We invite you to join us to collaboratively build the Sonic Kayak, in our second open development session. Bring an explorative mind and experience in any field, and come to tinker with electronics, coding, sound art, boats and climate science. Or - just drop in to see what we are doing.Kayaks will be rigged with a bolt-on unit consisting of under-water environmental sensors (we'll start with temperature) and above-water speakers. The sensor data generated as the kayak is paddled will trigger sonifications, generating music to provide the paddler with an extra dimension of senses with which to explore the …

In this evening open-research session, we'll spend some time looking into encryption for your email. We will do the research together, with plenty of tea, try to get some of you set up with email encryption, and put what we find up online to help others. Anyone welcome - free to come - and no previous knowledge needed. If you have a laptop, bring that along.Please send an email to kernow@fo.am if you'd like to come so we have an idea of numbers.

You are invited to join FoAM Kernow in our ongoing investigation into weaving and coding, and help us build “Tanglebots” from recycled e-waste, Raspberry Pi computers and electronics. This workshop is our contribution to British Science Week.This event is for all ages and will form a messy introduction into weaving, robotics and coding. Tanglebots are prototype/failed weaving robots (weaving is quite hard, so we are starting with tangles and seeing what patterns emerge). Prizes will be given in various categories for autonomous tangle creation:Most artistic tangle formed.High speed tangling category.Most technical effort with least …

We invite you to join us to collaboratively prototype the Sonic Kayak. Bring an explorative mind and experience in any field, and come to tinker with electronics, coding, sound art, boats and climate science.Kayaks will be rigged with a bolt-on unit consisting of under-water environmental sensors (we'll start with temperature) and above-water speakers. The sensor data generated as the kayak is paddled will trigger sonifications, generating music to provide the paddler with an extra dimension of senses with which to explore the underwater climate. The sonification will be developed with award winning sound artist and composer, Kaffe Matthews. The …

A weavecoding gathering for experimenting with weaving technology, listening to livecoding performance and playing with artifacts from the weaving codes:coding weaves project.Featuring:Ellen Harlizius-Klück: Mathematics, Philosophy and Textile Art (Danish Centre for Textile Research)Alex McLean: Livecoding, music performance and Daphne Oram Award winning science lecturer (University of Leeds)Emma Cocker: Writer-artist and Reader in Fine Art (Nottingham Trent University)Alongside the Foam Kernow weavecoding team!

Finding Song Home is a new bicycle opera now being made for Brussels by Kaffe Matthews and the Bicrophonic Research Institute. It uses the BRI software system made by David Griffiths being enhanced by Tom Keene. Commissioned by opera house La Monnaie de La Munt and Q-O2, it will open on 9 and 10 May and run until June 2016. We would also like to invite you on Sunday 10 May to celebrate this collaboration at the Maison des Cultures/Huis van Culturen at rue Mommaertstraat 4 in 1080 Brussel, between 14h and 18h. The libretto for the …

Hacklabs/hackspaces/makerspaces are community-run spaces for knowledge-sharing and making. These spaces have been growing in popularity globally, and more recently biohackspaces – community biology labs - have started to gain momentum. For this event, Ilya Levantis and Nick Fitzroy-Dale who run the London Biohackspace will talk about this movement, and run a workshop so we can try out some biohacking together. Both events are FREE! Hackspaces and Biohacking Seminar 1-2pm Trevithick Room, Environment & Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus No booking needed – just show up Ilya and Nick from the London Biohackspace will introduce …

Development of concept and practical realisation for interactive Sonic Bike games in Brussels. Open to anyone. Technical skills not required. Permanent presence not requested. Workshop leaders: Kaffe Matthews, Tom Keene 1st part: Sat 21st and Sunday 22nd: 10 - 4pm • The BRI will present its past and present projects, including the current technique used on sonic bikes. • Open a discussion on the restrictions this kind of approach has created. • How can we enable bikes to be sonically interactive? How might the bikes operate as a swarm of sound? What games could emerge using the technologies we …

Dave Griffiths discusses FoAM, who are bringing their groWorld Bazaar to Pixelache in March. He will discuss the context and background of this project and reveal other related and not so-related projects that FoAM has been working on in recent years. As well as explaining FoAM’s interest in connecting plants and people, the talk will include cooking recipes, livecoding, robot cats playing chess, and demos of prototype computer games. http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/pixelversity/programme-2011/dave-griffiths-presents-foam/

Featuring the pine scented and sparkling... * "I'm going to put you back in your box" - Sarah Angliss The 30s voder and ventriloquism revisited * Tim Hunkin Electricity Sex and Death * Alex McLean Acid sketching * Circuits for a sordid SatNav - James Larsson A characterless SatNav unit is made a bit more human... * Dave Griffiths groWorld - gardening, permaculture and games More info: http://dorkbotlondon.org/event/dorkbotlondon65/