With Hans-Christoph Steiner & Jamie O'Shea

Have an iPod you want to repurpose into a hackable music machine? Install iPodLinux and make music with Pure Data software! Want to play Doom on your iPod Video? Come install Rockbox! Did your trusty iPod’s battery finally die, or disk give in? Come and break open your iPod, either the software, the hardware or both. Give it new life and new purpose. Also, we have on hand our stash of old iPods for harvesting parts, and the newfound skills for frankensteining dead iPods into living ones. Join Hans-Christoph Steiner and Jamie O’Shea with your own iPod, or try your hand to see if you can create a living one from our pile.

Check out our web page to see if your devices are supported:
http://dev.eyebeam.org/projects/reware/wiki/FactWorkshop

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Saturday, March 14, 11AM – 1PM: Reviving your iPod
Saturday, March 14, 3 – 6PM: Installing software on your iPod
Monday, March 16, 1 – 3PM: Reviving your iPod
Monday, March 16, 6 – 9PM: Installing software on your iPod
Tuesday, March 17, 6 – 9PM: “Knitting Circle” on hacking iPods & using Pure Data software
Wednesday, March 18, 6 – 9PM: “Knitting Circle” on hacking iPods & using Pure Data software

ABOUT HANS & JAMIE
Hans-Christoph Steiner spends his time hacking with a focus on human perceptual capabilities, building networks with free software, and composing music with computers. Steiner is interested in collaborative practice and has produced work in many forms, including responsive sound environments, free wireless networks that help build community, musical robots that listen, software to allow people to play with math, and a jet-powered fish you can ride. He has recently begun to proselytize on the power gained by freeing our mobile devices, and reusing them for new purposes. http://at.or.at/hans

Jamie O'Shea's work is about the boundary between language and technology. O'Shea plays various hapless charactors, from inventor to nationalist, in relationship to sculptural non-technologies. His work has been shown at Exit Art, Eyebeam, the Bemis Underground, and the Museum of Ephemerata, Austin, Texas. He has been a resident artist at Eyebeam, Bemis Center, and LMCC Swing Space. His work has appeared in the Conflux festival, Rhizome.org, Art in America, the FutureLab, Turbulence, and Dorkbot.

Hans and Jamie will be working in the Residents Mezzanine of FACT Gallery 1, 13 March – 18 March. Stop in for a visit during regular gallery hours.

ABOUT EYEBEAM
Eyebeam, based in New York City, is an art and technology center that provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital research and experimentation. It is a lively incubator of creativity and thought, where artists and technologists actively engage with culture, addressing the issues and concerns of our time.

Eyebeam challenges convention, celebrates the hack, educates the next generation, encourages collaboration, freely offers its contributions to the community, and invites the public to share in a spirit of openness: open source, open content and open distribution. For more information, visit www.eyebeam.org.