The Estrangement of Technology

Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more (Flickr gallery)

The second edition of AND Fair will be devided into two parts: Workshop Day and EXPO Day.

Workshop Day is set for Friday, 10 November 2017, bringing to Filodrammatica two interesting workshops. Berlin-based American artist Adam Harvey will lead the Facial Recognition: Dos and Don’ts in a Machine Readable World workshop, whose participants will get the opportunity to learn how facial recognition works, explore the implications for living in an increasingly machine readable world and ultimately building a small-scale facial recognition system. Second workshop, Sound Happens in The Group!, is intended for everyone who enjoys the mix of technology and sound: participants will get the chance to play with the DIY electronic devices brought by Theremidi Orchestra from Ljubljana, using non-verbal tools to communicate and create sounds together.
 
The next day, on Saturday, 11 November 2017, the Large hall of Filodrammatica will once again become the setting for the exposition of extraordinary DIY devices, interactive instalations, robotic devices and crazy instruments, brought by Visualia Group (Pula), Anselmo Tumpić (Pula), Theremidi Orchestra (Ljubljana), Radiona.org (Zagreb) and a group of young designers and innovators under the mentorship of Oleg Šuran and Martin Skelly. Starting at 17:00 h, the Expo will also be the place for Cryptoparty organized by Hacklab Belgrade, where you will be able to learn about the practical ways of achieving privacy on the internet.
This will be followed by the audiovisual experimental performances by Theremidi Orchestra, Micronia and Miodrag Gladović & Bojan Gagić, starting at 20:00 h.

Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more (Flickr gallery)

 

 

 Workshops
 

ADAM HARVEY (USA)
Facial Recognition: Dos and Don’ts in a Machine Readable World

Friday, 10/11/2017, 11:00 h @ Filodrammatica
applications until 8 November, by e-mail to ivana<at>drugo-more.hr

CV Dazzle Look 5, New York Times Commission 2014

This workshop will teach participants how facial recognition works and explore the implications for living in an increasingly machine readable world. Today, using only 1% of one Instagram photo it’s possible to detect a face and extract enough information to profile individuals by inferring their age, race, gender, intelligence, sexuality, emotions, beauty, sociability, body mass index, success as a CEO, criminality and more.

The workshop will be divided into two sessions. In the first session, participants will learn about the history, capabilities, and the broader picture of the how the biometrics industry, academia, and government surveillance are all linked together. The second session will cover the actual algorithms, computer vision frameworks, and technical approaches used to analyze facial information. The workshop will conclude by building a small-scale facial recognition system to recognize everyone in the workshop.

Adam Harvey is an artist and independent researcher based in Berlin. His work investigates surveillance technologies and explores potential responses and adaptations to a world of increasing mass surveillance. Previous projects include developing camouflage from face detection (CV Dazzle, 2010) fashion to thwart thermal surveillance from military drones (Stealth Wear, 2013), a low-cost WiFi geolocation spoofing device (SkyLift, 2016), and a computer vision fooling scarf (HyperFace, 2017). Harvey is a frequent lecturer on the topics of computer vision, privacy, and surveillance and has presented at TedX, EU Annual Security Symposium, re:publica, German Spy Museum, and the Chaos Computer Club.

Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more (Flickr gallery)

Adam Harvey is an artist and independent researcher based in Berlin. His work investigates surveillance technologies and explores potential responses and adaptations to a world of increasing mass surveillance. Previous projects include developing camouflage from face detection (CV Dazzle, 2010) fashion to thwart thermal surveillance from military drones (Stealth Wear, 2013), a low-cost WiFi geolocation spoofing device (SkyLift, 2016), and a computer vision fooling scarf (HyperFace, 2017).
 
Harvey is a frequent lecturer on the topics of computer vision, privacy, and surveillance and has presented at TedX, EU Annual Security Symposium, re:publica, German Spy Museum, and the Chaos Computer Club.
 
https://ahprojects.com 

 
You can apply for the workshop until 8 November, by sending an e-mail to ivana<at>drugo-more.hr
The workshop will take place in Filodrammatica (Korzo 28, first floor) on Friday, 10 November, starting at 11:00 h.


 

THEREMIDI ORCHESTRA
Sound Happens in The Group!
– DIY electronics workshop for experimental sound art

Friday, 10/11/2017, 17:00 – 21:00 h @ Filodrammatica
applications until 8 November, by e-mail to ivana<at>drugo-more.hr

Sound Happens in The Group! is part of is a series of workshops initiated by Theremidi Orchestra based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, aimed at bringing together people from a wide range of fields to explore the beauty and the hums of DIY electronics and to create a social situation where communication is possible with non-verbal tools.

Participants may choose from 2 analogue electronic circuits, that have been developed and produced by Theremidi Orchestra: TouchTone and Super-in-Low.

