VVVV for KIDS

As part of Code Week Berlin 2015 http://www.codeweek.de/ we are offering a VVVV introductory workshop for teens from 12 years and older in collaboration with Letters Are My Friends - the concept store for typography and new technologies in Berlin. http://www.lettersaremyfriends.com/

In a 4 hour crash course we will learn an easy way into interactive programming with the multipurpose toolkit VVVV aka the fastest visual prototyping language that exists today. We will teach the computer something new and clever, let it draw a wallpaper for you or design your own wild animals that you can move with your own body. This workshop is free of charge and limited to 10 people.

Who:

High school students from 12 to 18 years

When:

Sunday 11. October 2015 2PM - 6PM

Where:

Letters Are My Friends Boppstrasse 7 10967 Berlin Kreuzberg

Sign-Up:

Please write an email with your full name and age to info(at)multitouchberlin.com Please bring your own windows laptop and pre-install the latest VVVV version (beta).

This workshop will be completely free of charge. Please consider a donation to our workshop partners Letters Are My Friends http://www.lettersaremyfriends.com/ who are providing the space and more workshop support.

STATE Experience Science Festival is a celebration of scientific ideas and creativity across disciplines. It brings together visionary people from different backgrounds for the purpose of exploration, collaboration and debate. On an annually changing topic, it creates a meeting ground for science, art and the public. The main theme of STATE 2014 is “Time”.

**What exactly constitutes time?** **What, if anything, does time even measure?** **Discover the topic of time with us anew and experience science.**

• 4 days of events
• 2 locations in the heart of Berlin
• Over 40 contributing scientists and artists
• from more than 10 countries

• Talks
• Exhibitions
• Films
• Performances
• Workshops
• Panels
• Interactive science formats

Venues

Alte Münze

Platoon Kunsthalle

Film Festival

STATE OF TIME Experience Science Film Festival features ground-breaking works from international filmmakers at the intersection of science and art.

Where would film be without time – the fourth dimension that grants movement to otherwise static pictures? Exclusively for STATE OF TIME, Imagine Science Films has assembled a series of cinematic inquiries, echoing the 7th Imagine Science Film Festival from 17.10-24.10.2014 in New York: From scientists trapped in time loops, the fragmentation of memory, and the mysterious powers of time-lapse to the age of mountains and the universe, the program will feature a full roster of short films and one feature film illustrating the many layered meanings of the concept of “time”.

Ticket prices 6 / 8 / 15 € (Reduced / Regular / Supporter)

http://www.statefestival.org/tickets

Tuesday / Wednesday 28. + 29. October 2014 Doors 6 PM

Platoon Kunsthalle Schönhauser Allee 9 10119 Berlin

Experience Science Festival

Cars crash in slow motion, week-long vacations slip away in a flash. Our heart is broken, the next days feel like fifteen weeks, and suddenly we wonder: What, if anything, does time even measure? What exactly constitutes time?

Program

Exhibition, Talks, Forum, Performances, Science Interactives, Films, Workshops

Participants

Imagine Science Films (USA) — Pfadfinderei (DE) — Julian Barbour (University of Oxford, UK) — The Constitute (DE) — John Kameel Farah (CA) — Nenad Popov (SRB) — Science Hack Day Berlin (DE) — John Connel (UK) — Art Laboratory Berlin (DE) — Luke Jones (UK) — Michael John Gorman (Science Gallery Dublin, IE) — Ken Murphy (USA) — Armin Keplinger (AT) — Michal Klincewicz (USA) — Martha Merrow (USA) — Alistair McClymont (UK) — Schall & Schnabel/ Diana Wehmeier (DE) — Philipp Rahlenbeck (Multitouch Berlin, DE) — hands on sound (DE) — schnellebuntebilder (DE) — Martin Sona (DE) — Luca Pozzi (IT) and many more.

**Tickets ** 18 / 24 / 45 € (Reduced / Regular / Supporter) Pre-sale: http://www.statefestival.org/tickets

Friday / Saturday 31. October + 1. November 2014 Doors 10 AM

Alte Münze Molkenmarkt 2 10179 Berlin

http://www.statefestival.org/

Workshop

Programming Natural Affect

Pavilion Building & VVVV Coding

Festival Website MAB 2014

http://mab14.mediaarchitecture.org/

Workshop Link

http://mab14.mediaarchitecture.org/workshops/programming-natural-affect/

This workshop proposes a new way to look at the interweaving of the natural world and urban life through the use of new media and architecture. Rather than trying to fully control / manage the relationship between the natural and built environment with computation (and its metaphors) this proposal sets out to augment the natural world. Thus creating artificial environments that evokes the organic. An architecture that artificially amplifies the experiences of nature that is diminishing in the urban context.

This is to be done by reproducing the affect of nature in a new abstract manner and projecting this onto a public pavilion. How can the regulation of light mimic weather? Fog? Create a landscape type experience?

Here the affect produced and its experiential qualities is the goal of the project. Resulting in a new type of public pavilion/infrastructure for cities.

Execution

The workshop sets out to physically produce a small prefabricated pavilion. Participants and workshop organizers will together piece the blocks in any shape as they see fit. The blocks will have interlocking capabilities pre-fabricated and brought to the workshop.

Following this an introduction to graphic visualization, open source and creative code environments will occur. Then the VVVV tutorials, layout methods and designing in real-time 3d diagrams. Finally the principals of projection mapping specifically related to VVVV and prototyping the various affects achieved onto the pavilion.

The end product is a pavilion displaying various co-created visualizations and their resulting affects by the participants for the public to enjoy. A pavilion that fuses analog and digital methods of production- thus creating opportunities for an architectural language for the digital experience. The final result will become part of the main exhibition at the Media and Architecture Biennale.

- Full-day session -

One day Data Visualisation Workshop with Projection Mapping

• Assembly of pre- fabricated units into pavilion
• Introduction to Data Visualisation
• Sources for open data
• Creative Coding Environments
• Introduction to VVVV
• Layout methods
• Importing Data
• Designing Realtime 3D Diagrams
• Principles of Projection Mapping
• Projection Mapping Techniques in VVVV
• Adjusting Projections on site

Target audience

• General public
• Architects
• Students
• Interaction designers

Type and format of audience engagement

• Co-creation
• Theoretical
• Prototyping
• Preparations

Bring your own laptop (vvvv / programming skills NOT necessary)

Organisers

Anna Ulak (University of Toronto)

http://www.openconstructs.ca/

Philipp Rahlenbeck (Multitouch Berlin)

http://multitouchberlin.com/

FEE: 50,- € (includes exhibition pass and free lunch on workshop day)

APPLICATION DEADLINE

Wednesday 15. October 2014

PLEASE REGISTER HERE:

http://mab14.mediaarchitecture.org/registration/

WORKSHOP

Thursday 20. November 2014

Godsbanen Cultural Production Center Aarhus, Denmark

VENUE

Godsbanen Cultural Production Center Skovgaardsgade 3 DK-8000 Aarhus C

http://godsbanen.dk/english/

Media Architecture Biennale 2014

http://mab14.mediaarchitecture.org/workshops/programming-natural-affect/

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