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Workshops
Zayed University is hosting the International Symposium on Electronic Arts from 30 October – 8 November 2014 in Dubai and neighboring Emirates. It is an annual event that brings together leading and emerging new media thinkers, practitioners, artists, academics, and scientists working at the interface of art, science and technology.
ISEA2014 WORKSHOP LISTING
Under the theme of LOCATION, international and regional artists in the field of Electronic Arts will conduct innovative workshops. The workshops will take place in Dubai between 27 October and 8 November and will be open for registration to students, emerging artists and professionals.
REGISTRATION
For further information or inquires email isea2014workshops@zu.ac.ae
TERMS & CONDITIONS
Dates and times are subject to change
Please check the online schedule prior to 27 October 2014 for updates
Registrations are on a first come-first serve basis on receipt of payment, if applicable
Each workshop has a participant limit ranging from 10 to 20 seats
No refund on cancellation or no-show
Outcomes from the workshops will be displayed for the duration of ISEA2014
Some outcome content may be kept for research purposes at the discretion of the Instructor
Photography and video documentation will occur during the workshop, unless specified
WORKSHOPS AT ZAYED UNIVERSITY, DUBAI
Locating the Flow
Workshop Instructor: Beverly Hood
Description: The Locating the Flow performance will embed participants within a social network using the Sixth Sense Travel App to explore the flow of objects and information across Zayed University. The aim of this participatory promenade performance is to introduce participants to two new smart phone Apps that demonstrate how network technology can use patterns within existing industrial and social activities to reveal new opportunities for sharing.
Date: 5 November
Duration: 3 hours
Timing: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Audience: ISEA Delegates
Level: Intermediate
Venue: Zayed University, Dubai - Room D-L1-054 and Atrium
Admission: AED 35
Contact Workshop Team: Scott Conard - scott.conard@zu.ac.ae
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The Collaborative Garden
Workshop Instructor: Yara Guasque + Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez
Description: Participants are taken outside of the Dubai ZU campus, they research its specimens and reopen the collaborative networks involved in the park accessing the exchange of correspondence among botanists and naturalists, examine the origin of specimens, whether they are genetically modified or not, learn about contractors hired for the construction and maintenance of the park, and then "plant "an inscription of the technoscience network, whether in digital or analog media, or plant the species themselves.
Date: 1, 2 and 3 November
Duration: 3 hours each session
Timing: 9:00am – 12:00 pm
Audience: ISEA Delegates
Level: Foundation
Venue: Zayed University, Dubai - Room D-L1-054
Admission: AED 35
Contact Workshop Team: Scott Conard - scott.conard@zu.ac.ae
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Pillows For Dubai
Workshop Instructor : Linda Duvall
Description: Create a representation of a place in Dubai by working with the Artist to frame a scene and use still images to develop a series of commemorative cushions. Become part of a larger conversation about the implication of rapid development for all who live in Dubai.
Date: 4 & 5 November
Duration: 3 hours
Timing: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Audience: Zayed University Students Only
Level: Foundation
Venue: Zayed University, Dubai - Room C-L1-052
Admission: Free
Contact Workshop Team : Sarah Lahti - Sarah.Lahti@zu.ac.ae
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Poetry in Motion
Workshop Instructor: Myfanwy Ashmore
Description: An intensive workshop for women who are new to and/or interested in combining gaming and poetry as a medium for expression. Participants will create games or gamified experiences to elicit simple poetic expressions, personal narratives and kinetic textual poems through the game platform. This workshop is geared towards those who are new to programming and art games. The focus would be on creating poetry that is interactive in some way, using the platforms’ inherent qualities.
Date: 28,29 & 30 October
Duration: 2.5 hours per session
Timing: 9:30am - 12:00pm
Audience: Zayed University Students
Level: Foundation
Venue: Zayed University, Dubai - Room AB-L1-021
Admission: Free
Contact Workshop Team : Sarah Lahti - Sarah.Lahti@zu.ac.ae
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E-Waste Poster Making
Workshop Title: E-Waste Poster Making
Workshop Instructor: Yunsun Chin & Nazima Ahmad
Description: This workshop aims to force us to recognize our relationship with the objects with which we choose to surround ourselves, specifically machines and mechanisms we employ in our daily lives. Realizing our obsessive and addictive consumption of technology and exploiting electronic waste as a platform to re-invent. Explore ways of understanding the life-cycle of daily electronic/mechanic objects resulting in an A2 poster to illustrate it. Participants are asked to bring one every-day device, which has become obsolete in their home.
