New York Hardware Hacking Workshop w/ Nick Collins again!

[hanst]

Calendar Event: June 1, 2007

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Dear friends,

after the phenomenal success in 2005 with Nick Collins' Hardware hacking workshop we are very happy to offer this exceptional course again - right during our New York Electronic Arts Festival in June (www.nyeaf.org).

THE ART OF HARDWARE HACKING w/ NICHOLAS COLLINS
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Harvestworks, Digital Media Arts Center
http://www.harvestworks.org
Contact: Hans Tammen 212-431-1130

Date: Friday June 1 through Monday June 4, 2007
Time: 10 am - 5pm
Cost: $350 for members, $410 for non-members - plus $50.00 lab fee
Final Performance: Monday, June 4th at 4pm

Location: HARVESTWORKS Digital Media Arts Center
596 Broadway, Suite 602 (at Houston St)
New York, NY 10012

Please note that the 2005 workshop sold out quickly. We are also happy to announce that this workshop will be held in our newly renovated presentation space at the Harvestworks facility, so the class can accomodate 20 students. To sign up, call Hans Tammen at 212-431-1130, or use our webstore at http://www.harvestworks.org/store_2/show_cat.php?catid=1

In our days every little kid knows how to hack the Pentagon, but few of us really understand how to properly hack a simple battery-driven-kiddies-toy!

This is a workshop in hardware hacking for audio applications. No previous electronic experience is assumed. Basic soldering skills will be learned through building contact microphones and coils to sniff electromagnetic fields. The students will open up a range of battery-powered "consumer" technology (radios, electronic toys), observe the effect of direct hand contact on the circuit boards, experiment with the substitution of components, and listen to unheard signals running through the circuit. Knowledge acquired through this process will be applied to building circuits from scratch (oscillators, amplifiers, fuzztones, etc.)

The workshop uses as a reference Handmade Electronic Music -- The Art Of Hardware Hacking, Collins' recent book, published by Routledge. Got to the following URL, and "look inside" for more information on the material covered.:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415975921/qid=1145972754/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-7911712-0751931?s=books&v=glance&n=283155

The workshop will end on Monday, June 4th at 4pm with a public performance of student's work.

About Nicolas Collins:
New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins studied composition with Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University, worked for many years with David Tudor, and has collaborated with numerous soloist and ensembles around the world. He lived most of the 1990s in Europe, where he was Visiting Artistic Director of Stichting STEIM (Amsterdam), and a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin. Since 1997 he has been editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Music Journal. He is a Professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent recordings are available on PlateLunch, Periplum and Apestaartje.



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Harvestworks is a nonprofit Digital Media Arts Center that provides
resources for artists to learn digital tools and exhibit experimental
work created with digital technologies. Our programs are made possible
with funds from mediaThe foundation, New York State Council on the
Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural
Affairs, Materials for the Arts, The Experimental TV Center, the Mary
Flagler Cary Trust, the Aaron Copland Fund, The Greenwall Foundation,
the Jerome Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, JP
Morgan Chase Foundation and the Rodney White Foundation.
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HARVESTWORKS Digital Media Arts Center
596 Broadway, Suite 602 (at Houston St)
New York, NY 10012
Tel: 212-431-1130
http://www.harvestworks.org
Subway: F/V Broadway/Lafayette, 6 Bleeker, W/R Prince