MIDI Scrapyard Challenge

Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki

When: 21st September 2007, 9am-5pm

Cost: £50 (inc VAT)

Where: The Lighthouse

After the incredible success of their first workshop in Scotland at ULS in Jan this year, ULS brought Jonah and Katherine back to Glasgow from New York by popular demand. They promised to deliver another inspiring workshop and again delivered an intensive, one-day workshop in which participants build simple electronic projects (both digital and analog inputs) out of found or discarded "junk" such as old electronics, clothing, furniture, outdated computer equipment, appliances, etc. These workshops were built on the premise of encouraging an open and collaborative space for creative ideas and hands-on prototyping. Workshop attendees learned how to build a variety of projects from found and/or discarded objects. We encouraged attendance from visitors from multiple backgrounds and all skill levels.

There is a fee to attend this workshop and to find out more contact ULS Events Manager Yvonne Kincaid.
Email:[email protected]
Tel: 0141 225 0103
Please note that places are strictly limited to 15 participants and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Interest has been high so please book early to avoid disappointment.

Workshop Leader

Jonah Brucker-Cohen

Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, and R and D OpenLab Fellow at Eyebeam in NYC. He is also a Ph.D. candidate and an HEA MMRP (Multimedia Research Programme) fellow in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin. He is an adjunct assistant professor of communications at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. He was also a Research Fellow in the Human Connectedness Group at Media Lab Europe. He received a Masters from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and was an Interval Research Fellow there. His work and thesis focuses on the theme of "Deconstructing Networks" which includes projects that attempt to critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. He is co-founder of the Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA Group) and a recipient of the ARANEUM Prize sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Art, Science and Technology and Fundacion ARCO. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including WIRED Magazine,Rhizome.org, and Gizmodo, and his work has been shown at events such as DEAF (03,04), Art Futura (04), SIGGRAPH (00,05), UBICOMP (02,03,04), CHI (04,06) Transmediale (02,04), NIME (07), ISEA (02,04,06), Institute of Contemporary Art in London (04), Whitney Museum of American Art's ArtPort (03), Ars Electronica (02,04), and the ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art (04-5).

Katherine Moriwaki

Katherine Moriwaki is an artist and researcher investigating clothing and accessories as the active conduit through which people create network relationships in public space. Currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Networks and Telecommunications Research Group at Trinity College Dublin, her work has appeared in IEEE Spectrum Magazine, and numerous festivals and conferences including numer.02 at Centre Georges Pompidou (02), Break 2.2 (03), Ubicomp (03,04), eculture fair (03), Transmediale (04), CHI (04, 06), ISEA (04), Ars Electronica (04), and WIRED Nextfest (05). Katherine recieved her Masters degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and currently teaches at Parsons School of Design's MFA Design Technology Program and at the Rhode Island School of Design's (RISD), Design Media Arts Program. She is a 2004 recipient of the Araneum Prize from the Spanish Ministry for Science and Technology and Fundacion ARCO.

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