ARE YOU CONNECTIVE or can happiness be synthesized? with Stefanie Wuschitz (artist) + Amir Hassan (coder) :: mzbaltazarslaboratory + metalab/Vienna :: April 20-24, 2010; 2:00 – 7:00 pm daily :: Open to the Public: April 24; 7:00 pm :: West Germany (WG), Skalitzer Street 133, 10999 Berlin :: Register: workshop∗aa-vv∗org until April 15.

Transiting from the ‘ARE YOU CONDUCTIVE?’ workshop, which recently took place in Munich, to the ‘ARE YOU CONNECTIVE?’ a workshop for relative interactions in Berlin, we are hoping to encounter different, but experimentally thinking, DIY and collaboratively working individuals in time, place and space meaningfully and relatively, trying (still) to connect all into an organic ‘whole’ by means of inventing transitions between each other, the inside/outside spaces, analogue and digital, high and low-no-tech.

We will be exploring simple functions and hardware of mobile phones such as: SMS, blue-tooth, video, in-built photo camera, speakers, vibrator, sensors to generate participatory art project in public space by playing with different ways of connecting the inside of our workshop-space with the outside-neighborhood. For those interested we will also look into a programming environment to code little applications for mobile phones called Mobile Processing to control in-built sensors or create graphical user interfaces. Participants with newer phones are also welcome to use their GPS or video chat function or play with Linux-based mobile operating systems. Btw feel free to bring old, broken phones as well so we can hack the hardware.

It’s always a challenge to collaborate with new people for an intense, short period of time. We would like to emphasize that sharing skills and experiences in joined projects will be of importance in this particular workshop.

And in case you will be bored, you can still switch to the Arduino;). On the request we can cover an Arduino board as well as the Arduino and Processing software (basics), experiment further with the resistance and conductivity of different materials, creating hand made switches, analogue sensors, controlling hacked toys/cell phones via an Arduino and things like that.

Organized: Natalia Borissova/aa-vv.org temporary autonomous zone/Nowhere :: Hosted: Stephan Kallage/West Germany.