Date: 28 October
Duration: 3 hours
Timing: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Audience: Zayed University Students
Level: Foundation
Venue: Zayed University, Dubai - Room C-L1-052
Admission: Free
Contact Workshop Team : Sarah Lahti - Sarah.Lahti@zu.ac.ae
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A is for Apples, B is for Balloons, D... is for Deconstruction
Workshop Instructor: Daniel Echeverri
Description: The workshop will focus on the application of the Deconstructive discourse as a generative ideation framework for designers. In Structuralism, language always has a signifier that points to a signified. People understand signifiers based on binary oppositions: A car is called “car” since there are other things that are not cars. Deconstruction tries to destabilize the direct link between sign and signifier. It argues that signifiers do not refer to signifieds, but to other signifiers. For example the word “India” does not signify a single thing, but the signifiers that might contextualize and define it like the Taj Mahal or an elephant. Language is a system of linked signifiers rather than fixed structures. Deconstruction creates new meaning by creating new relationships.
Date: 30 October
Duration: 3 hours
Timing: 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Audience: Zayed University Design Students
Level: Foundation
Venue: Zayed University, Dubai - Room D-L1-054
Admission: Free
Contact Workshop Team : Sarah Lahti - Sarah.Lahti@zu.ac.ae
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Professional Aerial Photography with a Micro-drone
Workshop Instructor: David Gallacher
Description: Learn how a multi-rotor drone can be used to produce commercial grade video and still photography from the air. Use of a Sony NEX7 camera mounted on an octocopter will be demonstrated. Post-processing of stills into 3D digital models and orthorectified photomosaics will also be demonstrated. The workshop will have time to discuss alternative configurations, and new opportunities that the technology may provide.
Date: 4 & 7 November
Duration: 3 hours for session 1 and 5 hours for session 2
Timing: 4 November, 2:00pm - 5:00pm | 7 November, 7:00am - 12:00pm
Audience: ISEA Delegates
Level: Intermediate
Venue: Zayed University, Dubai - Room C-L1-052 + Outdoor Venue
Admission: AED 70
Contact Workshop Team : Sarah Lahti - Sarah.Lahti@zu.ac.ae
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Future of Domestic Objects
Workshop Instructor: Slavica Caperkovic
Description: This workshop examines the possible evolution in domestic, household object design and its function using foresight methods as a primary mode of inquiry. Given changes in ownership, technology and function, what might objects look like in 2025? In examining possible futures of domestic objects, drawing is used as a tool to think through and develop possible domestic objects of the future.
Date: 4 November
Duration: 3 hours
Timing: 9:00am to 12:00pm
Audience: ISEA Delegate
Level: Foundation / Intermediate
Venue: Zayed University, Dubai - Room D-L1-054
Admission: AED 35
Contact Workshop Team : Sarah Lahti - Sarah.Lahti@zu.ac.ae
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iPad as web tool
Workshop Instructor: Gordon Graber
Description: Using the iPad to develop interactive web content with Textastic, Photoshop Touch, jQuery.
Date: 5 November
Duration: 3 hours
Timing: 9:00am to 12:00pm
Audience: Zayed University Students
Level: Foundation
Venue: Zayed University, Dubai - Room AB-L1-021
Admission: Free
Contact Workshop Team : Sarah Lahti - Sarah.Lahti@zu.ac.ae
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Gesturelab
Workshop Instructor: Judith Doyle
Description: Using a special Xbox Kinect 3D depth camera, students documented gestures in different workplaces. At ISEA2014, workshop participants, especially students, will explore this approach in Dubai and make their own gesture files and prints. The final project will create print and digital captures of gesture, and will contribute to a hybrid print and digital dictionary that builds on the collaborative gathering of meaningful gestures. Workshop methods include:- viewing and evaluating gesture in a range of contemporary artist and student projects- instruction in the use of digital video for documentation, and in the operation of the Prime Sense and Xbox Kinect based mocap cameras, developed by the Instructor, Fei Jun and their GestureCloud team in Toronto/Beijing
Date: 3 November
Duration: 2.5 hours per session
Timing: 9:30am - 11:50pm and 1:00pm - 3:20pm
Audience: Zayed University Students
Level: Foundation / Intermediate
Venue: Zayed University, Dubai - Room C-L1-052
Admission: Free
Contact Workshop Team : Sarah Lahti - Sarah.Lahti@zu.ac.ae
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Cracklebox
Workshop Instructor: Chris Weaver and Fari Bradley
Description: The Cracklebox is a unique battery-powered electronic instrument invented in the late 1960s by Michel Waisvisz of STEIM (the STudio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Holland). The instrument has no keys or dials – it is instead played by touch alone, with the performer becoming part of the circuit.
