A day of introductory techy workshops for women

MzTEK has teamed up with our friends at School of Everything to bring you a day of techy tinkering.

Workshops include Shiver My Tea Cups, Make-a-Mic & Soft Circuit Ghosts. The day will be structured for you to chose 3x 1hour 30mins workshops to attend throughout day. Spend the day picking up skills in Arduino, soldering, noise making, sensors & more!

No experience necessary – just enthusiasm for tech, and tea!

This workshop is part of the MzTEK project Chi-TEK, a celebration of women working in arts and technology, and offers a tongue in cheek take on what women can really achieve around a kitchen table.

Soft Circuit Voodoo Doll from Becky Stewart on Vimeo.

Bring with you…

Your favourite teacup and saucer
If you have a laptop, please bring along with you.
If you have an Arduino, bringing this will mean you can take your work away with you.

The Instructors:

Katrin Baumgarten is a recent graduate from the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London. Her projects revolve around human-technology-interaction and explore future possibilities within technology and art. katrinbaumgarten.de

Julie Freeman explores relationships between science, technology and nature and how we perceive and interact with them. Julie recently became a TED Fellow 2011.  translatingnature.org

Becky Stewart from MzTEK currently runs her own company, Codasign as researcher, designer and consultant for digital music installations.

Cost:

Standard ticket £65.
MzTEK Special buy 1 ticket and get a second half price – bring a friend! – enter this promo code when registering: 241.5  NOTE: you will need to add the code on the registration form, before you get to the ticket options.
This is a women only workshop. Booking Essential.

BOOK HERE NOW!

To book, go to mztek.eventwax.com/chi-tek-workshop-fest

Location:

School of Everything  Limehouse Town Hall  646 Commercial Road  London E14 7HA

For more info or any questions, please feel free to get in touch at info@mztek.org

The Chi-TEK project is supported by

Here’s another sneak peak at what’s in store for our Chi-TEK Tea Party this coming weekend at the V&A Digital Design Weekend.

Modified / Hacked / Enhanced tea pots by a roster of brilliant women makers:

Join us on Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 September for a digital tea party, where you can see the teapots in full working order, alongside a delicious assortment of tea and cake.

The Chi-TEK Tea Party at the V&A Digital Design Weekend / London Design Festival 2011

Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 September 2011

11:00 – 16:30

Tea, cake, and a brilliant display of hacked / modified tea pots.

Celebrate the talent and innovation women bring to arts and technology.  Come join MzTEK in a weekend of tea & cake, tinkering, play, and an electric showcase of interactive teapots.

This event is free.

We are getting really excited about the artwork that is coming in.  Take a look at some of the pieces that will be on display over the next 3 months in the Sackler Centre in the V&A, and in our garden Tea Party on 24 & 25  September (hosted at the V&A’s Digital Design Weekend).

Tine Bech’s The Lightpot

Shu Lea’s Stormy Weather Teapot

Shu Lea found this yellow Tetley teapot laying quietly among vintage silver Morrocan teapots in the cupboard at the home of madame Rokia Ben Brahim, a 93 year old Algerian woman working all her life as a cleaning lady in Paris. Inside is soldered a Vive la Resistance aka NanoSmano Sajica , a mini circuit with an oscillator and a resistive gas sensor. It produces sound responding to touch and breath.

Artemis Papageorgiou’s This Is Not A Teapot

This Is Not A Teapot is inspired by the semiotics of language used in the homonym painting of Magritte (Ceci n’est pas une pipe).  You can read more about Artemis’s project on her website at http://artemispapageorgiou.wordpress.com

Mika Satomi’s Self-destructing Teapot

Mika’s teapot constantly hits itself with nails, and is on the verge of self destructing. See the tea pot in action here.

Anna Dumitriu’s Biohacked Tea Cosy

Read more about Anna’s experience of making her Biohacked Tea Cosy for Chi-TEK here.