As our dependence on networked technology deepens, so does the risk of that same technology being used to exploit us. This intensive 3-day workshop by Julian Oliver & Danja Vasiliev will guide participants through the tools, techniques and concepts necessary to protect themselves and those they care about from compromise by state actors, corporations and other predators in networked domains....

This is the second and final part of the first workshop hold at Spektrum on 19 December - because many women asked to rerun PART II we will hold this workshop again offering a second chance to those unable to attend in January. In this workshop female participants will learn how to produce their own sound works, using their own recordings (recorded in the workshop), and further processing and...

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...

This workshop given by Robert Lisek uses randomness and machine learning methods for creation of sound, visuals, performance, installation, interactive media, physical computing, and networking. This is practical course with the use of Supercollider, Pure data/Max Msp, Fluxus, Python, Lisp and hacking analogue devices for detection, creation and amplification of noise.

This workshop by Gene Kogan will introduce machine learning tools which can be used in real-time applications like interactive installation and live performance. These new methods from computer vision and machine listening can be deployed to facilitate the parsing, visualization, and fast retrieval of relevant media, from images to sounds to text. The workshop will include a high-level...

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...

Plasma is the 4th classical state of Matter and manifests light according to the electromagnetic/electric field generating it. What if artists use fundamental conditions of this source to be played as an audiovisual instrument? The workshop will introduce the history of Visual Music behind screen based approaches and will offer a practical experience on using light and sound for a spatial and...

Creative coding is a powerful tool which allows one to create expressive and complicated structures for audio-visual artworks. During our 5-day long workshop (6-10 February) we will focus on learning the visual side of the MaxMSP framework.

This workshop for DIY electronics for experimental sound art is part of a series of workshops initiated by Theremidi Orchestra based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, aimed at bringing together people from a wide range of fields to explore the beauty and the hums of DIY electronics and to create a social situation where communication is possible with non-verbal tools.

Participants may choose from 2...

Why not start the New Year by learning new tools to incorporate into your practice? You will finish this workshop with an overview of how to combine 3D modeling for 3D printing. After taking information from the physical world, you will learn how to input it into Computer Aided Design (CAD) software, then print it out back into the physical. You will leave this workshop with a model that you have...

This is the second and final part of the first workshop hold at Spektrum on 19 December. In this workshop female participants will learn how to produce their own sound works, using their own recordings (recorded in the workshop), and further processing and presenting them using Ableton Live or free software (Audacity). The mentor will focus on Musique Concrète techniques mixed with electronic...

17 Dec: Sound Machine - Polyphony Square Wave Oscillator by AA..LL

19 Dec:
Berlin Modular Session #4 The Random*Source Warmup

Electro-acoustic sound art production for women by Vero Mota

The main focus of this 5-day workshop is the investigation of the body as a “multi-functional tool”. We will provide a series of performative tools to develop an internal awareness of the body and an external awareness in space, in connection with sound and with others. The aim is for the dancer to become more aware of his/her own body lightness, power, creativity and internal landscapes.

Sound and light are ephemeral, visceral, and abstract by nature, yet they possess an incredible power to manipulate us in ways that words and images cannot. In this weeklong workshop by Doron Sadja we’ll explore the tools, technologies, and techniques available for sculpting immersive sound and light environments. 

This workshop seeks to critically reveal and analyze the complex network of agents that come together to configure the Internet, from submarine and underground cables to geopolitics, online tracking, surveillance and privacy. We will look into the forensics of the physical pathways of information, and will apply reverse tracking methods aimed at drawing a map of the many corporations that covertly...

SPEKTRUM's communities present an afternoon of workshops with MadeByUs, Smell Lab and Sonic Code Sessions sharing insights and skills of their research and practice. Come along and get to know more about what is going on in the different communities. There will be workshops on:

- 3D printing (MadeByUs)
- Scent distillation (Smell Lab)
- Networked sound (Sonic Code Sessions)

This workshop introduces the theory and application of machine learning for creative and artistic practice. It will focus on core algorithms used for parsing, visualizing, and discovering patterns in complex multimedia data, including images, sounds, and text. We will learn how to use neural networks to create real-time, cross-modal interactions for use in video and installation, as well as live...

by Jonathan Reus and Sissel Marie Tonn

The focus of the workshop is on the "inner movement" of the body, flows which function autonomically just outside the direct reach of conscious agency. To detect & aestheticize these flows we will use worn biometric sensors & sound synthesizers.

Microsexes and Metabodies. Post-intimacy, alien couplings and emergent tactilities by Jaime del Val.

2-day workshop from 28-29 July - 14:00 - 18:00 each day