden.

Die Installation aus Arduino-Schaltkreis, Soundspur und Zoetrop soll am Ende in eine kleinen Präsentation den Zuschauern zugänglich gemacht werden. Usertesting und kleine Abschiedsparty.

Ulla Rauter + Stefanie Wuschitz

miss baltazar’s lab is serious shit: wir sind ein verein!

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:02:14 +0000

Gestern war ein historischer Tag für Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory: Der Tag der Registrierung als Verein.

Ein Polizist am Eingang hat diesen denkwürdigen Moment dokumentiert:

how to make an NGO

admin — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:27:40 +0000

JULY 28th 2010

7.30 pm at metalab

” HOW DO I MAKE MY OWN NGO ?” WORKSHOP

This coming week we will have a participatory workshop session (not one person giving the workshop, but everyone sharing their experience and ideas) on NGOs. Since we are in the process of making Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory an official NGO, we thought it would be smart to have a workshop on the responsebilities, advantages, forms and obsticales during the registration.

love,

stefanie

LINKS:

http://kupf.at/publikationen
http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_Vereinswesen/gruendung/start.aspx

photos letzte woche

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:56:16 +0000

today

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:56:48 +0000

we’ll meet july 14th at 7pm
at metalab (surprisingly)
for a summer sunny

.“´. :B L O G G I N G W O R K S H O P: .`´´.

Blogging is important, for exhibitionism, self representation, bragging, but also for giving information, civic journalism or communicating helpful ideas.
With blogging software you can quickly make your own website and change it’s content every day of the week without much efford.
It’s simple and free.

Helga will give us an introduction to blogging, how to install your own blog and how you could add the blog to your own webURL
(so you e.g. don’t see the name “wordpress” in the address)…If you use one of the big blogging tools you can add all kinds of plugins and widgets like maps, tag clouds, chat rooms, etc..

Thanx!
Love,
Stefanie

PS: Vielleicht stoßen wir ja danach gemeinsam auf den französischer Nationalfeiertag an, wenn ihr Lust auf Revolution habt

little documentation of our ampifications workshop yesterday : THANK YOU LESLEY!!

admin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:08:53 +0000

LM386

cracker_box_amp-1

workshop with sound artist and vocalist lesley flanigan (NY)

admin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:05:43 +0000

THIS WEDNESDAY

JUNE 30th AT 7 PM

a m p l i f i c a t i o n s

Talk description:

Sound artist and vocalist Lesley Flanigan (New York City) will present the concepts, compositions and electronics behind her latest work for handmade speaker instruments and voice, titled Amplifications. She performs Amplifications in Vienna at Sala terrena, Heiligenkreuzerhof (July 1) and Rhiz (July 5).

She will then give an simple introduction workshop for participants of Miss Baltazar’s Laboratory. We are building sound circuits with cheap electronic parts and playing with piezo microphones to make noise.

PLEASE BRING AN OLD LOUDSPEAKER TO THE WORKSHOP (from old radio/walkman/whatever)

more information can be found at www.lesleyflanigan.com

SHORT BIO:

Lesley Flanigan is an artist, vocalist, and performer based in New York City. Much of her work deals with the physicality of sound by using amplification as a source of sound itself and by focusing on the relationships between noise, speakers, and voice.

In her current work, Flanigan builds her own speaker electronics and instruments. Her performances with these instruments reveal a sculptural process of creating music, as she shapes the varying tones and rhythms of speaker feedback, and blends these sounds with the tones and rhythms of her own singing voice. The result is beautifully rich and physical music built entirely of feedback and voice. Her album and performance of Amplifications (2009) toured nationally across the United States along with 1-bit electronic musician/composer Tristan Perich, and was presented at the Sonar Festival 2010 in Barcelona. Flanigan also performs as part of Bioluminescence, a collaboration with R. Luke DuBois that explores the modality and materiality of human voice. In this performance, the sound of her voice is remapped, rearranged and rebuilt in real time to shape an immersive environment of video and sound.

Her work has been presented in numerous venues, festivals, and art spaces internationally including at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Issue Project Room (Brooklyn), Sonar (’10 Barcelona), Transitio_MX (‘09, Mexico City), NIME (‘08 Genoa; ‘09 Pittsburgh), ICMC (‘07, Copenhagen), and Bent (‘08 Los Angeles; ‘09 New York). Her art has been exhibited at the ISEA conference in Singapore, Busan International Design Festival in South Korea, Ringling College’s Selby Gallery and MCLA’s Gallery 51. She has spoken about her work and given workshops at universities and art foundations including Harvestworks, Dorkbot NYC, Art Institute of Chicago, Wellesley College, and the Copenhagen School of Architecture. www.lesleyflanigan.com