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Wednesday Speaker Series: Dave Mickey
Posted on July 12th, 2010 by carlyn • Filed under Events • 1 Comment
Our speaker this Wednesday is Dave Mickey. I met him at Maker Faire this year and just knew that what he and the folks at Cal Arts were up to would be of interest to us. This Bastille day come see the “sonic maze” going to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It’s called MicePace Maze and looks a lot of fun.
MicePaceMaze
Developed at the Center for Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts, MicePace Maze employs the mouse maze concept that scientists use to test memory. Utilizing this concept, we have created a human mouse maze with no walls. MicePace Maze players are given audio information through the use of wireless headphones creating a maze using sound as the walls and challenging players’ abilities to move through a space with only what they hear.
Dave Mickey
Through his Integrated Media Designs Mr. Mickey explores new ways to interact with art and the human form both artistically and technically. Mr. Mickey holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). Mr. Mickey is an adjunct professor of Integrated Media at CalArts, and an adjunct professor of theatre sound design at Pomona College. Current projects include “MicePaceMaze”, a human mouse maze without walls, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 2010. “The Medea Project” opening in Greece May 2011, and recently closed “Jesus Hates Me” at South Coast Repertory. Mr. Mickey is a co-founder of MPG Interactive Arts inc., also the Associate Sound Designer for the Chance Theater. Mr. Mickey was the 2007 winner of the Robert E. Cohen Sound Achievement Award, a national award in sound design sponsored by United States Institute of Theatre Technology. 2008/09 Garland Awards: 3 Honorable Mentions, and 3 Editor Choice Awards from Make Magazine for his project MicePaceMaze. For more information about Mr. Mickey please visit DaveMickey.com
MPG Interactive Arts explores new ways to interact with art and the human form both artistically and technically.
Electronic Textiles & Soft Sensors Workshop Recap
Posted on July 3rd, 2010 by todbot • Filed under Events • No Comments
Last Sunday’s Soft Sensors Workshop was a lot fun. We learned about several different kinds of materials and threads, various ways to make input devices for electronics, and even made a few of our own sensors.
Hand Made Music Presentations
Posted on July 3rd, 2010 by Daryll • Filed under Events • No Comments
Did you miss our Hand Made Music Night? We had some great presentations:
Raymond Weiekamp talked about the Monome and using his Mac laptop as an instrument
Kevin Nelson created some samples
Ian Hattwick discussed Guitamaton
Theron Throwbridge discussed some of his noise toy kits
Mack Reed showed off his Xylovan
The video is about 35 minutes in HD. It’s optimized for a high bandwidth link. Leave a comment and let me know if you need a lower bandwidth option. We’ll post the video of the performances next.
Hand Made Music Night Presentations
Concerto for Three MakerBots
Posted on June 30th, 2010 by Daryll • Filed under Events • 1 Comment
CrashSpace is lucky enough to have three MakerBot 3D printers. These versatile devices can print objects out of ABS plastic. On June 25th we demonstrated exactly how versatile these devices really are.
If you run the stepper motor on the MakerBot at different speeds, it plays different nodes. There is a script that converts MIDI files in to MakerBot scripts that do just that, and the MakerBot becomes a musical instrument. Frank Capodieci, a friend of CrashSpace, composed an original piece of music called the Concerto for Three MakerBots that we premiered during our Hand Made Music Night.
WSS: Mark Frauenfelder
Posted on June 28th, 2010 by Sean Bonner • Filed under Events • No Comments
This week for the semi-occasional Wednesday Speaker Series we’re excited to present Mark Frauenfelder! As you should be more than aware Mark is the founder of BoingBoing, Editor-in-Chief of MAKE, ex-editor of Wired, and author of several books, not the least of which is the recently released Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World
. Here’s an interview with him in a little rag you might have heard of called Time.
Mark will likely be talking about the new book, MAKE culture in general, and all things DIY. If you’ve recently gotten your hands dirty in any of our shops, any of your own shops, or have been thinking about it, or haven’t been thinking about it, this is the perfect way to spend your evening.
Talk starts at 8PM.
Free for members, suggested donation of $10 for non-members.
We’ll try to Ustream it too, but no promises.
[Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid]
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