From tedwards at gmail.com Thu May 3 12:43:25 2007 From: tedwards at gmail.com (Thomas Edwards) Date: Thu May 3 12:45:15 2007 Subject: [dorkbotdc-blabber] Artomatic Events This Weekend Message-ID: <2fd1fa350705030943n54f34d07i8679b3070cd232e5@mail.gmail.com> A bunch of pseudo-dorky stuff going on at Artomatic this weekend, more info at: http://www.artomatic.org Meet the Artomatic Artists Fri May 4 - 6:00pm-1:00am Many of the artists who are showing their work or performing at Artomatic will be on hand to talk about what their work, discuss what inspires them and answer your questions. More than 700 people are participating in this year's Artomatic, including 400 visual artists. [Stop by the DigiAOM room on the 6th floor to see work by Jack Whitsitt, Thomas Edwards, and Philip Kohn, plus the "Your 2 Cents" video kiosk is on the 8th floow - not sure how many of the artists will actually be there though, I'm not sure if I can]. PostSecret Book Signings Frank Warren, the artist behind the PostSecret project, will be signing books at Artomatic! Warren got his start as an Artomatic artist and now has published three books and traveled widely to bring the secrets of people all around the world to light through installations and books using postcards mailed to him with people's secrets both large and small. Signings will take place on * Friday, May 4th from 7 to 9pm, * Saturday, May 5th from 6 to 8pm * Saturday, May 12 from 6 to 8pm Books will be available on site at the Artomatic Store on the 6th floor. [Frank was involved in some of the "pre-meetings" that lead to the eventual creation of Dorkbot DC, he has a video installation about PostSecret on the 6th floor of Artomatic, and he also runs a web version of PostSecret here: http://postsecret.blogspot.com] DC Artists in Second Life's Sintixerr Gallery Sat May 5 - 2:00pm-3:00pm and Sat May 5 - 8:00pm-8:30pm If you're curious about the Artomatic Artists who have also taken a leap and are currently showing in the virtual world "Second Life", come stop by 6A36 and we'll show you and discuss their work virtually and point you to where you can find them at Artomatic. Washington Glass School Artomatic Tour Sun May 6 - 1:00pm-3:00pm Please join the Washington Glass School for a very special Artomatic tour of the current Washington Glass School artists showing in this remarkable event ? Clearly Inspired. Over 18 WGS students and staff participating and making quite a significant impact on the Washington area art scene. During the tour the artists will be present to discuss the techniques they used to create their pieces as well as the motivation behind their works. [If you were inspired by Tim Tate's talk at Dorkbot DC, come by and meet more WGS folks!] -Thomas From tedwards at gmail.com Thu May 3 13:53:51 2007 From: tedwards at gmail.com (Thomas Edwards) Date: Thu May 3 13:54:04 2007 Subject: [dorkbotdc-blabber] Jason Freeman in WIRED Message-ID: <2fd1fa350705031053w3010c7e3m30ca2782566339aa@mail.gmail.com> If you were at the September, 2006 Dorkbot DC meeting, you might remember that we had Jason Freeman telepresently presenting his work "Graph Theory" from Atlanta. Now he has a write-up on Wired: "Composer and Georgia Tech professor Jason Freeman doesn't much like concert halls, with their audiences sitting in silent rows. They just don't fit the modern, interactive world, he says. That's why his latest work, "Flock," being previewed at Atlanta's dorkbot meeting Thursday, might share as much with Dance Dance Revolution as it does with any Beethoven symphony, while helping bring composition into the Xbox age..." http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/04/concert_score -Thomas From tedwards at gmail.com Sun May 6 17:47:54 2007 From: tedwards at gmail.com (Thomas Edwards) Date: Sun May 6 17:48:03 2007 Subject: [dorkbotdc-blabber] Fwd: Seeking videos for OFFF Barcelona Message-ID: <2fd1fa350705061447o252551c3xfba548bde7c8727a@mail.gmail.com> This is a forward from the Dorkbot Overlords mailing list seeking video for the OFFF Barcelona "Post Digital Creation Culture" festival. More info at: http://www.offf.ws/bcn/ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: dorkbotmadrid (Javier Candeira) Date: May 6, 2007 5:17 PM Subject: [dorkbot-overlords] Zachary Lieberman asks for help Hello fellow dorks, Maybe you care to post this call for collaboration from Zach Lieberman to your blabber lists. I just posted it to the Madrid one. > sez Zach: hi, I am writing to ask you for help - it should be really fun and not take you too long, so think about it as a good break for your day or weekend. Please also forward this to anyone who you think might be interested ! Next week, I am making a performance at the OFFF festival along with my good friend Theo Watson. The idea of the performance is really quite simple -- the story of a never ending line -- and the performance will be made up of both videos as well as live material, and synthesized graphics. we are asking you, with your awesome brains and wicked fast design skills, to send us videos in your own style, of a line being drawn from one side of the screen to another. It can be animated, live video, computer generated, or some other way we can't even think of yet. We would love to get videos from you to use in our performance. The more imaginative the better! All the videos used will be credited at the end of the performance so it will be a great chance to show what you can do with a line and 5 seconds of time. Multiple submissions are encouraged! Rules: 1: The line should start off screen, enter on one side and leave on another. (doesn't have to be right to left, can be any side to any side, including leaving on the same side the line started on). 