Tech Butcher

Participants are invited to dismantle 2d and 3d printers to divert their use. We will learn how to recognise the motors used as well as how to program them to divert their use. We will learn how to make a simple code on Arduino and make a basic electronic assembly.

Élie Bolard (Pontarlier, France, 1999) is an artist who develops a practice focused on contemporary technologies, exploring their mechanisms and the monopoly of technical knowledge. His installations, sculptures, and videos combine a formal repertoire of awkward DIY and industrial language. All of these installations are motorized and inherently sound-producing: electronics are visually perceived, and the mechanisms can be heard. These machines echo a standardized world where gestures are omnipresent. Automation plays a key role in his work, both theoretically and critically. These machines, endowed with their own intelligence and reactions, lead the viewer to consider them as beings in their own right. Everything is in motion, everything is alive, but humans are no longer invited; their existence is only suggested.

Required materials:

Participants can bring a computer with Arduino installed: https://www.arduino.cc/en/software

Recommended age range: 16 and up (also accessible to an adult audience). The workshop will be conducted in French and English.