Build your own CHA/V (Cheap, Hacky, A/V) video synthesizer! Workshop is part of Vector Hack Festival.
DATE: 7 October | 10 AM – 2 PM
MENTOR: Jonas Bers
LOCATION: osmo/za, Slovenska 54, 1000 Ljubljana
REGISTRATION: delavnica@ljudmila.org
About the Workshop
CHA/V (Cheap, Hacky, Audio/Visual) or how to build an analog DIY video synthesizer on the cheap is a simple, inexpensive, DIY alternative to costly and complicated video synthesizers, providing artists and amateurs a low-cost, low-barrier introduction to audiovisual synthesis. Participants will build, customize, and take home a battery-powered micro-modular audiovisual synthesizer based on VGA hacking. CHA/V is an ideal entry point into analog video synthesis for electronic musicians, circuit benders, and tinkerers but also appropriate for absolute beginners with no electronics background.
For very thorough description of the project click here.
About the mentor
Jonas Bers is best known for his video sonification performances, in which salvaged VHS-era editing machines, surveillance cameras, military surplus and lab equipment are modified and repurposed into instruments. His work is concerned with connections between technology, sensory perception, and the physical universe; and the phenomenological aspects of intense audiovisual stimulus. Bers has performed and exhibited internationally and in numerous NY cultural institutions. Career highlights include sold-out shows at Lincoln Center, performing analog audiovisual synthesis on the world’s largest plasma screen, at 3LD Art and Technology’s .ZIP viral immersive media installation, and at LaMama for ReFEST using a custom-made anaglyph 3D hybrid digital/analog system.
Registration
The participation fee for the workshop is 15 € and needs to be settled before the start of the workshop on-site. The fee covers expenses for materials, the workshop product remains in your possession. The workshop will be held in English. The number of participants is limited, so please apply/announce yourself at delavnica@ljudmila.org. Participants can bring their own power supply (7-12v center positive, 400ma).
Workshop is part of Vector Hack Festival, which is produced by Radiona in co-production with Ljudmila Art and Scinece Laboratory and Projekt Atol Institute. The Ljubljana edition is supported by the Slovene Ministry of Culture and MOL – Department for Culture.