SNUFF: WIRELESS NETWORKS SONIFICATION WORKSHOP

SNUFF: WIRELESS NETWORKS SONIFICATION WORKSHOP

Snuff is a workshop about wireless telecommunications, traffic and data corruption. Participants will create an electronic device that amplifies wireless Internet traffic, Bluetooth data transfer, mobile phones, microwaves and other devices with electromagnetic activity in the 2.4 GHz range.

During the workshop topics related with vulnerability, data transfer interruption and sniffing will be discussed.

Documentation of the device can be found here: http://r-aw.cc/snuff

The workshop is limited to 15 participants. Experience in electronics is not necessary. Participants keep the devices they create.

INSTRUCTORS:

Mario de Vega. Lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City. His work explores causes and effects that determine the construction of realities, through processes and objects that physical or conceptually connect with acoustic activity. His practice investigates aesthetic and social realms, via controlled accidents and its outcomes. His research focuses on the overlaps between stability, failure, simulation, and vulnerability. He works out of a multiplicity of mediums that include: site-specific interventions, actions, photography, video, sculpture, and sound installations. He has performed live and exhibited throughout various platforms, which include festivals, galleries and museums in Europe, Mexico, United States, Canada, Russia, Korea and Japan.

Victor Mazón Gardoqui. Born in North Spain in 1982, lives and works in Berlin and Bilbao Fine Arts Studies at the University of Vasc Country, UPV-EHU, in the speciality of Lithography and Engraving. Since 2009 working as a Tutor of the Experimentelle Technologien im Kunstkontext, in the A/V Labor of the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (HGB-Leipzig), with Prof. Dr. David Link. His works has been performed or shown on Museums, Galleries and public spaces in different countries like Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Russia, Morocco, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway and Austria.

Booking email [email protected]

Title: Snuff. Wireless traffic sonification workshop

Praxis and theory: http://r-aw.cc

Duration: 8 hours

Max participants: 11

Target: People interested in data sonification, animism, entropy, magic, vulnerability, tactical media, unstable systems,

noise, actionism, custom electronics, editorial processes.

Language: English / Spanish

Cost: £70 (per participant). Including all electronic components and black matt electro-less gold immersion PCBs.

Required skills: No electronic experience needed. Patience is mandatory, SMD components soldering.

Required materials: Fine tip soldering iron less than 25W (1 per participant)

Tags: non-regulated traffic, high frequency demodulation, microwaves, narrow band spectrum, 2.4GHz, wireless networks, routing, addressing, network packet capture

Press kit and photos: http://r-aw.cc/down