NowhereLab and Indexical present a hands-on workshop with interdisciplinary artist Alan S. Tofighi. For the workshop participants will construct their own AST PEAR Enclosed Anomalous Inference Receiver, a random number generator based on the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory Random Event Generator. The theory and practice on the history of random number generation in Art, science, divination and zones where these histories meet will be explored as well as its practical implications. 
 
The workshop will consist of a brief introduction to soldering, circuit assembly, as well as coding, all levels of skill and experience welcome. 

Alan S. Tofighi is an Interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Southern California. Utilizing a background in research, performance, sound, and video; Tofighi’s work deals with analyses of the dispersion, obfuscation, and formation of information to renegotiate narratives of history & power in the present. Tofighi utilizes the infiltration of legal parameters, social structures, myth, (dis)information, and extensive research of these cells as they shift from fringe culture to central in their infiltration/engineering of dominant culture. They have shown work and/or performed at REDCAT, Blum & Poe, The Box, Human Resources, The Horse Dublin, The Bob Baker Marionette Theater, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, MOTOR, and many other sites/spaces throughout the world and internet.

at UC Santa Cruz DARC Building in SHELLGAME (Rm 313)

Parking Lot 126

This event is part of a series presented by the Nowhere Lab with interdisciplinary artist Alan S. Tofighi centered around the history of random number generation in Art, science, divination and zones where these histories meet.

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