17.06
1400-1700
Servus Clubraum / Stadtwerkstatt
More info HERE

Flying dragons, deers, owls, octopus, or parrots – in different languages across the world, kites are named in all sorts of imaginary ways.

In this wind instrument building workshop, we will explore how kites fly, try to measure this with self-built sensors, and use the data to create sound to bring alive the dragons, deers, owls, octopus and parrots.

We will create sensors to measure the pressure of the wind on the kite from conductive materials, as well as create a kite tail sensor. In addition we will use a motion sensor. These sensors will be attached to an ESP32 board on the kite, that sends the data via WiFi as OpenSoundControl. This data can be received by an App based on Pd that can run on a mobile phone, or on laptops with any OSC-capable software. We will supply example code for Pd and SuperCollider.

At the end of the workshop we will go out, fly the kites and listen to how they roar!

Participants should bring:

– a laptop with PureData (v0.46 or above), optionally SuperCollider
– a smartphone (we will use the app MobMuPlat – https://danieliglesia.com/mobmuplat/)
– USB-A to USB-Micro-B cable
– headphones or portable loudspeaker
– optionally: their own kite

The current edition of Art Meets Radical Openness is dedicated to the rituals and the philosophies of debugging. Software bugs are much more than simple engineering mistakes. With the eyes of radical openness, they are the moments in which the surface-tension of perfection and infallibility of the ubiquituous machinery is broken and its inner logic gets briefly exposed – the glitch in the matrix. Aim of the festival is to unpack debugging from the strict technological connotation to a wider understanding in terms of knowledge creation and community building.

As a gathering of communities with interests across arts and cultures, networked technologies and political action, AMRO offers space for sharing knowledge and practices, focusing on the potential of debugging both inside and outside of the purely technical realm.

The four-day event include a discursive program with keynotes, panels and lectures, workshops and showcases, and a nightline.