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Your name, and that of your organisation (or the organisation that will receive funds on your behalf). Lee Wilkins, co-executive director of Little Dada
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Name of event. Make another post with another event name if you have another event.
EUDL (Extremely Underfunded Dadalist Lab) Art/Science Station Project -
Email address by which you may be contacted. hello@leecyb.org
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What open science hardware tool(s) will be the focus of your event?
Open Flexure, Processing/P5JS + Open CV. Previous versions of this workshop included a purchased microscope, we are hoping to be able to use open source technology this year. With this grant we will be able to expand the workshop to produce printed visual outputs of what is photographed. -
Describe your course or workshop, whom and what it is for, where and when it will be held, how many attendees (IRL or virtual) you expect.
This workshop will be held in Muskoka Ontario during an artists retreat where digital media artists will be guided through a microscope exploration of the forest. The workshop will consist of 8 Southern Ontario artists whos work intersects with print based media. Artists will embark on a trip with a canoe along a series of lakes to find unique plants and photograph it in the field with an Open Flexure microscope. Following this, we will bring photos into p5js with Open CV and manipulate these images using code. The results will be printed and exhibited, as well as displayed. Code used to manipulate the images will be documented in github. Beyond a route planned that visits a diversity of locations along the lake (A marsh, an island, a mossy cove, a beach), participants are encouraged to gather and explore items under the microscope as they wish and there is little structured time while exploring. There will be slides, dissection tools and stains available but the activity is largely open ended. After this, photos will be collected virtually for a hands-on coding workshop to produce prints. -
Do you have plans for ongoing activities after this event OR is it intended that the participants will continue activities after this event? If so, describe the intentions and plans here.
The goal is to teach artists a new skill which they can incorporate into their practice as well as expose them to lab-grade tools that are often not accessible to artists. The intention is to provide an opportunity to integrate this into their work going forward. -
What event outputs (e.g. teaching materials, curricula, software, etc.) will you make available? Will these outputs carry an open licence?
Results of the workshop will be documented publicly on Little Dada’s social media and digital channels. We will print 15 copies of work for each artist which they can sell, donate, or promote. The aim is to have artists gain new skills to integrate and develop into their visual artistic practice. There will be a github repository with code used to edit their photos. Teaching materials for the code portion will also be shared on GitHub to show other artists how to use OpenCV to modify their microscope photos. -
What you will use the grant for, roughly.
- 100$ Travel costs from artists (Toronto to Muskoka)
- 200$ Open Flexure V7
- 200$ solar power source
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Provide links (references) to documentation or reviews of similar
events or works you have executed. School coursework or projects
can be listed, even social media posts. Anything to give a sense
of what you’re about and your ability to successfully conduct this
course or workshop. To keep this short, just the links and their descriptions will do.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wUSdwjvP7T8wh9sU9 The first run of this workshop without any photographing and not using open source tools.