[rohrpost] xxxxx-workshops: [in]tolerance @ Club Transmediale

[carsten stabenow]

xxxxx-workshops: [in]tolerance
29 Janaury - 2 February 2008
Club Transmediale
Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin

xxxxx-workshops: [in]tolerance presents a series 
of constructivist workshops specially programmed 
for the ClubTransmediale 2008 festival, 
emphasising making and connection within the 
field of the existent. Workshops are led by 
international, field-expert practitioners, 
extending over realms of environmental code, 
noise, signal transmission, reception, and 
electromysticism. The workshops will utilise 
household materials and chemistry, 
readily-available electronics components, free 
software and the GNU toolbase.

Over the course of five days, participants will 
have the opportunity to construct a set of 
various electronic audiovisual artifacts (being 
either code or hardware) with which a final 
presentation/performance will be made. In 
learning how to create complex sound and image 
generators from the most basic elements, the 
participants will explore liminal electronic 
experiences and intriguing phenomena where 
carefully-engineered borders and parameters are 
twisted and transgressed, producing unexpected 
results in performance.

Workshops:
29.1. NOISE_PRODUCE by Martin Howse (UK) & Martin Kunetz (DE)
30.1. ONE BIT MUSIC by Frederik Olofsson (SE)
31.1. DIGITAL THEREMIN WORKSHOP by Andrei Smirnov (RU) & Derek Holzer (US/NL)
01.2. CHAOS IN NODES AND NETWORKS by Jessica Rylan (US)
02.2. BASTARD NATURES by Alejandra Nuñes Perez (CL)

The series takes inspiration from and continues 
the development of the (semi)weekly xxxxx 
workshops held at the Pickled Feet space in 
Berlin over the last year. It is supported by 
Arduino.

Theme:
"...in the good old days of Shannon's 
mathematical theory of information, the maximum 
of information coincided strangely with maximal 
unpredictability or noise..." [Friedrich Kittler: 
There is no software]

Engineers and scientists are concerned with 
prediction and thus predictability. Inside 
black-boxed apparatus the faint markings of 
tolerance, deviations from a predictable scenario 
towards the encryption of noise, can well be 
observed by the wily artist. Technology is thus 
exposed as a material expressing a certain chaos, 
pure noise of all voices. In return, materiality 
and an artistic concern with the matter of 
technology allows for the entry of the 
unpredictable, environmental noise within an 
otherwise closed circuit or economy.

Registration:
xxxxx-workshops is open to anyone, from novice to 
experienced electronic artist. The workshops will 
be held in English. You can register for single 
workshops or for the whole series. In addition to 
the actual daily workshops, a free open work-area 
gives everyone opportunity to pursue projects 
begun in one of the workshops over the course of 
five days. The registration fee for a single 
workshop is 10.- EUR, the fee for the series of 
all five workshops is 30.- EUR.

For descriptions of the workshops and workshop leaders go to:
http://www.clubtransmediale.de/club-transmediale/xxxxx-workshops.html

You can register till January 14, 2008, by 
sending an email to: xxxxx at clubtransmediale.de

Please don't forget to indicate which of the workshops you wish to attend.

xxxxx-workshops: [in]tolerance is curated by 
Martin Howse and Derek Holzer, and produced by 
Jan Rolf and Anke Eckhardt for Club Transmediale.