Understand the mechanisms of systems that control our surroundings. Demystify them - to further remystify them again with your own goal!

In this workshop we work with different datasets and/or steps to multiply the possibilities of our outcomes. How to make your robot/code/synthetic creature become a poetic stream. In this hands-on workshop the base is simple code structures that ensure you an endless amount of outcomes (you will never get the same result twice).

During the session we explore how to give meaning and context to these constantly moving and reiterating works. Feel the empowerment of letting one be guided by the oracle of the machine. Learn the basics to your own arcade-machine-oracle. Get to use meaningful data inputs from buttons, sensors & whatever you want!

Schedule:
09:30: Doors open
10:00: Workshop starts
13:00: Workshop ends

Cybernetic Dreams is a workshop marathon focussing on interactive and generative tools, organized by HCL resident Louisa Teichmann. Over the course of a week, we will breathe life into metal and wires, flooding electricity into cybernetic pathways. Starting with a workshop on sensors and servo-motors, Dennis de Bel lays out the creature’s nervous system. Now it is already time for its first words, as a workshop on speech-to-text tools by Federico Poni and Francesco Luzzana gives the beast its voice. With the help of roboticist Edwin Dertien, the disconnected pieces of its bare existence are becoming grounded into a robust body. After its journey of creation, all that is left for the entity to come to life is a soul. Telemagic awakens the creature’s spirit by giving it the gift of choice.

Sign up for the workshops individually, or watch the entire birth of the creature by joining the whole program. Sweet cybernetic dreams!

Working on our first music video for the composition “The Beginning” written by vNine, stay tuned.

Many thanks to asmallproductioncompany, Derk Over and Isa van Weert.




A future dream is to create an audiovisual A.I. label: an autonomous platform where Telemagic brings artificial intelligence, musicians and filmmakers together. In order to realize this, Telemagic first wants to release an visual EP, which will stir up the conversation in addition to the series of concerts we give. This is going to be an experimental collection of the best of musical findings we've made with our A.I. In this way we have a invitation to musical makers to explore this future label with us.

Experiment supported by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie.

Including videoworks by:

Emily Anderson, Isabella Blumberg, Vanessa Bosch, Lara Bruggeman, Alondra Castellanos, Adam Centko, Jia-Rey Chang, Louis Braddock Clarke, Karin Ferrari, Levi van Gelder, Pleun Gremmen, Benjamin Hall, Yifan He, Annika Kappner, Pien Kars, Valentine Langeard, Carmen Roca, Joachim Schoones, Nathalie Golde Sørensen, Wouter Stroet, Stan Wiersma, Minhong Yu, Inwoo Yung, Valerie van Zuijlen and Meggie van Zwieten.