Sous-vide Device Hacking WorkshopAndrej Boleslavský (SK)

12/10/2012

17—21 h

Student Centre (Zagreb)

Defined by hacked kitchen gadgets, various dieting “tribes” are already a reality: paleodiet believers can be identified with DIYsous vide appliances, locavores with foraging practices and interfaces monitoring food authenticity, molecular gastronomes with DIY liquid nitrogen protocols, nutrigenomics enthusiasts with interfaces for crowdsourcing biodata, and functional food minimalists with voluntary starvation because they refuse to feed the selfish DNA.
Have you ever wondered how to prepare perfect boiled eggs? The answeris sous-vide, a cooking technique using low and precisely controlled temperatures.Unfortunately, professional sous-videcookers are expensiveand hard to find. Let's make our own sous-vide cooker with PID control byhacking devices that might be around you – Arduino, temperature
sensor, DMX dimmer, rice-cooker and computer with a VVVV toolkit. Duringthe workshop we learn something about device hacking, physical units,sous-vide cooking, pid regulation and arduino. Let's hope our effortswill be rewarded by perfect soft-boiled eggs.

Andrej Boleslavský (SK)

Andrej Boleslavský is an interaction designer and new media artist with 10 years of professional experience. He is currently working as an artist and researcher for CIANT │International Centre for Art and New Technologies. In his own projects he focuses on the creating of artworks using a wide range of new media technologies, elements of experimental games, generative art and physical computing. These are also topics on which he lectures in workshops organized by various study programs. Recently, he participated in the Cellsbutton#5 media festival. He curated the exhibitions TransGenesis: Global Players and Square Vision focused on game art and co-curated the festival Enter5: Datapolis. His specialization in the field of programming includes knowledge of media platforms such as VVVV and Arduino, which he uses to develop interactive artworks.

www.id144.org
andrej.boleslavsky@ciant.cz