In this workshop, participants will learn how to use recycled DC motors from toys or small-scale electronic products that have passed their usable life. Participants are welcome to bring their own motors, so long as they are small. (Example: motors from old CD players, polaroid cameras, RC cars and robotic toys, hair dryers. NOT acceptable: large-scale appliances like washing machines or microwaves). Participants will learn to build new structures around their motors, utilizing a common design principle in robotics: the four-bar linkage.

Registration is required and participation is limited to 10 people: https://forms.gle/9nSp57cr77A1uFWUA

No experience is needed and this is family friendly! Attendees should be mostly comfortable reading, writing, and concentrating for a period of time.

Instructor: Kathleen McDermott is an interdisciplinary artist with a background in installation, prop-making and sculpture, based in Brooklyn, NY. She combines her knowledge of fabrication with open source hardware to build a language of absurdity that merges new media, design, performance, and video. She is interested in unproductive technologies that extend and highlight embodied knowledge, and that resist control. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, The Tides Institute and Museum of Art in Maine, the Wende Museum in LA, and Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria; and has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Fast Company, and Dezeen.