Oribotics Workshop with Matthew Gardiner

Oribotics Workshop with Matthew Gardiner

When: Saturday 16th January 2021 10AM-3PM
Where: This event can be experienced in the Gallery or at home
Price: Costs range from $60-$99.50 for in Gallery or at home experience – read further for price options

Embracing Nature, Origami and Technology, Experimenta Make Sense exhibition artist Matthew Gardiner will lead an in-depth workshop that takes participants into the mind of the oriboticist. By signing up, each participant will receive an Oribokit™ allowing you to make your own robotic garden. The assembled kit grafts onto a tree branch and is designed to minimise materials usage and maximise modular recyclability for robotic origami applications.

By creating their own oribotic blossom from specialised paper templates, the participants will learn about the key concepts of Gardiner’s practice and discuss the strong relationship between nature and folding.

The kits include (1, 2 or 3) oribotic blossoms featuring easy to fold laser-cut paper, servo motors, drive wires, and Arduino compatible STM32 microcontroller plus open-source firmware.

In accordance with Australian safety standards, the electronics are not suitable for children under 14 years of age.

IN-GALLERY WORKSHOP
When: Saturday 16th January 2021, 10AM-3PM
Price: $60 for robotics kit with one flower
Bookings: https://oribotics-workshop-benalla.eventbrite.com.au 
Make sure to book for this session as numbers are limited. All visitors must check-in via QR codes and are required to observe hygiene and physical distancing practices.

BUILD AT HOME
When: Anytime but orders close 16 January 2021
Price: (prices listed here do not include postage)
$60 for robotics kit with one flower
$85 for robotics kit with two flowers
$99.50 for robotics kit with three flowers
Bookings: https://oribotics-workshop-benalla.eventbrite.com.au
For those wanting to make a kit at home, follow the link above to sign up for the digital experience to be mailed your kit Oribokit™, along with the digital instructional video by the artist.

ARTIST BIO
A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts with a Doctorate in Fine Art from Newcastle University, Gardiner works on individual art projects and collaboratively with commercial and research organisations. His practice incorporates affective and interactive experiences, digital fabrication, hand-craft, expert-level origami and code. Gardiner is a key researcher at Ars Electronica Futurelab in the field of Origami Robotics. Recent exhibitions include: The Folded Geometry of the Universe, Experimenta Make Sense; Fold Printing and Fold Mapping in ORI*LAB, Ars Electronica; ORI* Coding for Matter, Kyoto; Project Genesis, Ars Electronica Linz; Surface to Structure, New York; and Artists As Catalysts, Bilbao. The discoveries of Folding Printing and Fold Mapping lead into his current activities up FWF research project on project supported by the FWF’s Program for Arts-Based Research: ORI* On the Language and Aesthetics of Folding and Technology.
https://matthewgardiner.com/oribokit

Find out more about this artwork, showing as part of Experimenta Make Sense: International Triennial of Media Art, 12 December 2020 – 14 February 2021, Benalla Art Gallery: www.experimenta.org/exhibition/make-sense