From alex at zivanovic.co.uk  Tue Nov  3 11:41:02 2009
From: alex at zivanovic.co.uk (Alex Zivanovic)
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 16:41:02 +0000
Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Talk: "Playing,
	making and knowing - art in a high tech culture", tomorrow Wed 4 Nov
Message-ID: <f7a80e9e0911030841wcd577cdt551d7d9bb400c7bf@mail.gmail.com>

This is a talk that might be of interest to dorkbot people. Sorry for
the late notice

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Playing, making and knowing - art in a high tech culture

At a time of increasing worry about impending crises of many different
sorts - climate, food, water, energy, sociality and politics etc etc -
is art in danger of being chucked into the corner as mere wealth
absorption for those who have and irrelevant for those who haven't?
Often it seems that the critical achievements of our culture are
quietly made by scientists and engineers while artists apparently
achieve great public acclaim for rather questionable work. Why is
that? My talk will try to place art, and particularly computer art, in
our growing understanding about the relationship between making,
knowing and the computer as both knowledge repository and engine of
new symbolism.

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About the speaker:
George has worked with computers since 1962 having had a graduate
appointment in the Mathematics Dept at the Royal Aircraft
Establishment where many of the early pioneers of computing from
Manchester and Bletchley Park had gathered. From there he went on to
work with Gordon Pask on various cybernetic ideas. He co-founded
System Simulation Ltd in 1970 and that has been his focus since.
Diversions along the way have included academic involvements such as
helping create the Department of Design Research at the Royal College
of Art and introducing computing activities to the RCA. Another
academic innovation was the creation of the Department of
Communication and Media at Bournemouth University. But, these
diversions included, over the years, SSL has supported computer art
and the role of computers in cultural activities in many ways since
its inception.
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Computer Arts Society
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
7:15pm - 8:15pm
Birkbeck College, Centre for Film and Visual Media, 43 Gordon Square,
London, WC1H 0PD

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Alex Zivanovic

From greenman at muti.tv  Tue Nov  3 12:13:15 2009
From: greenman at muti.tv (Greenman)
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:13:15 +0000
Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Pre-announcing Dorkbot November and time to
	start planning for xmas
Message-ID: <4AF064AB.4060203@muti.tv>

Hey Dorks

November's dorkbot is going to take place on the Wed 18.

We should also begin to think about  this year's  Xmas dork.  Anyone up 
for helping to pull off something ? My time is going to be pretty 
limited, but a good effort for Xmas is always worth it.

Who has something special to present  ?

Greenman

From alex at zivanovic.co.uk  Tue Nov 10 14:36:28 2009
From: alex at zivanovic.co.uk (Alex Zivanovic)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:36:28 +0000
Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Presentation on Generative design
Message-ID: <f7a80e9e0911101136h56de137bj3edba735456b744f@mail.gmail.com>

I thought the dorkbot crowd might be interested in this presentation
about Generative Design in Architecture

Alex

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: BCS CAS SG <casmem at lists.bcs.org.uk>
Date: Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Subject: December Meeting - Iris Asaf
To: casmem at lists.bcs.org.uk


The BCS Computer Arts Society SG is pleased to announce that our
final presentation for Autumn 2009 is by the architect and
creativity researcher Iris Asaf. ?This talk is free and members
of the public are welcome to attend.


Wednesday 2 December 2009
7:00 for 7:30pm ?== ?!Please note the later start!
Birkbeck College, Centre for Film and Visual Media
43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
Nearest tubes - Euston Square, Warren Street & Russell Square
Map: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/maps/interactive

Title: Uncertainty and The Algorithmic Conceptualization of The
Design Process: The Quest for Novelty and Creativity in
Architectural Design

Speaker: Iris Asaf

The creative process has always constituted an essential
mechanism: that of an uncertain exploration, the development of
premeditation to envision something that has not yet been made,
or that may surprisingly appear. ?Interestingly, this relation
between creativity and unpredictability has been especially
prevalent with the enhanced use of generative systems in
architectural design.

The presentation will discuss the way in which various approaches
to generative systems in design set the stage where the
architectural design process can be viewed as an uncertain quest
of potentialities. In this quest, design is a way of
algorithmically thinking and conceptualizing ideas, and the
potential for creativity lies within the dialogue between what
has been algorithmically defined and what has surprisingly
emerged.

Iris Asaf is an architect and a PhD candidate at the Bartlett
Graduate School, University College London. Her doctoral work
focuses on developing a critical theoretical perspective on the
use of computerized form-generation tools (or generative systems)
in relation to creativity in design. She is also interested in
the cultural and conceptual transformations of the design process
as a result of the developments of information technologies and
evolutionary tools.

She has practiced as an architect and taught theory courses in
Architecture, and she holds a B.Arch (Cum Laude) and an MSc
(First Class Honours) in Architecture from the Technion ? Israel
Institute of Technology. ?She is currently teaching on the
Bartlett Graduate School's MSc in Adaptive Architecture and
Computation. ?Iris has also been the recipient of numerous
international grants and awards in design and research, such as
The Gertrude Award for research excellence and UCL's ORS and GSRS
Research Awards.


