From alex at slab.org Mon Jun 1 06:08:51 2009 From: alex at slab.org (alex) Date: Mon Jun 1 06:09:03 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] #61, Thurs 4th June at Limehouse town hall Message-ID: [ ] dorkbotlondon #61 /|\ The summer season of dork is here / \ When: 7pm, 4th June 2009 Where: The boxing club, Limehouse town hall, E14 7HA For directions and instructions for getting in to the building go here: http://dorkbotlondon.org/event/dorkbotlondon61/ Featuring presentations from the well-combed and frisky... * RJDJ - Chris McCormack (Pure data on the iphone) * sketchPatch - Davide Della Casa (an online programming playground based on Processing, somewhere to experiment with code, reuse and collaborate on existing code, share and learn) * Orbiter - an interactive sound environment - Vera-Maria Glahn & Marcus Wendt (Process of an interactive installation using generative sound and visuals and stereo motion tracking - from idea to play) Plus! Opendorks. If you'd like to give a 7 minute ad-hoc presentation about something then drop us a mail or let us know on the night. Or if you'd like to give a longer presentation drop us a mail and we'll schedule you for a future dork. http://dorkbotlondon.org/event/dorkbotlondon61/ -- http://yaxu.org/ From dave at pawfal.org Mon Jun 1 10:21:04 2009 From: dave at pawfal.org (Dave Griffiths) Date: Mon Jun 1 10:21:21 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] timelapse camera dolly Message-ID: <1243866064.6797.103.camel@kittywake> Hi all, A friend of mine needs some quick help with a project involving motors, cameras and prams: http://www.pawfal.org/dave/files/Pramdolly1.pdf There is some money in it, anyone interested please contact Mark directly: mark@archifilm.co.uk cheers, dave http://www.pawfal.org/dave From lists at lowfrequency.org Mon Jun 1 13:39:02 2009 From: lists at lowfrequency.org (evan.raskob [lists]) Date: Mon Jun 1 13:37:25 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] flexible studio share space available Message-ID: Hi, We're looking for someone to share some space in our studio in the heart of sunny Dalston, off the high street. We are creative (video, software, film, art, etc) professionals, and looking for someone doing complementary / interesting work to share our space and possibly, hopefully, collaborate on future projects. Cost depends on what you needs - up to a 1/2 room is available to share with another person (me) for a little over ?300/mo, but we can be flexible about space (and thus cost) with the right person or people. Please email me if you're interested. Best, Evan From sophie.mcdonald at gmail.com Wed Jun 3 09:47:08 2009 From: sophie.mcdonald at gmail.com (sophie McDonald) Date: Wed Jun 3 09:47:20 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] check the new programming playground website - sketchPatch Message-ID: Hi all, check out the new programming playground website www.sketchpatch.net sketchPatch is an online programming playground based on Processing, somewhere to experiment with code, reuse and collaborate on existing code, share and learn. sketchPatch is a net-based collaborative programming project developed by artist Sophie McDonald and computer programmer Davide Della Casa. The site enables people to create ?sketches? (programmes) with simple processing scripts to create visual, animated and interactive online drawings that can be easily shared and modified, creating a collection of networked artworks. sketchPatch makes Processing code accessible to a broad audience, through a shared learning environment. New coders are encouraged to hack experienced coders work, resampling and modifying the code to create new works. The site allows users to create a new Processing sketch, write and preview the code and save it to a gallery. They can also open an existing Sketch from the gallery and adjust its code, preview and save it as a new piece of work. Every month or so we invite a sketcher/artist/coder to create a piece of work to be featured on sketchPatch. We also invite them to choose a piece of work from sketchPatch to copy and version. This months featured sketcher is: Alex May, aka PsychicTeeth check out his page here http://www.sketchpatch.net/FA_Alex_May.html Davide is gonna introduce sketchPatch at Dorkbot this Thursday 4th June, so find out more then. We will also be showing it in the Open Source Embroidery exhibition ( http://www.open-source-embroidery.org.uk/osexhibition.htm) and at Eclectic Tech Carnival conference (/ETC) (http://www.eclectictechcarnival.org) next week in Sweden. So if you get your sketches online they will be in the exhibition too!!!!! :o) Some sketches do behave differently on the site than in Processing, but it will be part of the development of the site to iron those out. Its pretty good tho! For more info, or if your interested in getting involved as a developer or featured sketcher/artist/coder contact us at info at sketchpatch dot net. Join our facebook group... http://www.facebook.com/reqs.php#/group.php?gid=74492434010&ref=ts and follow us on Twitter... http://twitter.com/sketchpatch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotlondon-blabber/attachments/20090603/880c244e/attachment-0001.html From alex at slab.org Fri Jun 5 05:07:19 2009 From: alex at slab.org (alex) Date: Fri Jun 5 05:06:54 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Thursday club, Goldsmiths, 11th June, Annie Abrahams and Ajaykumar with Ruth Catlow Message-ID: <1244192839.15294.4.camel@duck> ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ THE THURSDAY CLUB ~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ Date: Thursday 11th June 2009 Location: Seminar Rooms, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, London UK http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/ Time: 6pm - 8pm Free, all welcome. With: Annie Abrahams and Ajaykumar Chair: Ruth Catlow, Furtherfield Annie Abrahams The wandering ant II. Relations and positions in a connected world. My interest is in limits and possibilities of communication. Since 1996 I intervene on the net making interactive webpages and creating participatory projects that very often have a real life counterpart in a performance or art show. When in May 2008 I was invited by InternetMonAmour to be on a panel called "Survival kit in a p2p world" together with a French neurobiologist and the president of the international p2p foundation, I came up with a lecture/performance presentation called ?The wandering Ant?. http://bram.org/info/presentation/IML.htm The wandering ant is the one who refuses to follow the rules of the ant colony and at the same time makes survival of the ant colony possible. I will continue my reflections around this intriguing metaphor and do a presentation of my recent experiences with web performance as for instance The Big Kiss, a performance that points to changes in behaviour due to machine mediation. I will pay special attention to Huis Clos / No Exit, a research project in which I will try to