Imagine and Manifest the Impossible [Achievable] Dream [Goal], screenprint on paper

Katie, Dan Leudtke, and I will also have stories and drawings from our Location to Station project in the EXPO Register, a daily info/gossip/etc newspaper put together by Dana Bassett.

I’m going to start up Hacking for Artists again with weekly workshops on Wednesday nights at my studio in Oakland. They are focused on artists who want to learn how to incorporate electronics and/or computer programming into their practices. They are not formal classes, but open time to work on projects in adjacency to and in collaboration with other artists who are figuring things out. And I am around the whole time to help you out, provide you with resources, and point you in the right direction. I have started to build an electronics lab and have all the basic tools (soldering iron, breadboards, etc) you will need along with a lot of components (arduino, raspberry pi, resistors, caps, lights, sensors, etc, etc) to play with.

I think they work best if you have a project and/or idea in mind and come to the workshop with questions. Then I can put together little demos, show you tutorials online and in books, and help you figure things out. I’m also open to feedback, so please let me know what you would like to see.

If you are interested in programming, I will give you a couple pre-workshop assignments to get started, then we’ll go from there.

So if you would like to participate, let me know. Since I’ll have to limit the number of people who show up, please RSVP to: nicklally *[AT]* gmail *[dot]* com

So here are some initial dates to think about:

September 18
September 25
October 2
October 9
October 16
…the future TBA

Let me know if you’ll be joining us!

I’m in show opening tomorrow at Martina }{ Johnston in Berkeley:

Four Core Chambers
Curated by Katie Anania
Leah DeVun, Leslie Dreyer, Yasmin Golan, Nick Lally, David X. Levine, Sanaz Mazinani, Christina McPhee, Jeanne Stern, Elizabeth Travelslight, Andrew Voogel,Jungshih Wang, and Keith Wilson.
Saturday, September 7th, 2013 to Sunday November 3rd, 2013

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7, 2013 from 4 – 8 p.m.
Hours: Sundays 1 to 4 p.m. or by appointment.

Cor Humanum: Four Artists on Matters of the Heart:
Thursday, October 10, 2013 from 6 – 9 p.m.
Closing Reception including a screening of Open Heart:
Sunday, November 3, 2013, 1 – 4 p.m.

Martina }{ Johnston is pleased to announce Four Core Chambers, a group exhibition of fourteen new works that explore the contours of the human heart, both romantically and medically. The artists involved are all based in the United States, and together their works map the gallery itself as an analog of the human heart, with the gallery’s central “chambers” helping to shape the flow of viewers’ experiences.

It’s co-sponsored by EMERGENCY-USA, an independent nonprofit organization that provides support for medical care, rehabilitation and relief efforts for the victims of wars, land mines, poverty and natural disasters around the world. They are doing amazing work.

My piece looks something like this:

Nick Lally’s video work Throb (2013) uses Euler Magnification algorithms to process film and news footage, and reveals people’s pulses hidden within the video information. The footage cuts between the original videos, processed videos, and stylized animations to reveal unexpected data within the visual elements. This, in turn, invites viewers to re-consider their own heartbeat not as the “original” to which the heartbeat reading is a “copy”, but as a highly relational and contingent piece of information in its own right.

More information.