Workshops

30 - 16 May - Jun

EBEMU - Experimental Body Extension Manufacturing Unit

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
In the Experimental Body Extension Manufacturing Unit (EBEMU) ideas about physical body extensions are explored, and prototypes of ‘Wearable Hybrid Body Augmentations’ partly made from discarded material sources are constructed.

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7 - 16 Jun - Jun

X Media Lab - KR8V Masterclass & Workshop Series

Venues
Celebrating it's 10th year, X Media Lab, Australia's most prestigious digital media event, in partnership with Vivid, the College of Fine Arts (UNSW) and ISEA2013, presents KR8V Masterclass Series: Creative Leadership Edition.

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7 - 10 Jun - Jun

Theta Lab - George Poonkin Khut and James Brown

MCA, Shop 2.05
Theta Lab is an experimental art research project combining neurofeedback with participatory art, electronic music and ‘slow design’ to explore and document qualities of attention and subjectivity facilitated by Alpha/Theta brainwave biofeedback.

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8 Jun

Beyond 3D, Immersive Visualisation and Applications in the Arts

iCinema Scientia Facility, University of New South Wales
Held at UNSW’s iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research, this workshop will give participants experience of, and insight into, state-of-the-art immersive visualisation applications and technologies, including iCinema's AVIE ...

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8 Jun

Waterwheel - Make & Share about Water

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
With climate change and industrial and domestic effects on water quality, there is a global need to share resources around water-issue awareness, management and celebration.

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8 - 10 Jun - Jun

SurSouth: Is Convergence Inevitable?

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
SurSouth envisions the development, design and implementation of new strategies for collaboration within a decentralised, international network of digital culture.

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8 - 13 Jun - Jun

The Situational Library: A Swap, Drop & Roll Project

University Venues
Swap, Drop and Roll is an ongoing series of projects which invite the public to design and build a self-running, self-organising ‘situational library’.

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8 Jun

Visualising Utopia: Creating Visualisations of the Future as a Critical Tool

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
Visualisations are selective representations of reality. As we create a visualisation, the subject matter is as much our own perspective as it is the data.

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8 Jun

Spatio-Temporal Anomalies

University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
This workshop explores the juncture between objects, sound and visual representations of how humans interact with objects in a given space.

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8 - 9 Jun - Jun

Mozzi: the Mobile Sonification Synthesiser for Arduino

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
Through guided making, participants will learn to use Mozzi and Arduino to combine sensors with synthesis to make complex, reactive sounds. By the end of the workshop everyone will have created their own responsive sound-generating objects.

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8 - 10 Jun - Jun

Exploded Views Lab

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
The Exploded Views Lab investigates the methods applied by Marnix de Nijs to create his interactive video artworks, Run Motherfucker Run and Exploded Views.

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8 Jun

Chip Music Workshop / Pixel Sound Festival

Campbeltown Arts Centre
Chip Music Festival 2013 is presented by Campbelltown Arts Centre in association with ISEA2013, as part of the Catching Light exhibition and the centre’s Contemporary Music Program.

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8 Jun

Triangulation: Connecting Dots with Network Music Performance

Music Cafe
Discover the potential of live music sharing over global networks with acoustic or electronic instruments. This workshop will demonstrate and explore the potential of the most recent developments in interactive network music performance practice.

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8 Jun

Desktop Psychogeographies

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
Once more with feeling ... to develop an individual approach to personal data.

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9 - 10 Jun - Jun

Postgender Biomechatronic Workshop

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
A combination of live installation and performance, Postgender Biomechatronics is an experiment in which participants can attempt to ‘rehabilitate’ their gender defaults through learning practical techniques.

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9 Jun

Hacking the Body - Camille Baker and Kate Sicchio

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
The research project 'Hacking the Body' explores using the concept of ‘hacking’ data to re-purpose and re-imagine biofeedback from the body

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9 - 10 Jun - Jun

Gesture, Sound and Place

University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
An immersive exploration of body-mapped sonic territories in two audio/visual works: SoundLabyrinth & Action A/V.

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9 Jun

Experimental Electromagnetism and Improvised Loudspeakers

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
Participants will wind their own electromagnetic coils, to be used as part of an experimental loudspeaker improvised from a found object resonator supplied by the participant.

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9 Jun

Sensing for Visualisation

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
Sensing for Visualisation will present an introduction to the use of analog sensors for producing interactive experiences in the fine arts context.

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9 - 10 Jun - Jun

Holoshop: Drawing and Perceiving in Depth

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
Join the Holoshop project’s researchers for a step-by-step workshop and fabrication process.

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10 Jun

Global Mind FIELD

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
What images can your mind create? And is it in synch with someone else’s? This arts and neuroscience project will be a social experiment on creativity and collective neural synchrony.

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10 Jun

ARTIVIS DiY Forest Surveillance Kit

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
What if, instead of resisting the use of surveillance technology, we could harness it for the public good?

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10 Jun

Artistic Potentials of 3D Stereoscopic Technologies

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
This workshop presents different approaches to 3D technology in artistic practice: drawing, animation and video.

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10 Jun

Synthetic Scenarios & Stories

College of Fine Arts (COFA), UNSW
‘Scenario thinking’ is a term originally used within military intelligence as an aid to long-term and future planning.

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14 - 16 Jun - Jun

City Data Slam: Sensing Sydney

Object Gallery
Building on the Echology: Making Sense of Data project of ANAT and Carbon Arts, City Data Slam and Sensing Sydney challenge digital artists to work with real-time data to assist communities, businesses and organisations in reaching the City of Sydney’s Sustainable Sydney 2030 vision

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14 Jun

The role of art education in an age of ecological crisis and the globalisation of knowledge

Museum of Contemporary Art, Creative Studios
What is the role of art education in an age of ecological crisis and the globalisation of knowledge? This workshop positions transdisciplinary approach as the key towards sustainable, meaningful solutions.

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15 Jun

Long Time, No See?

ICE (Information & Cultural Exchange)
Long Time, No See? is a collaborative, online artwork that focuses audiences upon our long-term futures.

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15 - 16 Jun - Jun

Responsive Public Space

Bon Marche Studio, Ground Floor, Bldg 3
ORTLOS Space Engineering is a transdisciplinary design studio that develops immersive participatory environments and expanded spatial experiences through innovative technological systems and strategies.

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15 - 20 Jun - Jun

The Sustainability of Future Bodies - Critical Path

2 Venues - The Drill Hall & Carriageworks
Exchange between new media technologies and choreographic practices establishes an innovative set of active inter-relational actions, and thus new relationships between body, agency and embodiment in performance.

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15 - 16 Jun - Jun

The Musical Metacreation Weekend 2013

Venues
Musical Metacreation describes the process of making software that in turn makes music, partially or entirely by itself.

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