2: The line should have the effect of being drawn, not moved across the screen. See examples bellow. Good: http://impssble.com/OFFF/good.mov Bad: http://impssble.com/OFFF/bad.mov 3: Once a part of a line is drawn it should not move too much, the animation should be the effect of drawing the line (as in the good movie above). 4. The video doesn't necessarily have to be the drawing of a line (although most of what we are working with is), but it can also be something moving along a very clear path. The idea should be about going from point a to point b. 5. Both sound or silent is ok. 6: Videos should be 3 - 8 seconds long, 640 480 quicktime format. (320x240 also ok) 7: Videos should be submitted to zlieb@parsons.edu or theo@muonics.net (if under 10MB) or posted online for download. 8: we need them by tuesday 8th of May. We hope you enjoy this challenge, and would like to take part in our project. Thanks and have fun! zach & theo From tedwards at gmail.com Mon May 7 12:38:31 2007 From: tedwards at gmail.com (Thomas Edwards) Date: Mon May 7 12:38:47 2007 Subject: [dorkbotdc-blabber] City of Virginia Beach Call to Digital Artists Message-ID: <2fd1fa350705070938p30b7c59cp99837e248de9e900@mail.gmail.com> [from Rhizome.org... -Thomas] The City of Virginia Beach seeks to commission an artist or artist team to create video/digital artwork for display at the new Virginia Beach Convention Center (VBCC) in Va. Beach. The space available consists of four screens of 90 feet by 9 feet, totaling 360 feet wide by 9 feet high. The video art wall consists of a computer server, multiple DLP (digital light panel) projectors and audio speakers. The completed VBCC opened in January 2007. Artwork will be commissioned and purchased. The artist's award will be at least $10,000, and includes all costs associated with the project. For details, please refer to http://www.vbgov.com under "Call to Artists." Contact: Pam Lingle, Communications Manager Virginia Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau 2101 Parks Avenue, Suite 500 Virginia Beach, VA 23451 757.385.6628 plingle@vbgov.com From garethbranwyn at comcast.net Tue May 8 16:38:35 2007 From: garethbranwyn at comcast.net (Gareth Branwyn) Date: Tue May 8 17:35:46 2007 Subject: [dorkbotdc-blabber] Remembrancer Post on Street Tech Message-ID: <54E44774-771D-4B88-A525-838F8C6B5479@comcast.net> FYI: I just did a Street Tech item on Dorkbot DC member Alberto Gaitan's "Remembrancer" installation at the Curator's Office. It's only going to be in operation until the end of this week (the show closes on the 26th). You should definitely go see it if you have a chance. It incorporates a number of things we've talked about at Dorkbot meetings: Net-connected art, robotics, the Make microcontroller, steeper motors, and more. http://www.streettech.com/modules.php? op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1775&mode=flat&order=0&thold=1 From tedwards at gmail.com Thu May 17 17:12:01 2007 From: tedwards at gmail.com (Thomas Edwards) Date: Thu May 17 17:12:05 2007 Subject: [dorkbotdc-blabber] PARAFLOWS 07 call for proposals Message-ID: <2fd1fa350705171412i8ff8145t5d69e5b5b92e3a7c@mail.gmail.com> :: OPEN CALL :: PARAFLOWS 07 EXHIBITION Vienna :: DEADLINE: 15th of June, 2007 PARAFLOWS 07 - Annual Convention for Digital Arts and Cultures The topic of the 2nd annual convention for digital arts and cultures in the city of Vienna is UN_SPACE. "A body is defined by having length, width and depth." (Euclid) In his Philosophy of Nature, Aristotle employs the three dimensions of the body as the basis for his theory of space. For Aristotle, space is the sum of all places occupied by bodies. Space is defined as the limit of the surrounding body toward what is surrounded. This is a theory of relations by which Aristotle rejects the definition of space as the void. Empty space is an impossibility since space is always occupied and there can be no in between. If aside from the space a body occupies an empty space existed which it enters, empty space and occupied space would overlap, resulting in an unnecessary duplication of space" (Aristotle, Physics). This year's Paraflows exhibition, titled UN_SPACE, is going to focus on inaccessible, invisible, theoretical, and immaterial