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The Crystal World Salon Sunday 5th 16.00 Kunstraum/Bethanien

2012-02-04T10:21:29Z

The absolute silence of the vegetation along the banks and the deep prismatic glow almost convinced him that the entire earth had been transformed and that any progress through this crystal world had become pointless.

J.G. Ballard, The Crystal World

Following a six day open laboratory as part of CTM.12 exploring chemical decrystallizations of the digital and the formation of new crystal geologies, The Crystal World Salon hosts presentations, performances and light discussion. Drinks and colloidals will be served in an attempt to provoke the contemporary plague.

During the six day open laboratory activities included rare earth or mineral precipitations, high heat synthetic geology and inductive crystallography, anthropocenic fossilizations, water crystal cryptography, kirlian photography, hi-voltage fulgurite construction, and crystalline odic diffractions.

The Crystal World will continue as an exhibition within Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien until the 19th of February.

Date: Sunday 5th February 16.00

Venue: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin

Public transport: U1, U8 Ã¢Â€Âº Kottbusser Tor, S3, S5, S7, S75 Ã¢Â€Âº S-BHF Ostbahnhof

The Crystal World is kindly supported by CTM.12 festival.

www.ctm-festival.de/index.php?id=9971

The Crystal World Open Laboratory, CTM12, Berlin, Jan. 30 - Feb. 04. 2012

2012-01-03T12:10:42Z

Open call for participants for a free 6 day laboratory at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien as part of CTM12 with Jonathan Kemp, Martin Howse, Ryan Jordan, and Ralf Baecker.

J.G. Ballard, The Crystal World.

The Crystal World Open Laboratory, through various chemical decrystallizations of the digital, returns to the earth redundant electronics, the poisonous support for a synthesised dystopic world, as the recrystallized mineral. Mimicking the often dangerous processes undertaken in the recovery of rare and precious metals by the dispossessed, the Crystal World proposes to expand these world interventions through experimentation in the formation of novel crystal earth geologies aimed to etch unexpected psychophysical distortions and contingencies into our contemporary crystalline cycles.

During the open laboratory activities will include explorations in earth computing, mineral precipitation, high heat synthetic geology and inductive crystallography, DIY semi-conductor fabrication, water crystal cryptography, anthropocenic fossilizations, kirlian photography, hi-voltage fulgurite construction. On Sunday 5th February there will be a public presentation and performances, with laboratory process to be exposed during an exhibition at Kunstraum Kreuzberg over the following weeks.

Participants take part at their own risk. Experiments will include high heat and highly toxic processes. Some safety gear will be provided but please bring any masks/goggles/labcoats or similar if available.

No previous experience is necessary although as places are limited preference will be given to those showing a firm interest and commitment to the full six days. Please send expressions of interest to x at xxn.org.uk by the 13th January.

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CTM12: www.ctm-festival.de/ctm-festival/ctm12.html *
Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien: www.kunstraumkreuzberg.de/english.html *
Jonathan Kemp: xxn.org.uk
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Martin Howse: 1010.co.uk/org *
Ryan Jordan: ryanjordan.org *
Ralf Baecker: www.rlfbckr.org

Monument. Skin. Excavation. free workshop HKW Berlin 27th November 2011

2011-11-14T12:15:24Z

Inspired by the discovery of four bare, monumental pedestals within the environs of HKW, Ã¢Â€Â˜Monument. Skin. ExcavationÃ¢Â€Â™ seeks to probe and expose the local city/skin surface as a blank/monument, a body without symptoms. During the workshop, participants will construct simple devices for the overlay of electromagnetic, underground and skin surfaces to be activated during an experimental walk and dig through Tiergarten.

Further activities will include:

surface playback and inscription: making recordings on surfaces
burying of constructed crypts (inverted monuments to technology, buried symptoms)
lichenometry on found monuments: mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/date/web/lich.html
production of forensic reports at key monument locations
geomancy (as divination)

As places are limited, please register by contacting Martin Howse m 1010.co.uk. Participation is free.

Monument. Skin. Excavation. is part of the Tracing Mobility festival: trampoline.org.uk/tracingmobility/

Field Effect workshop at NK, Berlin Oct 21, 22, 23 2011

2011-10-11T13:21:07Z

Field Effect with Martin Howse

A three day workshop actively exploring the effects of electromagnetic fields on living systems; on the human body and the human psyche.

The effects of complex field interactions with such systems, particularly with the psyche, are largely unknown and open to debate. Field Effect proposes to obtain first-hand,experimental knowledge of these relations, using DIY technologies. Experiments already suggest links between low frequency electromagnetic emissions and experiences of hauntings and UFO sightings.

The first two days will be devoted to the construction of devices to both generate and measure magnetic fields and to examine the effects of these fields on living systems (such as plants or moulds), and on the body and psyche (measuring skin temperature, skin resistance, heartrate). In parallel, a series of experimental situations will be constructed to provide insights into the interactions between complex spectral ecologies (communication technologies such as wireless networks, mobile phone bases, TV, radio, power lines, motors, all electronic devices) and life.

