February 24, 2010 | 7:00 PM
Room 595 | ACAD
Join internationally acclaimed artist Darsha Hewitt for a visiting artist talk on February 24, 2010, and for a workshop on February 25 at 2 pm in room 432. Darsha Hewitt (MTL, QC) makes sound installations and performances with hand-made electronics, and obsolete domestic technology that she modifies and reverse engineers. Her interest in working with electrically generated sound lies in its ability to act as an audible indicator of processes, information and natural occurrences that we cannot see or that would otherwise go unheard. Currently, Darsha is experimenting with, pre-space age radio-craft and communication technology and formulas and aesthetics found in out of date D.I.Y. electronics magazines. Her work involves things like hand wound coils, scavenged components and converted consumer electronics.
Workshop details:
Crystals, Cat Whiskers*, Oddball Antennas and Amplitude Modulation: experiments with AM radio. Students can register for the Darsha Hewitt workshop on February 25 at 2 pm in room 432 by emailing to rita.mckeough@acad.ca.
Bring an old and/or broken radio if you’ve got one!
* Code word for old-fashion diode - no kitty cats involved!
