[dorkbotatl-announce] dorkbot atl: Tomorrow at WonderRoot

[Matt Gilbert]

*Hey all! Just a reminder that dorkbot-atlanta's first meeting at it's new
venue, WonderRoot, is tomorrow at 8pm. Aaron Ruscetta will be talking about
the classic Amiga platform and sharing some hardware from his collection,
and Don Hassler will be presenting the Buchla 200e synth and demonstrating
how he uses it in his sound work. More info on their presentations below. I
hope to see you there!**Matt Gilbert** *
Wednesday, February 25, 2009

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*8 p.m. at WonderRoot
(directions)<http://www.wonderroot.org/wonderroot_Contact.html>
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*Speakers: Don Hassler and Aaron Ruscetta
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*Don Hassler,
Sound work with the Buchla 200e system*

* <http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotatl/upcoming_meetings/2009_02_25.html> Don
Hassler <http://donhassler.com/> is a long time electronic art enthusiast
who'll be introducing a small Buchla 200e
system<http://www.buchla.com/series200e.html>,
demonstrating it's features, and how he uses it in his work. *

* <http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotatl/upcoming_meetings/2009_02_25.html> Don
was involved with the now gone Atlanta College of Art for 21 years,
assisting painting instructor William Nolan develop an experimental sound
class geared for non-musician visual arts students. Through his involvement
with the college, Don expanded his work to include interactive,
site-specific sound sculptures. *

* <http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotatl/upcoming_meetings/2009_02_25.html>Throughout
this time Don continued to work with musicians including local
Atlanta electronic music pioneers Dick Robinson, Howard Wershil, Richard
Devine, Graham Moore, Tom Smith (To Live and Shave in LA) and, including
participating in a Fluxus performance led by Dick Higgins in 1987. He also
worked electronics designer Timothy Adams, assisting in the design of Tim’s
Chaos/Difference box for Pauline Oliveros and Dick Robinson. *

* <http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotatl/upcoming_meetings/2009_02_25.html> In
1987, Don began to serve as a US representative for the long running British
synthesizer company EMS, and much later on very briefly with the California
electronic music collective EAR-Group and functioning US service support for
the Swedish electronic music instrument company Elektron. Today Don works at
the Art Institute of Atlanta. *

* <http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotatl/upcoming_meetings/2009_02_25.html>Don’s
work today centers in abstract interpretations, both in performance
and recording of his surroundings and perceptions still using materials
drawn from combined areas of computer and analog audio, as well as
occasional diy electronics. *
*Aaron Ruscetta,
The Amazing Amiga: Computo Erectus*

* <http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotatl/upcoming_meetings/2009_02_25.html>
Synopsis:
In the brief history of digital gadgetry and gaming, no techno toy or dork
device has garnered a more fervent fan base of mega geeks than the amazing
Amiga, the computer systems that set the standards and directions for the
entire desktop computing industry back in 1985. Though the platform zealotry
of ardent Amiganauts can make Mac maniacs and and Linux lunatics seem tame,
any technophile who has examined the genius of the Amiga architecture and
operating system or used any of the hundreds of ground breaking games,
gadgets and multi media softwares that it inspired knows that the loyalties
are exceedingly deserved and can see why Amiga is still surviving and
evolving today in various niche environments. *

* <http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotatl/upcoming_meetings/2009_02_25.html> This
talk, hopefully the first in a series examining the Amiga and the dozens of
cool geek gadgets and innovations it spawned, will be an introductory and
historically contextualized look at the original 1985 Amiga 1000 computer,
its multi processor, multi media hardware architecture and the priority
preemptive, multi-tasking, message based Exec Operating System that made all
the bits and pieces sing and dance together. *

* <http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotatl/upcoming_meetings/2009_02_25.html> Bio:
Aaron Ruscetta has enjoyed a long and geeky career as a technical artisan in
the fields of television, audio and digital media production. Throughout
this, he has been continually involved with and learning from the art,
electronics and computer communities that have been integral to his work.
Being a technocrat with a front row seat to the evolution of digital media
technology and personal computing, he has also become a broadly informed
historian of the computer and internet revolutions. *

* <http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotatl/upcoming_meetings/2009_02_25.html> In
1987 Aaron bought his first Amiga system and became an active member of the
Amiga Atlanta users group, variously serving over the years as Secretary,
VP, Treasurer, President and Video SIG leader (earning him the endearing
title of Videot Savant). Learning the Amiga also furthered his career
efforts, facilitating several years working as an adjunct instructor of
Computer Arts and Graphics or 3D Modeling and Animation at the Atlanta
College of Art, plus a couple of years creating and marketing software and
hardware products supporting the Amiga Video Toaster. At current count, he
has 24 Amiga systems in his basement, owning at least one of every model
made. In 1998 he found GNU Linux had finally become more capable than his
aging Amiga's and he moved on to become an evangelist in the Free Software
community, where he now serves as First Contact and Event Coordinator tor
the Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts User Group <http://ale.org/>. *
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