a workshop by Stefanie Wuschitz (Mz Baltazar’s Laboratory)

This is a hacker workshop to build charismatic robots from old switches, motors, broken mobile phones and tiny pieces of hardware. We will create shaking little angst robots that interact with sound and touch. We will use micro-controlers at this basic electronics workshop, and we will re-use materials to implement them into circuits and small voodoo dolls (the angst robots). At the end we will experiment with sustainable energy resources and how they can make our angst-robots self-contained. If possible, bring old Barbie dolls!

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pictures from the workshop
11. 06. 2011.

a workshop by Sabrina Basten and Audrey Samson (Genderchangers)

You have things you can’t bare to throw away? Migrate the sentimental value by re-purposing components into a wearable electromagnetic wave sniffer!

Participants are expected to bring an old electronic object (preferably with coils in it) to dismantle. The coils are going to be re-purposed into pick up microphones (mics that pick up electromagnetic frequencies). We will then build an amplifier from components. After that we build the circuit into a wearable device (re-using the old components of the dismatled object). We end the day by a walk through the city and shopping areas discovering the electromagnetic environment.

The ELECTROMAGNETIC CITYSCAPE is about understanding how things work, breaking things open, working with the physical leftovers of planned obsolescence, and re-incarnating old components. It is also about exploring the hidden world of omnipresent electromagnetic waves.

No previous knowledge about electronics is required.

please bring to the workshop: an appliance to dismantle (old radios, TVs, VHS players, mobiles, tape recorders or kitchen appliances) and if you have, a piece of clothing to modify; if you have your own, bring soldering irons, solder and de-solder, tools like plyers, cutters, screw drivers

Participants: 8-10

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photos from the workshop
10. and 11. 06. 2011.