If you’d like to participate in the workshops mail to summercamp@timelab.org
Peter Westenberg and Wendy Van Wynsberghe (Constant vzw)
Wednesday 15th July 2009 - 10 AM - city walk starts at Timelab - Sint Pietersnieuwstraat 23 - 9000 Ghent
This workshop is a detour through the city of Ghent guided by environmental data. Fit up with a self-made antenna, city walkers are dwelling through the electro magnetic fields of Ghent.
Part 1 EMF antenna
After a contextualization of the workshop by a presentation and introduction of EMF, participants will make their own EMF antenna. Tools and material are provided by Constant.
Duration: 3 hours
Part 2 Collective sound performance
Cars, wires, streetlights, security installations and a lot of other electronic devices create a urban environment saturated by electro magnetic radiation. By walking, the EMF-orchestra scans the city. The registered radiation becomes audible by portable speakers the participants are wearing. Electronic rhythms, pulses, noise, frequencies, dissonant tones, feedback …
Duration: 3 hours
The Brussels-based, non-profit organization Constant is operating in the field between art and media. Constant is an interdisciplinary studio involved in ethics and culture on the Internet. Their artistic practices are inspired by the way technological infrastructure, data transfer en software are changing our daily life. Important points of interest are free software, alternative license agreements and (cyber)feminism.
I explored similar things with my project ‘Tense Nervous Headaches’ : http://davemiller.org/index.php?nav_item=Gallery&gallery_nav=tense_nervous_headaches
There’s a powerpoint doc on the page that might be useful for you to read.
I didn’t have the time to take the project further, though I really wanted to, and would be very interested to know more about this project, and where it leads you. It might be good for us to collaborate on this?
Hello, dave
There is indeed quite some common ground with you project. We will build a DIY antenna which converts magnetic fieldes into sound and change the way you perceive your city environment:
The antenna lookis like this: http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=19929.
It basically a big coil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_coil
Do you plan on coming to the workshop?
Hi Wendy,
Just to verify; we meet at the Sint Pietersnieuwstraat 23 - 9000 Ghent?
Tot dan,
F
Yes! Welkom
For the more experienced possible antennabuilders, we are also looking into scanners for other frequencies -> a bit more random, but nice to look into:
http://www.freewebs.com/radiolariax/howto.htm
So if you have old walkmans, or am/fm portable radio’s and a bunch of coils/ferrite rods…
The worksop will be a combination of some talking, building and walking!