answer some questions about our possibilities of being together and collaborating in a networked environment. We are living in a world where people live more and more in their own bubbles, in their own spheres without need for the other. The post-, alter-modern individual has a dangerous tendency to auto sustain in a world where he communicates in the first place with the virtual others inside himself. Annie Abrahams is a Dutch artist living in Montpellier, France. She has a doctorate in biology (University of Utrecht) and is a graduate in fine arts (Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten Arnhem). She curates the project ?InstantS? for panoplie.org. She also initiated and curated the ?Breaking Solitude? and ?Double Bind? webperformance projects in 2007 and 2008. Besides doing her art work she lectures and teaches workshops. http://www.bram.org/ http://aabrahams.wordpress.com/ Ajaykumar iPak ajaykumar's presentation discusses the notion of 'relational being' and 'non-anthropocentric being', with particular regard to a current work, iPak, commissioned by Turbulence and evolving over two years from 2008 to 2010. iPak can be engaged with at: http://turbulence.org/Works/iPak/ Ajaykumar?s discusses how we inter-act socially, with the world around us. He examines the potential for generating little worlds - special spaces or places - to contact our playful nature, our imagination, and our feelings about the significance and the sacredness of our lives and our relationships, corresponding in part to what Suzuki calls ?psychospheres?. These relationships are as much to do with our relationship with others, as they are with objects, and with ourselves. The discussion relates to Nature, about how we may conceive and think about Nature. It re-conceives classical Buddhist and Tantric Art in contemporary form, partcicularly with regard the notion of ?void?. Here it elicits notions of daily life as art; and stimulates particular ecological dynamics of the human being in relation to environment. http://www.ajaykumar.com/ http://www.shapes-design.com/ http://thethursdayclub.net/ Programmed and Organised by the Goldsmiths Digital Studios. Supported by the Goldsmiths Graduate School and the Department of Computing. From ffl at gold.ac.uk Fri Jun 5 09:43:36 2009 From: ffl at gold.ac.uk (Frederic Fol Leymarie) Date: Fri Jun 5 09:43:53 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Philip Beesley on Transitional fields @ Goldsmiths - Wed. June 10, 18h Message-ID: <4A292108.9000202@gold.ac.uk> FYI http://www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id=3004 Philip Beesley on Transitional fields *Philip Beesley will present a series of recent field-oriented installations and will offer a post-humanist context. * www.philipbeesleyarchitect.com -- Professor Frederic Fol Leymarie Goldsmiths College Computing Dept. London, U.K. www.folleymarie.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotlondon-blabber/attachments/20090605/16e38881/attachment.html From sharpie7 at pinedragon.com Sat Jun 6 11:23:49 2009 From: sharpie7 at pinedragon.com (Iain Sharp) Date: Sat Jun 6 11:24:03 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Visit to JET Fusion Research Centre - Wed November 11th Message-ID: <1C1F6519132A4FC09E69738373EF1957@bigpc> Dear Dorkbotters, We had a great time at the Diamond Synchrotron recently, and it was suggested that more visits would go down well. I've now got 10 places on the next open day of the Joint European Torus fusion reactor (http://www.jet.efda.org/) near Oxford. For those not familiar, this is the world's largest nuclear fusion research centre and incorporates many incredible pieces of engineering. To quote their web site "In the latest experiments, JET operated with a high plasma current of 4.3 million ampere, full magnetic field of 3.45 Tesla and increased neutral beam power of 23 million Watts, together with 4 million Watts of radio frequency power from a second scheme based on ion cyclotron resonance heating." The date for the visit is Wed 11th November and things start at 6:30pm and end around 9:30. If you would like to come then please let me know. First come, first served. Regards Iain -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotlondon-blabber/attachments/20090606/c61f7679/attachment.html From greenman at muti.tv Sat Jun 6 17:25:50 2009 From: greenman at muti.tv (greenman) Date: Sat Jun 6 17:26:38 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Visit to JET Fusion Research Centre - Wed November 11th In-Reply-To: <1C1F6519132A4FC09E69738373EF1957@bigpc> References: <1C1F6519132A4FC09E69738373EF1957@bigpc> Message-ID: <4A2ADEDE.7090107@muti.tv> Hey Iain - I would love to come along and check things out. Greenman Iain Sharp wrote: > Dear Dorkbotters, > > We had a great time at the Diamond Synchrotron recently, and it was > suggested that more visits would go down well. > > I've now got 10 places on the next open day of the Joint European > Torus fusion reactor (http://www.jet.efda.org/) near Oxford. For those > not familiar, this is the world's largest nuclear fusion research > centre and incorporates many incredible pieces of engineering. To > quote their web site "In the latest experiments, JET operated with a > high plasma current of 4.3 million ampere, full magnetic field of 3.45 > Tesla and increased neutral beam power of 23 million Watts, together > with 4 million Watts of radio frequency power from a second scheme > based on ion cyclotron resonance heating." > > The date for the visit is Wed 11th November and things start at 6:30pm > and end around 9:30. If you would like to come then please let me know. > > First come, first served. > > Regards > > Iain > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ > From lists at lowfrequency.org Mon Jun 8 06:16:40 2009 From: lists at lowfrequency.org (evan.raskob [lists]) Date: Mon Jun 8 06:14:37 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Visit to JET Fusion Research Centre - Wed November 11th In-Reply-To: <1C1F6519132A4FC09E69738373EF1957@bigpc> References: <1C1F6519132A4FC09E69738373EF1957@bigpc> Message-ID: Hi Iain, Count me in! I used to work in a nuclear reactor... a little one... Cheers Evan On Jun 6, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Iain Sharp wrote: > Dear Dorkbotters, > > We had a great time at the Diamond Synchrotron recently, and it was > suggested that more visits would go down well. > > I've now got 10 places on the next open day of the Joint European > Torus fusion reactor (http://www.jet.efda.org/) near Oxford. For > those not familiar, this is the world's largest nuclear fusion > research centre and incorporates many incredible pieces of > engineering. To quote their web site "In the latest experiments, > JET operated with a high plasma current of 4.3 million ampere, full > magnetic field of 3.45 Tesla and increased neutral beam power of 23 > million Watts, together with 4 million Watts of radio frequency > power from a second scheme based on ion cyclotron resonance heating." > > The date for the visit is Wed 11th November and things start at > 6:30pm and end around 9:30. If you would like to come then please > let me know. > > First come, first served. > > Regards > > Iain > > ...................................................................... > .. > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with > electricity.......... > ..........................http:// > dorkbot.org............................ > ...................................................................... > .. Evan Raskob ML Studio 4-8 Arcola Street London E8 2DJ United Kingdom http://mlstudio.co.uk http://pixelist.info -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotlondon-blabber/attachments/20090608/c6af6c60/attachment.html From dorkbot at atwood.org.uk Mon Jun 8 14:44:37 2009 From: dorkbot at atwood.org.uk (robert a.) Date: Mon Jun 8 14:44:54 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Visit to JET Fusion Research Centre - Wed November 11th In-Reply-To: References: <1C1F6519132A4FC09E69738373EF1957@bigpc> Message-ID: <4A2D5C15.4090601@atwood.org.uk> Sounds good ! X2 for me? Nice to see what the neighbours are up to. From sharpie7 at pinedragon.com Tue Jun 9 13:37:16 2009 From: sharpie7 at pinedragon.com (Iain Sharp) Date: Tue Jun 9 13:37:30 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Fw: Visit to JET Fusion Research Centre - Wed November 11th - Now Full Message-ID: <20E97FBF7AA942DA9B5AE34B1ADEF28C@bigpc> Dear All, The trip to JET is now full. I will email individually those who have replied. If you DID reply and don't hear from me shortly then please nudge me. If you are still keen to go and didn't make the cut then send me an email anyway and I'll start a "reserve" list in case anyone drops out. Regards Iain ----- Original Message ----- From: Iain Sharp To: A discussion list for dorkbot-london Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 4:23 PM Subject: Visit to JET Fusion Research Centre - Wed November 11th Dear Dorkbotters, We had a great time at the Diamond Synchrotron recently, and it was suggested that more visits would go down well. I've now got 10 places on the next open day of the Joint European Torus fusion reactor (http://www.jet.efda.org/) near Oxford. For those not familiar, this is the world's largest nuclear fusion research centre and incorporates many incredible pieces of engineering. To quote their web site "In the latest experiments, JET operated with a high plasma current of 4.3 million ampere, full magnetic field of 3.45 Tesla and increased neutral beam power of 23 million Watts, together with 4 million Watts of radio frequency power from a second scheme based on ion cyclotron resonance heating." The date for the visit is Wed 11th November and things start at 6:30pm and end around 9:30. If you would like to come then please let me know. First come, first served. Regards Iain -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotlondon-blabber/attachments/20090609/bfaf1535/attachment.html From alex at slab.org Tue Jun 9 18:42:57 2009 From: alex at slab.org (alex) Date: Tue Jun 9 18:43:10 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] another possible dork on june 23rd Message-ID: Looks like we might well be having a double whammy this month with another dorkbotlondon on tuesday 23rd June, in honour of Douglas Repetto visiting from dorkbotnyc. The schedule is filling up already but if you'd like to present something please let me know. cheers, alex -- http://yaxu.org/ From theo.honohan at gmail.com Sat Jun 13 14:54:24 2009 From: theo.honohan at gmail.com (Theo Honohan) Date: Sat Jun 13 14:54:37 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] question about a dorkbot in the distant past Message-ID: <9666266e0906131154w4c4daf7dwdf13806ca0aee805@mail.gmail.com> Hi, Does anyone remember the name of the person who presented a community currency project in Canada at an early dorkbotlondon? I remember that it was at State51. A check of the listings on the website suggests to me that it was in the period for which data is missing. Someone must remember. Interested because of something I came across the other day proposing a gauge theory of money, which had some similarities to the specific system he discussed. (A general understanding of money in terms of a gauge theory could offer an alternative to the current unsatisfactory explanation of "where it all went". Maybe! I probably just have too much time on my hands.) Theo From saul at theps.net Sat Jun 13 15:56:19 2009 From: saul at theps.net (Saul Albert) Date: Sat Jun 13 15:56:31 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] question about a dorkbot in the distant past In-Reply-To: <9666266e0906131154w4c4daf7dwdf13806ca0aee805@mail.gmail.com> References: <9666266e0906131154w4c4daf7dwdf13806ca0aee805@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <20090613195556.GK9943@localdomain> Yeah, On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 07:54:24PM +0100, Theo Honohan wrote: > Does anyone remember the name of the person who presented a community > currency project in Canada at an early dorkbotlondon? That was openmoney presented by Michael Linton. I think he mentioned something about the existing system of financialization of everything leading to a massive global economic collapse sometime soon and an inevitable lean towards self-provision of currencies to route around the teetering banking system. :) -- The People Speak | 17-25 Cremer St. London E2 8HD | http://theps.net studio +44 (0)20 71007915 | saul: +44 (0)7941 255210 | ms@theps.net From dowdinsk at gotadsl.co.uk Sat Jun 13 16:16:15 2009 From: dowdinsk at gotadsl.co.uk (Steve) Date: Sat Jun 13 16:16:32 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] question about a dorkbot in the distant past In-Reply-To: <20090613195556.GK9943@localdomain> References: <9666266e0906131154w4c4daf7dwdf13806ca0aee805@mail.gmail.com> <20090613195556.GK9943@localdomain> Message-ID: Saul's answered the original question, and don't know whether this helps but an example not from Canada but from East London is CCLite http://www.hughbarnard.org/content/alternative-currency-software cheers, ... -.. Steve Dowding IT Services http://sdit.org.uk part of Common Knowledge http://www.commonknowledge.org.uk On 13 Jun 2009, at 20:56, Saul Albert wrote: > Yeah, > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 07:54:24PM +0100, Theo Honohan wrote: >> Does anyone remember the name of the person who presented a community >> currency project in Canada at an early dorkbotlondon? > > That was openmoney presented by Michael Linton. > > I think he mentioned something about the existing system of > financialization of everything leading to a massive global economic > collapse sometime soon and an inevitable lean towards self- > provision of > currencies to route around the teetering banking system. > > :) > > > -- > The People Speak | 17-25 Cremer St. London E2 8HD | http:// > theps.net > studio +44 (0)20 71007915 | saul: +44 (0)7941 255210 | ms@theps.net > ...................................................................... > .. > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with > electricity.......... > ..........................http:// > dorkbot.org............................ > ...................................................................... > .. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotlondon-blabber/attachments/20090613/12742439/attachment-0001.html From theo.honohan at gmail.com Sat Jun 13 17:44:07 2009 From: theo.honohan at gmail.com (Theo Honohan) Date: Sat Jun 13 17:44:22 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] question about a dorkbot in the distant past In-Reply-To: References: <9666266e0906131154w4c4daf7dwdf13806ca0aee805@mail.gmail.com> <20090613195556.GK9943@localdomain> Message-ID: <9666266e0906131444g6f034e5cy999272144fe74f44@mail.gmail.com> 2009/6/13 Saul Albert : > Yeah, that was openmoney presented by Michael Linton. 2009/6/13 Steve : > Saul's answered the original question, and don't know whether this helps but > an example not from Canada but from East London is CCLite > http://www.hughbarnard.org/content/alternative-currency-software Thanks. The extremely eccentric paper I was reading is at http://www.ltn.lv/~dainize/MathPages/what.money.gauge.freedom.pdf I'm looking for a nice illustrative analogy for the conceptual error behind the crisis, and a physical one would be great. Zeps seems to display a promising kind of naivete, starting from an analogy with electrical potential. (on topic!) Theo From paulm at paulm.com Sun Jun 14 12:38:54 2009 From: paulm at paulm.com (Paul Makepeace) Date: Sun Jun 14 12:39:08 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] question about a dorkbot in the distant past In-Reply-To: References: <9666266e0906131154w4c4daf7dwdf13806ca0aee805@mail.gmail.com> <20090613195556.GK9943@localdomain> Message-ID: Hugh and michael have worked closely in the past on various CC implementations (I hosted some of them even). There's a fairly high profile and successful, from what I've read, CC in Lewes, if you're interested. If you like I can put you in touch. On Jun 13, 2009 9:16 PM, "Steve" wrote: Saul's answered the original question, and don't know whether this helps but an example not from Canada but from East London is CCLite http://www.hughbarnard.org/content/alternative-currency-software cheers, ... -.. Steve Dowding IT Services http://sdit.org.uk part of Common Knowledge http://www.commonknowledge.org.uk On 13 Jun 2009, at 20:56, Saul Albert wrote: > Yeah, > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 07:54:24PM +0100,... ........................................................................ .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ ........................................................................ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotlondon-blabber/attachments/20090614/6e5d0081/attachment.html From info at mztek.org Mon Jun 15 06:44:57 2009 From: info at mztek.org (info@mztek.org) Date: Mon Jun 15 06:45:10 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] MzTEK Unplugged: Ele Carpenter **wed 27th June** Message-ID: <62084.79.72.37.141.1245062697.squirrel@box362.bluehost.com> Hey all! This Wednesday 17th June - MzTEK Unplugged - Ele Carpenter will introduce her project as a curator and researcher, Open Source Embroidery. So come and have a beer, and feel free to bring along your knitting and coding patterns to share and modify too. The Open Source Embroidery project facilitates a range of artists practice investigating the relationship between programming for embroidery and computing. It?s based on the common characteristics of needlework crafts and open source computer programming: gendered obsessive attention to detail; shared social process of development; and a transparency of process and product. Open Source Embroidery is a socially engaged art project developed through workshops and an email lists. Ele?s blog, www.eleweekend.blogspot.com, documents the project and posts information about current workshops and exhibitions. For more info check out... http:/www.mztek.org/mztek-unplugged-ele-carpenter/ 7-9pm Location: Leon restaurant, Bankside, 7 Canvey Street (Behind the Tate Modern) London SE1 9AN MAP: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&om=1&msa=0&msid=106000309244585811318.0004627a5e16ecbff9a01&ll=51.506205,-0.098598&spn=0.004902,0.012059&z=17 From info at mztek.org Mon Jun 15 06:48:07 2009 From: info at mztek.org (info@mztek.org) Date: Mon Jun 15 06:48:21 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] MzTEK Unplugged: Ele Carpenter ** this wednesday 17th June** Message-ID: <62120.79.72.37.141.1245062887.squirrel@box362.bluehost.com> Hey all! This Wednesday 17th June - MzTEK Unplugged - Ele Carpenter will introduce her project as a curator and researcher, Open Source Embroidery. So come and have a beer, and feel free to bring along your knitting and coding patterns to share and modify too. The Open Source Embroidery project facilitates a range of artists practice investigating the relationship between programming for embroidery and computing. It?s based on the common characteristics of needlework crafts and open source computer programming: gendered obsessive attention to detail; shared social process of development; and a transparency of process and product. Open Source Embroidery is a socially engaged art project developed through workshops and an email lists. Ele?s blog, www.eleweekend.blogspot.com, documents the project and posts information about current workshops and exhibitions. For more info check out... http:/www.mztek.org/mztek-unplugged-ele-carpenter/ 7-9pm Location: Leon restaurant, Bankside, 7 Canvey Street (Behind the Tate Modern) London SE1 9AN MAP: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&om=1&msa=0&msid=106000309244585811318.0004627a5e16ecbff9a01&ll=51.506205,-0.098598&spn=0.004902,0.012059&z=17 From lists at lowfrequency.org Wed Jun 17 14:55:27 2009 From: lists at lowfrequency.org (evan.raskob [lists]) Date: Wed Jun 17 14:55:44 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Openlab London presents summer workshops in open source and free software Message-ID: <9067EEA9-4795-4FF7-8F6D-2247E451247D@lowfrequency.org> Hello, Openlab is hosting a regular series of workshops this summer, starting 30 June with an introductory session in Processing, an introduction to the powerful audio programming software SuperCollider, and a hands-on workshop in hardware hacking to make some noise! Full details can be found here (same as below): http://www.pawfal.org/openlab/2009/06/17/openlab-summer- workshops-2009-30-june-2009/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-= Openlab Summer Workshops 2009 - 30 June 2009 =-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This summer, Openlab, the London-based open source art and technology collective, presents a series of in-depth summer workshops exploring creating and hacking media using free software and tools. Workshops will include both beginner and advanced instruction in such software as PureData, Processing, and SuperCollider, as well as using the microcontroller Arduino, general sound hardware hacking, and more. For less than the cost of the cinema, you can gain some valuable skills using free software! ~=~=~=~Workshop #1~=~=~=~ When: Tuesday 30 June, from 6pm-11:30pm Where: The Roebuck pub (upstairs room), 50 Great Dover Street, SE1 4YG Nearest transport: 35, 133, 343, 21 buses, Borough Tube (Northern line) About 8 minute walk from London Bridge Station (Northern and Jubilee tube, rail, and bus station: 48, 47, 149 buses) Map: Cost: ?15 for the entire night, or per workshop (see below). How to pay: At the door, or via Paypal to be guaranteed a space (limited to 30 people per workshop). Please email workshop@pixelism.info to reserve a space in any workshop. 