From dorkbotbristol-announce at dorkbot.org Fri Mar 6 09:19:24 2009 From: dorkbotbristol-announce at dorkbot.org (dorkbotbristol-announce@dorkbot.org) Date: Fri Mar 6 09:19:41 2009 Subject: [dorkbotbristol] Femelek Festival live stream 7pm till 11pm tonight Message-ID: <49B130EC.8020009@mbharris.co.uk> Hi Everyone, Thought you might be interested to know that XtreamLab's streaming Femelek 2009 tonight, this is a Barcelona festival to celebrate Women and Electronic Music. It starts at 7PM GMT until 11PM GMT. I've done a microsite page for it here: http://xtreamlab.net/femelek/ And there's also the festival's own MySpace page here: http://www.myspace.com/festivalfemelek There's also apparently the ability to get involved via Second Life, not sure of where it is yet, but will post the URL on the web page when I do. Cheers, Mike. -- ---------- Mike Harris Mobile UK: +44 (0) 7811 671 893 PGP: http://mbharris.co.uk/mike.gpg.pub From dorkbotbristol-announce at dorkbot.org Wed Mar 11 04:23:13 2009 From: dorkbotbristol-announce at dorkbot.org (dorkbotbristol-announce@dorkbot.org) Date: Wed Mar 11 04:23:30 2009 Subject: [dorkbotbristol] FYI: The Art + Politics of P2P, presentation at the Arnolfini Message-ID: <49B774F1.6050901@mbharris.co.uk> Hi all, The following was proferred by Geoff Cox who thought it might be of interest to Dorkbot Bristol. Also, just a gentle reminder that the next Dorkbot event is Saturday 21st March from 12 till 5/6pm at Hamilton House, Stokes Croft. A full email about this soon. Cheers, Mike. >>> The Art + Politics of P2P 24 March, 19.00 Arnolfini, Bristol, UK FREE Michel Bauwens Respondents: Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova The presentation introduces the work of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives - a clearing house for open/free, participatory/p2p and commons-oriented initiatives. The interest is in how P2P networks challenge hierarchical server-client relations and provide an alternative organisational principle for understanding cultural production and the creation of value. In discussion we aim to explore the potential of this way of thinking to re-energise the production of art following the principle that emergent and radical arts practices can be found in social energies not yet recognised as art. http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/about Michel Bauwens is an active writer, researcher and conference speaker on the subject of technology, culture and business innovation. He is the founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. He teaches at the Dhurakii Pundit University International College in Bangkok, Thailand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhurakij_Pundit_University http://p2pfoundation.net/Bio Matthew Fuller is author of 'Behind the Blip, essays on the culture of software' and 'Media Ecologies, materialist energies in art and technoculture' and is editor of 'Software Studies, a lexicon' amongst other titles. He works at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths and is involved in a number of projects in art, experimental software and media. http://spc.org/fuller/ Olga Goriunova is currently a Lecturer in Interactive Media at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College. She has been involved in the field of software cultures, co-producing four software art festivals Readme (http://readme.runme.org) and a software art repository Runme.org. She is currently working on a book 'Art Platforms'. http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki/read.cgi?section=P2P&page=Home organised by Arnolfini and Art & Social Technologies Research group (University of Plymouth), with support from the Pervasive Media Studio/Watershed. http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/ http://www.art-social.net/ http://www.pmstudio.co.uk/ +++ -- Mike Harris w: http://mbharris.co.uk t: +44 7811 671 893 p: http://mbharris.co.uk/mike.gpg.pub s: http://mbharris.co.uk/mike.ssh.pub 0: http://www.radiovague.com/fadaiat/101.php From dorkbotbristol-announce at dorkbot.org Mon Mar 16 16:57:48 2009 From: dorkbotbristol-announce at dorkbot.org (dorkbotbristol-announce@dorkbot.org) Date: Mon Mar 16 16:58:00 2009 Subject: [dorkbotbristol] It's DORKBOT - Mad Hatters March Makers & Shakers Message-ID: <8419bf40903161357i127b557x1b0a9f9fbd6815c0@mail.gmail.com> Mad Hatters March Makers & Shakers [image: Mad Hatter]Dorkbot is taking shape again this month with a Hack a Hat day over at Hamilton House . *Saturday 21st March 2009 from 12 noon till 6pm.* This month we invite you to the challenge of creating a wacky hat creation. You can use whatever materials you like, hi-tech, lo-tech, it?s up to you! We will also provide some materials free and some that you can buy to try to use in your creations! We will have two categories: Individual and Teams (no more than 5 people), so if you are a team let us know! At the end of the day we will have a judging and prized for those that are voted the best! *To sign up for this event click here * Tell your friends, get some people along for tea and cake and the grand finale at 5.30pm. It?s high time that we have a more diverse Dorkbot, so whether it?s participants or wider audience , if you know of others including engineers, artists, etc you name it, lets get them to it! During the day, we will also have an Open dork session, so bring along your latest electronics, robotics, art, psychology, or evening gardening project to show and tell what it?s all about, discuss with others, exchange tips and generally dork out!!! If you want to do a bit of promotion for us and think that you can put a few flyers in your office, home, local pub or caf?, school, sixth form or university, then why not download the Dorkbot March 2009 Flyer A6or Dorkbot March 2009 Flyer A4 . We will be providing soup (vegan) and bread for lunch for a modest donation and invite you to bring along anything you?d like to pimp up your broth! It?s just for fun so come along and play, make and drink tea! Look forward to seeing you there, PS we now have a twitter account to keep you up to date so start following if you are a fellow tweeter.... http://www.twitter.com/dorkbotbristol Rachel & Mike -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotbristol-announce/attachments/20090316/84f2e676/attachment.html