[dorkbotdc-announce] Next Dorkbot meeting Tuesday, May 27, 7pm

[Dorkbot DC]

May's Dorkbot DC Meeting!

	Tuesday, April 29, 2008
	7 PM - 9 PM

Always FREE and open to anyone. Spread the word!

NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION:
	St. Stephen's Church's auditorium
	Hosted by *HacDC* (thanks to Nick Farr et al.)
	1525 Newton St NW
	(near 16th and Newton NW)
	Washington, DC 20010

     (Directions and more information at http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotdc/)



*** PRESENTATIONS:

HEY! This meeting will take place at St. Stephen's Church, and will
include an exclusive tour of HacDC's burgeoning shop!


* Pindar Van Arman  *   :   Zanelle

Pindar will speak about his progress with Zanelle, his painterbot, who
he's written all software required for her to perform. To create each
painting, Zanelle instructs her robotic appendage to make multiple
independent design decisions, self-mix up to 24 colors of acrylic paint
and apply the medium with upwards of 25,000 intentional brush strokes in
a time period of 12-36 hours. http://www.vanarman.com/


* Andrew Buckland *   :   Data_Scape

Recent MICA MFA, Andrew Buckland, will talk about his data-driven piece,
Data_Scape, a live representation of Internet traffic passing over the
local network. "As information is read it is then transformed both in
the sound and image. This transformation of information questions the
notion of a digital environment we find ourselves knowingly or
unknowingly participating within."

http://andrewbuckland.com/datascape.html


* TOUR OF HACDC'S SHOP! *





*** Intradork

If you've got an interesting announcement or something to share (3
minutes or less), we'll make time to fit you in.


*** Afterdork

After the presentations, the exchange continues over food and drink at a
nearby eatery. *$ Bring cash as some venues limit the number of credit
cards groups can use! $* (more information at
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotdc/).


*** RIDESHARE FROM BALTIMORE ***
Those of you traveling by automobile from the Baltimore area and willing
to give fellow Baltidorks a ride...

We have some dedicated Dorkbotters that brave MARC and are forced to
skip out on the valuable one-on-ones of Afterdork because they have to
get to the train after the meetings. It would be great to give them the
opportunity made possible by some of you dinosaur-squeezins-powered
attendees.

Those that need rides AND those that can provide them: Please let us
know by writing to the blabber list, dorkbotdc-blabber at dorkbot.org.


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