1) Introduction to SuperCollider with Dan Stowell - ?10 SuperCollider is an incredible environment and programming language for music and audio. In this 2-hour introductory session we will get started with SuperCollider, using it for synthesis and digital signal processing, as well as creating musical patterns and generative audio. All welcome, although some prior programming experience would definitely be helpful. Bring a laptop, and please install SuperCollider (latest version 3.3, ideally) on it beforehand. 2) Hardware Noise Hacking with Ryan Jordan - ?5 Ryan Jordan, veteran noise artist and organizer of the successful NOISE==NOISE performance series presents an introduction to making sounds with basic circuitry. All participants will be making sounds by the end of the 1-hr workshop. No previous experience required. 3) Processing for Visual Artists with Evan Raskob - ?10 Processing is fast becoming the tool of choice for interactive artists and designers looking to add some visual complexity and user interaction to their work, from music videos to interactive kiosks and print graphics. This 2-hour workshop is the first in a series of summer workshops, gently introducing Processing from the beginning and focusing on basic techniques for drawing on the screen. No experience required. Please bring a laptop and download Processing prior to the workshop. Taught by lecturer and visual performance artist Evan Raskob. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotlondon-blabber/attachments/20090617/e6e8e183/attachment-0001.html From alex at slab.org Wed Jun 17 16:44:23 2009 From: alex at slab.org (alex) Date: Wed Jun 17 16:44:40 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] #62, Tuesday 23rd June, Limehouse Town Hall Message-ID: ~* dorkbotlondon #62 *~ PEOPLE DOING STRANGE THINGS WITH ELECTRICITY http://dorkbotlondon.org/ Back for the second dorkbotlondon of the month! When: 7pm, 23rd June 2009 Where: The boxing club, Limehouse town hall, 646 Commercial Road, E14 7HA When you get to limehouse town hall, ring the 'boxing club' bell. *Please close the door behind you* You'll find us upstairs! Featuring: Douglas Repetto -- the founder of dorkbot visits from NYC to spin us a fine tale http://www.music.columbia.edu/~douglas/ Ele Carpenter -- Ele talks about what happens round the back of the work in Open Source Embroidery http://www.open-source-embroidery.org.uk/ Mike Harrison -- Mike isn't sure what he's going to present yet http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/ Iain Sharp -- Iain presents his mechanical recreation of the classic arcade game Lunar Lander before it gets shipped off to Southwold pier. http://lushprojects.com/blog/ More info: http://dorkbotlondon.org/ From alex at slab.org Thu Jun 18 04:32:26 2009 From: alex at slab.org (alex) Date: Thu Jun 18 04:32:59 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] #62, Tuesday 23rd June, Limehouse Town Hall Message-ID: ~* dorkbotlondon #62 *~ PEOPLE DOING STRANGE THINGS WITH ELECTRICITY http://dorkbotlondon.org/ Back for the second dorkbotlondon of the month! When: 7pm, 23rd June 2009 Where: The boxing club, Limehouse town hall, 646 Commercial Road, E14 7HA When you get to limehouse town hall, ring the 'boxing club' bell. *Please close the door behind you* You'll find us upstairs! Featuring: Douglas Repetto -- the founder of dorkbot visits from NYC to spin us a fine tale http://www.music.columbia.edu/~douglas/ Ele Carpenter -- Ele talks about what happens round the back of the work in Open Source Embroidery http://www.open-source-embroidery.org.uk/ Mike Harrison -- Mike isn't sure what he's going to present yet http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/ Iain Sharp -- Iain presents his mechanical recreation of the classic arcade game Lunar Lander before it gets shipped off to Southwold pier. http://lushprojects.com/blog/ More info: http://dorkbotlondon.org/ From andrew.webb at bbc.co.uk Thu Jun 18 08:27:30 2009 From: andrew.webb at bbc.co.uk (Andrew Webb-World TV-INTERNET) Date: Thu Jun 18 08:27:42 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Contact details for BBC filming Message-ID: <6B9AAD08BF20A54F88E8187D16408D8009004C2A@bbcxue218.national.core.bbc.co.uk> I am arranging to film the upcoming meeting on Tuesday 23rd June and am wondering if anyone has contact details - particularly phone numbers - for the following people: Ele Carpenter James Larson Sarah Angliss I look forward to hearing from you. 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URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotlondon-blabber/attachments/20090618/1d840924/attachment.html From alex at slab.org Thu Jun 18 18:13:48 2009 From: alex at slab.org (alex) Date: Thu Jun 18 18:14:01 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] burningdork '09 Message-ID: We've done a late summer dorkcamp for the last three years: http://dorkbotlondon.org/wiki/index.php/DorkCamp06 http://dorkbotlondon.org/wiki/index.php/DorkCamp07 http://dorkbotlondon.org/wiki/index.php/DorkCamp08 The idea is to have a fun weekend of camping, soldering, crafting, dorky workshops and to build a dork to burn at the end. To join in discussions about 2009 dorkcamp please join this mailing list: http://lists.lurk.org/mailman/listinfo/burningdork/ Sadly our favourite venue Bentley Copse can't host us this year, so the first big task is finding alternate camping. We also need volunteers, workshop organisers etc and most importantly, cooks. cheers alex -- http://yaxu.org/ From kat_borges at yahoo.co.uk Thu Jun 18 19:09:06 2009 From: kat_borges at yahoo.co.uk (kat_borges@yahoo.co.uk) Date: Thu Jun 18 19:09:15 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] burningdork '09 Message-ID: <746216.72588.qm@web27901.