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By evan, 30 September 2010 3:48 pm

The One Button Challenge workshop in Manchester fast approaches!

First, we’ve slashed the price – now £20 for the whole day, and we’re giving away 6 free tickets to the first 6 people who contact us!

What sort of device can you make, activated by only a single, simple button?  Openlab Workshops and Cybersonica, in partnership with the AND Festival challenge your minimalist interactive design skills.

This Manchester workshop will take place at Cornerhouse from 11am-5pm on this MONDAY OCTOBER 4 at a cost of £45 £20, including materials.  An optional second day will take place on Tuesday, 5th October, 11am-5pm at Fablab Manchester, Ancoats – part of a a global network of local labs, enabling invention by providing access for individuals to tools for digital fabrication and supported by the Manufacturing Institute, introducing you to this fantastic free resource and enabling you to fabricate your own custom made enclosures and/or display mount for your one-button device.

Space is limited!  Please email us to book, or with any questions.

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By evan, 18 August 2010 4:10 pm

Cybersonica with Openlab Workshops and Manchester Art Gallery present:

Make It Yourself

http://www.cybersonica.org
http://openlabworkshops.org

CALL FOR EXISTING WORKS

Make It Yourself is an exhibition of inventive Arduino and DIY electronic-circuitry projects to accompany the major solo exhibition Recorders by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer at Manchester Art Gallery between 18 September 2010 and 30 January 2011.

A rapidly expanding community of people worldwide is taking advantage of new, cheaper technology and a growing pool of shared knowledge to make things for themselves – useful things, clever things, silly things, unique things. Make It Yourself is a ‘small but perfectly formed’ show of a handpicked half-dozen of these hand-made devices.

We are now accepting submissions of existing Arduino and DIY electronic-circuitry projects from artists, hobbyists, hackers, DIY musicians and anyone interested in making things for themselves wishing to exhibit their work as part of Make It Yourself.

Please see http://www.manchestergalleries.org/whats-on/make-it-yourself/ for full details and entry form.

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By evan, 6 June 2010 9:05 pm

InProcess:ing and Madlab present an Openlab Workshop

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>.