Led by Jen Kutler, and hosted by Wave Farm, each participant is asked to bring two working CRT televisions and will leave with one working Wobbulator.

Tools and soldering irons will be provided. No soldering experience necessary. The cost of the workshop is $125 per person and preregistration is necessary (by June 24) at jenkutler.com/workshops.. Please direct all questions to jenkutleraudio@gmail.com.

Note: This workshop includes step-by-step guidance and construction of the actual Wobbulator. The participant is expected to bring their own (2) CRT monitors – one to use for parts and the other to modify. The workshop cost includes wire for winding the S coil, tools, and parts to extend the CRT connections from the PCB and testing/troubleshooting. The workshop cost does not include signal generators or oscillators (though generic parts are suitable and easy to come by).

About the Wobbulator:
"A raster manipulation unit or 'wobbulator' is a prepared television which permits a wide variety of treatments to be performed on video images; this is accomplished by the addition of extra yokes to a conventional black and white receiver and by the application of signals derived from audio or function generators on the yokes. The unit is a receiver modified for monitor capability; all of the distortions can thus be performed either on broadcast signals or, when the unit is used as a monitor, on images from a live or prerecorded source. Although the image manipulations cannot be recorded directly, they can be recorded by using an optical interface. The patterns displayed on the unit are rescanned; a camera is pointed directly at the picture tube surface and scans the display. The video signal from this rescan camera is then input to a videotape recorder for immediate recording or to a processing system for further image treatment. The notion of prepared television has been investigated by a number of video artists and engineers; this particular set of modifications was popularized by Nam June Paik." - Excerpt from “Raster Manipulation Unit: Operation and Construction (1980)” from The Experimental Television Center by Sherry Hocking, Richard Brewster and Walter Wright.

You can learn more about Jen Kutler at jenkutler.com.