Nowhere Lab

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 will perform the composition Psychic Hold/Tychic Drift III: Memory Cone & Phantasms of the Living Room for PEAR REG, alpha wave, electronics, and home appliances. Throughout the piece events, musical, electronic, and mechanical will be activated and made visible by the otherwise invisible synchronization between the performer and the random event generator. Modular synths, motors, acoustical phenomena of the space, and other resonances will be performed throughout the space and work. The events will be connected and chained to a series of Logic systems revealing and subverting their own network for a telematic improvisation on spectres and the spectral.