Earth Coding
Event Information
Event description
Description
Artist Martin Howse will introduce participants to the field of psychogeophysics and take participants through a range of guided, electrochemical experimental activities. This three day Earth Coding workshop, organised by Derek Hales for hackerspace Bridge Rectifier actively explores links between contemporary technology and the earth.
This event is a fundraiser for Bridge Rectifier a new hackerspace in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. This event has a limited number of places free to current members of Bridge Rectifier hackerspace and members of hackerspaces in Leeds and Manchester.
Payments of £120.00 include 12 months membership of Bridge Rectifier.
Payments of £75 are for the workshop and include 6 months membership of Bridge Rectifier
We are happy to discuss pay What You can Afford arrangements with individuals.
For related works see
http://www.1010.co.uk/org/sketches.html
http://www.1010.co.uk/org/sketches.html
The workshop examines the following wide-ranging questions:
- How can the earth as a process be tempted to compose software?
- What signals can be transduced from the earth, using equipment of the earth, revealing hidden process and how can these signals be exposed and converted to brute code?
- Finally, how can a dark interpreter, a shadow substrate be constructed as an experimental situation, enabling earthy instructions to recode and give voice to that same landscape?
The whole earth process is embraced in attempt to approach these questions through the construction of a series of experimental situations.
Participants will learn how to:
- Measure and make audible and visible telluric currents flowing through the earth
- Construct an earth sensing glove to insert and feedback audio signals from the earth
- Build an earth antenna/radiomeasure electrical power from an earth battery
- Allow worms to compose poetry and listen to constructed voices from the earth
- Fashion fluid logic gates in the earth
Introduction and Black Death Synthesiser/Dark Interpreter Open Hardware.
7pm Friday 9th October @ Bridge Rectifier, Hebble End Works, Hebden Bridge.
Workshop
Day One. Saturday 10th October
Starts 10.30am Bridge Rectifier, Hebble End Works
The session in the afternoon will be on Midgley moor so please think about the outdoors...and what to wear.
We aim to finish the workshop on Saturday by 4pm
Martin will give a performance of earthvoice at 9pm on Saturday evening.
The performance will be at The Birchcliffe Centre, Hebden Bridge
The postcode for the Birchcliffe Centre is HX7 8DG and the OS grid reference is SD 995 274.
Day Two. Sunday 11th October
Start 10.30am Bridge Rectifier, Hebble End Works
We aim to finish the workshop on Sunday by 4pm
what do you need to bring?
Recording devices, paper, pens, audio recorders, cameras, headphones.
scrap metals
minerals, crystals, stones.
a laptop if you have one
battery powered portable speakers if you have them.
portable guitar amp if you have one
Lunch: we won't be providing food - but we will have tea and coffee.
Suitable clothing for (indoor and) outdoor workshop.
the EXTRA bit:
Martin and I will be wandering around the moors on Friday afternoon. I will be interviewing Martin at some point in the afternoon for a journal I am editing - but if anyone wanted to join us on our wanderings (physical and cerebral) then just let me know.