Artists Fari Bradley and Chris Weaver present a Cracklebox building workshop, participants will learn how to create personalised DIY versions of the original STEIM Cracklebox, exploring the effects of circuit modifications, different touch contact combinations, and interfacing with computers via audio software.
No previous electronics experience is required.
More information about the original Cracklebox can be found here:http://www.crackle.org/CrackleBox.htm
Date: 5 November
Duration: 5 hours
Timing: 10:00am-4:00 pm
Audience: Zayed University Students
Level: Foundation
Venue: Zayed University, Dubai - Room C-L1-052
Admission: Free
Contact Workshop Team : Sarah Lahti - Sarah.Lahti@zu.ac.ae
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WORKSHOPS AT AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN DUBAI
Reinventing the Vernacular
Workshop Instructor: Anna Klingmann
Description:
The Reinvention of the Vernacular is envisioned as an interactive workshop on site-specific interventions merging historical architecture with contemporary art and new media. While much has been written on the iconicity of art and architecture as globally branded phenomena, this workshop proposes a strategic reversal of emphasis to examine the deeper and more perplexing issue of the local in a context in which particularities of both person and place are under immense pressure. How can art, design and architecture contribute to a unique local identity in an age of global branding? How can we achieve a synthesis between regional culture and global impact by bridging new media, ancient techniques and advanced technologies? How can we challenge image-oriented art in favor of spatial and experiential interventions that relate to place? And most importantly, how can we utilize site-specific interventions to create an aura of mystery, discovery, and a sense of arrival in that particular place in that particular country? This workshop focuses on the Reinvention of the Vernacular by taking the Asir Region in Saudi Arabia as an area of intervention. As a pioneer bridge building project, we envision to transform one abandoned village in the Abha region of Asir into a multi-sensorial art installation animated by projections, color and sound. This installation will be powered by solar energy and operate “off the grid.”
Date: 1 November
Duration: 3 hours
Timing: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Audience: Delegate/Artist/Public
Level: Foundation
Venue: American University in Dubai - Room A-122
Admission: AED 35
Contact Workshop Team : Rahul Malpure – Rahul.malpure@zu.ac.ae
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Armoniapolis
Workshop Instructor: Svetlana Maras
Armoniapolis is a musical concept that provides a way to re-compose urban sound environment with the use of short textual instructions. It teaches us to manipulate sound artifacts from the world around us solely with the use of words and by doing this, to create original musical compositions related to the soundscape at a specific location. Armoniapolis deals with the issues of soundscape, conscious listening and creative musical thinking. Workshop consists of 3 parts - project presentation, sound walk, writing of the Armoniapolis instructions. www.armoniapolis.com
Date: 3 & 4 November
Duration: 3 hours
Timing: 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Audience: Public
Level: Intermediate
Venue: American University in Dubai - Room C-227
Admission: AED 35
Contact Workshop Team : Rahul Malpure – Rahul.malpure@zu.ac.ae
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Zoetrope Animation
Workshop Instructor: Tin Wong
Description: This workshop explains the principle of Zoetrope Animation and invites participants to create their own Zoetrope Animations. Participants will design 2 motions to create their own Zoetrope Animation, both 2d and 3d. 2d motion will be drawn on a vinyl record-size drawing board with 16 sequences. The 3d motion will be paper-fold, play-clay or action figure toys. Both to be placed on-top of the record player to be viewed and recorded with a video camera using a high shutter speed.
Date: 8 November
Duration: 2 hours for Workshop 1 and 3 hours for Workshop 2
Timing: 10:00am - 12:00pm (Workshop 1) | 3:00pm - 6:00pm (Workshop 2)
Audience: Students
Level: Foundation / Intermediate
Venue: American University in Dubai - Room A-105
Admission: Free
Contact Workshop Team : Rahul Malpure – Rahul.malpure@zu.ac.ae
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Video Game/Video Art
Workshop Instructor: Ahmed El Shaer
Description: Two worlds, two spaces or cross borders - these titles bring us to the same concept about shifting between environments. Many changes could happen like changes in visuals, sounds and time. In this shift we will see many visions that can change our thoughts visually and conceptually and through these elements we will build our Machinima projects.
Date: 31 October, 1 & 2 November
Duration: 3 hours per session
Timing: 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Audience: Public
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Venue: American University in Dubai - Room A-105/C227
Admission: AED 100
Contact Workshop Team : Rahul Malpure – Rahul.malpure@zu.ac.ae
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Data Realities
Workshop Instructor: Selcuk Artut
Description: In this workshop participants will deliver an extended presentation about current Augmented Reality technologies, and apply beginner/intermediate level mobile/desktop Augmented Reality tools to create Mediated Environments. Programming experience is not a necessity.
