Dead frog alive

The battery is believed to be around 2000 years old, the earliest 'Bagdad battery' looked like a clay pot with an asphalt cork and an iron rod traveling through it into the copper cylinder attached to the cork. When the battery was filled with wine or vinegar, it produced an electric charge. In 1780 an Italian physician and physicist Luigi Galvani, exploring the static electricity on dead frogs, applied two different metals to one of the frogs, which caused the frog's leg to jump. He concluded (wrongly) that the muscle created electricity and shared this with his pen pal physicist Alessandro Volta, who repeated the experiment, got the same results, but postulated that the two metals, rather than the frog muscle, had created the electricity, proving this by linking copper and zinc wires in saltwater.
Anyway..
We won't be torturing frogs, while coming all that long way back to the earliest days of the battery. We will be trying to re-discover it, link to contemporary Low power consumption Integrated Circuit Hex Inverters and find out some most interesting things about the battery - the ways that different materials can affect the battery itself and the functioning of electronic components.
The weak energy concept when made in connection with a low power battery, makes this experiment possible, exciting and non-harmful (although generally forbidden in the world of electronic circuits).

The workshop invites you: To get away from today's carbon-zinc friends and the idea of the battery only as an energy storage system; To think of the battery physically, poetically and musically; To approach it from a different angle, valuing its instability and temporality.

|Welcome|
Every one who likes experimenting with matters and matters' noise.
10 participants maximum

|Remember to bring|

#)Creativity and joy of experimenting
#)Different foodstuffs and drinks (Acid, cola, wine, beer, juice etc; boiled(!) and raw potatoes, any other (non-) and boiled vegetables, as well as fruits on your choice; cheese is good electrolyte). You might also use some old food, not to waste a fresh one.
The rest is provided

|Language|

English (can be mixed with German and Russian)

|About NB:|

http://www.burundi.sk/monoskop/index.php/Natalia_Borissova