Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Workshop: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Performance and reception: 6 p.m.
The Old American Can Factory
232 Third Street at Third Avenue, Gowanus, Brooklyn
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Presented as part of the public program schedule organized in conjunction with the fall 2009 exhibition Toward the Sentient City.
The Scrapyard Challenge Workshops are intensive workshops where participants build simple electronic music controllers (both digital and analog inputs) out of found or discarded “junk” (old electronics, furniture, outdated computer equipment, appliances, turntables, monitors, gadgets, etc.). Participants also build simple drawing robots or “DrawBots” with motors, batteries, and drawing markers that can be connected to Serial or MIDI interface. At the end of the day or evening, the workshop participants have a small performance/concert where they play their instruments together as a large ensemble. No electronics skills or any experience with technology is necessary for the workshop.
Please note: Attendance at the workshop is limited to fifteen participants, but the performance and reception at 6:00 p.m. is open to all for free admission.
BIOS
Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, and Ph.D. candidate as an HEA MMRP (Multimedia Research Programme) fellow in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin. He is an adjunct assistant professor of communications at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). His work and thesis focuses on the theme of “Deconstructing Networks” which includes projects that attempt to critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. For more information, click here.
Katherine Moriwaki is an artist and researcher investigating clothing and accessories as the active conduit through which people create network relationships in public space. Currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Networks and Telecommunications Research Group at Trinity College Dublin, her work has appeared in IEEE Spectrum Magazine, and numerous festivals and conferences including numer.02 at Centre Georges Pompidou (02), Break 2.2 (03), Ubicomp (03,04), eculture fair (03), Transmediale (04), CHI (04, 06), ISEA (04), Ars Electronica (04), and WIRED Nextfest (05). She currently teaches at Parsons School of Design’s MFA Design Technology Program and has taught at Rhode Island School of Design’s (RISD), Design Media Arts Program.
TICKETS
Pre-registration is required. Tickets for the workshop are $30 for League members; $50 for non-members. If you would like to register and for more information please email rsvp@archleague.org. The performance and reception will be free and open to the public. No reservations necessary for the performance and reception. AIA and New York State continuing education credits are available.
Toward the Sentient City was made possible with support from the J. Clawson Mills Fund of the Architectural League and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Additional support was provided by the University at Buffalo.
Toward the Sentient City is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