Date: 31 October
Duration: 3 hours
Timing: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Audience: Public
Level: Intermediate
Venue: American University in Dubai - Room A-101
Admission: AED 35
Contact Workshop Team : Rahul Malpure – Rahul.malpure@zu.ac.ae
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Developing Physical Algorithms
Workshop Instructor: Reza Safavi
Description:
In this workshop participants will learn about and develop physical and digital algorithms which they will create and carry out through daily explorations in Dubai. They will learn to develop and use locative media with digital devices to interface their experiences with physical installations.
Date: 31 October
Duration: 2 hours per session
Timing: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Audience: Public
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Venue: American University in Dubai - Room A-102
Admission: AED 70
Contact Workshop Team : Rahul Malpure – Rahul.malpure@zu.ac.ae
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Emotional Topography
Workshop Instructor: Phillip Baldwin
Description: This workshop discusses, demonstrates, and deals with the combination of human computer interfaces and brain computer interfaces in various performance media. These specific codes, written mostly in MAX/Jitter are elements of larger performance and installation productions in the past…. and upcoming international manifestations. The participant will use these interfaces in full body and neuro-sensing capacities and will ‘take home’ the apps of specific studies.
Date: 4 November
Duration: 3 hours per session
Timing: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Audience: Public
Level: Intermediate / Advanced
Venue: American University in Dubai - Room C227
Admission: AED35
Contact Workshop Team : Rahul Malpure – Rahul.malpure@zu.ac.ae
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It Looks Like A Book
Workshop Instructor: Chadi Adib Salama
Description: This workshop is about book art as a part of Contemporary Art, and how an artist can combine general art skills and obtained knowledge (Digital Art, Drawing, 3D Art) to make a unique piece of art work with multiple points of view. Participants in this workshop will make a digital book, print it and learn how to bind it.
Date: 31 October & 1 November
Duration: 3 hours per session
Timing: 9:00am-12:00pm
Audience: Public
Level: Intermediate
Venue: American University in Dubai - Room A-106
Admission: AED 40
Contact Workshop Team : Rahul Malpure – Rahul.malpure@zu.ac.ae
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Dubai Digital Stories
Workshop Instructor: Eva Kekou
Description: This workshop aims to create a psycho-geographical map of Dubai city by choosing two important points/neighborhoods. The participants will use video footage to collect/narrate random stories about their experience of the city. The collected sound and visual material will be annotated and reinvented into a personal storytelling map of Dubai. Participants will require to walk around the surrounding area of the venue.
Date: 1 November
Duration: 6 hours
Timing: 9:00am - 4 pm (includes a 1 hour break for lunch)
Audience: Students
Level: Foundation
Venue: American University in Dubai, Room TBA
Admission: Free
Contact Workshop Team : Rahul Malpure – Rahul.malpure@zu.ac.ae
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Digital Filmmaking
Workshop Instructor: Abhijit Roy
Description: The presentation will cover the usage of Animation and VFX in the Industry, including examples of usage in Movies, Broadcast, Gaming and Education. The workshop component will engage participants to create a number of concepts for Short Films; beginning with the idea, developing a story, building characters and creating a simple storyboard of the film.
Date: 1 November
Duration: 3 hours
Timing: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Audience: Public
Level: Foundation / Intermediate
Venue: American University in Dubai, Room A-101
Admission: AED 35
Contact Workshop Team : Rahul Malpure – Rahul.malpure@zu.ac.ae
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Public Workshop with Adobe: Adobe Creative Cloud - Lightroom CC Photoshop CC (SC)
Workshop Instructor: Joe Karkour
Description:
The New Adobe Creative Cloud
Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop – for Photographers
Date: 1 November
Duration: 3 hours
Timing: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Audience: Public
Level: Foundation / Intermediate
Venue: American University in Dubai, Room A-105
Admission: AED 35
Contact Workshop Team : Rahul Malpure – Rahul.malpure@zu.ac.ae
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WORKSHOPS AT THEJAMJAR, AL QUOZ, DUBAI
iFly Dubai
Workshop Title: iFly Dubai
Workshop Instructor: Eric Powell & Matthew Griffin
Description: This workshop entails hands-on exploration of sound-based mapping. Participants will use a gesture-based LEAP-Motion controller to navigate the software-based sound-map creating their own fluid and multifaceted sonic experience.
