Domes workshop 2: Connected Domes (technology)

Connected Domes is the tech and electronic part of our geodesic dome experiments.

The plants in the greenhouse domes will be powered and surrounded by sensors (touch, humidity, UV, movement, growth) and the numerous domes will be connected by a wireless network using Arduino micro-controllers and XBee wifi systems. On the dome-structures, recycled computer ventilators will be added, providing a gentle breeze to the leaves, and LED's powered by small solar panels will light up the domes at night.

Together we will create a sonification of the gathered data via Maxmsp and SuperCollider, turning the connected domes into musical instruments. The generative plant/music composition will be streamed via the okno server.

Led by media artists Audrey Samson (Rotterdam) and Stefanie Wuschitz (Vienna).

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Stefanie Wuschitz (Austria) uses interactive technology to build mobile sound and video installations. Her site-specific work invites users to experiment and play, encouraging the generation of unique social and collaborative spaces. In 2006 Stefanie Wuschitz graduated with an MFA from the University of Applied Arts Vienna and moved to New York. After her Masters at ITP (Tisch School of the Arts, NYU) in 2008, she moved to Sweden for a Digital Art Fellowship at HUMlab and the Umeå Institute of Design. At the moment she is living and working in Vienna, organizing the Art&Tech studio "Miss Baltazar's Laboratory".
http://grenzartikel.com/

Audrey Samson (Canada) is a Rotterdam based media designer, artist and researcher.
Her interests focus on ways to interface community storytelling and in creating communication possibilities in unlikely scenarios. M.A. Media Design (2007) from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL. Teacher at Gerrit Rietveld Academie (NL), member of genderchangers; a collective of women which promote the exchange of technical skills between women, member of Aether9; collective exploring the dramaturgical possibilities of remote realtime storytelling.
http://www.ideacritik.com/
http://genderchangers.org/

The OKNO team and invited artists will lead and take part in this workshop. If you would like to join please contact: steklo♥okno.be
...or feel welcome to drop by and lend a hand, checkout the bee hives, visit the garden...

We will also take on a few other activities during this time frame, including building a composter, installing a garden pool and some water plants and devising a tricky system to keep our pigeon friends out of the way!

LOCATION:
OKNO Koolmijnenkaai 34 Quai des Charbonnages
Brussels - Belgium - 1080
openbaar vervoer/public transport/transport public :
metro Graaf van Vlaanderen/Comte de Flandre
tram 51

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(click to see timelapse video from the garden)