space per se. Virtual spaces - a prominent issue in media and net art - as well as social and personal space dimensions and territories (see Erving Goffman, Territorien des Selbst) and real spaces like architectonic, geographic, or elementary, are to be compiled, visualised, and discussed according to their characteristics, their meaning, and their respective insufficiencies. We also think of UN_SPACE as the elimination of distances, borders and barriers interfering with cultural, social, political and media reality. Concepts dealing with the development of inaccessible territories, technical approaches and theoretical attempts are key aspects of this year's exhibition. Further information on PARAFLOWS: www.paraflows.at Please submit proposals featuring contemporary artworks dealing with the topics mentioned above. All proposals must be submitted via mail as PDF-files: un_space@paraflows.at in special cases via snail mail to: paraflows paraflows headoffice c/o monochrom QDK, Museumsplatz 1 A-1070 Vienna AUSTRIA Mandatory information for submissions to PARAFLOWS 07 - UN_SPACE: 1) name, institution (if existing), address, e-mail, phone number, website/s 2) submitted work: title, medium, author/artist, year of production 3) work description: 1 page max., photos are recommended 4) technical details, room/space requirements, technical requirements (hardware, operating system, additional software) 5) additional information 6) biography 7) documentation of earlier projects and works ( url, website will do) Language: all submissions have to be in ENGLISH or GERMAN, projects dealing with text must have English and/or German subtitles We especially encourage international submissions. DEADLINE: 15th of June, 2007 paraflows 07 / CONTACT office at paraflows.at Festival-Management: Judith Fegerl, Guenther Friesinger Office: MQ Musumsquartier, paraflows headoffice, c/o monochrom, Quartier f?r digitale Kulturen A-1070 Vienna, Museumsplatz 1, Austria Paraflows07 is supported by the City of Vienna, MA7 - net culture From tedwards at gmail.com Fri May 18 10:32:32 2007 From: tedwards at gmail.com (Thomas Edwards) Date: Fri May 18 10:32:35 2007 Subject: [dorkbotdc-blabber] Help get the message out about the next meeting! Message-ID: <2fd1fa350705180732r2ba0d39am519f52f64f56cd29@mail.gmail.com> Hey DC Dorkbotters, The next meeting should be very cool! I'd really like to encourage everyone to help get the message out about the meeting. Please feel free to: 1) Contact local & student newspapers about the event, please feel free to have them contact dorkbotdc@dorkbot.org for more info. 2) Feel free to use the Dorkbot DC web page as a model for a flier (you can just cut-and-paste parts of it into Word or what have you and print it) and put up fliers 3) Other ideas wanted! -Thomas From alberto.gaitan at gmail.com Fri May 25 11:49:27 2007 From: alberto.gaitan at gmail.com (=?windows-1252?Q?Alberto_Gait=E1n?=) Date: Fri May 25 12:04:07 2007 Subject: [dorkbotdc-blabber] Prosecco Send-Off for Alberto =?windows-1252?q?Gait=E1n=27s_REMEM?= =?windows-1252?q?BRANCER_this_Saturday_evening?= Message-ID: <46570587.1040708@gmail.com> Dear Fellow DC Dorks, Art! People! Booze! What's not to like. Stop by if you haven't seen Remembrancer yet. It'll be the last chance to check out the results of 4 weeks of processing. Alberto art dc logo Prosecco Send-Off for Alberto Gait?n's REMEMBRANCER Saturday, May 26 from 5:30 - 7 pm Day 2 From Day 2 (above) to Day 28 (below), Alberto Gait?n's internet-generated robotic paintings have innovatively pushed abstraction into the 21st century. Visitors to the micro-gallery can see the internet-generated paintings that have documented 28 days worth of political data. How does abstraction record the Virginia Tech massacres? Global warming? Bird Flu? Political Scandal? The Iraq War? Oil prices? Birth? Death? Come see why memory is such a pliant and fallible thing. Gait?n created an art installation "where Web-connected robots paint their own color fields and generate a musical soundrack." -- boingboing.net "the wonderful Curator's office micro-gallery is showing an amazing installation....The piece, called Remembrancer, consists of three net-connected robot painters. As data feeds - one local, one national, and one global - pour into the gallery, they're transposed into art, as paint is deposited onto three monochromatic panels, and into dynamic musical compositions, via three wall-mounted speakers. -- STREETtech.com Installation View Day 28 If you missed it during all of these weeks -- or only saw the faint beginnings on opening night -- please join us for a final toast of Prosecco and other refreshments on Saturday, May 26 from 5:30 - 7 pm. www.curatorsoffice.com + 202.387.1008 Forward email This email was sent to alberto.gaitan@gmail.com, by info@curatorsoffice.com Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe ? | Privacy Policy . Email Marketing by Curator's Office | 1515 14th Street NW # 201 | Washington | DC | 20005