This workshop will introduce the technique of synthesizing images from the imagination of a deep convolutional neural network, better known as "deepdream" or neural synthesis and visualization.

Develop your design, animation and visual effects skills with Maxon Cinema 4D. This course is created for beginners who want to get familiar with Maxon Cinema 4D.

We present an afternoon of workshops from our SPEKTRUM workshop program to raise funds for the final work on the new makerlab at Spektrum. The makerlab will enhance the creative possibilities of the many Spektrum communities and enable them to start creating their own artworks for exhibiting. Come along, support and let us co-create our way to the future!

• If gender is a technology, what would a digital gender be?
• Is there such thing as digital masturbation, proper to our digital desiring selves?
• Who is performing this digital scene?
• Are digital practices a new kind of violence?

The workshop will focus on integrating head tracking data into spatial audio processing.

Head tracking enables realtime cardinal navigation of a virtual sound field from a specific location using Max/MSP.

Slime moulds belong to the oldest species on earth not having undergone evolution and thus proving to be best adapted to its environment and needs. Their cell structure and muscle memory is thought to be a primitive form for what later became to be a brain. 

• learn and understand the nature of physical modelling of spatialization generically for sound and more specifically for Ambisonics.

• get into the hystorical path that defined the development and the peculiar success of this system in between different models of sound imaging.

• take the chance to create and experiment your own composition in multichannel of Ambisonics which could be an...

> Du hast eine Idee für ein Projekt oder innovatives Konzept im Bereich nachhaltige Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, möchtest dich darüber gerne mit anderen Menschen austauschen und deine Idee einem breiten Publikum zugänglich machen?

> Du arbeitest an einem Forschungs-, Promotions- oder Masterprojekt zu nachhaltiger Ernährung und Landwirtschaft und möchtest es einem breiten wissenschaftlichen und...

> Du hast eine Idee für ein Projekt oder innovatives Konzept im Bereich nachhaltige Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, möchtest dich darüber gerne mit anderen Menschen austauschen und deine Idee einem breiten Publikum zugänglich machen?

> Du arbeitest an einem Forschungs-, Promotions- oder Masterprojekt zu nachhaltiger Ernährung und Landwirtschaft und möchtest es einem breiten wissenschaftlichen und...

Mappathon™ is inspired by events called hackathons where computer programmers, graphic designers, interface designers and project managers collaborate intensively on software projects in a limited time. It teaches the latest projection mapping technology and techniques to students, enabling them to create a site-specific interactive or static projection mapping installation.

The VECTOR SYNTHESIS project is an audiovisual, computational art project using sound synthesis and vector graphics display techniques to investigate the direct relationship between sound+image. It draws on the historical work of artists such as Mary Ellen Bute, John Whitney, Nam June Paik, Ben Laposky, and Steina & Woody Vasulka among many others, as well as on ideas of media archaeology and the...

This two-day workshop aims at revealing, connecting and understanding the many actors that come together in the configuration of the surveillance capitalism ecosystem by forensically analyzing the way governmental agencies and corporations take over networks and algorithms in order to surveil, profile and control millions of citizens on a regular basis.

Discover the rich world of fermented food! In our second fermentation workshop at Spektrum we will show you how to feed and sustain the Kombucha Tea Mushroom aka SCOBY. After a brief introduction into the world of fermentation and its potential for health, sustainability, seasonal and regional food consumption you can try different variations that we bring to Spektrum. After that we will teach you...

Discover the rich and diverse possibilities of this old conservation technic and start experimenting yourself. We will give you a brief introduction into the world of fermentation and its potential for health, sustainability seasonal and regional food consumption. In the second part we will show you how easy and rich food fermentation is. In the end of the workshop you will have your own self made...

This full VJ workshop, taught by A-li-ce, is an invitation to enter the live video field, giving you the theoretical and the technical tools to develop your own live visual project. Each session is divided into 3 parts : VJ theory, technical knowledge and your project's development. In the first hour , we will explore VJ backgrounds and influences from visual arts to cinema and music, focusing...

Learn to create compact projection mapping installations with Raspberry Pi and openFrameworks. During this two-day workshop you will learn how to set up the Raspberry Pi, use it to build your projection mapping project, back it up and restore it if needed. Advanced topics, such as preparing and cloning SD cards, autostart, custom generative sources, networking and projector blending will be...

Deep generative models are a large class of learning algorithms which have stolen the attention of artists over the past two years, by hallucinating imitations of images from the uncanny valley. This workshop will survey the fast-moving landscape of these algorithms, reviewing the properties of variational autoencoders and generative adversarial networks, as well as surveying existing codebases...

Workshop: The XTH Sense is a DIY musical instrument which allows an artist to use muscle movement to control music and visuals. In contrast with most bio-sensing technologies which are expensive and closed to modification, the XTH Sense is designed to be open, low-cost, and easily implemented by anyone, regardless of previous electronics experience.

The XTH Sense won the first prize in the...

AudioVisual Artefacts with Pure Data and Raspberry Pi workshop is using open source tools for Sound and Visual Synthesis. Pure Data and Raspberry Pi are useful and powerful tools to create interactions between sound, data and visuals. Juan C. Duarte will teach advanced techniques of computing data from sensors and networking applications. The outcome of projects can include media installations,...

This full VJ workshop, taught by A-li-ce, is an invitation to enter the live video field, giving you the theoretical and the technical tools to develop your own live visual project. Each session is divided into 3 parts : VJ theory, technical knowledge and your project's development. In the first hour , we will explore VJ backgrounds and influences from visual arts to cinema and music, focusing...