Photo: Tanja Kanazir / Drugo more (Flickr gallery)

Who must I be to join the workshop? Anyone. This workshop is suitable for all women and men interested in electronics, DIY processes, hacking, noise and experimental sound art, media art, and all those great things we can do with sound and visual language. No previous knowledge is needed just some curiosity. You may have never held a soldering iron in your hands and we’ll teach you how to master it. You may wield your iron every day and you’ll still have lots of fun.

The workshop will take place in Filodrammatica (Korzo 28, first floor) on Friday, 10 November, starting at 17:00 h. It will last for 4 hours, and it’s limited to 12 participants.
You can apply for the workshop until 7 November, by sending an e-mail to ivana<at>drugo-more.hr

Co-production: Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory

 

 

 EXPO
 

MAGIC GARDEN
Visualia Group (Pula)

Magic Garden is designed as a lighting installation shaping an alliance between natural beauty and technology and sound. This interactive installation represents a magic garden of plants and lighting mushrooms brought to life by activation of the control sensor. The combination of audiovisual effect is simply astonishing.

The natural habitats such as plants and stones provided inspiration for designing prevalently mushroom-shaped forms made of silicone resin and LED lamp. The design is supported by consoles on which a green garden and mushroom plantation is placed, as well as by other separated control consoles i.e. a sensor which activates the installation by hand movement. It also enables light and sound management of the installation. The installation itself is thus transformed in a living organism offering numerous audiovisual combinations and true experience of nature. The visitors are allowed themselves to combine the colours of the “magic garden” and to enjoy the harmony of their creation.

Hardware: Zoran Licul
Software: Nikola Miletić
Production by Visualia Group

 
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RESIDENCE OF LIGHT AND MUSIC
Visualia Group (Pula)

Residence of Light & Music is an interactive and amusing installation representing a fusion between music and light. The installation is designed as a selection of musical instruments that can be played in an entertaining manner. The installation is specific due to its focus on developing skills and capabilities hidden in each and every one of us. The visitor creates his/her own combination of tones while experimentation with musical instruments activates sound and lighting effects.

The installation consists out of three light music benches containing pre-selectable sounds of various instruments. Benches are made of fiberglass with built-in speakers and LED lights. A simple tao on the bench surface activates sound and light.

The combination of light and music responds to orders received by visitor’s tap on the bench surface, which are then transmitted via the microcontroller. This installation enables the visitors to create their own combination of melody and light while the Bluetooth connection enables them to also play their favorite song.

Design: Danilo Vujisić
Concept & Idea: Igor Vasiljev, Marko Bolković
Audio Software: Marko Bolković
Light Software: Saša Idrizov, Mia Petrić, Linda Markušić
Hardware: Zoran Licul
Production: Visualia Group

 

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Visualia Group is a group of creative people and artists that deals with modern technologies, gathered around the Festival Visualia organized in Pula. The field of their work involves 3D mapping, lighting design, VJ-ing, interactive and LED installations, and research of new technologies. Ideas arising from this group of enthusiasts are born from the constant search for new challenges and solutions for attractive visual effects.

http://festival-visualia.com/en/


 

CRYPTOPARTY
Hacklab Beograd

Cryptoparty is a workshop aimed at transferring theoretical and practical knowledge and spreading awareness of the importance of protecting personal information and communication by using open source tools, i.e. FLOSS software. Main themes of the Cryptoparty will be encryption of e-mails, encrypted instant messages, anonymous web surfing (VPN/Tor), generation of secure codes for your accounts, GSM privacy.

Participation does not require prior technical knowledge  and anyone can participate. Participants only need laptop and/or smartphone (ideally both devices).

 
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Hacklab Beograd is a horizontally organized social space created by people whose affilliaton for computers brings them together. Computer technology, electronics, programming languages, hardware modification, as well as social aspects of computing such as free software policies, intellectual property issues and privacy are themes constantly explored by Hacklab. The space is also open to the participation of people whose areas of interest are not related to computers, but who recognize the values of free exchange and dissemination of knowledge.

http://oosm.org


 

IRON VS BLACK SQUARE
Anselmo Tumpić (Pula)

The work consists of a black canvas and iron, positioned so that the back of the iron, the heated surface, is facing the canvas. The work is interactive and the audience participation is crucial to activating it, in order to “revive” the work. There is a pedal on the floor, and when the visitor decides to press it, an electronic mechanism triggers heating of a container full of water. When the water reaches a certain temperature, the iron throws the steam that triggers the reaction to a canvas that is coated with a black thermos-sensitive dye. The thermosensitive colour disappears in contact with vapor, and a spectrum of colours that was previously invisible and hidden behind the apparent black of the canvas appears.

Quite, monolithic black canvas like the Black Square of Kazimir Malevich is “revived” thanks to the interaction of the audience, by using just one “regular” iron. Behind the mysteriousness and seriousness of the black surface, a spectrum of colours appears magically. The images area transformed under the means of available technology, but give the effect of complex innovation, almost magic.

