DIY Renewable Energy Workshop - 21 October CCA Glasgow

DIY Renewable Energy Workshop
presented by Beth Hamer

at the Electron Club, Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), 350
Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
Saturday 21st October 2006, 11.00 am - 1.30 pm
admission free

Artist Beth Hamer has been exploring survival techniques within the
city streets and finding solutions in sustaining a lifestyle whilst
using the debris of society to create energy in order to power and
compliment our everyday needs.

Beth will be exploring ideas of creating renewable energy using
reclaimed materials using her previous works as examples. She will be
talking about her works 'Bike Generator', 'The Wind Machine', a recent
work made from discarded agricultural material, arranged to harness
wind power and used to power photocopiers, distributing information
related the current environmental climate. 'PPIS' is a new work that
includes a bicycle trailer, folding into a working environment with
pedal powered equipment used to distribute information on route.
During January 2007, as part of PPIS, Hamer will cycle from South
Lanarkshire to the Centre of Alternative Technology (Wales) engaging
with people and projects on her way.

The workshop will generate discussion and demonstrate simple examples
of DIY Renewable Energy.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Beth Hamer is a recent graduate from the Glasgow School of Art,
Environmental Art Department, and winner of the 2006 Eco Prize. Beth's
artworks are designed to inspire and assist people to take small steps
to overcome an enormous challenge - how to live sustainably and
ecologically in an urban area. She is interested in low-cost,
low-tech, resourceful ways of presenting and elaborating artistic
work, which engages its viewers.

Eco prize website: http://www.eco-prize.org.uk

ABOUT THE ELECTRON CLUB

The Electron Club is a voluntary project creating a public space where
people interested in things like free open source software, circuit
bending, hardware hacking, computer recycling, streaming, audio and
video editing, green technologies, and amateur radio can meet, use
equipment, and share and disseminate their skills and ideas. All are
welcome. For more information see:

http://www.electronclub.org

Electron Club, Centre for Contemporary Arts,
350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow
Saturday 21st October 2006, 11.00 am - 1.30 pm
contact: info@electronclub.org, or CCA box office: 0141 352 4900