Microwave 2012 workshops

Microwave 2012 workshops

 

Rather than only participate the exhibition of Microwave 2012, I actually chose 3 workshops to participate and met the artist of the exhibition directly.

 

 

The first workshop that I participate is the Invisible Disparities : A Workshop of the Poetics of Dust

by Ernesto Klar. Ernesto Klar was actually interested in the realtionship between dust and time. I was being confused that I could never imagaine how the relationship could be linked.  Ernesto Klar further explained that dust condense and stayed in place that passed through a long history. The dust of the place represent all of the history, culture and  political events theough time. He started a 3 year project which went to different places in the world and collected the dust in the place by a vaccum. This was the picture he stand in front of the UNESCO and vaccum the dust.

 

The exhibition lead him the first time to vist Hong Kong. While he also wants to vaccum the dust in Hong Kong and he have no idea how to start. We suggest a few places for him to start the project like the Kowloon park and the Wall Village. We also introduced him to go to the crazy market in Sam Shui Po where he could find everythig cheap there. We also exchange the email contact in the workshop. It was a excellent experience to listen to foreigns that how they see Hong Kong where everything compressed and share how I feel about Hong Kong. It also makes me to  rediscover Hong Kong as a place I lived.

 

The second workshop that I have participated was Data Happenings: A maker workshop exploring data driven text, code and sound from the network

By Helen Pritchard x Winnie Soon. The reason that there is no picture is the workshop need notebook, audicity and web to create a piece of art according to some rules. According to the instruction by Winnie Soon and Helen Pritchard, we used the search engine of twitter and search some keywords to find some sentence. After aply a rule to the sentence, we put the sentence in text2speech.com and change it into MP3. Then we linked all the sentence together. I did not choose the keywords from them. Instead I choose to search the keyword "I" and cut off a number of sentence. Then I apply to the rule that all of the sentence started in "I'. The outcome was a lot of fun. I found a sentence like " I want to panch you in the face". However, through the sound generated by the computer, the sentence remove all of the emotions in the sentence and speak in a very clam tone. One of the participant uses the keyword "finance" and replace the word as "all bankers are greedy". The outcome of the audio is full of "all bankers are greedy" which is very interesting.

 

 

The last workshop that I participated is Conditional Drawing

By Nicholas Hanna, UCLA Software Art Studio.

 

(Nicholas Hanna)

 

I was first interested by the workshop as a science student of how could use the concept of processing to create drawings. Nichlas hanna is the artist who hold this workshop but he is also the one who being as our group's groupmate. We draws a lots of pictures according to some rules.

For example: 1. draw dots until you feel it is enough

2. draw circles around the dots and it need to be overlap with other circle.

3. connect the dots together only when there is overlapign circle.

(Play with 2 people)

 

 

Although we follow the rules but we get numerous different kinds of picture affer the drawing.

 

We then continued to play other drawing games in the workshop.

 

Then we try to copy the signal from the right person.

 

 

At last we stand in a line and past the signal that generate by me. I thought we fail in this experiment as we got a totally different pictures in the end.

 

The workshop introduce  the concept of processing through a graphic way which contains a lots of fun. Most of the participate shares a great time in the workshop.