Please join us on April 26th, 2024 for a day dedicated to radical practices with electronics. The Electronics Faire features a daylong “sit and tinker” faire tabled by local organizations in the Philadelphia region. There will be a series of talks by artists, practitioners, and researchers that work with electronics in the morning and a series of hands-on workshops in the afternoon. Additionally, the SCRC will be doing tours of their A/V archiving facilities.

“Sit & Tinker” Faire, Event Space on the First Floor: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM.

A/V Archiving Tour, SCRC First Floor: 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM and from 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM, led by John Pettit.

Speaker Series, Room 401 Fourth Floor: 9:00 - 12:15 PM.

Speakers:

Matt Parker, Will Hallett, Emrys Brandt, Dr. Larisa Kingston Mann (Assistant Professor at Lew Klein College of Media and Communication), Dr. Garrett Laroy Johnson, Maurice Jones of PAR Recycling, Sandra James (Senior Systems Administrator at Boyer College of Music and Dance), Ollie Goss (Tyler School of Art, Sculpture MFA), Jazmyn Crosby (Tyler School of Art, Sculpture MFA Alum), and Daniel Cappello (Tyler School of Art, Sculpture MFA).

Keynote:

Rashid Zakat’s keynote presentation runs from 10:15 - 11:00 AM with time for questions following the talk. Rashid Zakat (b. Baltimore, 1984) is a video artist based in Philadelphia. His work consists of five tightly woven threads of film, music, internet art, photography and creative space-making interventions. These threads activate a relationship between the audience and the work which invites joy, pleasure, ecstasy and humor to invoke a transcendental social experience. Rashid is a Temple University alum that graduated from the school of Film and Media Arts.

Hands-On Workshop Series:

The Workshops are listed as individual calendar events as they require prior registration. You can view them listed on the Library’s Events Calendar.