On behalf of the CAS management committee I would like to wish
all our members and friends the greatest good fortune for the
coming New Year.


CAS Spring 2010 Programme ? provisional

Please note that our first meeting for Spring 2010 will be on 3
February at the BCS as part of the Birkbeck/V&A Digital Arts
Histories meetings.

3 February - Ideas Before Their Time ? at BCS 9:15-5:00 followed
?by a CAS talk by Brian Reffin Smith at 6:00

4-5 February - Decoding the Digital - a 2 day conference at the V&A

2 March - Ron Chrisley & Joel Parthmore ? at the London Knowledge Lab.

6 April - Tina Gonsalves ? at the London Knowledge Lab.

4 May - visit to Goldsmith?s College Maths & Art Archive
?organised by Janis Jefferies

14-16 June - Computational Aesthetics ? CAe 2010 at the BCS
?co-sponsored by BCS CAS SG and Eurographics

14-16 July - Electronic Visualisation and the Arts ? EVA 2010 at BCS
?sponsored by BCS CAS SG


CAS - supporting the computer arts for over 40 years
The BCS CAS SG is a British Computer Society Specialist Group

http://www.computer-arts-society.org

====
Paul Brown - based in OZ October 09 to January 2010
mailto:paul at paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com
OZ Landline +61 (0)7 3391 0094 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900
OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown
====
Visiting Professor - Sussex University
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html
====






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Alex Zivanovic

From greenman at muti.tv  Thu Nov 12 08:51:54 2009
From: greenman at muti.tv (Greenman)
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:51:54 +0000
Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Dorkbot #63 - Wed 18 Nov 19:00
Message-ID: <4AFC12FA.70609@muti.tv>


dorkbotlondon Dorkbot #63
http://dorkbotlondon.org/event/dorkbot-63/

When:
    19:00-22:00, 18 November 2009
Where:
    Limehouse town hall, the boxing club, limehouse town hall, 646
    Commercial Road, E14 7HA (directions below)

Featuring the grand and disturbing...

    * *The British EFF - Protecting Your Bits
      <http://www.openrightsgroup.com/>* - Glyn Wintle
      A discussion of the up coming three strikes legislation,
      government plans to monitor the uk internet and knitting.
    * *Traces <http://johnwild.info/>* - John Wild
      GSM data turned into solid matter.
    * *electric vehicles and open design <http://www.riversimple.com/>*
      - Patrick Andrews
      A small UK-based car company, Riversimple, is applying an open
      collaborative approach, which has had massive success in the
      software world, to develop the electric vehicles of the future.

   Got an opendork to add ?


Location
Limehouse town hall <http://www.bclub.org.uk/about>
the boxing club, limehouse town hall, 646 Commercial Road
E14 7HA
By Tube
Limehouse DLR from Bank or Tower Gateway
By Bus
15 from Trafalgar Sq / 115 from Aldgate / D6 from Hackney / D3 from
Bethnal Green
Get onto Commercial Road and travel East from Aldgate or Whitechapel. Keep
going until you pass Limehouse DLR on your right (you go under the DLR train
bridge) and you'll see a modern red brick church also on the right, then the
library with a statue of Clement Atlee in front of it, then you'll see
the Town
Hall, with the Limehouse Hawksmoor church behind it. At this point you
should get off the bus/bicycle and come ring on the "Boxing Club" bell.

From greenman at muti.tv  Mon Nov 16 13:12:19 2009
From: greenman at muti.tv (Greenman)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:12:19 +0000
Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Assistance with Setup for Dokbot on Wed ?
Message-ID: <4B019603.5010406@muti.tv>

Hey Folks

Anyone able to come down to the hall early - around 5pm to help me set up ?

Cheers
Greenman

From mike at electricstuff.co.uk  Tue Nov 17 06:36:03 2009
From: mike at electricstuff.co.uk (Mike Harrison)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:36:03 +0000
Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] free stuff - collect at dorkbot
Message-ID: <cs15g59c6dl85nv4b7l8duvtuknhu8tfa0@4ax.com>

Having a clearout - if anyone wants any of the following and can collect at DB tomorrow email me
before tomorrow lunchtime mike at whitewing.co.uk

Box of new TDK 720K (DD) floppies

Small RS232 tablet, like this one : 
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200406460518
new/boxed. 

Weller soldering station, tatty but working

Large bag of 74LS ttl chips

Sixty 12V automotive sidelight type bulbs (slightly odd 2 pin bayonet base)

Amstrad PPC640, working, with psu, manual, service manual and discs

Psion organizer II with a couple of manuals and datapacks

Handheld digital stopwatch

From paulm at paulm.com  Wed Nov 18 05:51:45 2009
From: paulm at paulm.com (Paul Makepeace)
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:51:45 +1200
Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] "You can still have sex; it's just data."
Message-ID: <c37577dd0911180251q726b0052m1fab037999f8b87f@mail.gmail.com>

Some creative eroto-robotic dorkery from Japan,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xtcqvm0AHM

Paul
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