Who Mapping Festival
When Thu, May 7th 2015 - 18:00 until Sun, May 17th 2015 - 18:00
Where Geneva, Switzerland

Registrations are open for the next workshops of Mapping Festival, dedicated to audio-visual art and digital culture (May 7 to 17 2015).



Articulated around various themes and technological explorations, conducted by international instructors who are specialists in their respective fields, the six workshops will be spread over the two weeks of the festival.
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Check www.mappingfestival.com for informations and registration.

Deadline: April 5th 2015!


Agit P.O.V. - Bike hacking with led lights (May 8 - 9)

Workshop conducted by Alexandre Castonguay (CA) and Mariángela Aponte Núñez (CO)

During this workshop, the participants will mount a 12-LED circuit, a micro-controller and a battery on their bicycle wheel. They will then be able to use persistence of vision (POV) effect to illuminate the streets during a mobile performance.



Game Design - Short Fiction to Board Game Adaptation (May 8 - 9)

Workshop conducted by Eddo Stern (US) and Douglas E. Stanley (CH)

In collaboration with the HEAD - Geneva

This workshop/masterclass will address various questions related to game design with Arduinity. The instructors will specifically discuss short fiction to life-size board game adaptation.



The Tricodeur - Knitting & Coding (May 8 - 10)

Workshop conducted by Sew&Laine + Louis Eveillard (FR)

The Tricodeur is a hacked knitting machine, which participants will use to address generative design through the creation of simple shapes, enabling the materialization of their knowledge of code on wool knit support.



Opera III - Dance and Interaction (May 8 - 10)

Workshop conducted by Giuseppe Bucci (CH) and Charles Mugel (CH)

In collaboration with the Fête de la danse

This workshop/masterclass proposes to the participants to discover the setup of a choreographic work, and to explore possibilities and constraints related to interaction between movement, sound and visuals thanks to a sensors system mounted on the dancer’s costume.

LED Club Design (May 11 -13)

Workshop conducted by Adrien Boulanger (FR), Yon Aliaga (CH), Gael Abegg-Gauthey (FR), Quentin Berthet (CH)

This workshop will explore the setting-up of a scenography using LED light bars, specially designed for an evening party at the Zoo Club (Geneva). The participants will have the occasion to run the installation during the Mapping Festival opening club night.
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Mapping Playground (May 12 - 16)

Workshop conducted by CHiKA (US/JP), Mike Latona (BE), Matt Mets (US) + MAD team (FR/CH) & special guests

During 5 days, the participants will explore new techniques for software, electronics, LED lights, video mapping and interactive installations - all in one place. After learning how to manage and execute an installation, they will turn their ideas into a public exhibition at the end of this workshop.

Who David Gann
When Tue, Apr 7th 2015 - 16:00 until Thu, Apr 9th 2015 - 20:00
Where Stadtbibliothek Köln, Josef-Haubrich-Hof 1 , 50676 Köln, Germany

A 3D Printer Workshop with VVVV, Blender and Meshlab.
Note it is two dates and you have to sign up at the Homepage of the Stadtbibliothek for each one separately

7. April 16 - 20 Uhrhttp://www.stadt-koeln.de/leben-in-koeln/freizeit-natur-sport/veranstaltungskalender/zentralbibliothek-makerspace-generative-3d-geometrie

9. April 16 - 20 Uhrhttp://www.stadt-koeln.de/leben-in-koeln/freizeit-natur-sport/veranstaltungskalender/zentralbibliothek-makerspace-generative-3d-geometrie-1

English Description:
3D Printing has already reshaped how designers and engineers approach the prototyping and production phase of a new and innovative idea. However this idea may look like, a 3d print always require a 3d model that has to be generated in the computer as a mesh of vertices (3d Points) that are connected in a clearly defined pattern.