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Sure. Will help. Geoff and myself. Kat On 18 Jun 2009, at 23:13, alex wrote: We've done a late summer dorkcamp for the last three years: http://dorkbotlondon.org/wiki/index.php/DorkCamp06 http://dorkbotlondon.org/wiki/index.php/DorkCamp07 http://dorkbotlondon.org/wiki/index.php/DorkCamp08 The idea is to have a fun weekend of camping, soldering, crafting, dorky workshops and to build a dork to burn at the end. To join in discussions about 2009 dorkcamp please join this mailing list: http://lists.lurk.org/mailman/listinfo/burningdork/ Sadly our favourite venue Bentley Copse can't host us this year, so the first big task is finding alternate camping. We also need volunteers, workshop organisers etc and most importantly, cooks. cheers alex -- http://yaxu.org/ ........................................................................ .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ ........................................................................ From alex at slab.org Fri Jun 19 04:31:02 2009 From: alex at slab.org (alex) Date: Fri Jun 19 04:31:24 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] 25th June - Thursday club, Goldsmiths special event - Theorizing Performance in Virtual Spaces Message-ID: Please note that the last Thursday club of this term will be. THURSDAY CLUB, THURSDAY JUNE 25th 2009 Goldsmiths, University of London Ben Pimlott lecture theatre PLEASE NOTE THAT IT IS A 7pm start All welcome and free Theorizing Performance in Virtual Spaces The presentation will describe and analyze the theoretical issues for Performance Studies posed by new genres of performance in virtual environments, such as Second Life. We will also demonstrate the technological modifications to Second Life that our team has developed to facilitate a new form of mediated performance and outline the experiments that we have initiated to take advantage of this technology. Utilizing a panel discussion format involving live participants and avatars in Second Life, our presentation aims to shed light on the unique opportunities provided by virtual environments in formulating new approaches to theorizing contemporary performance practices. A fundamental premise of the discipline of Performance Studies is that theory is enlivened and most rigorously tested when it hits the ground in practice. We at Georgia Tech have a particular opportunity to test that premise, because our institution is a meeting ground for technological practice and critical reflection. The Augmented Environments Lab (AEL) and the Wesley Center for New Media are in the process of developing technological modifications to Second Life that will facilitate a new form of mediated performance, one in which actors and audience share a performance space that is both physical and virtual. We are already planning performances that will take advantage of this technology: these performances will be a negotiation between professional improv artists in the city of Atlanta and technologists here at Georgia Tech. Members of the team presenting are Kathryn Farley, Prof. Jay Bolter, Professor Michael Nitsche and grad. student Jenifer Vandagriff. Web site for the project: http://arsecondlife.gvu.gatech.edu The session will be introduced by Maria X From info at mztek.org Mon Jun 22 07:54:03 2009 From: info at mztek.org (info@mztek.org) Date: Mon Jun 22 07:54:20 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] MzTEK Unplugged: Jim Prevett ** this wednesday 24th June, 7-9pm** Message-ID: <60270.79.72.37.141.1245671643.squirrel@box362.bluehost.com> Come and join us for the last MzTEK Unplugged b4 schools out 4 summer. Jim Prevett will present Power Up art- A short history of technology and art. Technology has difficult relationship with art. it has a history of challenging the status quo and potentially democratising art. Gradually challenging technologies tend to become integrated into the art gallery structure. This will briefly show some of the pioneering works leading through from ink to telecommunications . Jim Prevett studied Fine Art (Sculpture) at Sheffield Hallam University in 1999. He works with prevett & mcArthur who have exhibited across the UK and internationally including ?Echo City? at the British Pavilion for Venice Biennale of Architecture 2006, The Perfect Real at King Street Arts Centre and ?His life is full of miracles ? videotech at Site Gallery Sheffield. Jim ran the arts programme for Access Space in Sheffield for 2 years establishing a residency programme and producing LOSS Livecode, a festival of ?livecoding? audio. Access Space is the UK?s first recycled technology medialab, using open source software to invigorate old computers and creativity using computers. Jim has worked with Encounters community based arts organisation in Sheffield and as part of New Dust. Jim currently works as the Emergent Technologies Producer at SPACE media in Hackney, where he runs programmes such as the PermaCultures series of residencies and workshops and FutureTV youth media development. He is an Associate Lecturer on the undergraduate Fine Art (media) course at at Sheffield Hallam University. Jim lives and works in London and Sheffield. This Wednesday 24th June from 7-9pm Location (different to the usual meeting place): Leon restaurant, 12 Ludgate Circus, London EC4M 7LQ Map http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&geocode=&ie=UTF8&om=1&msa=0&msid=106000309244585811318.0004627a5e16ecbff9a01&ll=51.514218,-0.103705&spn=0.004707,0.012059&z=17 hope to see you there! for more info contact us at info@mztek.org www.mztek.org From info at mztek.org Wed Jun 24 07:04:26 2009 From: info at mztek.org (info@mztek.org) Date: Wed Jun 24 07:04:37 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] MzTEK P2P workshop. Hair raising harmonies! with Joan Healy Sunday 28th June. Message-ID: <52571.79.72.37.141.1245841466.squirrel@box362.bluehost.com> Calling all women MzTEKies... THIS SUNDAY 28th JUNE, 12-2pm at Sal's place. Joan will be demonstrating how to make your own mic from a mono jack and a piezo, and then using it to pic up the beautiful tones of your hair using tin cans and glass bowls etc. Then plugging up to an eff off great amp (or a wee stereo...) for the final cacophony! check out the blog post for a better idea of the plan... http://www.mztek.org/p2p-workshop-musicalhair/ The workshop will be at Sal's place, so please RSVP to info@mztek.org for the address. There will be a small fee (about ?3) if you want to take your masterpiece away with you, but let us know in advance. Or if you want to bring your own supplies, email us for deets. c u there! info@mztek.org www.mztek.org From dave_chatting at mac.com Wed Jun 24 09:38:23 2009 From: dave_chatting at mac.com (Dave Chatting) Date: Wed Jun 24 09:38:53 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] The Proverbial Show - Curiosity Collective - Ipswich - this weekend Message-ID: <12130336123066710611719477353111953408-Webmail@me.com> Hi Everyone, If you're heading out to East Anglia this weekend, do come by the Curiosity Collective's "The Proverbial Show - beware of geeks bearing gifts" in Ipswich! A collection of proverbs reinterpreted in physical form for your amusement, delight and puzzlement. Many using electricity in strange ways :) 26th to 28th June - Graham & Oldham Gallery, Electric House, Ipswich. IP1 3HT Friday: 5pm to 