| 15 08 08 / SMPN 5 + YAKKUM |
| Thursday, 28 August 2008 12:48 | |
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150808 Presentation and Workshop at SMPN 5 Junior High School  5th day on the festival was begun with a presentation from Leila Abuhilal. Leila’s background as performance artist and theatre, Leila presented how theatre performance could cross over into performance arts and installations, and the possibilities of integrating 'old media' and 'new media art'. Leila’s presentation also brought up her current projects that include a play/installation, painting and textiles art and storytelling. Adam Sharples continued on the session with his presentation on his personal development as an artist, with reference to previous projects, work and experiences. Adam also discuss his approaches to creating media art where resources are lacking; for example, noise, concepts, found-sound, etc. He played some of his sound artworks and sound installations such as Chapter 4 audio installation and mybookmarks installation.   The session continued by a presentation from Denis Jaromil Rojo (Italy, currently based in Amsterdam) from dyne.org with a presentation about Free software development and distribution of dyne:bolic, a GNU/Linux bootable operating system; FreeJ, a vision mixer; a digital instrument for realtime video manipulation. In his presentation Jaromil explain the opensource system, GNU General Public License and Free software development. The last presentation was given by CTMSN robot community from SMPN 5 Junior High School. These community members are children with age range from 12-15 years old. They created simple robots using photo dioda component and light sensors to navigate their movement vector system. As the session closed, several participants and HONF members gathered in the centre to introduce themselves to young students showing demos of their beautiful robots.   Presentation at YAKKUM Rehabilitation Centre  The next session is a collaborative workshop from all participants and HONF member at YAKKUM Rehabilitation Centre for handicap people. Located 12 kilos to the north side of Yogyakarta, YAKKUM has been an old friend for HONF members who have done several projects together, which some of them involving the participation from Daniel Hiu (Pontianak, Indonesia), who couldn’t join this workshop session because of his sudden departure to Surabaya. For follow up workshop project with Daniel, HONF and YAKKUM already arranged in the next month agenda for electronic component workshop for all the friend at YAKKUM.   The workshop was led by Olivier, Susana and Ira; followed by the rest of participants including no.e Sakana and Jerneja Rebernak who just arrived at Yogyakarta on 1 PM. By Olivier and Susana instructions, all friends in YAKKM were asked to write down 3 things they could do on 3 green stickies and 3 things they want to learn on 3 red stickies with their name and number tag written on the stickies. After they all written down the list, Olivier asked them to put their stickies to the board according to the subject of their wish. Gathering all the stickies created a mapping of all friends wish and capabilities. By viewing all the stickies by their subjects and amount, Olivier divided all the friends into 4 groups consisting several friends that would like to learn, and several friends that able to teach them. The 4 groups divided by music, graphic, drama and household interest. After the groups gathered, they discussed about their own project according with their interest. The project theme given was a performance by each group at the end of the workshops. All participants and HONF member joined on the discussion, facilitating all the friends with any difficulties in making their projects. After the discussion, the groups started to perform their projects with all their creativities expressed on the project.    The session was closed by a fun presentation from all the friends showing their talent in theatre, drama, poetry, costume design, script writing and instrument playing. After a fun presentation, all friends, participants and HONF member gather up for a dinner together while getting to know each other.       |