From douglas at music.columbia.edu Mon Sep 1 11:55:40 2008 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Mon Sep 1 11:55:50 2008 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] A plea for help from across the pond... Message-ID: <48BC107C.90103@music.columbia.edu> Dear London dorks, ArtBots, dorkbot's cousin, is in a bit of a bind. We commissioned this awesome airplane: http://artbots.org/2008/guest_artists/isohe from Phillip Isohe of Kenya as one of the prizes for this year's ArtBots show, which is happening in mid-Sept in Dublin. Our contact in Kenya brought the plane with him to London, where it now sits on his father-in-law's table. Unfortunately it is not in a box, which means no courier will pick it up to bring it to Dublin. So...we're desperately looking for someone to wrap the plane in bubble wrap and put it in a nice heavy cardboard box for us. The plane is at Argyle Rd. in West Ealing. It's about 29" wide x 21" long. Can anyone help? Is anyone near West Ealing? Where did the pirate go to put a plane in a box? ARRRRGyle Rd. We can offer some ArtBots t-shirts, a nice ArtBots brochure...uh, a dorkbot t-shirt? We'd of course pay any expenses you might incur. Please contact me if you can help or if you have any suggestions. best, douglas -- ............................................... http://artbots.org .....douglas.....irving........................ http://dorkbot.org .......................... http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp .......... repetto............. http://music.columbia.edu/organism ............................... http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas From lists at lowfrequency.org Tue Sep 9 06:27:42 2008 From: lists at lowfrequency.org (evan.raskob [lists]) Date: Tue Sep 9 06:28:06 2008 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Dave from London Games? Message-ID: Hi Dave, Can you please shoot me an email? Got a question for you Cheers Evan From alex at zivanovic.co.uk Tue Sep 9 10:11:10 2008 From: alex at zivanovic.co.uk (Alex Zivanovic) Date: Tue Sep 9 10:11:18 2008 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Future Object Message-ID: <48C683FE.20003@zivanovic.co.uk> I've been collaborating with a group of designers from Goldsmith's on a project called Material Beliefs. We have a public event coming up I thought might be of interest. (Almost all the objects we're working on use Arduinos for control). Alex Z -- ThinkTank: the Future Object This Friday, the Victoria and Albert Museum is hosting "ThinkTank: the Future Object", at the Hochhauser Auditorium, part of the new Sackler Centre for Arts Education. Zoe Whitley from the V&A writes: Debate. Discuss. Disagree. Decide? With no 'right answers' only great ideas, weigh in on the future of museum objects with leading designers and critics. This event will be the culmination of a year-long programme of 'design futures' ThinkTanks to engage critically and proactively with contemporary design issues - from design's role in relation to climate change and global citizenship to technological innovation and the changing nature of design practice. Material Beliefs will join Future of Sound, innovationRCA and the Helen Storey Foundation from 19:30 on the 12th September, it's a free event, with advanced booking available by telephone on +44 (0)20 7942 2211, or online here . Material Beliefs will be discussing two collaborative projects, Carnivorous Domestic Entertainment Robots and Vital Signs, with a session where you can find out more about the biotechnologies behind these prototype systems, and design your own! Come and meet James Auger, Amir Eftekhar, Tobie Kerridge, Jimmy Loizeau, Olive Murphy, Nick Oliver and Alex Zivanovic... Please invite anyone you think who might enjoy it! Alex -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotlondon-blabber/attachments/20080909/81305118/attachment.html From alex at slab.org Sun Sep 14 15:16:05 2008 From: alex at slab.org (alex) Date: Sun Sep 14 15:16:50 2008 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] london placard headphone fest at cafe oto, london sept 20th In-Reply-To: <1221328027.6687.14.camel@teff> References: <1221328027.6687.14.camel@teff> Message-ID: <1221419765.6804.17.camel@teff> Hi Dorks, Here's details of the Placard headphone session at Cafe Oto this Saturday. Always a fine + strange experience... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- London Placard Headphone Festival http://london.leplacard.org/ ** BRING YOUR OWN HEADPHONES ** 10 hour free headphone listening session with a diverse packed schedule, one act every 20 minutes. Bring your own headphones if you want to hear the music. We have enough plugs for 100 listeners. The plug-in points are 1/4" jack sockets, but we'll have plenty adaptors for hire, all headphones catered for. Place: Cafe Oto, Ashwin Street, Dalston E8 3DL Date: Saturday 20th Sept Time: 1pm until 11pm Tax: Free (donations welcome) Featuring: Leafcutter John, Edge Effect, Philip Julian, brassica, London Concrete, Cacao, Mandelbrot, Brandy alexander project, Bleeding heart narrative, The broadcast company, Dylan Bates, Tuned to a dead channel, Yee-King, slub, CrackTux, Ryan Jordan, Cormac Heron, Jon Aveyard, Spoonfight, rob munro, Helm, THE NOISER, Family Battlesnake, Simpson brothers and more TBC Links: http://london.leplacard.org/ http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/ ** BRING YOUR OWN HEADPHONES ** Made possible with support from the PRS Foundation. