KARYN EASTON
Mar 11
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Low Residency Day #4

Arduino Tones & Artist Talk – Today was a really busy day because my group had a very brain intensive technical making session with Karsten Goodwin. This was followed by an artist talk by Nathan Télémaqu.  I thoroughly enjoyed all of it, but I was soooo tired at the end of the day.   Interactive sound and light workshop (LDR trumpet)  In class, we explored microcontrollers and electronics. We looked at the interplay of light sound and code in a project based learning environment. We used light to bend tones on a custom circuit and learnt how to program and in order to play our own custom instruments. Below are photos of some of the steps that were taken to make our custom circuits and program it to work with an Arduino Uno.   The Workshop Environment   The Breadboard   Wiring Steps   A Selection of Karsten’s Slides Below is a gallery of some of Karsten’s main information slides for future reference.  These include his GitHub address where he will be posting the full presentation.   The Fully Connected Breadboard and Arduino   The Results The start of this video short shows Karsten with the kit fully wired, followed by […]
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Mar 10
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Low Residency Day #3

Materials Workshop with Julia Flood – Today we had a gallery visit to the New Contemporaries Gallery.  Unfortunately I needed to travel to Victoria coach station (long story), so sadly I couldn’t make it.   Outside Victoria Coach Station   However, I was able to attend the workshop by Julia Flood.  This was all about the range of materials and materials info accessible at the college. To start the session Julia gave us each a pencil and explained how even something as mundane as a pencil has a story.  For example what about the lead in the pencil, the wood that it’s made from, what it is coated in etc. Although some of the background to the pencil could be quite easily researched other parts such as the metal binding of the eraser were not. I found her words particularly thought provoking in relation to my own project work.  I have been working a lot with recycled card and recycled card tubes. Hopefully, these items will have a relatively easy background to discover. However, the key-rings that I have used quite extensively throughout my work, possibly less so. In order to help with the process Julia gave us some sheets […]
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Mar 09
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Low Residency Day #2

What is Book? Today we had a workshop by Rosie Sherwood all about book book making. We started the session by asking the simple question ‘What is Book?’.     We discussed our answers and Rosie gave us some official definitions to throw into the mix.  Below are a selection of these definitions and a slides for reference.   A Selection of Slides   A Selection of Books Below are a selection of books from Rosie’s book art collection.  Many of them were hand made and all of them were very beautiful!  They gave me lots of inspiration!  There’s just something inherently beautiful about handmade books.  They are so tactile and it was very kind of Rosie to allow us to handle them.   Trip to the Bookarts Bookshop After looking at the example books we headed off to the Bookarts Bookshop near the Old Street tube station.  It was 2 stops on the Northern Line from Kings Cross.  Even though it was a tiny shop it was filled to the brim with all kinds of books with many limited edition of handmade. It was an absolute gem! I could have spent all day there, but we needed to grab […]
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Mar 08
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Low Residency Day #1

All Things Pink – We had lots of fun today! Alex Schady put on a fab pink themed workshop. If I’m totally honest I struggled to get my sculpture to ‘work’ exactly as I wanted it to, but it was still a great session!  I got a little sidetracked by some of the materials I was using.  I became quite absorbed by the layers of plastic that I could create.  However, the project brief required the sculpture to hold a smartphone.  Unfortunately my sculpture was a little flimsy and my phone very heavy, so it was a recipe for disaster.  Luckily my creation just about managed to make it to the end of the day.  Below is a picture of Alex Schady in the photographic studio wearing his sculpture.  I really liked Alex’s creation, which was a much better and more solid design for holding a smartphone.     Shots of My Creation Below are some shots of my strange pink layered sculpture.  Sadly it really struggled to hold my heavy iPhone.  However, I did manage to shoot some video.     Textures I was really intrigued by the textures created by the plastic layers of my creation.  So when […]
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Mar 29
by Karyn in Collaborations, Food for Thought, Lectures, Low Residency, My Learning, My Work, Risk Taking, Workshops, Zoom Meetings 0 comments tags: Collaborations, Food for Thought, Lectures, Low Residency, My Learning, my work, Risk Taking, Workshops, Zoom Meetings

Zoom Session 20 (Low Residency)

Low Residency Part 2 – This is part 2 of the Low Residency.  This blog covers the second week of activities.  To see what happened in the preceding week please see Zoom Session 19.   Low Tech Photography (Monday 10.00am with Felix Loftus) I was very torn about taking this workshop as opposed to the printing workshop.  Printing is something that I’ve always been very interested in, but I’ve never really had the opportunity to explore it to any great degree.  However the pull of photography coupled with tech had way too much of a ‘pull factor’ for me.  Indeed, having taken the workshop I knew I had absolutely made the right choice for me!  It was nice to see both Trisha and Ester at the workshop too. When we entered the classroom there were a variety of Rasberry Pi processors on the table.  these were hooked up to a variety of lenses.  Some were native to Rasberry Pi and some were off the shelf smartphone camera lenses.  I hate to admit it but I was in tech heaven!  Although I was sad to miss printing I don’t think anything could ‘top’ me messing around with programming and kit.  The […]
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