Date: 7 & 8 November
Duration: 3 hours per workshop
Timing: 7 November, 1:00pm - 4:00pm | 8 November, 10:00am - 1:00pm
Audience: Public
Level: Foundation / Intermediate
Venue: thejamjar, Al Quoz
Admission: AED 70
Contact Workshop Team : Scott Conard - scott.conard@zu.ac.ae
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Zagreb - Dubai RTC Peer Connection
Workshop Instructor: Maja Kalogera & Martina Mezak
Description: WebRTC is an open project that enables web browsers with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple JavaScript. Participants will create an online real-time performance.
Date: 4 November
Duration: 4 hours
Timing: 1:00pm - 5:00pm
Audience: Public
Level: Advanced
Venue: thejamjar, Al Quoz
Admission: AED 35
Contact Workshop Team : Scott Conard - scott.conard@zu.ac.ae
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WORKSHOP AT THE FRIDGE, AL SERKAL AVENUE, DUBAI
Seaboard: An brief history of the evolution of fortepiano
Workshop Title: Seaboard: An brief history of the evolution of fortepiano
Workshop Instructor: Rami Kayyali
Description: The workshop is geared towards play and experimentation with a new instrument called "Seaboard" and is targeted towards musicians and electronic artists. Discussion on the potential uses of the Seaboard as an expressive instrument for other mediums, such as light and physical objects connected via MIDI, will lead to a jam session, where musicians can experiment with the Seaboard and play with their fellow musicians.
Musicians are free to bring their own instrument, provided it is not a bassoon.
Date: 30 October
Duration: 3 hours
Timing: 6:30pm - 9:30 pm
Audience: Public
Category: Intermediate Musicians
Venue: The Fridge
Admission: AED 50
Contact Workshop Team : Scott Conard - scott.conard@zu.ac.ae
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WORKSHOPS AT CULTURAL ENGINEERING LOCATIONS, DUBAI
Emerging Public Spaces
Workshop Instructor: METASITU ( Eduardo Cassina + Liva Dudareva)
Description: During the workshop we will analyze available data that signifies the character of the growth of Dubai within the last decade. We will look into economic growth parameters, how the urban fabric has changed, and the different social strata. Later on, the data will be embodied and performed within the city. Based on our findings during the first part of the workshop, participants will go out into the city to find out where there is an incipient public space in Dubai, a provision that has often been overlooked in the city due to its fast development.
Date: 7 November
Duration: 3 hours
Timing: TBA
Audience: Public
Level: Foundation / Intermediate
Venue: TBA
Admission: AED 35
Contact Workshop Team: Scott Conard - scott.conard@zu.ac.ae
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WORKSHOPS AT A HIGH SCHOOL (TBA), DUBAI
GYEM : Social Innovation
Workshop Instructor : Mona Al Beiti
Description: This workshop will focus on the initial steps of our XYZ Programme, introducing students to their innate capabilities as creative innovators and tapping into their creative confidence. Youth have powerful potential and GYEM empowers youth to live purposeful lives, providing them the tools and perspective to [SELF] innovate themselves.
The workshop will utilize different aspects of our program to create a condensed experience for the participants were youth experience the power of innovation through hands on activities.
Date: TBA November
Duration: 2 hrs
Timing: TBA
Audience: High School Students
Level: Foundation
Venue: High School TBA
Admission: Free
Contact Workshop Team: Scott Conard - scott.conard@zu.ac.ae
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Game Girl Workshop
Workshop Instructor: Andrea Hasselager
Description: This intensive workshop invites females to have fun with technology and become introduced to audio, graphic and coding programs in order to build their own computer game based on their own imagination and experiences. The workshop will be run by four female game designers with expertise in programming, game design, as well as graphic and sound design.
Date: 3, 4, & 5 November
Duration: 7 hours each session
Timing: 9:00am - 4:00pm each day (includes lunch break)
Audience: GEMS Wellington Students Only
Level: Fondation
Venue: GEMS Wellington International School
Admission: Free
Contact Workshop Team: Scott Conard - scott.conard@zu.ac.ae
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WORKSHOPS LOBO LISTONE, DUBAI
Animation Chamber - Light Painting Workshop
Workshop Instructor: Lina Younes (The Animation Chamber)
Description: In this workshop, participants will paint with light. It will introduce light painting and animation, from the technical to the artistic. Students will use different lights as brush on canvas creating different forms, shapes, images, writings, etc. By the end of the workshop, students will have worked on their own light painting as well as a collaborative one.
Date: 8 November
Duration: 2 hours
Timing: During ISEA2014 Closing Ceremony 7pm - 9pm
Audience: Public
Level: Foundation
Venue: Lobo Listone Gallery, Al Quoz
Admission: Free
Contact Workshop Team : Scott Conard - scott.conard@zu.ac.ae
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