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Also coming up -- placard @ netaudio fest: http://netaudiolondon.cc/ More placard headphone sessions around the world: http://www.leplacard.org/2008/ From kat_borges at yahoo.co.uk Mon Sep 15 13:31:49 2008 From: kat_borges at yahoo.co.uk (borges kat) Date: Mon Sep 15 13:32:04 2008 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] london placard headphone fest at cafe oto, london sept 20th In-Reply-To: <1221419765.6804.17.camel@teff> Message-ID: <434816.67235.qm@web27907.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> What how cool. I am coming. Anyone else...what time will you plan to come so we can meet there? Kat Borges --- On Sun, 14/9/08, alex wrote: > From: alex > Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] london placard headphone fest at cafe oto, london sept 20th > To: "dorkbotlondon" > Date: Sunday, 14 September, 2008, 8:16 PM > Hi Dorks, > > Here's details of the Placard headphone session at Cafe > Oto this > Saturday. Always a fine + strange experience... > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > London Placard Headphone Festival > http://london.leplacard.org/ > > ** BRING YOUR OWN HEADPHONES ** > > 10 hour free headphone listening session with a diverse > packed > schedule, one act every 20 minutes. Bring your own > headphones if you > want to hear the music. We have enough plugs for 100 > listeners. The > plug-in points are 1/4" jack sockets, but we'll > have plenty adaptors > for hire, all headphones catered for. > > Place: Cafe Oto, Ashwin Street, Dalston E8 3DL > Date: Saturday 20th Sept > Time: 1pm until 11pm > Tax: Free (donations welcome) > > Featuring: > > Leafcutter John, Edge Effect, Philip Julian, brassica, > London > Concrete, Cacao, Mandelbrot, Brandy alexander project, > Bleeding > heart narrative, The broadcast company, Dylan Bates, > Tuned to a dead > channel, Yee-King, slub, CrackTux, Ryan Jordan, Cormac > Heron, Jon > Aveyard, Spoonfight, rob munro, Helm, THE NOISER, Family > Battlesnake, Simpson brothers and more TBC > > Links: > http://london.leplacard.org/ > http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/ > > ** BRING YOUR OWN HEADPHONES ** > > Made possible with support from the PRS Foundation. > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > Also coming up -- placard @ netaudio fest: > http://netaudiolondon.cc/ > > More placard headphone sessions around the world: > http://www.leplacard.org/2008/ > > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with > electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ From stutterer at linuxmail.org Wed Sep 17 12:29:06 2008 From: stutterer at linuxmail.org (jonni jemp) Date: Wed Sep 17 12:29:21 2008 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] abstract code real code call piksel 2008 Message-ID: <20080917162906.781A943E2F@ws5-5.us4.outblaze.com> piksel 2008 subsection. December 4-7 2008 Bergen, Norway real code call real.co.[de][re] actively explores code which both has strong effects on the real, constructing the world through control, prediction and description, and the code of the real, how the world as given is coded. In a time of open hide-ware, of tempting Gnostic depths promoted by layered APIs and network models, real.co.[de][re] attempts to erase or rather flatten the distinction between software and hardware, to resolve a new political reference for real core code. real.co.[de] [re] asks a general question of a code nature beyond the prescribed API (hard). The twelve hour real.co.[de][re] session will attempt the active construction of a working code model (of any form) which addresses these concerns. Hacked genres are not limited to the following suggestions: life coding, paranoiac practice, pornographic coding, data forensics, steganographic psychogeography, biologic hacking, EM scrying and ... Please submit a proposal in any form: dream diary, API description, instruction set, film script, event code, scientific abstract... before September 30th 2008 to real@1010.co.uk http://1010.co.uk/org/piksel2008.html abstract code call Abstract code is software whose results can be invisible, a software implementing different layers of action at the same time. Abstract code is a connection to parallel worlds, a poetic formula dealing with outer forces. Code is art, its action is subtile, effective, magic. procedural text maledictions, oracles, iambi, hymn, formula, refrains, hypnotic sentences, prayers, and other. A night for writers, sorcerers, magicians, bots, pichadores, psychonauts, sex texters, scientists, coders, poets and intelligent agents. Performances, talks, food, music, dance, telepathy! > From midnight to dawn. For remote or local participation, send your letters, numbers, loops, scripts, illusions, pranks, to athanasius@xname.cc before September 30th 2008. http://xname.cc/abstractcode From dorkbot at idefarmen.no Thu Sep 18 14:17:12 2008 From: dorkbot at idefarmen.no (Kjartan Nilsen) Date: Thu Sep 18 14:17:28 2008 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Positioning using arduino and piezo microphones Message-ID: Dear dorkbot'ers. I'm aksing for someone to help me with programming for a piece of art i want to show as part of my degree shop. I want to create a 'device' that can track where i hit (like a snare) on a surface. My thought were to use three piezo microphones and then calculate the delay the 'sound/hit' takes to each microphone to then get the 'coordinates' of where the hit occurred. http://kjartan-abel.com/images/piezo_positioning_large.jpg Lets say the red dot is where i hit the surface. The upper right microphone would get the signal before the bottom microphone and upper left microphone. Also I believe it should be possible to read the velocity/amplitude of the hit as well! http://kjartan-abel.com/images/piezo_positioning_overlay_large.jpg The problem is that i'm completly new to arduino and would need help to achieve this. The end 'product' would be to display the 'coordinate' within processing.org cheers From johan.enstrom at gmail.com Fri Sep 19 07:46:02 2008 From: johan.enstrom at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan_Enstr=F6m?