9:30pm - reception at 8pm Saturday: 10am until 6pm Sunday: 10am to 4pm - talk at 3pm We are a group of artists, inventors, musicians and dorks in Ipswich, who work together to make interactive curiosities. The Proverbial Show will be our fifth show since the group emerged in 2005. Please check our website for more: http://www.curiositycollective.org The Graham & Oldham Gallery is to be found behind the Futon Company, Tower Ramparts. The exhibition is the basement space, accessible by a flight of stairs. Ipswich Borough Council and Turnstone - Arts Grants aided I hope we'll be able to come present on this all soon. Cheers, Dave & The Curiosity Collective From andrew.webb at bbc.co.uk Thu Jun 25 05:27:27 2009 From: andrew.webb at bbc.co.uk (Andrew Webb-World TV-INTERNET) Date: Thu Jun 25 05:33:12 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] BBC feature In-Reply-To: <12130336123066710611719477353111953408-Webmail@me.com> References: <12130336123066710611719477353111953408-Webmail@me.com> Message-ID: <6B9AAD08BF20A54F88E8187D16408D8009004CAB@bbcxue218.national.core.bbc.co.uk> Thank you to everyone who helped me in filming on Tuesday. We already have several video features today, so have delayed publishing the feature until next week (probably Tuesday) to give it more prominence. I'll send a link when it is ready. Andrew Webb Technology Video Producer, BBC News Website Tel: +44 (0)20 857 60678 Mobile: +44 (0)7974 564 247 Email: andrew.webb@bbc.co.uk Website: www.bbc.co.uk/technology -----Original Message----- From: dorkbotlondon-blabber-bounces@dorkbot.org [mailto:dorkbotlondon-blabber-bounces@dorkbot.org] On Behalf Of Dave Chatting Sent: 24 June 2009 14:38 To: dorkbotlondon-blabber@dorkbot.org Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] The Proverbial Show - Curiosity Collective- Ipswich - this weekend Hi Everyone, If you're heading out to East Anglia this weekend, do come by the Curiosity Collective's "The Proverbial Show - beware of geeks bearing gifts" in Ipswich! A collection of proverbs reinterpreted in physical form for your amusement, delight and puzzlement. Many using electricity in strange ways :) 26th to 28th June - Graham & Oldham Gallery, Electric House, Ipswich. IP1 3HT Friday: 5pm to 9:30pm - reception at 8pm Saturday: 10am until 6pm Sunday: 10am to 4pm - talk at 3pm We are a group of artists, inventors, musicians and dorks in Ipswich, who work together to make interactive curiosities. The Proverbial Show will be our fifth show since the group emerged in 2005. Please check our website for more: http://www.curiositycollective.org The Graham & Oldham Gallery is to be found behind the Futon Company, Tower Ramparts. The exhibition is the basement space, accessible by a flight of stairs. Ipswich Borough Council and Turnstone - Arts Grants aided I hope we'll be able to come present on this all soon. Cheers, Dave & The Curiosity Collective ........................................................................ .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ ........................................................................ http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this. From bonjour.tweak at gmail.com Thu Jun 25 05:43:27 2009 From: bonjour.tweak at gmail.com (tweak) Date: Thu Jun 25 05:43:38 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Call for Submissions Message-ID: <336fc8d20906250243j20a3ce45t492370484e91580c@mail.gmail.com> Hey Meant to send this around earlier. Tweak is two! Currently in its second edition, Tweak is an interactive art and live electronic music festival taking place in Limerick City between the 21st and 26th of September 2009. Its aim is to promote understanding of the use of technology within our culture and to explore contemporary issues (social, economic, psychological, aesthetic and functional). The festival will consist of a 5-day exhibition, (interactive artworks, robots and installations) comprising of artworks from international and local artists, 3 days of workshops and many evenings of live electronic performance. Digital technology has become a medium that has redefined the arts broadening horizons and changing practices. New works that explore interactivity and the possibilities opened up by multimedia and electronic technologies to create immersive experiences bring physicality and play to the digital medium. We call for submissions from artists and designers who?s work has been labelled as ?new media?, ?physical computing?, ?tangible interfaces?, ?digital media?, ?techno craft?, amongst other titles which attempt to define the field. We are currently accepting proposals for the following categories: Exhibition Workshops Live Electronic Performance Cinematic Works Listening Post The call for submissions is open from April 15th to July 20th, 2009. All submissions should have the participants name, work title and technical specifications as well as a work abstract in English (maximum of 200) and a brief biography(max of 200 words) about the author. Group works should have all members listed on the entry form. Please include links to video and photo documentation. 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Loosely modeled on the idea of a Tech Fair, EXPO?09 is an informal event showing the work of MA Interactive Media students and seeking to spark discussion and critical engagement. It highlights tensions rather than reveal truths, thereby inviting to investigate culture through machinic thought and software visions. EXPO?09 develops a new direction in the study of interactive media. Dissatisfied with the particularities of bounded disciplines, it works at the intersection of philosophy, science & technology and the arts where theoretical investigation and practical experimentation fold onto one another. Attracting a wide range of participants, EXPO?09 tackles issues as varied as the difference between the analog and the digital, language and physicality, machinic processes, algorithms and databases in control societies, the aesthetics of political and cultural action through viral entities. These will be showcased through a mix of objects, installations, software and performance. Please pass this along to anyone you think might be interested! We look forward to seeing you there! When: Opening event: Thursday 2 July 6pm ? 10pm Friday 3 July ? Saturday 4 July 10am ? 6pm Where: Rm 300, Richard Hoggart Building at Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross SE14 6NW Admission: FREE, All Welcome Press Enquiries: Sarah Empey, Press & PR Manager Tel: 020 7919 7909 email: s.empey@gold.ac.