Thursday, April 9 – Friday, April 10
Charles Library
Electronics Faire is a multi-layered event featuring a sit, tinker, and walk-through fair tabled by local organizations in Philadelphia working with electronics, a series of paper presentations, and workshops for hands-on learning and experimentation with electronics.
Keynote Presentation: Dr. Jones-Imhotep
Jones-Imhotep’s research focuses on the historical intersections of science, technology, and modern culture. He is particularly interested in the historical “behaviors” of technologies — including malfunctions, breakdowns, and failures — and in the place of those behaviors in the culture, politics, and economics of modern societies. His new book — The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self (MIT Press)— investigates how people from the late-18th to the mid-20th centuries saw machine failures as a problem of the self: a problem of the kinds of people that failing machines created, or threatened, or presupposed. A new long-term research project — The Black Androids: History and the Technological Underground — explores black technological experience in New York from 1830 to 1930 through the history of the black androids, automata in the form of black humans.
Workshops for the Repair Electronics Faire are now live! Visit the official website to browse and register for workshops, ranging from topics like:
⭐ building fm radios
⭐ jailbreaking apple devices
⭐ sing broken projects for glitch art
… and more
