Gasworks
EXPANDED TECHNOLOGIES: an evening of live audio/visual experimentation & performance
24 July 2012
For Gasworks' last event of summer 2012, current artist-in-residence Yashas Shetty (India) led an expanded microscope workshop followed by a live visual and sound performance event in collaboration with invited guests.
View images of the event on Flickr
View a video of Sally Golding's performance
EXPANDED MICROSCOPE WORKSHOP
Led by Yashas Shetty
6pm
Expanded microscopes are devices that have been developed by Shetty in collaboration with artist and lecturer of micro and nanotechnology Dr. Marc Dusseiller.
Workshop participants built these expanded microscopes from a range of different materials, which were then used as part of the performance at 7pm.
LIVE AUDIO/VISUAL PERFORMANCE
Yashas Shetty, Sally Golding, Hackspace Big Band
+ other invited artists
7 - 8.30pm
Shetty premiered the expanded microscopes created during the workshop, to project images and transmit audio of micro-organisms around Gasworks' gallery space.
Shetty was accompanied by artist Sally Golding who performed using 16mm film projections and optical sound and Hackspace Big Band whose experimental performance exploited hacked electronic devices.
