NMSA 206 S001L: Creative Electronics
This course is designed for students with no prior knowledge of electronics. The course introduces students to Maker and DIY culture practices as they pertain to interactive objects and electronics as new media art and design forms. Students will explore open source software paired with readily available electronic hardware to create programmable objects that make sound, light or movement. The course includes workshops in electronics, circuitry, triggering and control devices, and presentations on artists working in the field of creative electronics. Successful completion will provide a working knowledge of basic electronic applications.
Completion of 21 credits
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Valérie d. Walker is an alchemyst of code, transmedia artist, educator, curator, Indigo Griot and radiowave creatrix & transmitter. She holds 5th level Ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) & Chado (tea-ceremony) degrees with Urasenke-Kyoto.
Valérie enjoys exploring Stereoscopie, Virtual Spaces, Solar powered Circuits, Memory, environmentally beneficial studio processes, craft-based techniques, software-design, programming, sensoriality & magical story-telling.
V has 17+ years of independent radio created on the XX Files Radio show online @Matricules (www.studioxx.org/xxfiles), Canada's only open-source, feminist digital media arts portal, listen & download freely!
V joins us from Montréal where she taught TechnoCulture, Arts & Gaming (TAG) & computation arts in Fine Arts Faculty of Concordia University. Involved with Studio XX for 17 years, V started a number of alternative, feminist LGBTQ+ hacker spaces in MTL, which like Studio XX are thriving.
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Jan 8-Apr 20 12:30:00-15:20:00 |
M | A1010 | MAIN |
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Jan 8-Apr 20 12:30:00-15:20:00 |
M | C1262 | MAIN |
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Jan 8-Apr 20 12:30:00-15:20:00 |
M | D1347 | MAIN |