[art+tech] Fwd: Nic Collins Hands On workshop @ Harvestworks

[douglas irving repetto]

Hardware Hacking Class at Harvestworks
Lecturer: Nicolas Collins

date:	April15th to April 18th 2005
price:	$200
location:	HARVESTWORKS Digital Media Arts Center
	596 Broadway, Suite 602 (at Houston St)
	New York, NY 10012
Call for more information: 212-431-1130


In our days every little kid knows how to hack the Pentagon, but few 
of us really understand how to properly hack a simple 
battery-driven-kiddies-toy!


Nicolas Collins will introduce you step-by-step to the low-level 
secrets of hacking, soldering and assemblage of electronic 'chipetry' 
and how can you transform these processes into highly individual 
expressive sound objects.

Please bring a portable radio and some electronic device to hack, as 
well as your favorite personal hand tools.

No previous electronic experience is assumed.




Nicolas Collins

"If it sounds good and doesn't smoke, don't worry if you don't understand it."
(n.collins)

"Computers, circuits and signal processors are merely skeleton keys 
for gaining access to rooms for which the landlord has yet to give us 
legitimate ones -- the thief who jangles them too loudly is quick to 
find himself confined."
(n.collins)


Born and raised in New York, Nicolas Collins studied composition with 
Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University, worked for many years with David 
Tudor, and has collaborated with numerous soloist and ensembles 
around the world.  For most of the 1990's, he lived in Europe, where 
he was Visiting Artistic Director of Stichting STEIM (Amsterdam), and 
a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin.  Since 1997 he has been 
editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Music Journal.  He is currently Chair 
of the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of 
Chicago.

Collins' installations and performances have been presented at venues 
around the world including The Whitney Museum of American Art, De 
IJsbreker, Het Concertgebouw, Berlin Biennale, ZKM, Ars Electronica, 
London Musicians' Collective, Tokyo P/N, Art Summit Indonesia ... He 
has received grants and commissions from New York State Council on 
the Arts, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, New York Foundation For 
The Arts, Pro Music Nova, Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, DAAD 
Artist-in-Residence (Berlin), Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, 
Nederlands Blazers Ensemble, Nederlands Stimuleringsfonds, British 
Arts Council ... He has curated shows at PS1/The Clocktower, The 
Kitchen, Luzern Festwochen, Podewil, Freunde Guter Musik, De 
IJsbreker, and Korzo Theatre.


Discographie:
Let The State Make The Selection, Lovely Music (1984) 
Devil's Music, Trace Elements Records (1986) 
Real Landscape, Banned Cassettes cassette (1988) 
100 Of The World's Most Beautiful Melodies, Trace Elements Records (1989)
It Was A Dark And Stormy Night, Trace Elements Records (1992) 
Sound Without Picture, Periplum Records, 1999 
Pea Soup, Apestaartje, 2004



Harvestworks is a nonprofit Digital Media Arts Center that provides 
resources for artists to learn digital tools and exhibit experimental 
work created with digital technologies.  This presentation was made 
possible with funds from mediaThe foundation, New York State Council 
on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of 
Cultural Affairs, the Mary Flagler Cary Trust, the Aaron Copland 
Fund, The Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, Foundation for 
Contemporary Performance Arts, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, and the 
media foundation.


For further information, pleaser contact:
HARVESTWORKS Digital Media Arts Center
596 Broadway, Suite 602 (at Houston St)
New York, NY 10012
Tel: 212-431-1130
http://www.harvestworks.org
mailto:info at harvestworks.org
Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleeker, W/R Prince


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