From dorkbotdc at dorkbot.org  Thu Sep  6 10:26:55 2007
From: dorkbotdc at dorkbot.org (Dorkbot DC)
Date: Thu Sep  6 10:27:00 2007
Subject: [dorkbotdc-announce] Next Dorkbot DC mtg. Monday, Sept. 10 7PM
Message-ID: <2fd1fa350709060726m6e942869he557e9db0cc574ad@mail.gmail.com>

Dorkbot DC - Next Meeting:

Monday, September 10, 2007
7-9 PM

Marian Koshland Science Museum of the National Academy of Sciences
6th and E Streets, NW
Washington, DC 20001
http://www.koshlandscience.org/visitor/dandp.jsp

Cost: Free

The September meeting of Dorkbot DC will have presentations by three
artists:

Mechatronic and robotic artist Thomas Edwards will present his work
"Touch" which allows two individuals to physically touch each other
over the Internet.  During the meeting, Edwards will demonstrate
touching fingers between Washington, DC, and Toronto, Canada
with the help of Liav Koren at the University of Toronto's Faculty of
Architecture, Landscape and Design.

Conrad Barski will present his work on the PicnicMob.Org web site.
PicnicMob is a concept to create "flash mob" picnics in parks of major
U.S. cities, but it assigns each participant to a location in the park
so that they are near other participants with similar interests
(calculated using simulated annealing).

Interactive video artist Philip Kohn will discus some of his new work
that combines live video cameras with computers to place participants
in virtual worlds.  "The Looking Glass" is an evolving interactive video
work that encourages participants to move about in silly ways by
rewarding them with cool effects when they do.  "Through the Hedge"
will blend a large ceramic mural with an embedded huge LCD flat
screen to create an artificial real-time jungle including magical creatures
that do things to you when you touch them.  "Feeling Lucky" crawls the
web as a stream of consciousness in pictures using Google image and
Google search.  Finally, "Pastry" shows organic layers of texture that
come out of the screen, without the need for 3D glasses.

Plus an informal "Afterdork" afterwards at a nearby establishment TBD.

For more info, see:
http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotdc

See you there!

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Other DC events of interest:

Sonic Circuits 2007 Experimental Music Festival September 7-23, 2007
http://dc-soniccircuits.org/2007/

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