From hbruyere at gmail.com Sun Jan 7 14:50:24 2007 From: hbruyere at gmail.com (hbruyere) Date: Sun Jan 7 14:50:51 2007 Subject: [dorkbotmtl-infusion] 2007 ... I need an overhead projector. Message-ID: <001701c73295$12b0a1b0$6500a8c0@mobsf> Hi everyone, and Happy New Year ! I'm looking for an overhead projector. Any idea where I could get one ? Thanks, Hugues. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotmtl-infusion/attachments/20070107/0f6365aa/attachment.html From hugobox at gmail.com Wed Jan 17 18:35:34 2007 From: hugobox at gmail.com (Hugo Desmeules) Date: Wed Jan 17 18:37:29 2007 Subject: [dorkbotmtl-infusion] DBMTL2 Message-ID: <1bb86d670701171535o13a71936u46e84efe7d4ba04a@mail.gmail.com> (en fran?ais plus bas) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Late Happy new year and may the electrons flow your way, I hope you all recovered from 2006 and wish you a productive and energized 2007. Dorkbot-mtl's organisation recently grew with two collaborators and co-organizers that you may already know: Jim Bell and Peter Flemming. We are still preparing the next meeting and details will arrive soon, but a date has been chosen: thursday february 1st so write it down in your agenda and stay tuned! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bonne ann?e en retard et que les ?lectrons soient avec vous, Je vous souhaite une nouvelle ann?e productive et ?nergisante. L'organisation Dorkbot-Mtl a grandi en se dotant de deux nouveaux collaborateurs et co-organisateurs que vous connaissez sans doute: Jim Bell et Peter Flemming. Nous sommes en pr?paration de la prochaine r?union donc les d?tails arriveront tr?s prochainement, mais une date a ?t? choisie: le jeudi 1er f?vrier donc inscrivez-le ? votre agenda et restez ? l'antenne! -- Hugo Desmeules hugobox@gmail.com www.11h11.com/hugobox -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotmtl-infusion/attachments/20070117/99f9ee85/attachment.html From peter at peterflemming.ca Thu Jan 25 23:34:40 2007 From: peter at peterflemming.ca (flemming) Date: Thu Jan 25 23:55:17 2007 Subject: [dorkbotmtl-infusion] Artist Talk, Jan. 31 at Con U: Garnet Hertz Message-ID: <45B984E0.6030304@peterflemming.ca> Hello Dorkbots, I hope this is an appropriate use of the discussion list, please flame me otherwise. Though not an official Dorkbot evernt, I think anyone interested in Dorkbot will be interested in an artist who made a cockroach controlled robot. thanks, Peter ------ Garnet Hertz: "Minds / Brains : Animal / Machines" DATE: Wednesday January 31st TIME: 7:00pm LOCATION: 1515 Ste. Catherine (coin Guy), Concordia EV Building, Metro Guy-Concordia ROOM: Room 615 on the 5th floor, Visual Arts side (in the CDA area) This artist talk, by Garnet Hertz, frames his current research within the context of animal/machine hybrids in science, contemporary electronic art practice, robotics and computer science. This presentation will also explain "Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot": an experimental mechanism developed by Hertz that uses a living Madagascan hissing cockroach atop a modified trackball to control a three-wheeled robot. poster is here: http://hybrid.concordia.ca/~pflemmin/hertztalk.jpg artist's web site is here: www.conceptlab.com thanks to: IMCA, CIAM, CDA, University of California, Hexagram (please forward, apologies for cross-posting) -------------------------- Biography: Garnet Hertz is a Fulbright Scholar, Research Fellow at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and is a doctoral student at the University of California Irvine. He also holds an MFA from the Arts Computation Engineering program at UCI and has completed UCI's Critical Theory Emphasis. He won honorable mention at this year's Vida 9.0 Art & Artificial Life competition. Current interests include the history, theory and practice of electro/mechanical art, computing, media theory, digital/internet art and robotics. He has shown his work at several notable international venues including Ars Electronica and SIGGRAPH and is also founder of Dorkbot-Socal, a monthly Los Angeles-based lecture series on electronic art. Popular press about his work is widespread, disseminating through 25 countries including The New York Times, Wired News, I.D. Magazine, The Washington Post, Slashdot, NPR, USA Today, NBC, CBS, TV Tokyo, ZDTV and CNN Headline News. Detailed Description Of Talk: "Minds / Brains : Animal / Machines" This artist talk, by Garnet Hertz, frames his current research within the context of animal/machine hybrids in contemporary electronic