Open Lab Egypt Workshops in Cairo & Alexandria

Video Interactive Projects

A long term project based on several workshop phases between Cairo and Alexandria, initiated with aims of developing the use of electronic interface within art creation in Egypt. The project phases  provide introduction to the technique, experimentation with tools, investigating ideas and concept evaluation.

Cairo Workshop: 16-30 October 2009

Alexandria Workshop: 25 November – 4 December 2009

The workshop aims at finding alternative, low budget and sustainable ways to create interactive artworks and to develop digital and electronic systems within contemporary artworks.

Cairo workshop

16 october – 31 october 2009 – ROOFTOP STUDIO
Workshop for the production of ideas/projects around the concept of interactive image and sound, using a combination of free hardware and software platforms (PD and Arduino) to deepen in the use of electronics and programming.

The workshop is intended for art students, artists, designers and educators, contributing to development cultural production in local communities.

During the two weeks of workshop a space of reflection, investigation and collaborative work will be developed in a context of production, encounter, dialogues and collective learning where several tutors exert of technical advisers of the artists and work groups who develop each one of the proposals.

The platforms taught are all open – software and hardware – but may be adapted to any system.

Contents: – Introduction to electronics and microcontrollers concepts – Using Sensors – Control of Video and Audio – Work on projects suggested by the participants

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Alexandria workshop

November 25 to 4th of December, 2009

Workshop for the production of ideas/projects around the concept of interactive image and sound, using Computer Vision techniques to deepen in the use of electronics and programming.

The workshop is intended for art students, artists, designers and educators, contributing to development cultural production in local communities.

The aim of this workshop is to teach the use of the camera as a device for creating interactive audiovisual installations. Using the OpenCV library.
Participants will learn the basics of Computer Vision Techniques and then be able to start applying them to artistic projects.

During the 10 days of workshop a space of reflection, investigation and collaborative work will be developed in a context of production, encounter, dialogues and collective learning where several tutors exert of technical advisers of the artists and work groups who develop each one of the proposals.

The platforms taught are all open – software and hardware – but may be adapted to any system.

Contents:

• Introduction to Computer Vision
• Processing Live Video
• Processing of data
• Motion Detection in a public space
• Control of Video and Audio
• Work on projects suggested by the participants

Duration: 10 days, including open seminars and demonstration of resulting works