Blink ! - Luminous Arts Workshop No.1
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OK! Transmit presents ☆🚀🌐 b l i n k ! ⚡🔆
...a new ongoing series of LUMINOUS ARTS MEETUPS 🎉🎉🎉
☆☆ WHAT IS THIS? ☆☆
In this introductory workshop we invite YOU to come and explore LUMINOUS ART, by learning to MAKE YOUR OWN LED circuits that you can program and animate! NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED TO GET STARTED! BLINK IS THE "HELLO WORLD" OF LUMINOUS ART
☆☆ WHAT BE AN LED? ☆☆
LEDs are small luminous DIODES (stands for --> Light Emitting Diode) that are cheap, long-lasting and readily available to be used in ALL types of creative light-art projects. They can be programmed to change color (RGB LED) and for ANIMATION!!! 🤓🤓🤓 ...blink 🔆 blink 🔆 blink 🔆
https://learn.adafruit.com/all-about-leds
Arduino is an OPEN SOURCE hardware platform for making THINGS interactive. Arduino boards have small microchips that YOU 👈 can program yourself, to CONTROL LIGHTS, and pretty much anything else you can darn-well IMAGINE!!!
☆☆ WHAT TO BRING? ☆☆
YUP, you will need to get some stuff. All easy to find on Adafruit, Sparkfun or Amazon. It's all pretty cheap; hit us up if you need SOME HELPs!
BOM (bill of materials)
x1.....................Arduino Uno (R3) (or compatible board)
x1.....................USB Cable (USB cable type A/B)
x1.....................Laptop computer (to program your LEDs!)
Examples:
http://bit.ly/arduino-amazon
http://bit.ly/usb-cable-amazon
We'll BRING them LEDs, resistors, jumper wires, breadboards and other DOODADS! We should NOT need to do soldering-- BUT we'll bring a solder gun just IN CASE someone gets all SQUIRRELLY 🐿️🐿️🐿️.
☆☆☆ ON LUMINOUS ART ☆☆☆
Light-based artwork has a loooooonnnnnggggg and expansive HISTORY📼, dating back as far as 200 BCE in Central Asia-China 🌏with SHADOW PUPPET THEATRE. Today, 21st CENTURY artists use ALL TYPES of illumination in their projects, from Projectors and Lasers, to Fiber-optics and small embeddable LEDs. 🔆🔆🔆
FER EXAMPLE - > Yoyoi Kusama uses LEDs to explore the infinite! CHECK OUT 👀, her famous infinity rooms that inspired teamLab's Borderless exhibit in Tokyo 🎴
http://yayoi-kusama.jp/e/information/
San Francisco-based artist, Jim Cambell, uses LEDs as a raw material to explore image + motion, in his low resolution artworks. CHECK em' OUT 👀
☆☆☆ BLINK! FEST ☆☆☆
At OK! Transmit, we aim to explore all manor of LUMINOUS ART, starting with LEDs, due to their cheap and ubiquitous nature!
OUR PLAN is to create a 'BLINK FESTIVAL', in DEC 2020--a DIY illuminated arts festival along the Pinellas Bike Trail, outside The Factory in the warehouse arts district in St. Pete. but 4-real, MORE ON THAT LATER!
but RIGHT NOW WE HOPE YOU come JOIN US for BLINK!, Luminous Arts Workshop No.1 !!!☆🚀🌐
OK! 💕C.U. THERE maybe maybe
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Each month OK! Transmit hosts meetups for people interested in becoming creative and proactive by exploring the possibilities of art + technology. We conduct a variety of workshops, talks, art shows and events. Our meetups are fun and inclusive. Help us grow!
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MEET DEETS :
WHEN:
Monday, February 17th, 6-9pm
WHERE:
Suncoast Developer's Guild
2220 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, FL 33712
Be sure to RSVP !!!
Can't wait to see you there!
~OKTM
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STATEMENT thingy:
OK! Transmit seeks to build a diverse and collaborative community focused on cross-disciplinary art and technology practices.
This meetup is supported by the Saint Petersburg Arts Alliance, Duncan McClellan Gallery (DMG), Suncoast Developer's Guild, Fairgrounds Immersive Arts and The Factory in South Saint Pete, and by YOU!!!!.
https://dmglass.com/
https://stpeteartsalliance.org/
https://suncoast.io/
http://thefactorystpete.com/
https://www.fairgroundsprojects.com/
Blink ! - Luminous Arts Workshop No.1