art practice, robotics and computer science. Animals inspire the development of technological systems by providing clever solutions to embodied, complex environments. Artists, such as Survival Research Labs, Ken Rinaldo and others have developed animal/machine hybrids as a method of novel robotic control, while robotics researchers have done the inverse: implemented technology to robotically control living animals. This presentation will present examples of this research, and relates these themes to the origin of cybernetics: Norbert Weiner's 1948 text, titled "Cybernetics: on Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine". This presentation will also explain "Cockroach Controlled Mobile Robot": an experimental mechanism developed by Hertz that uses a living Madagascan hissing cockroach atop a modified trackball to control a three-wheeled robot. In this system, the insect is in control: if the cockroach moves left, the robot moves left; if the insect moves right, the robot moves right. Infrared sensors on the robot also provide navigation feedback to the cockroach, striving to create a pseudo-intelligent system with the cockroach as the CPU. This project is motivated by three key concepts: 1. Biomimetics, 2. The Cyborg, and 3. The Computational/Biological. These three motivations are embodied in the mobile robot system, a platform that makes the intentions of the insect legible to a wide and diverse audience. Although technically and conceptually, complex, the system is easily understood by young and old with little or no explanation. Individuals tend to watch the robot for extended periods of time, empathizing with the insect, and trying to discern whether or not the organism is controlling or being controlled by the technology... and whether it is aware of, immersed in, or pleased by its synthetic and mediated environment. From kozinuk at telus.net Sun Jan 28 19:30:19 2007 From: kozinuk at telus.net (kozinuk@telus.net) Date: Mon Jan 29 23:10:00 2007 Subject: [dorkbotmtl-infusion] Fwd: un atelier QTVR & int =?iso-8859-1?q?eractivit=E9_=E0_OBORO?= Message-ID: <1170030619.45bd401bdb8c9@webmail.telus.net> Hi everyone/ all you dorkbots! I am new to this list, i was invite by Peter F, who I met a few years ago in Vancouver. That is where i am from and have been practicing electronic art for quite some time. Anyway, i am living here in Montreal now and excited to be getting involved with the electronic art scene here, so i jumped at a chance to get on this list! I look forward to meeting you all on Thursday, though still not sure where it is at. As i said i am new to this list so i am hoping that a bit of self promotion is ok, let me know if not! I think it may be of interest to some of your members, so here goes: I am teaching a workshop for electronic artists in february at Oboro Gallery.The details are below and I have included a pdf about it too, though they seem to get scrubbed from the list. It will be a survey course: From electronic circuit building/bending - to pd - to QTVR. It will run with workshops on three saturdays and some evening work sessions during the week. Let me know and I will send you more info. you can also contact Oboro directly. Any way thanks for letting me promote this and see you Thurs!, Bobbi ----- Forwarded message from Oboro ----- Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:21:17 -0500 From: Oboro Reply-To: Oboro Subject: un atelier QTVR & interactivit? ? OBORO To: Oboro OBORO pr?sente ? Un Atelier QTVR et INTERACTIVIT?? Cet atelier se veut une introduction aux technologies et inclura des incursions dans la construction et le ? bending ? de circuits, le ? patching ? Pure Data, la cr?ation d?environnements et d?objets QTVR. Il a pour objet de stimuler des r?flexions sur les possibilit?s que la r?alit? virtuelle et les circuits sensibles offrent aux diff?rentes pratiques artistiques. [consultez le pdf ci-attach?] **** OBORO presents "QTVR & INTERACTIVITY Workshop" This is an introductory survey of hands-on circuit building/bending, Pure Data patching, and the creation of QTVR environments and objects. These technologies are meant to generate ideas on the possibilities of virtual reality and sensor circuitry in diverse artistic practice. [see pdf attached] ----- End forwarded message ----- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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OBORO 4001, rue Berri, #301 Montr?al, Qu?bec Canada H2L 4H2 t?l: 514-844-3250, fax: 514-847-0330 oboro@oboro.net http://www.oboro.net From dorkbotmtl at