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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010

Summer geekOut!

August 21st, 1.30pm - 6.30pm at Watermans Gallery.

To start our season of workshops and events, we invite all women artists, techies and tinkerers to come and geekOut.

Bring your projects, ideas, or come and practice projects from our previous workshops. We will have computers, projector, previous workshop pdf’s, and some tools and components available to borrow, but if you have something in mind to work on, please bring tools and components you know you will need, if you can.

This will not be a tutored event, but an opportunity to play, learn and practice anything that takes your fancy, and to catch up on the SolarBots, Electronics for Absolute Beginners and Arduinorama workshops.

If you have any kit from previous workshops, bring it along!

When?
21st August ‘10 – 1.30pm – 6.30pm

Where?
Watermans Gallery - 40 High Street Brentford TW8 0DS

£5
SIGN UP HERE: http://mztek.eventwax.com/mztek-summer-geek-out
Book your place now!

If you have any queries, please contact us on sophie [dot] mcdonald @ gmail [dot] com

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August 21, 2010
1:30 pm	to	6:30 pm

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TALK: MzTEK & The Power of 8

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

MzTEK is going to Watermans for the day to see the Power of 8 exhibition, and to talk with Anab Jain, the designer and filmmaker who conceived of, and initiated the project.

We welcome any women interested to come and join us for the morning at Watermans, and then we’ll go for a pub lunch after to chew the fat/cud, and generally have a nice afternoon.

The power of 8 is collaborative project, 8 people from different walks of life work together to build a public conversation about their individual aspirations for a desirable future.

For the past few years, Anab has worked on speculative projects around emerging technologies, to encourage debate on the different possible futures that may happen. As a designer, this genre of design fiction aims to impact our current day concepts by enabling us to think of directions in which our collective future is shaped

Check out powerof8.org.uk for more details on the project.

Please RSVP by signing up here…
http://mztek.eventwax.com/power-of-8–watermans

Let us know if you fancy joining us and we can arrange meeting there or at Waterloo, info@mztek.org

When/where etc…

27th September, 11.30am onwards…

Watermans
40 High Street
Brentford TW8 0DS

watermans.org.uk

How to get here
Bus 65, 237, 267, and N9 all stop outside Watermans
Tube: South Ealing (Piccadilly) and Gunnersbury (District) at about 1 mile
Train: Kew Bridge & Brentfort (trains from Waterloo and Hounslow) are a 10 minute walk

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September 27, 2009 11:30 am

October 27, 2009 2:30 pm

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Tinkerbelles & Arduinorama Mammas

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

So, we had a blast last Saturday tinkering on Arduinos for the first time (well, for most of us), at [ SPACE ].

Artemis led us through a great 3 hour P2P sesh on Arduinos and sensors. We learned:

- how to make a circuit using the Arduino, a breadboard, and some wires
- how to make a little LED light blink using the above, plus a wee bit of easy programming
- using buttons to open and close circuits
- using potentiometers (mouthful there) to dim/brighten LEDs.

It was awesome, and I’m really looking forward to our upcoming workshops now. I’ll post some pics below.

Getting an LED to light up with a button

arduino-with-button

Artemis helping us along

gathered around artemis

She’s a PC too…

caroline helping

Now let’s try the blue one!

arduino and led light

A toolbox for tinkering.

the toolbox

Sonia and Sophie, showing off their work. It works! It really works!

sonia and sophie

And in case you lost your notes, ladies, I have Artemis’s sketches too. For whatever reason, WordPress has rotated them, so just turn your head 90 degrees counter-clockwise.

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Tags: arduino, basic electronics, circuitry, interactive, peer learning, workshop
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MzTEK Unplugged: Alex Zivanovic

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

Alex will talk about the creative uses of Physical Computing - sensing and controlling the real world using programmable microcontrollers. In particular, he will talk about the Arduino (www.arduino.cc), a low cost microcontroller system specifically aimed at artists and designers. He’ll show how the system can be used to make interactive devices and installations.

Alex is a freelance technology consultant, educator and artist, specialising in the field of Physical Computing (sensing and controlling the physical world with computers). He is a visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths and a visiting scholar at the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts at Middlesex. Previously, he was a researcher at Imperial College London, developing mechatronic systems for medical use, including medical robotics and virtual reality training systems for surgery.

www.zivanovic.co.uk

Wednesday, April 15, 7—9pm

At: Leon Bankside (behind Tate Modern—map below!)
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April 15, 2009
7:00 pm	to	9:00 pm

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MzTEK Unplugged : Ruth Catlow

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Hey folks,

Don’t miss our next MzTEK Unplugged session on April 1, presenting Ruth Catlow from Furtherfield.org and HTTP Gallery.

When: Wednesday, April 1, 7 - 9pm

Where: Leon Bankside, , 7 Canvey Street, SE1 0HS (behind the Tate Modern)

Ruth will talk about Furtherfield.org, an independent media arts
organisation that provides contexts and platforms for creating, viewing,
discussing and learning about experimental practices at the intersection
of art, technology and social change.
www.furtherfield.org
www.http.uk.net

Ruth is a media artist, educator and co-founder and co-director of
Furtherfield.org and HTTP Gallery in North London. She works
collaboratively with other artists, technologists, musicians, writers,
activists and thinkers from around the world, to devise and realise
artistic projects that explore relationship, connectedness and
participation; developing platforms with their own distinct artistic and
social contexts. Her work has been exhibited internationally and in the
UK at venues including the CCA, Glasgow and The Baltic, Gateshead.
www.furtherfield.org

Open to the public. Free.

Can’t make it? Check out our exciting Unplugged calendar! We have a fantastic line-up of artists, scholars, and organizers presenting through June 2009.

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