[art+tech] FW: [hack] Hardware Hacking Workshop w/ Nick Collins

[Mark Tribe]

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Subject: [hack] Hardware Hacking Workshop w/ Nick Collins

Hardware Hacking Workshop with Nicolas Collins

Harvestworks, Digital Media Arts Center	 http://www.harvestworks.org
Contact:  Hans Tammen 212-431-1130 x 13

Date: 	Friday April 15th to - Monday  April 18th 2005
Time:  	10 am - 5 pm
Cost: 	$300 plus $50.00 lab fee

Location: 	HARVESTWORKS Digital Media Arts Center 596 Broadway, Suite
602 (at Houston St) New York, NY 10012

Preview:  Friday March 25, 2005  7pm    Demonstration of workshop activities

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!

This is a workshop in hardware hacking for audio applications.  No previous
electronic experience is assumed.  Basic soldering skills will be learned
through building contact microphones and coils to sniff electromagnetic
fields.  The students will open up a range of battery-powered "consumer"
technology (radios, electronic toys), observe the effect of direct hand
contact on the circuit boards, experiment with the substitution of
components, and listen to unheard signals running through the circuit.
Knowledge acquired through this process will be applied to building circuits
from scratch (oscillators, amplifiers, fuzztones, etc.

The workshop uses as a reference Collins' book on Hardware Hacking, to be
published by Routledge.  A copy of the Table of Contents and Introduction
are available.

On Monday, April 18th , Nicolas will perform two compositions called "Bower
Bird" for battery activated loudspeakers; and "Slight of Hand" for
flesh-controlled portable radios as part of the "Alternate Controllers"
concert series at Harvestworks.  These works rely on ensembles of student
circuits that will be built during the "Hardware Hacking" workshop.

About Nicolas Collins
New York born and raised, 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.  He
lived most of the 1990s 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.  Recent recordings are available on PlateLunch,
Periplum and Apestaartje.

About Harvestworks
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 workshop is part of "Alternate
Controllers"   a series of 8 concerts presented from March 14 - April 25th,
2005, focusing on the exciting way that musicians and composers assimilate
various machines into their creative processes.

 The "Alternate Controller" Series is made possible with funds from
mediaThefoundation inc., and The New York State Council on the Arts, a
public agency and produced in partnership with The Tank NYC's BENT2005
Circuit Bending Festival.


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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.  Our programs are 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, Materials for the Arts, The Experimental TV Center, 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 Rodney White Foundation.
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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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