As modular artists - in the broadest sense of the term - we are frequently using, shaping and creating technology, instruments and controllers to support and inspire our creative endeavors.
Through our practice we have gained a sense of complexity in systems - how one small change can lead to another. And the influence and inspiration is multi directional: the tech, its designers, manufactures, pollution, wealth, jobs and associated waste could all be on stage so to speak.
In our ranks there are electronic engineers, computer programmers, philosophers, designers, organizers, activists, scientists, cooks and painters.
So in the time of the climate and bio diversity crisis, when democracy risk in the US is limiting healthy responses, when many governments are letting untold suffering in Gaza in Ukraine continue, when the rise of AI is both a productive tool yet a snapping-at-our-heels kind of threat - what can we, the relatively privileged, do to help? Is it to facilitate the physical coming together of people? Are there specific projects we can work on, existing groups we can help?
This short session provides a time and place to meet to discuss such things and to make contacts for future work and coordination (to coin a term popular with AI agents at the moment!).
Simon Redfern: Is the Berlin based programmer, entrepreneur and improvising musician (modular techno with 3rd Party Influence and very not techno with a Piano) - who started the Berlin Modular Society back in May 2021 with Steve Williams and gives Modular Learning sessions. He’s CEO of TESOBE.
Mitch Altman: is the Berlin-based hacker and inventor of TV-B-Gone. He is a featured speaker at hacker conferences, an international expert on the hackerspace movement, and teaches introductory electronics workshops. He is also Chief Scientist and CEO of Cornfield Electronics.