A Hack a Day #12: Frequency Modulations
With !Mediengruppe Bitnik (.ch /.uk)

June 5th 11am - 5pm
At SPACE, Hackney, London
Book here: http://ahackaday12.eventbrite.com/
£14 to cover electronics parts costs

Radio is a surprisingly straightforward media - you only need to
assemble a few electronic components for a low-range broadcast with your
own micro FM transmitter.

In this workshop participants will solder their own low-range FM
transmitter using a predesigned printed circuit board by piradio.de (a
Berlin based free radio initiative). Once assembled, this board will
give every participant a 0,15 Watt transmitter with mini-jack input and
USB as power source. After a brief introduction from !Mediengruppe
Bitnik to some of their more recent works related to media hacking, we
will experiment with different ways to use our FM transmitters: As a
tactical tool, an artistic device, a communications media.

No soldering experience required! Bring along a laptop, MP3-Player or
similar device to input sounds into the FM transmitter (mini-jack plug
on device).

!Mediengruppe Bitnik is an artists group based in Zurich, Switzerland.
Their artistic practice is focused on media systems, mediatized
realities and live media feeds which they like to manipulate and
reproduce so as to give the viewer a novel and refined understanding of
their mechanisms. In doing so, Bitnik aims at revealing functionalities
and operational methods which allow other uses and extend the utilities
of these systems.

http://www.bitnik.org
http://ahackaday12.eventbrite.com/

Bitnik are currently in a three-month PERMACULTURES residency at SPACE
media lab. PREMACULTURES is a series of residencies, talks and DIY
technology workshops exploring the tensions between art, technology and
ecology.

SPACE is London's original radical artist support organization. Set up
in East London in 1968 to provide affordable studio space for visual
artists. Alongside this core support for artists we host exhibitions,
courses and events including those with a focus on new media and
technology, wherever possible offering these for free.

http://www.spacestudios.org.uk

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