xxxxx workshop 18: mini_maxwell - electromagnetic sniffing and fl July 7, 2007

7th July: Mini_maxwell: City EM (electromagnetic) sniffing and flaneur.

A reduced companion to the Oslo Maxwell's City workshop investigating
artistic uses of EM (electromagnetic) substance within Berlin,
Mitte. Participants will build a small variety of simple sniffing
device to actively explore in primarily aural manner the alternative
city space of ghost EM architecture (mobile emissions, metal
structures supporting existent buildings, power and lines of
transmission). EM sniffing is presented as contemporary city flaneur
and divining activity.

References:

http://anart.no/projects/maxwell-city/

http://scrying.org

Against the Day, by Thomas Pynchon, Jonathan Cape (21 Nov 2006)

Please bring headphones and any audio/video recording device
(minidisc, video camera, walkman).

Course fee: 18 euros including choice of sniffing kit

Please RSVP [email protected] to reserve places

Please RSVP [email protected] to reserve places

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Workshops led by field-expert practitioners extend over realms of code and embedded code, environmental code, noise, transmission and reception, and electromysticism. Workshops solely utilise free software and GNU toolbase.

Practitioners include Julian Oliver (http://selectparks.net/), Derek Holzer (http://soundtransit.nl), Jeff Mann (http://jeffmann.com), Martin Howse (http://1010.co.uk), Fredrik Olofsson (http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/), superfactory
(http://superfactory.biz), Florian Cramer (http://cramer.plaintext.cc:70/), Brendan Howell

Please RSVP [email protected] to reserve any places or register interest. Please forward.

xxxxx, pickledfeet, Linienstrasse 54, Berlin 10119

U2, Rosa-Luxemburg-Pl.
U8, Rosenthaler Pl.

Telephone: 3050187482.

http://1010.co.uk/workshop.html

http://1010.co.uk/xxxxx_research_institute.html

Official Website: http://pickledfeet.com