Routes + Routines Follow Blind

Routes + Routines Follow Blind

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.
>> http://www.timelab.org/summercamp09/workshops/routes-routines-follow-blind/

cost: 5 euro for the workshop. 20 euro extra for lunch & diner (optional)

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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 Summercamp Electrified.
(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)

Workshop by Peter Westenberg and Wendy Van Wynsberghe from Constant vzw.
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.

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