| June 30, 2010 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 5:00 pm |
Workshop leaders: Peter Westenberg and Wendy Van Wynsberghe, Constant vzw, Brussels
Participants: 15 (maximum)
Fee: 20 Euro (lunch, drinks and material will be provided)
To register: please send an email to griet[AT]baltanlaboratories.org by June 23rd with the subject line: EMF Workshop.
Location: BALTAN Laboratories
Glaslaan 2, SWA-8
5616 LW Eindhoven
The Netherlands
A workshop in two parts led by Wendy Van Wynsberghe and Peter Westenberg, two core members of Constant, a Brussels-based organisation for art and media. During the first part of the workshop, participants will build their own EMF antennae that make electromagnetic fields audible. After that, participants will perform a collective urban intervention in the Eindhoven city centre.
WORKSHOP AGENDA
10:00 – 13:00
Building EMF antennae.
The day will start off with a presentation and introduction to EMF to contextualise the walk and the workshop.
Then each participant builds his/her own antennae.
Materials will be provided.
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 17:00
EMF Orchestra: Collective performance in Eindhoven.
Experience the city as an electromagnetic audio landscape. Cars, wires, cables, street lights, security installations, and many other electronic devices saturate our urban environment with electromagnetic fields. Walking through the city, we will scan and make these fields audible. Dissonant harmonies will be improvised through the combination of different antennae.
18:00 – 20:00
In the evening, the workshop leaders and participants are invited to share their experiences from the workshop with the public during a BALTAN Session at the lab. Drinks and snacks will be provided.
(Images courtesy of Constant)
BIOGRAPHIES
Wendy Van Wynsberghe
Wendy Van Wynsberghe works with open hardware, conductive textiles, recycled electronic materials and a DIY approach to interactive installations and audio works. She studied Germanic Philology and electroacoustic music composition. She developed the radio programme ‘storing’ on FM Brussel and produced several independent sound works. Within Constant vzw she mainly focusses on Linux audio (among other things) and on the electronic recycling workshops “Ellentriek”.
Peter Westenberg
Peter Westenberg creates collective performances, short films, audio walks and multimedia projects. His intervention series Routes + Routines researches the conditions of public space, social, virtual and urban networks. He studied Art History as well as Visual Arts. At the moment he is working on the Schaarbeekse Taal (the language of Schaarbeek), a series of local audio interventions and radio broadcasts in Schaarbeek / Brussels. At Constant vzw his focus is mainly on Open Source Video.
Constant is an interdisciplinary workspace, established in Brussels in 1997. It is dedicated to the culture and ethics of the Web and electronic media. The artistic practice of Constant is inspired by the way in which technological infrastructures, data exchange and software influence our daily lives. Core areas of work include free software, alternatives to copyright and (cyber)feminism.
More information: http://constantvzw.org
