Gl0tchKons0le! How I circuit bent my PS2
Project showcase
Duration: 2 hours
Sunday, 15 March 2020 | 15:00 > 17:002020-03-15T15:00:00.000Z | Meeting Area Lectures
[Text available only in English] I spent quite some time last year circuit bending a Sony Playstation 2 to turn it into a crazy audiovisual Synthesizer. I would like to give a bit of a talk about how I did it and show what kind of visuals and sounds can be achieved with it. And how you could do this yourself, if you're crazy enough.
Videos
Glitch Theft Auto
Author
Simon Schäfer is an interdisciplinary artist from Leipzig, Germany.
He studied Sculpture and Media Art at HfG Offenbach, holds an MA in sculpture from the Royal College of Art in London, and learned a lot about experimental electronics and circuit bending in the Internet.
His practice covers a wide range of expressions: objects and installations, music, performance, video, immersive experiences and theatre. Whatever feels necessary at any given time.
His performative alter ego der Warst uses his colourful homebuilt laboratory of telephones...