Art's Birthday 2012 DIY LED Hacking Workshop

Video Pool Media Arts Open Lab Presents:
Art's Birthday 2012 DIY LED Hacking Workshop with Ken Gregory

when: Sunday, January 15, 2012, 12:00pm - 5:00 pm.
where: Video Pool Media Arts Centre @ 300-100 Arthur St.
cost: $2.00 - $5.00 donation to the media lab to cover parts.
no experience with electronics required. All levels of experience welcome.

LED == Light Emitting Diodes

The theme this year for Art's Birthday is Lite Nite. Light up the night with DIY LED based artworks. Learn how LEDs work, build simple circuits for use in Lite Nite based artworks, help others, collaborate on projects, hack hardware and have fun. Bring your creations to our Art's Birthday 2012 celebration on January 17 and light up the night!

Parts, tools and creativity included!

Art's Birthday 2011 a few pics

My hat for the Hat making contest! I was an organizer so couldn't officially win but as an instigator of the idea I had to make a hat. The skull is animated by a couple servos and a microcontroller. The head moves around and bobbles on a spring. The jaw moves up and down and there is one LED eye.





Every birthday party should have cake! Our lovely host Miss Lizzy Lala serves it up!





DJ Rob Volar provided awesome tunes all evening!



Jaymez provided awesome visuals all night too.



Every birthday needs presents! Kunstradio.at in Vienna Austria organizes a pool of presents for Art every year. AB2011

Mine is here. Birthday Song

Arts Birthday 2011!

It's that time of the year! A time to celebrate all that Art gives to us. A great way to start the year.



"This year our theme is Holus Bolus, meaning all together, all at once;
whole, in one big lump. Wear your own whimsical handmade hat to win big prizes (we have jurors, it's a serious thing), or make one at the party, at the Table of Imaginative Materials.

Art's Birthday External Network
Video Pool


Where: Lo Pub & Bistro- 330 Kennedy (Corner of Ellice and Kennedy in the New HI Downtowner Hostel)
When: Saturday January 15
$10.00, or $8.00 with costume
doors open 8pm

Video Pools Top Ten 2010
recent work from Video Pool begins promptly 8:30pm


Festivities continue till we drop:
*MC for the evening Miss Lizzy La La
*VJing by Jaymez and DJing by Rob Vilar
*Skype kiosk to exchange birthday greetings with revelers at East
Street Arts, Leeds, UK
*Art fun at the Table of Imaginative Material
*Best Made Hat Contest and prizes
so so much more...

January heating up

In order to beat the January doom/blues, I like to make myself as busy as possible at this time of the year. The heat is on! Besides a pile of paper work and the total reorganizing of my studio, I have the following to keep me going until February.

i'll be heading to San Jose California for a couple of days to participate in meetings and check out the venue for my future participation in the 2010 01 San Jose Biennial with the theme Build Your Own World. I'm really looking forward and quite exited to be building my work wind coil sound flow as part of Out of the Garage. I can really relate to the themes and everything having to do with this so far has been very good.

On January 16 I'll be helping out with this. Video Pool will be participating in the international celebration of Art's Birthday

The next morning I'll be jumping on a plane and heading to the sub-arctic climes of the Yukon where I'll be participating in the residency program at the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture.

At the end of the month my audio piece 'The Road to El Dorado' will be paired up as a soundtrack for a short film at The 8 Fest in Toronto.

Winnipeg Sound Machine

An audio archive of the live sound as performed in mp3 format is available here ---> audio tracks<------

Saturday January 17 11:00 - 17:00 -6 GMT

Art's Birthday 2009!

Cheap Meat Dreams and Acorns presents Winnipeg Sound Machine.
January 17, 12 pm to 5 pm @ Video Pool's studio 300-100 Arthur St. Winnipeg Manitoba.


Winnipeg sound artist Ken Gregory presents a prototype preview of a new work in progress for Art's Birthday 2009. Presented as a sound
installation/performance, Against the Wind( working title) is a result of several years research into Aeolian Kite Instruments.
Winnipeg Sound Machine is an acoustic electro-mechanical system that poetically reproduces the processes involved with operating
the Aeolian Kite Instrument in the field. Receiving the audio recordings from this outdoor instrument, the electro-magnetic sculpture in
the gallery not only becomes a poetic and kinetic representation of a sound speaker, but also mirrors the different components of the
Aeolian Kite Instrument used to capture the wind's voice. This will be premiered in April 2009 at Articule in Montreal in association with Elektra.


Art's Birthday
Ken Gregory
Elektra
Articule

Not in Winnipeg? Keep an eye on this blog as pictures and live mp3 streaming info will be posted soon.