Participants will learn how to construct simple devices to measure heart rate and skin resistance, how to interface these to software and log/interpret results and how to intervene within electromagnetic space. No previous knowledge of fields required.

Date: Oct 21, 22, 23 2011
Time: 12:00-19:00
Maximum nr. of participants: 12

Preregistration is required and can be done by sending an email to info@nkprojekt.de if you dont get a response within 3 days to your registration mail please call us under +49(0)17620626386 to make sure that we have received your mail. Location: NK
Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2Etage 12059 Berlin DE Fee: 45 (participation) + 15 (Material)

Instructor Martin Howse
www.1010.co.uk/org/

recrystallization colloidal workshop performances. 20 July Berlin 8PM + neon recommendation

2011-07-20T10:36:53Z

By some optical or electromagnetic freak, the intense focus of light within the stones simultaneously produced a compression of time, so that the discharge of light from the surfaces reversed the process of crystallization

/J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World/

recrystallization: final night of lo-no amp performances, colloidal dispersion gold and silver drinks and barbeque 8pm+

Supermarkt Brunnenstrasse 64 -(entry on the side of the building opposite OBI)

micro_research also recommends the following NK neon workshop:

Saturday 30th July- Monday 1st August 2011 Workshop 1 Tuesday 2nd- Thursday 4th August 2011 Workshop 2

NEON WORKSHOPS JULY/AUGUST 2011

Our aim is to expose, educate, challenge and teach neon as a method of expression and cultural production. We also hope to encourage participants to stretch their methods of thinking when using glass and light. We offer access to a fully functioning neon facility where our award winning makers and artists unravel the mysteries of creating neon light. During our workshops, through one-to-one tuition and group demonstrations, participants will learn the skills of transcribing designs into neon drawings and manipulating glass with flame before filling with gas. The goal is for each participant to leave with a finished work of light that they have designed and made or helped make through directing. This summer two very special workshops will be held for the first time in Berlin @ NK. Together with Neon Workshops UK will offer participants the chance to unravel some of the mystery concerned with the creating of neon light. Teachers include the UK based master neon maker Julia Bickerstaff and artist Richard William Wheater.

Participants will learn everything from transcribing ideas into neon drawings to filling their glass forms with gas. At the end of the workshop each participant will take home a piece of neon they have designed and helped make or directed in making *(Transformer/neon power supply not included). This promises to be an energy driven, hands on workshop, and a real once in a lifetime experience. Be prepared to learn and work hard. Experience with glass is not essential. Please get in touch for more information and to reserve a place.

info@neonworkshops.com<mailto:info@neonworkshops.com> +44 (0) 1924 2000 69

info@nkprojekt.de<mailto:info@nkprojekt.de> +49 (0) 1762 0626 386

www.neonworkshops.com

recrystallization workshop event. 18-19-20 July Berlin

2011-06-28T16:07:43Z

[J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World]

Recrystallization, three day workshop event, July 18-20, 12pm-7pm+ with final night of lo-no amp performances 9pm+

Hosted by Supermarkt Berlin, Brunnenstrasse 64, Berlin, with Martin Howse, Ryan Jordan, and Jonathan Kemp.

If life itself starts from aperiodic crystals that encode infinite futures within a small number of atoms, then the digital crystallization of the flesh by Capital limits these futures to the point of exhaustion. Recrystallization begins with the double premise that if computers and the minerals from which they are made are considered equally crystalline, then the decrystallization of the digital through positive feedback disrupts and escalates entropy through their structures and forward into their present pathology, Capital.

Three sets of concurrent, feedbacking play and activities across three days:

Attempting to recover various minerals and metals (including copper, gold and silver) from abandoned computers through execution of various volatile and chemical processes.
The re-crystallisation of these minerals in novel arrays using raw/renditioned mineral assemblies including piezoelectrics, positive feedback, colloidal dispersions.
The re-purposing and embedding of components and structures within wider geological and geophysical systems.

The final day of the workshop will be followed by silver/gold drinks and public lo-no amp performances.

Workshop capacity limited to 12. Fee 30Ã¢Â‚Â¬ (covering all material costs)

Booking/info: to reserve a place contact j@xxn.org.uk//m@1010.co.uk or book using paypal to j@xxn.org.uk.

Participants take part at own risk: workshops include high heat and highly toxic processes - some safety gear provided and experiments conducted outside so gas masks not essential (but please bring mask/goggles/labcoat or similar if you have).

Resources: xxn.org.uk/doku.php?id=recrystallization:berlin_resource

0x00WE15E7 opening 19 May 2011 Berlin - heartily recommended

2011-05-18T11:12:07Z

"data is anything in a form suitable for use with a computer. data is often distinguished from programs. a program is a set of instructions that detail a task for the computer to perform. in this sense, data is thus everything that is not program code."

computationally generated code and executable data can be considered both a code and a data, effectively making the above statement a subject for dispute.

