Medrar Projects MedRX MEDRX EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM – JUNE 2023

MEDRX EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM – JUNE 2023

MedRX

Medrar

1 June 2023 -

MedRX educational program is a series of new monthly workshops that give students and artists the opportunity to explore and XR world experiences across a range of different workshops and media platforms

Augmented Reality (AR) Workshop with Agnes Michalczyk

Augmented Reality Art is a technology enabling the connection between the real and physical
experience and digital virtual content.
During the workshop, we will look at the current applications of Augmented Reality technologies,
its potentials and ways of creating AR experiences with a variety of media—illustration,
animation and 3D models and reflect on the place of immersive technologies in the
contemporary new media art context.

What we will do:

  • The basics of Augmented Reality and how it can be used to enhance and expand artwork
    add information, create a narrative, and interact.
  • Introduction to selected AR tools to create augmented reality experiences (ARTIVIVE,
    Adobe AERO, Spark Studio).
  • Creating an augmented reality experience artwork and reflection on its context in the
    contemporary art discourse.
    This workshop is open to all types of artists and creatives interested in using augmented reality.
    In the workshop, participants will learn to understand the medium and explore how they can
    integrate it into their current work and projects. The workshop aims at creating space for
    brainstorming, discussion and exchange of ideas around the potentials of Augmented Reality
    Art.

Target Group:

  • Digital and Non-digital artists, designers, architects and visual storytellers

Prerequisites:

  • a smart phone, a laptop, and/or tablet
  • graphic software (Adobe Photoshop and/or Adobe After Effects and or Blender, for
    laptop) (Procreate and/or Nomad Sculpt for tablet) or alternatives
  • ability to work with graphic programs
  • language: English

To apply, submit : CV (1 page), Motivation to participate (half page), images
for work (max. 5 projects or images)
Program:
Day1: 2h
Introduction to AR, the tools, and their uses. Participants introduce themselves and their work.
brainstorming ideas on how they can use AR in their work.
Homework: develop one idea based on personal work to implement on day 2.
Day 2: 3h
Work on small exercises in AERO and Spark. Work on the implementation of participants
individual projects, laying out the programs, and gathering group and individual feedback.
Homework: preparing assets for a new personal AR project.
Day 3: 3h
Presentations of ideas and theoretical background of personal project and collected assets
work on the project.

Dates: 12, 13, 14 June ( Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday) | From 6:9 PM

Deadline for applications: Wednesday 7 June 11:59 PM

Fees: 1500 EGP

We will contact the selected participants to proceed with the reservation.

Introduction to Creative Coding with Anna Lucia

Introduction for creative coding and its implementation in graphic design and the interactivity that can be included, The workshop will be directed towards beginners, and the participants will be introduced to this process of creation that will enable them to translate their ideas using a new type of media 

Content:

  • Introduction to the history of creative coding and how machines have played a role in the creation of art throughout the years  
  • Introduction to making visual art and/or graphics with code
  • Sessions will be split into theory plus examples, followed by an exercise and time for the participants to experiment.

Requirements:

  •  background and interests in digital design
  • Every participant must have their own laptop 
  • General knowledge of coding concepts (No prior coding experience is required)
  • language: English

Dates:  18, 20, 25, 27 June (Sundays & Tuesdays) From 6 – 9

Deadline for applications: Tuesday 13 June 11:59 PM

Fees: 2000 EGP

We will contact the applicants to proceed with the reservation.

Creative Coding “Coded enchantments; using hydra for live performance” with Aida El-Oweidy

This workshop will focus on creating real-time interactive media suitable for performances and installations. We will work with Hydra, P5js, and other Javascript libraries as well.

We will focus on using found footage, written text excerpts, and screen captures to create a collage-based performance and manipulate it using OSC input, embracing the occasional chaos and randomness that come with algorithmic performance.

Workshop Requirements:

  • Bring your own laptop
  • Download & install the programs from here.

Dates: 19, 21, 24, 26 June (Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, Monday) 6 – 9 PM

Deadline for applications: Wednesday 14 June 11:59 PM

Fees: 2000 EGP

We will contact the applicants to proceed with the reservation.

Mentors

Agnes Michalczyk

Agnes Michalczyk is a visual artist and educator living and working in Cairo.
Graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig and currently teaches at the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Arts at the German University in Cairo.
Her work explores the urban space of Cairo through female perspective, focusing on the city
and its narratives. She works in variety of media, including painting, drawing and collage, between 2012- 2016 mainly working in street art and since 2014 in digital media. Through Augmented Reality. She emphasizes the visual connections between the remembered, the imagined, and the real. She contributed to projects in Cairo and abroad. Agnes is currently pursuing her PhD at Freie Universität Berlin.

Anna Lucia

Anna Lucia is an engineer and self-taught artist from the Netherlands living in Cairo. She writes algorithms to generate artwork, often combining mathematics and computer science concepts with feminine crafts such as textile work. She explores new ways of presenting artworks to audiences through endless animations, interaction, VR, and the screen as the medium. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Art Basel Miami (2021), Vellum LA (2022), Art Basel (2022), and the Decentral Art Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2022), among others.

Aida El-Oweidy

Aida El-Oweidy is a visual artist and graphic designer based in Cairo. Her work spans many mediums, including VR, illustration, text, and performance. She is interested in utilizing speculative practices and technology to explore themes such as online spaces, collectivity, and rituals. In 2022, along with a group of fellow artists, she formed the collective “Bakht” where she co-created the ZayMaTeegy initiative, a series of live coding events in Cairo. She performs through playing with found footage, video synthesizers, & generative design elements.

She also teaches creative coding with organizations such as Medrar and ADEF.