<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Tweak festival, taking place this September 13th to 24th all around Limerick City, Ireland. Tweak is a festival that operates under a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional design that aims to inspire, educate, inquire and celebrate contemporary art mediums such computer coding, creative recycling, rewired sound sculptures and electronic art installations.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">* REGISTRATION NOW OPEN:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><a href="http://www.tweak.ie/workshop.html">http://www.tweak.ie/workshop.html</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Two workshops will take place as part of Tweak on September 14th - 16th.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">E-WASTE WORKSHOP</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Worskhop tutors: Benjamin Gaulon and Lawrence Rozema</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">All Out Design 5 Sarsfield Street</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">10 am Wednesday 15th - 5pm Thursday 16th September</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Fee €80</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Limited to 10 participants</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Skill level: Beginners</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Using e-waste as raw material, this workshop offer participants to become familiar with basic hardware and software hacking / recycling while at the same time gaining hands-on experience making an interactive art project.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">This workshop is open to participants of different backgrounds and no programming or electronic skills are required. The idea is to start from scratch and create a complete project over a short time, including concept, design, electronics / interfacing, and functional programming with Arduino, Max/Msp, Pure Data or Processing.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">In this workshop participants will deconstruct readily-available, cheap electronic devices into interactive tools is more than a lot of fun; the process offers the same visible, hands-on learning and understanding acquired through dissection. By re-purposing second-hand hardware or cheap toys, a commercial, mass-produced product is transformed into a unique device, with potential for new and original means of expression or communication. The objects produced in this workshop will be exhibited as part of the Tweak exhibition in the Church Gallery Space in LSAD</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">OBJECT ORIENTED FRANKENSTEIN</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Worskhop tutors:Antonin Fourneau and Julien Gachadoat</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">All Out Design 5 Sarsfield Street</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">10 am Tuesday 14th - 5pm Thursday 16th September</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Fee €110</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Limited to 12 participants</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Skill level: Intermediate to Advanced</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">Transform a common object in something of magic. In this workshop participants will use everyday items to giving them new functions by the help of technologies like Arduino and Processing. Participants will create new kinds of readymade objects but ones that interact with human. Sort of clever, social or antisocial, critical... The participants will work on to interconnect this objects and once connected they will produce an amazing collaborative program and show.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">1 sensor + 1 item produces 1 effect (sound or visual)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">You bring electronic equipment (ready to be sacrificed)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">The workshop will be conducted over three days where participants will brainstorm and develop 5 project prototypes, which together will produce a collaborative visual and sound show. Participants will work with processing, Arduino and openFrameworks to develop and make these objects. The outcomes of this workshop will be then displayed in the Tweak exhibition</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">--</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">More Information:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; ">/////// ///////// / // / / // /</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><a href="http://www.tweak.ie/">www.tweak.ie</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><a href="mailto:bonjour@tweak.ie">bonjour@tweak.ie</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br></span></div><div><br></div><br><div>
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