We’ve decided to create a Google Group for the workshops, so people who have been a part of it can stay in touch and find collaborators, friends, toss around ideas, etc.

It’s at http://groups.google.com/group/openlab-workshops

Happy posting!

Intro Processing for Everyone
Friday, 18th June 10.30am-4.30pm
£15 – buy your ticket via Eventbrite http://introprocessingforeveryone.eventbrite.com
Madlab (Manchester Digital Laboratory)
36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN
(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)
madlab.org.uk
inprocessing.cybersonica.org
openlabworkshops.org

InProcess:ing and Madlab are pleased to welcome Evan Raskob – founder and organiser of Openlab Workshops – making art and music with open source/free software around London and the UK.

This condensed one-day version of the regular Openlab’s 5-evening course will be a relaxed but project-focused introduction to programing in Processing and interactive art and design in general. We will spend the bulk of the day on basic methods of working with code, general workflow and feeling your way around the Processing environment, along the way building some small projects and gaining inspiration from art, design and technologies such as Wii remotes, RFID, OSC, video and more. The material is flexible, based on the needs and wishes of the people attending.

Expect to learn and find out about:
Introductory coding practice
Where to find both help and inspiration
Basic drawing to the screen
Loops and time-based animation
Using the mouse: built-in mouse methods and variables
Using the keyboard: built-in keyboard methods and variables
The possibility – time permitting – of working with images and/or video

InProcess:ing v1.4

an open forum for sharing creative coding and practice
a scheme by Madlab and Cybersonica
Thursday, 17th June 7-10pm
(and third Thursday – or thereabouts – of the month thereafter)
Madlab (Manchester Digital Laboratory)
36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN
(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)
madlab.org.uk
inprocessing.cybersonica.org

‘In-the-flesh’ presentation by London based live video performance artist or “pixelist” Evan Raskob a.k.a. PixelPusher – demonstrating his homemade software that generates video out of a controlled chaos of photographic images, simple shapes, animations, sounds, and live video feeds;
Informal ‘show-and-tell’ and ‘open-laptop’ sessions (go on… bring some of your own work along).
InProcess:ing focuses on the Processing language, environment and community (though not exclusively) as a vehicle to support and encourage creative collaboration and meaningful exchange between a diverse group of practitioners, creatives and hobbyists. It aims to create a playful, experimental space and a supportive framework in which people can share their work, realise new technological ideas, be inspired, challenged and stretched.
Join us at the next session to see Processing in action, meet other interested and like-minded people and find out more about the project and how to get involved;
Visit the InProcess:ing website to catch up with developments and future plans, watch past presentations and follow up on interesting links;
Join the forum and share your favourite Processing sketches, suggest practitioners/work for future presentations, offer useful techniques and online resources and tell us what you’d like to see from the project.
For full biogs, photos and links visit the InProcess:ing website <inprocessing.cybersonica.org>.

The course itself will be a relaxed but project-focused introduction to programing in Processing and interactive art and design in general.  We will spend the bulk of the first three sessions on basic methods of working with code, general workflow, and feeling your way around the Processing environment, along the way building some small projects and gaining inspiration from art, design, and technologies such as Wii remotes, RFID, OSC, video, and more.  The material is flexible, based on the needs and wishes of the people attending.

Taking place on 5 consecutive Thursday nights from 7:15 – 9:15PM at SPACE from May 27 until June 24.

This will be a small workshop, so please reserve soon!   The cost will be £125 for the entire 5-week course, paid upfront, unless you make other arrangements with us.  A make-up session will be included.

Finally…

Please email reserve@openlabworkshops.org to reserve spot in any workshop!

All workshops take place at SPACE Studios, in Hackney, at 129 – 131 Mare St, Hackney E8 3RH

Nearest transport: London Fields (5 mins by rail from Liverpool St.), Bethnal Green (tube), various buses – please see http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/contact/SPACE/ for full details

The jack-tuner program is ready for download here:

http://jack-tuner.googlecode.com/files/jack_tuner-1.0.tar.gz

and the jack-tuner website is:

http://code.google.com/p/jack-tuner.

If you have a gmail account, add yourself to the project. This will let you checkout the code, contribute bug fixes, new features etc.  You could also subscribe to the project feed to see changes we make to the project.

ol-wkshp-fluxus-puredyne-20, originally uploaded by da mad pixelist.

Finally, pictures from the last workshop: http://www.flickr.com/photos/madpixelist/sets/72157622543164404/ !!!

also available as a pdf.

Openlab Workshops Fall 2009 Schedule

The Fall and Winter 2009 schedule is all finished! You can sign up to any workshop by emailing reserve@openlabworkshops.org, or show up at the workshop time and place, but please be aware we let people in on a first-come, first-served basis.  We do leave a few empty places in each workshop for people who show up at the start without a reservation.

Click the image above for the full-size image or download it as a PDF.