The outer Space has always been a puzzling and captivating realm for human kind, who has constantly tried to understand it through generations of observation and exploration.

In the upcoming Dorkbot-HK#6: Launching Pico Satellite will feature a seminar and a workshop by Reni Hofmuller and Jogi Hofmuller. The seminar includes an in-depth talk on the perception in history, literature and within the arts of space and satellites. Workshop participants will choose a satellite and record its signals, and instructors will encourage the conceptions for possible building their imaginative pico satellite.

Seminar
Title: ‘Covered Skies’
Date: 25/10/2012
Time: 7:00-9:30 pm
Venue: Dimension+
Flat C, 3/F, 10 Yip Win Factory Building, Tsun Yip Lane, Kwun Tong
Capacity: 30
Free of charge

Workshop
Date: 28/10 (Sun)
Time: 11am-7pm
Venue: Videotage
No. 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village,
63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Hong Kong
Capacity: 12
Workshop fee: $150

*Workshop and Seminar are conducted in English and supplemented with Cantonese.

Artist Profile

Reni Hofmüller:
Reni Hofmüller is a DIY artist, musician, composer, performer, organizer and activist in the fields of usage of (new) media, technology and politics in general, free software, engaged in development of contemporary art;, Radio Helsinki, mur.at, He is also a member of Eclectic Tech Carnival, Institute of Media Archeology, and the Artistic Director of ESC.

Jogi Hofmüller:
Based in Graz/Austria, Jogi Hofmüller currently works for mur.at – Verein zur Förderung von Netzwerkkunst. She is the co-founder of Radio Helsinki and mur.at and a member of 42 (an artist group focusing on media art). Hofmüller currently runs Plagiat and institute hofos together with Reni Hofmüller.

http://sat.mur.at/

Dorkbot & Dorkbot-HK
With the motto of “people doing strange things with electricity”, dorkbot (http://dorkbot.org/) as a worldwide network of groups and initiatives, facilitates the exchange of regional as well as international exchange in between active practitioners such as artists, hackers, engineers, inventors, and DIY enthusiasts since 10 years ago.

Dorkbot-hk was founded in 2009 as a hotbed for ‘people who do strange things with electricity’ to share and exchange creative ideas in Hong Kong. In the past, Dorkbot-hk hosted a variety of energetic creative people including Johannes Grenzfurthner (co-founder of Austrian avant garde collective monochrom), Karen Marcelo (founder of Dorkbot San Francisco, also a member of Survival Research Lab), Heather Kelley (Canadian game designer whose latest work is an intuitive vibrator interface for an iPhone app), Keith Lam (Hong Kong media artist who led a group of participants to make their own CO1 data collecting device to address our air pollution problem).

Organized by Videotage
Supported by Dimension+, Dim Sum Lab
By courtesy of the mursat-team