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotlondon-blabber/attachments/20090626/b6e779e5/attachment-0001.html From lists at lowfrequency.org Tue Jun 30 05:41:19 2009 From: lists at lowfrequency.org (evan.raskob [lists]) Date: Tue Jun 30 05:40:31 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Openlab Workshops Tonight! Message-ID: <40EB4161-AB56-4DEB-AB87-95ACBEBF4042@lowfrequency.org> Official website: http://www.pawfal.org/openlab/2009/06/17/openlab-summer- workshops-2009-30-june-2009/ Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=215372105369 This summer, Openlab, the London-based open source art and technology collective, presents a series of in-depth summer workshops exploring creating and hacking media using free software and tools. Workshops will include both beginner and advanced instruction in such software as PureData, Processing, and SuperCollider, as well as using the microcontroller Arduino, general sound hardware hacking, and more. For less than the cost of the cinema, you can gain some valuable skills using free software! ~=~=~=~Workshop #1~=~=~=~ When: Tuesday 30 June, from 6pm-11:30pm Where: The Roebuck pub (upstairs room), 50 Great Dover Street, SE1 4YG Nearest transport: 35, 133, 343, 21 buses, Borough Tube (Northern line) About 8 minute walk from London Bridge Station (Northern and Jubilee tube, rail, and bus station: 48, 47, 149 buses) Map: Cost: ?15 for the entire night, or per workshop (see below). How to pay: At the door, or via Paypal to be guaranteed a space (limited to 30 people per workshop). Please email workshop@pixelism.info to reserve a space in any workshop. SCHEDULE 6PM - Introduction to SuperCollider with Dan Stowell 8PM - Hardware Noise Hacking with Ryan Jordan 9PM - Processing for Visual Artists with Evan Raskob Please show up promptly for workshops! Even better, email workshop@pixelism.info to reserve a space. Evan Raskob http://pixelist.info From mike at electricstuff.co.uk Tue Jun 30 06:40:28 2009 From: mike at electricstuff.co.uk (Mike Harrison) Date: Tue Jun 30 06:40:34 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] BBC feature from last Dorkbot Message-ID: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8125259.stm From sarah at spacedog.biz Tue Jun 30 08:32:17 2009 From: sarah at spacedog.biz (Sarah Angliss) Date: Tue Jun 30 08:32:44 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] BBC feature from last Dorkbot In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello everyone Lovely to see it all online. By the way, I've just written to Andrew from the BBC to correct him on the bit about me being a founder member, someone who invented Arduinos and so on. I have no idea how he got that impression - how odd. Actually, I think the mix-up happened because was telling the reporter how happy I was when Arduinos came along because I could play very easily with accelerometer chips and things, items that I used to find very fiddly to work with in the olden days. Anyway, a tad embarrassed when I spotted this mistake on the internet (the internet, which I invented last Tuesday). Bye Sarah On 30 Jun 2009, at 11:40, Mike Harrison wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8125259.stm > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with > electricity.......... > ..........................http:// > dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ From sharpie7 at pinedragon.com Tue Jun 30 08:47:48 2009 From: sharpie7 at pinedragon.com (Iain Sharp) Date: Tue Jun 30 08:48:16 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] BBC feature from last Dorkbot References: Message-ID: Damn. Now it's on the BBC I was going to copy it in to Wikipedia with a reference just to get the urban myth really rolling. Iain. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Angliss" To: "A discussion list for dorkbot-london" Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] BBC feature from last Dorkbot > Hello everyone > > Lovely to see it all online. > > By the way, I've just written to Andrew from the BBC to correct him on > the bit about me being a founder member, someone who invented Arduinos > and so on. I have no idea how he got that impression - how odd. Actually, > I think the mix-up happened because was telling the reporter how happy I > was when Arduinos came along because I could play very easily with > accelerometer chips and things, items that I used to find very fiddly to > work with in the olden days. Anyway, a tad embarrassed when I spotted > this mistake on the internet (the internet, which I invented last > Tuesday). > > Bye > > Sarah > > > On 30 Jun 2009, at 11:40, Mike Harrison wrote: > >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8125259.stm >> ........................................................................ >> .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... >> ..........................http:// dorkbot.org............................ >> ........................................................................ > > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ From andrew.webb at bbc.co.uk Tue Jun 30 08:49:00 2009 From: andrew.webb at bbc.co.uk (Andrew Webb-World TV-INTERNET) Date: Tue Jun 30 08:49:21 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] BBC feature from last Dorkbot In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6B9AAD08BF20A54F88E8187D16408D8009004CC4@bbcxue218.national.core.bbc.co.uk> I'll make sure that is changed. Oops. It wasn't actually me who wrote the text - I just filmed and edited the video. Regarding the videos (there are now two on the page), you can embed them in your own sites. Move your mouse to SHARE,and select embed. I'd love to say I invented that but someone told me something called YouTube thought of it a while ago. Andrew Webb Technology Video Producer, BBC News Website Tel: +44 (0)20 857 60678 Mobile: +44 (0)7974 564 247 Email: andrew.webb@bbc.co.uk Website: www.bbc.co.uk/technology -----Original Message----- From: dorkbotlondon-blabber-bounces@dorkbot.org [mailto:dorkbotlondon-blabber-bounces@dorkbot.org] On Behalf Of Sarah Angliss Sent: 30 June 2009 13:32 To: A discussion list for dorkbot-london Subject: Re: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] BBC feature from last Dorkbot Hello everyone Lovely to see it all online. By the way, I've just written to Andrew from the BBC to correct him on the bit about me being a founder member, someone who invented Arduinos and so on. I have no idea how he got that impression - how odd. Actually, I think the mix-up happened because was telling the reporter how happy I was when Arduinos came along because I could play very easily with accelerometer chips and things, items that I used to find very fiddly to work with in the olden days. Anyway, a tad embarrassed when I spotted this mistake on the internet (the internet, which I invented last Tuesday). Bye Sarah On 30 Jun 2009, at 11:40, Mike Harrison wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8125259.stm > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with > electricity.......... > ..........................http:// > dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ ........................................................................ .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ ........................................................................ http://www.bbc.co.uk/ This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.