[resource-net] Fwd: >top Thursday and Friday: Last workshops in Transmediale Vorspiel programme

[Mindaugas Gapševičius]

This Thursday and Friday we have the last workshops within the 
Transmediale Vorspiel programme: Glass Making and Distillation

For info see bellow and come!

>top Schillerpalais
Schillerpromenade 4
12049 Berlin
www.top-ev.de


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Transmediale Vorspiel Event #5: Glass Making
With Penka Mincheva.

23.02.2017 3-6pm

Penka will be introducing an unusual way to work with glass in a kitchen 
laboratory circumstances. Up to 15 to 20 min can be enough for the glass 
to fuse in a microwave kiln. Most common glass in the everyday 
surrounding contains up to 50-80 % of SiO2. The transformation can be 
seen in a short term.

Penka Mincheva born on 8 of April 1979 in Karlovo, Bulgaria. Lives and 
works in Sofia, Bulgaria. She is a visual artist, using her own 
technique for creating images by adding ink on paper by stamps with 
words corresponding with particular image, as well as pins combined with 
photo prints an idea of another point of view. The environment and 
communications are her inspirations. Since 2006 she is a member of the 
Union of Bulgarian Artists. Since 2007 Director of Process Space Art 
Festival.


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Transmediale Vorspiel Event #6: Distillation
with Matthias Roth

24.02.2017 3-6pm

Distillation is a simple chemical process of separating the component 
substances from a liquid mixture by selective evaporation and 
condensation. The oldest described distillation equipment dates from 
about 5500 b.c. which was a pot with top on which sponges where mounted 
and just squeezed after boiling. Common uses of Distillation are 
extracting gasoline from petroleum and producing Ethanol. On this we 
will focus in this workshop.

Matthias Roth lives in Berlin and Bulgaria, studied at the 
Kunsthochschule Kassel and the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi. He 
works on work, socially madness and the culture of remembrance using 
photography, video, new media and found footage.