Participating

Servando Barreiro
Brendan Howell
Julian Oliver
Gordan SaviÃ„ÂiÃ„Â‡ Bengt SjÃƒÂ¶lÃƒÂ©n Danja Vasiliev

20-27 May 2011, from 12.00 till 18.00

opening: 19 May, 20.00
WeisestraÃƒÂŸe 7 / Selchower StraÃƒÂŸe 7 U8 BoddinstraÃƒÂŸe, NeukÃƒÂ¶lln, Berlin

0x00we15e7.hotglue.me/

120411R20

2011-04-11T22:40:53Z

April 12th 21:00 at Raum 20, Ziegrastr. 11, Berlin (with some micro_research regulars!)

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Raum 20 presents a special night involving guests from Vienna and musicians based in Berlin.

Pato playing solo; Dieb13, Billi Roisz and Mario De Vega playing as trio; Martin Howse and Martin Kuentz playing as duo.

JD Zazie will join them with a special DJ set created by her Ã¢Â€ÂœÃƒÂ„pfelzerstÃƒÂ¶rerÃ¢Â€Â method.

Detection workshop Ausland Berlin March 12-13

2011-03-01T14:38:45Z

But... But what is detection if not confession? [Bad Timing. 1980]

The conditions of the sentience had been here, he imagined, fulfilled in the method of collocation of these stones --in the order of their arrangement, as well as in that of the many fungi which overspread them, and of the decayed trees which stood around --above all, in the long undisturbed endurance of this arrangement, and in its reduplication in the still waters of the tarn. [Edgar Allen Poe. The Fall of the House of Usher.]

A two day workshop exploring the work of EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) and ITC (Instrumental Trans Communication) practitioners such as Friedrich Juergenson, Konstantin Raudive and Klaus Schreiber under the twinned practical methodologies of excitation (pick your carrier) and paranoid detection (everyday forensics). Detection is rehearsed in its widest sense, as a "making sense of that which is".

The detection workshop points towards playful techniques for the investigation of materiality and message which are positioned to one definite side of scientific, economic or teleological examinations; this revealing is necessary. And finally, to ask the question, experimentally, of what exactly constitutes detection and the work of the detective?

Schedule

1st day:

Examination of classical EVP techniques with an emphasis on light/provision of carrier and subsequent detection/recording, and on the practical repurposing of electronic detection hardware (radios, tape recorders, video machines).

A series of experimental platforms ranging across radio, ultrasonics, white noise, light and vibration will be constructed alongside a set of experimental apparatus for use during the following day's excursion. A small overnight test situation also will be set up at a new location.

2nd day:

Fieldtrip to a to-be-specified location for primary inscription and playback of the stone tape. Other activities will include geophony, amateur geo-forensics and the construction of ad-hoc seismometers, dowsing, excavation, and forensic enquiry.

The workshop will close with a public presentation/performance with willing workshop participants at Ausland.

That which participants could bring: any form of recording or transcribing device (tape/HD recorder, camera, pencil, paper), materials for excitation and subsequent detection (for example, minerals), and dowsing rods/pendulums.

... with Martin Howse and Martin Kuentz as part of occulto fest.

12-13 March 2011, 11.30-19 @ Ausland, Lychener Str 60 | 10437 Berlin Workshop fee: 30 Euros
Subscribe: info.occultofest@googlemail.com

_____-micro_research activities: third pill, detour, splinterfields with bees workshop

2010-10-28T12:17:35Z

Tomorrow evening in Berlin: www.ac-galerie.net/upcoming.html

A Sunday detour in Vienna: worm.org/detour/

A workshop call for December: Interference-free Foraging Mobility in Brussels

Splinterfields - Electrickal arts - on Electromagnetism, Psychogeophysics and Urban Beekeeping

Electromagnetic fields can have adverse effects on living organisms - honeybees are especially sensitive.

Although urban environments provide beneficial habitats for bee colonies, the electromagnetic field concentrations can disturb the bees' orientation and communication capabilities. To assist city bees with this issue, participants can work on an interference free foraging map.

Detektors for both high and low electromagnetic frequencies can steer through gradients of signal intensity. Detailed contour maps can be constructed using DIY equipment during city walks, visualizing the situation across diverse city locales. Simple experiments provide insights into complex wave interactions; offering a view of "spectral ecologies" and their relation to visible architecture and habitats.

Participants get an intro to the social behavior of honeybees, and their communication, hive structures and materials used in beekeeping, as well as work on construction plans and new designs for DIY tools for electromagnetic field visualizations during expeditions to the city of Brussels.

Get inspired for a new series of Brussels postcards and an interference free foraging map for Brussels honeybees.

Aims of the workshop: understanding electromagnetic waves and gaining a feel for their complex interactions in the city and their impact on living systems. Exploring the possibility of making the "invisible" fields and their subtle changes over time and space both visible and audible. Exploration of electromagnetic fields in Brussels. Basic understanding of honeybees and working with beekeeping materials.

Martin Howse and Christina Stadlbauer
Friday, 10th of December, 15:00-19:00
Saturday, 11th of December, 10:00-19:00 Sunday, 12th of December, 10:00-19:00
max 12 participants