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MzTEK will be there! See our famous Chi-TEK teapots, workshop projects, wearable tech projects, soft-circuites, hardware, Hacked Human Orchestra, and more…

6th July 2013

Maker Faire is the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth—a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement. It’s a place where people show what they are making, and share what they are learning.

It’s free, but make sure you register here to attend.

Where:

London College of Communication Elephant & Castle, London, SE1 6SB

The Open Data Institute (ODI) and MzTEK invite you to the Data as Culture Open Day on 16 March 2013, 12pm – 6pm.

The Data as Culture collection is set in the offices of the ODI, and aims to bring tangible interventions into the mass accretion of data around us. This is an opportunity to see the artworks in the collection and speak to the curators and some of the artists.

Informal presentations from 2.30pm – 4pm, refreshments provided.

Confirmed Artists

Ellie Harrison, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori, Phill Archer, Benedikt Gross

Learn more about the artists and the artworks.

Where

Open Data Institute, 3rd Floor, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

When

16 March 2013, 12pm – 6pm,  informal presentations take place between 2.30 – 4pm.

To mark the 95th Anniversary of The Representation of the People Act, which first allowed women to vote, Norwich Arts Centre has commissioned MzTEK to exhibit a selection of artefacts and photographs illustrating our work over the last 4 years.

Artefacts will include projects devised and developed through MzTEK workshops, the Hacked Human Orchestra wearable instruments, e-textiles, hardware, and the a selection of the amazing teapots from our Chi-TEK showcase of technologically modified teapots.

We will also be running a soft-circuit a workshop at 9th March at Norwich Arts Centre. More details coming soon.

Some exciting news! This week sees the opening of the exciting Data as Culture art showcase installed at the Open Data Institute. 

In curating the showcase for the ODI we wanted to select a range of works that would not just reflect different data sources, but that would challenge our understanding of what data is, and how it may affect and reflect our lives.  The works range from geomagnetic data visualisations, to wall painted cellular automata, to tabloid newspapers of search term trend graphs – all tangible interventions into the mass accretion of data around us.

 Semiconductor’s 20Hz (2011)

Martin John Callanan’s Text Trends (2012) 

As data becomes more accessible to artists, as it opens up for use as a raw material, we are seeing more of its integration into works that explore environmental socio-political and economic aspects of society. By utilising data in an experiential way, this selection of works pulls data out of the virtual domain and into our physical world. We hope the exhibition provokes discussion around what open data is, how it informs and affects us, and how we interpret it in a way that is meaningful.

Find out more about the commissioned Artists and the Artworks.

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Viewing is by appointment. Please contact the ODI at info@theodi.org.

MzTEK is currently undertaking a new project—The Chi-TEK Project—to coincide with Digital Week and the Craft Council’s Makers Fair this autumn.

But you can already start to participate.  Shiver My Teacup, a workshop led by Katrin Baumgarten, will teach participants how to hack kitchen crockery with Arduinos and sensors. The final pieces will go on display at the V&A Sackler Centre, alongside works by leading women in the fields of art and technology.