Workshops
Workshops have been an inseparable part of Plektrum Festival since the beginning. The prerequisite for creating vj-art, interactive and media art is knowing how to use the programs and technology. Over the past years Plektrum workshops have dealt with making music instruments from washing machines and children’s toys, taught vj-programs in vj-school, used soldering irons, taught how to use more sophisticated programs like MAX/MSP and Quartz Composer. This year Plektrum goes a bit further and is going to create authentic interactive projects in two workshops – “Gestures” focuses on hacking the Wii remote, and “Weird Sound Generator” teaches us to build an analog sound machine. Furthermore vj-school takes us back to the roots and Lomo gives us an insight into lomo photography.
Gestures
September 25 - October 3 10.00-18.00 / Telliskivi Creative City
In this new media art workshop an authentic visualized user interface project and program is created with the participants – a Nintendo Wii console and its wireless remote are turned into a VJ tool. You can create visuals that are projected on a screen using the Wii remote.
Weird Sound Generator
September 28-October 2 18.00-21.00 / Telliskivi Creative City
Synthesizer building nerds - get your soldering irons, printed circuit boards, electronic components and electrical wire! We're going to make unique analogue sound sources, effects processors and synthesizer modules.
VJ-school: Back to the roots!
26th September 11.00-15.00 / Telliskivi Creative City
If you want to know how to make cool “VJ” video art and video clips then Plektrum vj-school is just what you need. Taking place already for the fourth time the vj-school has been one of Plektrum’s most popular events that teaches the basics of vj-art through experimenting.
I and Lomography
September 26-27 12.00-17.00 / Telliskivi Creative City
An exciting introduction to lomography – photography that uses special cameras to create unanticipated, strange and effective distortions of reality. The photos are peculiar and nothing like the ones taken with a regular camera.