The common ways of designing geometry involves hand-shaping those 3d points in a specific software using a palette of tools for modeling. But there are other methods that can significantly enhance our productivity and the quality of the print.
In this Workshop we want to learn and practice a new and promising way of creating a 3d geometry. In a generative design process we define rules and algorithms that build the geometry automatically. In this way we can on the one hand produce very precisely what we want, but there is also plenty of room for experimentation. We can automatically produce hundreds of variations and select the one that we like most. The methods you will learn combine modern advances in computer graphic algorithms (Delauney Triangulation, Tesselation, Spliting and Joining Vertex Buffers, 3d Scanning etc.) and the convincingly intelligent design patterns of nature itself (Plant Growth, Coral Growth, Natural Shapes etc.). This will be learned without writing a single line of programming language as we use the easy and fast to learn toolkit 'VVVV' and the participants can work with a set of prepared VVVV programs. We will also use Blender and Meshlab.

German Description:
3D-Druck hat sich heute bereits für Designerinnen und Designer sowie Ingenieurinnen und Ingenieure als wichtiges Werkzeug in der Prototyping- und Produktionsphase durchgesetzt. In diesem Workshop lernen Sie mit David Gann neue Methoden zur Herstellung von 3D-Geometrie kennen. In einem generativen Designprozess verwenden wir Algorithmen, um Geometrie automatisch entstehen zu lassen. Die hier behandelten Techniken kombinieren neuartige Computergrafik-Algorithmen mit Designkonzepten, die von der Natur inspiriert sind. Der Workshop behandelt das alles, ohne dass die Teilnehmenden tatsächlich Programmcode schreiben müssen, da wir das schnell und einfach zu erlernende Toolkit VVVV einsetzen.

Die Veranstaltung findet in Raum 304 auf der 3. Etage statt.

Workshop-Nummer: M-08

Im Rahmen von "Makerspace - Programm für Selbermacher":
Unser Makerspace ist ein offener Raum für neue Ideen, Potenziale und Do-It-Yourself-Projekte. Eigenes Tun steht im Vordergrund, vor allem aber der Spaß an der Sache! Nach einer kurzen Einführung können Sie selbst die verschiedenen Themen und Techniken ausprobieren. Unsere Expertinnen und Experten unterstützen Sie dabei.

Je nach Workshop werden Kenntnisse im Umgang mit der entsprechenden Informationstechnologie (PC, Smartphone oder Tablet) vorausgesetzt.

Veranstaltungsort

    Stadtbibliothek Köln
    Josef-Haubrich-Hof 1
    50676 Köln - Altstadt/Süd

Who Tebjan Halm
When Sat, Jan 31st 2015 - 17:00 until Sat, Jan 31st 2015 - 17:00
Where RCA Kensington, 2-6 Jay Mews, SW7 2EP, London , United Kingdom

It is a pleasure to invite all vvvv interested people in London to a replay of the vvvv50 intorduction talk from scope sessions at the RCA Kensington in the Stevens Building.

It is on very short notice, but I hope that a few patchers can make it. So spread the word!

Big ups to hadasi who managed to find the date.

In the past few years we’ve been eagerly working on a complete rewrite of vvvv which lead to a new visual programming language in combination with a development and runtime environment. Tebjan Halm (tonfilm ) will give a short introduction into the key features of this new language we’re internally calling "50".

Who Tebjan Halm, Elias Holzer
When Thu, Jan 8th 2015 - 20:00 until Thu, Jan 8th 2015 - 20:00
Where Panke e.V., Gerichtstr. 23, Hof 5, 13347 Berlin Wedding, Germany

On Thursday 8th Jan all vvvv interested people in Berlin will have an opportunity to get a peek preview of the next big vvvv thing.

In the past few years we’ve been eagerly working on a complete rewrite of vvvv which lead to a new visual programming language in combination with a development and runtime environment. Tebjan Halm (tonfilm ) and Elias Holzer (Elias ) will give a short introduction into the key features of this new language we’re internally calling "50".

http://scopesessions.org/2014/12/21/scope-39-january-8th/

How to find the location:
http://www.pankeculture.com/how-to-find-us/

Be there or be quad.