How to make a DIY Force-Sensitive Resistor (FSR) Sensor with Jaehoon Choi

Thursday, April 18, 2024, 6–8 pm
Free or suggested donation
Open to ages 16+.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops

In this lecture and demonstration, Workspace Resident Jaehoon Choi will lead participants through the steps to make a FSR Sensor that can be used to create a range of sound production for sonic and other art performances. Jaehoon will begin the workshop by talking about what an FSR Sensor is and demonstrate to participants through the process of making and using basic materials and wiring and soldering. Students will see how to to begin to make their own interactive physical interfaces.

Biography of the artist

Jaehoon Choi is a computer musician / sound artist / researcher based in New York and Seoul. His practice involves embodied experimentation through a technical medium, which involves both the process of making and bodily engagement. As a researcher, he is interested in how a creative practice that involves embodied experimentation with a technical medium can suggest a different form of techne and contribute to technodiversity. His works have been presented at Venice Biennale, MATA Festival, NEW INC, San Francisco Tape Music Festival, NIME, ICMC, CeReNeM, ECHO Journal, ZER01NE, Dunkunsthalle, EIDF, Visions Du Reel, CEMEC, and etc. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electronic Arts at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and graduated from Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) as a Masters.

Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Image description: Jaehoon Choi performing Brushing Improvisation – N°2, 2023 at the La Biennale di Venezia in 2023. Photo Credit : Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia / ph. Andrea Avezzù.