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  • Media Art Accessibility Workshop

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    Wednesday August 20th, 2025
    7pm-9pm
    3600 Lyons Road, Austin, Texas 78702

    MoHA’s Collaborative Art + Technology Situation (CATS+) is teaming up with Church of the Friendly Ghost to make creative accessibility solutions for their upcoming New Media Art and Sound Summit (NMASS).

    Open to anyone who is interested, especially: media artists, technologists, performers, writers, and accessibility advocates.

    Join us to find creative ways to make NMASS’s phonography performance more accessible to audiences who are new to experimental sound art and/or hard of hearing. Henna Chou (musician and NMASS organizer) and Erica Braverman (accessibility-focused User Experience Researcher) will be facilitating along with MoHA’s Rachel Stuckey and Jay Roff-Garcia.

    During the workshop participants will learn about the performance, the accessibility needs, and brainstorm ways to creatively meet those needs with media art, creative coding, and/or live performance. Interested participants will determine projects that they are excited to contribute to, and bring them to life over the following month. The NMASS performance is on Sept 25th, with rehearsals the week prior. You do not need to be able to attend the festival or rehearsals to contribute.

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    Venue Details

    This event will be indoors in the IRL computer lab at MoHA. We have AC!

    The Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA) has aging floors and a gravel parking lot. We recommend closed toe flat shoes, and an outfit that won’t snag or get tripped on. We want you to have the best time while remaining safe and gorgeous.

    Code of Conduct – https://moha.wiki/Code_of_Conduct

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    Accessibility and Health

    MoHA is wheelchair accessible. Please reach out to info@themuseumofhumanachievement.com if you have any other accessibility needs and we will do our best to accommodate.

    To help keep our community safe and healthy, please do not attend if you feel ill or were recently exposed to illness, such as COVID and the flu.

    Hand sanitizer and masks will be available. Masks are welcome!

    Additional FAQs – https://moha.wiki/FAQ_%E2%86%92

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    Travel & Parking Information

    MoHA is located behind the Canopy Art Complex in a gravel parking lot. Guests can park for free in our lot and find free/paid street parking.

    Riding bikes? We are accessible for bikes via several trails that connect to Springdale Road.

    Riding the bus? The two closest bus stops to MoHA are at the 7th/Springdale stop and the Springdale/Govalle stop. We recommend using Google maps or Cap Metro Trip planner to confirm your route.

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    Church of the Friendly Ghost (COTFG) is a volunteer-run arts organization supporting creative expression in Austin, TX. Established in 2003 and originally based out of a space on Pedernales St. in east Austin, COTFG has presented hundreds of events to date, including featured concerts, workshops, and film screenings. https://www.cotfg.org/

    The Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA) is a community-driven non-profit organization in Austin, TX grounded in affordability, inclusivity and access for artists. MoHA’s vision is for an empowered, resilient creative community where each member has the resources to foster well being, prosperity, and a self-determined future.

    MoHA runs a variety of programs in Community Abundance, Digital Arts, Exhibition, and Professional Development for artists, organizers, and audiences. Learn more at their website https://moha.wiki.

  • 2025 Summer Update

    Sign up for our mailing list to get updates on our New Media Art and Sound Summit 2025 which is happening on September 26, 27, 28 at Museum of Human Achievement !

    The full line up will be announced at the end of July !

    For now visit the information about the open call for participation in Music Research Strategies ILW: Ruthless Compassion
    Consider applying or letting a friend know about this open call!

    or

    Be an early investor in this program and buy the early bird pass!
    The best way to support us at this point in time is to buy the early bird pass. Thank you for thinking of us!

    Flyer design by Recspec

  • 2025 Spring Update

    We are participating in I Live Here I Give Here and Amplify Austin again!

    Amplify Austin Day is right around the corner. During the biggest giving event in Central Texas, residents from across our community will come together to support hundreds of local nonprofits for 24 hours, starting at 6pm on March 5 through 6pm on March 6.

    This year our goal is to raise $5,000 with the help of 200 donors. These valuable funds will help us jump start our new efforts as a newly formed 501(c)(3) organization as well as support our upcoming New Media Art and Sound Summit taking place in the fall.

    So how can you help? Make a donation to COTFG at AmplifyATX.org and then share the news with all of your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors.

    Amplify Austin Day is all about collective community giving. Every gift will bring us one step closer to reaching this year’s big goal and help make a huge impact on our community.

    Why is it important for us to make this effort now? 

    Since 2003, COTFG has always maintained a focus on diversity (genre, DEI, interdisciplinary collaboration) and we have also helped many other organizations get off the ground. We have fostered collaboration among artists who would not have otherwise met and provided quality performances to audiences at very low cost.

    For the first 13 years of our existence, our admin and production work was 100% volunteer based. In past decade we have endeavored to be able to compensate our staff to continue to do this valuable work in a sustainable manner.

    This is our first year as our own non-profit organization which comes with much additional administrative costs. There are matching benefits from Amplify Austin and other companies per donation of each individual and many bonuses for us if you donate early!

    Click here to donate to us!

  • Game Music rehearsal series

    Game Music has a long and interesting history, including a New Music Co-op concert in 2008 which spawned a still-running John Zorn Cobra ensemble called Mongoose.

    Would you be interested in performing and composing Game Music in an evening-length group performance supported by the COTFG?

    Game Music is rule-based and follows any sort of instructions found in games and other play-based activity. Red Light Green Light but with music? Uno cards used to prompt musicians? Flash cards directing group improvisations? Races to see who can play a musical passage the fastest? The possibilities are endless.

    Some historical examples:

    • Musical dice attributed to Mozart

    • Duchamp’s toy train with bins to collect dropped musical notes.

    • Duchamp and Cage’s chess game on electronic chessboard 

    • Any number of Fluxus and Scratch orchestra pieces

    • Xenakis’ Strategie (1962) and Kagel’s Match (1963)

    • John Zorn’s Cobra (1984)

    • Children’s clapping games

    This project needs radical creativity and is open to everyone of every background and musical experience. We invite you to become a co-organizer, composer and performer. 

    We will provide warm up games and a workshop environment to develop games collaboratively. Bring your own games or just come to play!

    The first meeting will be at Museum of Human Achievement on Friday, April 7th evening between 7pm and 9pm. All are welcome and for an eventual performance we plan to focus on games created by people in the Austin, Tx community.

    The June meetings will take place at Crashbox on Bolm Rd.
    Thursday – June 15th
    Thursday – June 22nd