May 16, 2012
Wearable Technogloy Workshop
This summer we are collaborating with tech artists MzTEK to create the world’s first Hacked Human Orchestra! Together we are transforming rags to riches, blending soft fabric electronics with creative technologists to produce a mobile electronic human orchestra.
MzTEK is a nonprofit collective with the aim of encouraging women artists to pick up technical skills in the fields of new media, computer arts, and technology. Together we will be hosting a workshop for women to come and learn how to create a musical instrument in a wearable technology workshop with guest electronic engineers.
When: June 30th, 11am
Where: The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London, WC1X 9NG
In the second act, later this summer at Wilderness and Shambala we will hack these instruments into outfits, stitching synths into shirts, turning trousers into trumpets and redesigning dresses into drums. For the final act, we will assemble en masse for an impromptu orchestral performance unlike any other, led by composer Florian Lunaire who will score our singular soundtrack as we wind our way throughout the festival.
This event is generously sponsored by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Paint The City
Ever dreamed of paint bombing the Gherkin?
Join engineers from Buro Happold to build a giant catapult and take aim at a target range of our city’s most iconic buildings. With the help of engineering expertise, learn to construct a medieval weapon of warfare, and see who can fling their paint-filled missiles the farthest. Come help us make an even bigger mess of a demolished site in East London.
When: June 23rd and 24th, 11am-4pm
Where: Just opposite the Canning Town Underground Station on a development site between Silvertown Way and Clarkson Road (formerly Montesquieu Estate), London, E16 1EA.
The event is powered by Industri[us], a collaborative action that reworks and revalues former waste products, transforming them into objects that are useful and desirable – check out their awesome short video about the project here. All catapults will be made from upcycled materials gathered from around Newham. If you would like to donate materials or indeed models to our reconfigured ‘London’ please contact Clare (clare@industri-us.org) or Kat (kat@industrius.org).
Part of the London Festival of Architecture.
March 28, 2012
Play @ Shoreditch House
Jenny Wong, our Creative Director, will speak on how and why we mix science with play at Shoreditch House on April 4th as part of an evening hosted by The Forum. Full event details here.
Once upon a time, Guerilla Science hosted lectures at music festivals. But after four years of experimenting, growing, and evolving, we decided to take our scientists off the stage and allow them to connect with their audiences in unprecedented ways. Now we give punters the chance to play with science in ways they never thought possible, such as life drawing classes, obstacle courses, dirty banquets, cornstarch ditches, feasts of stenches, and so so much more. This summer’s going to be off the hook – just you wait and see.
As our tagline puts it: we mix science with art, music and play. Dedicated to science by stealth, we are committed to creating unique opportunities for everyone to experience science in unorthodox ways. We set science free.
Jen has been the driving force behind our creative vision, and the tireless captain steering our mad ship at every turn. Come see her wax lyrical.
March 24, 2012
Wilderness
This year marks our first at Wilderness! Come find us in the Natures tent where we’ll be showcasing two absolutely corking new events…
Quantum Disco
Dance with the dynamics of quantum mechanics and explore the strange world of particle physics in an interactive event that lets you tango with the fundamental forces of the universe. David Glowacki, a quantum chemist from the University of Bristol and founder of Dance Spectroscopy, has created a virtual world that allows you to step into the realm of molecular motions. Observe, play, dance, watch, and listen as sensors transform movements into real-time ripples, waves, and vortices, generating otherworldly soundscapes and visualizations in tune with the phenomena of particle physics. Compare solos to duets and explore the strange forces that connect all of us – down to the tiniest particle.
Thursday: 10pm
Photo Credit: Alex Flowers
Hacked Human Orchestra
Join us as we blend soft fabric electronics with creative technologists to transform your threads into wearable musical instruments. Come hack your outfit: learn to stitch synths into shirts, turn trousers into trumpets and redesign dresses into drums and help create the world’s first mobile electronic human orchestra. In the final act, we will assemble en masse for an impromptu orchestral performance unlike any other, led by composer Florian Lunaire who will score our singular soundtrack as we wind our way throughout the festival. Produced in collaboration with tech artists MzTEK and sponsored by the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Sunday: 11am
Join us as we become entangled with Spiritualized, Wilco, The Midnight Masked Ball with the Old Vic Tunnels, spas, banquets, lakes and debates at one of Britain’s newest, loveliest festivals – a bit like the sophisticated, chilled-out big sister of the Secret Garden Party.
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