=) Date: Fri Sep 19 07:46:15 2008 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Looking for a Creative Technologist to lecture in Sweden. Message-ID: Hi Are you a creative technologist that uses technologies to accomplish your ideas? Do you find code and physical technologies to be the tools you use to complete your ideas? Do you find your ideas to be more interesting than your code? If that is the case I was hoping that you would be interested in holding a lecture in October for a set of students at the New Media school Hyper Island in Sweden. http://www.hyperisland.se The students will be working on a module called Experience Technology where they experiment with physical technologies to create interactive solutions. We would pay for flights and accommodation. You would also get to experience a beautiful part of Sweden. If this sounds like you it would be great to get in contact with you to discuss further. Please let me know when you are available for a quick chat or just give me a call.+447840 388 595 Looking forward to hear from you! Some examples of student work from last year. Experience Technology 2007 (A bit dark) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEonYINrRgc Create your own art (Student video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUzy9Pzo2TI FlyMII (instruction video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeCCHHFvH0k All the best Johan Enstrom +447840 388 595 http://www.hyperisland.se From alex at slab.org Fri Sep 19 18:56:03 2008 From: alex at slab.org (alex) Date: Fri Sep 19 18:57:07 2008 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Positioning using arduino and piezo microphones In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1221864963.16364.2.camel@teff> Hey Kjartan, Actually a couple of us got a proof of concept of this working at dorkcamp. We (Sylvain + I) got as far as having the arduino send the time offsets for each peizo to a PC. It seemed to work OK although I don't think we had the right surface. I will dig out the code and send it to you. Cheers, alex On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 20:17 +0200, Kjartan Nilsen wrote: > Dear dorkbot'ers. > I'm aksing for someone to help me with programming for a piece of art i want to show as part of my degree shop. > > I want to create a 'device' that can track where i hit (like a snare) on a surface. > > My thought were to use three piezo microphones and then calculate the delay the 'sound/hit' takes to each microphone to then get the 'coordinates' of where the hit occurred. > http://kjartan-abel.com/images/piezo_positioning_large.jpg > > Lets say the red dot is where i hit the surface. The upper right microphone would get the signal before the bottom microphone and upper left microphone. > Also I believe it should be possible to read the velocity/amplitude of the hit as well! > http://kjartan-abel.com/images/piezo_positioning_overlay_large.jpg > > The problem is that i'm completly new to arduino and would need help to achieve this. > > The end 'product' would be to display the 'coordinate' within processing.org > > cheers > > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ > From alex at slab.org Fri Sep 19 19:52:38 2008 From: alex at slab.org (alex) Date: Fri Sep 19 19:53:40 2008 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Positioning using arduino and piezo microphones In-Reply-To: <1221864963.16364.2.camel@teff> References: <1221864963.16364.2.camel@teff> Message-ID: <1221868358.16364.31.camel@teff> On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 23:56 +0100, alex wrote: > Actually a couple of us got a proof of concept of this working at > dorkcamp. We (Sylvain + I) got as far as having the arduino send the > time offsets for each peizo to a PC. It seemed to work OK although I > don't think we had the right surface. I will dig out the code and send > it to you. Attached! cheers alex -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: multiknock.txt Type: text/x-csrc Size: 1681 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotlondon-blabber/attachments/20080920/bcaeb7d0/multiknock.bin From sharpie7 at pinedragon.com Mon Sep 22 14:04:17 2008 From: sharpie7 at pinedragon.com (Iain Sharp) Date: Mon Sep 22 14:04:37 2008 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Adult only evening at the Science Museum this Wednesday Message-ID: <002401c91cdd$a1476290$0500a8c0@bigpc> Of interest to Dorks. I am planning to go along. http://tinyurl.com/4g854c 24th September 2008 6.30pm - 10.00pm Pre-booking not required The Science Museum is opening its doors for an adult only evening, for the first time, this September. Have a drink with friends at Science Museum Lates. Enjoy the unique experience of 'no children allowed' in our world famous interactive gallery Launchpad. Get hands on and capture your shadow, launch a rocket, spin like a skater or control a magnetic cloud. Your evening promises to be packed with unusual experiences, including the opportunity to; Make and race your own Robot, judged by Noel Sharkey from Robot Wars; Enjoy a Sci-Fi adventure with a look at science fiction film clips and how they have influenced science through the years; or take a guided tour of our new gallery exploring Dan Dare and the birth of high tech Britain. 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