 
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AIR
Anselmo Tumpić (Pula)

Using the joystick, the audience has the opportunity to participate in the creation of works. Joystick turns on and off the hairdryers placed around the table, on which paper and pencil are placed. The pencil on the center of the table is started with hairdryers. The challenge for the audience is to find the best technique to align the direction of the air that is being blown away by hairdryers, since piloting the pen is not easy…

 
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Anselmo Tumpić (1976., Pula) studied in Bergamo and Venice where he graduated in painting. After graduation he is employed in Fabrica, the Benetton Group Communication Research Center. He lived eight years in Milan where he worked for BBDO and Saatchi & Saatchi advertising agencies. Today, he works in Croatia as creative director of his own agency TUMPIĆ/PRENC for design and visual communication, and is actively engaged in contemporary art. He has exhibited at several solo and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad, and his works have been published in various magazines.

In his series of works entitled “Instructions for Use”, Tumpić uses very simple technology and everyday household items, such as an iron, hairdryer, vacuum cleaner, freezer and the like. These are all simple, recognizable objects, basic and all-accessible technology we are accustomed to use in everyday and family life, and by small interventions Tumpić gives them a new function. He feels that it is important to have a “friendly” relationship with the audience, and he wants the audience to interact in an entertaining way with artistic work.

http://anselmotumpic.com/


 

PLAYGROUND
Theremidi Orchestra (Slovenia)

Theremidi Orchestra will exhibit their old and new designs of DIY electronics instruments as part of so called playground – you are heartily invited to try them out by yourselves and make hums, beeps, noise and even techno beats. In addition to that some of other DIY instruments the group uses as part of their performance, will be presented.

 
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Theremidi Orchestra (TO) is an audiovisual DIY community initiated by participants of the Theremini and Teremidi physical interface workshop, organised by Ljudmila – Ljubljana Digital Media Lab in May 2011. Rather than a subject, TO is a verb, an ongoing workshop of noise and drone production. This hands-on electro noise ensemble exists in the present continuous, while referring to the history of electronic music. TO has a DIY/DIWO approach in making music and sound experiments, developing its own instruments based on open-source electronic circuits. Currently TO consists of ten active members, coming from different professional backgrounds. Theremidi Orchestra is a process of mutual understanding and solving problems in a horizontal manner. The process of production involves experimenting with sound outputs, mutual composition of music scores, shared responsibilities for individual parts of the process, etc. Thus far, the orchestra performed, exhibited and held workshops at over thirty festivals and exhibitions mostly in Europe e.g. Piksel Festival in Bergen Norway; LiWoLi Festival in Linz, Austria; PoolLoop in Zürich, Switzerland; U3: Triennial of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia, to name just a few.

https://wiki.ljudmila.org/Theremidi_Orchestra


 

THE MESSAGE
Vinka Bedeković, Nika Lapkovski, Ivor Borovečki, Leo Kirinčić, Jelena Njeguš, Anđelo Semolić, Mate Žaja

The Message is the object that consists of a box and a microphone, and its purpose is to invite users to present their criticism towards the Government.

The object reacts to each received critique and “penalizes the user by slamming him“ – a blow is generated with the help of a slat and the hidden electric motor powered by Arduino. The surprising reaction of the object illustrates the ruthlessness and disinterest of authority for civil needs, highlights the parallel between the facility and the above-mentioned problem and calls for a discussion on the importance of critical thinking and action. Inspiration for the work was current status of the Social Center Karlo Rojc in Pula, which didn’t receive necessary financial support for the local authorities – Karlo Rojc is not the only example, similar problem is repeated in various other organizations.

Mentors: Oleg Šuran & Martin Skelly


 

RADIONA REMIX
Radiona.org (Zagreb)

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Radiona.org is participating in this year’s 3N fair in Rijeka with a program called Radiona Remix that underlines the cross-section of works created within the recent projects of Time Warp, Science Fiction: New Parallel Worlds, Re-Mixing / Re-Making History, Sound Geometries, and Fly Me to the Moon. Lab members will present interactive intermedia works form the fields of mechanotronics, 3D prints, computer vision, sound art, works that are challenging the laws of gravity and aerodynamics, dealing with the historical contribution of innovators and scientists of the civilization history, works that are hacked everyday objects, DIY synthesizers and many other devices. Exposition program is divided into three parts: Radiona Remix and the Radiona Kids’ Lab subprogram, while the musical performance called Synthland is dedicated to experimental electronic music with retro Casio synths, DIY music instruments and analog synthesisers.

Radiona Remix
– expositions by: Igor Brkić, Mario Pavlić, Davor Jadrijević, Goran Mahovlić, Damir Prizmić, Marko Jovanović
 
Radiona Kids’ Lab
– featuring: Tomislava Borić, Mario Pavlić, Damir Prizmić
 
Performans: Synthland
– Micronia (Deborah Hustić)
 
http://radiona.org 

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