gmail.com Mon Jan 29 23:04:43 2007 From: dorkbotmtl at gmail.com (Dorkbot Montreal) Date: Mon Jan 29 23:10:01 2007 Subject: [dorkbotmtl-infusion] DORKBOT-Mtl 2 Message-ID: <2482c4f30701292004j2480b323u68eed1dfd4ec0134@mail.gmail.com> Hello, If you are receiving this email, either you are on a dorkbot-montreal mailing list, or Hugo Desmeules, Jim Bell or Peter Flemming knows you and thought you might be interested in coming to the 2nd Dorkbot-Montreal, on Thursday (details and schedule follow). What is Dorkbot? Dorkbot is an international network of "people doing strange things with electricity." The idea is to get together and share ideas and knowledge. See www.dorkbot.org and http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotmtl/ for more details. If you are receiving this in error, or want to be removed from this mail-out, RSVP and let us know. Also, apologies for cross-posting. ---------- D?TAILS: Jeudi le 1er f?vrier 2007 ? partir de 19h @ 1515 Ste. Catherine (coin Guy), Concordia EV Building, M?tro Guy-Concordia Local 615 au 5e ?tage, c?t? Arts visuels Thursday February 1st 2007 at 7PM @ 1515 Ste. Catherine (corner Guy), Concordia EV Building, Guy-Concordia Metro Room 615 on the 5th floor, Visual Arts side. ---------- SCHEDULE/HORAIRE (l'horaire peu changer/tentative): (chaque/each pr?sentation ca. 20' + 10' discussion) (film is time permitting) 19h - Bienvenue/Welcome 19h10 - "Inter_cept (or My Idea of Fun)", r?alis? par Lucie B?langer, Philip Viel & Elie Zananiri 19h40 - Evans Simard "Circuit Bending For Dummies", pr?sentation 20h10 - BREAK 20h20 - Jessica Field "Robot", demo/pr?sentation 20h50 - Vincent LeClerc "Interfaces Mat?rielles/Computing Matter", pr?sentation 21h20 - Tim Hunkin's "Secret Life Of Machines", film pr?sent? par Peter Flemming 21h50 - fin ***Descriptions & bio's can be found on the website: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotmtl/ thanks for your time, and hope to see you there! DORKBOT-mtl From matju at artengine.ca Mon Jan 29 23:21:48 2007 From: matju at artengine.ca (Mathieu Bouchard) Date: Mon Jan 29 23:27:45 2007 Subject: [dorkbotmtl-infusion] Fwd: un atelier QTVR & int =?iso-8859-1?q?eractivit=E9_=E0_OBORO?= In-Reply-To: <1170030619.45bd401bdb8c9@webmail.telus.net> References: <1170030619.45bd401bdb8c9@webmail.telus.net> Message-ID: On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, kozinuk@telus.net wrote: > I am new to this list, i was invite by Peter F, who I met a few years ago in > Vancouver. That is where i am from and have been practicing electronic art for quite > some time. Anyway, i am living here in Montreal now and excited to be getting > involved with the electronic art scene here, If you are into PureData and in Montr?al then you should be subscribed to http://lists.artengine.ca/mailman/listinfo/pdmtl _ _ __ ___ _____ ________ _____________ _____________________ ... | Mathieu Bouchard - t?l:+1.514.383.3801 - http://artengine.ca/matju | Freelance Digital Arts Engineer, Montr?al QC Canada From matju at artengine.ca Mon Jan 29 23:27:24 2007 From: matju at artengine.ca (Mathieu Bouchard) Date: Mon Jan 29 23:33:03 2007 Subject: [dorkbotmtl-infusion] L'oeuvre ouverte|PureData Convention '07 - Call for Proposals Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:23:38 -0500 From: darsha hewitt Reply-To: pd-list@iem.at, darsha.h@gmail.com To: darsha@artengine.ca Subject: [PD-announce] L'oeuvre ouverte|PureData Convention '07 - Call for Proposals [VERSION FRAN?AISE CI-DESSOUS] L'oeuvre ouverte|PureData Convention '07 - Call for Proposals * August 21st-26th, 2007, Montr?al Canada * Deadline for artworks/performances and workshops: February 28th 2007 * Deadline for papers: March 31st 2007 http://convention.puredata.org The PureData Convention Steering Committee is now accepting proposals for participation in L'oeuvre ouverte (the Open Work), the 2nd International PureData Convention. L'oeuvre ouverte invites an open relation between the artwork and the public as well as open attitudes and practices in the fields of programming, artistic creation and scientific research. It will bring together artists, developers and writers who develop, use and reflect on PureData. The Convention will acknowledge the broad range of artistic and technical disciplines that make use of the software and will address questions of openness and accessibility. It will provide a theoretical and artistic context for the understanding of the aesthetics and politics of Free / Open Source Software culture. Selected proposals will reflect varied perspectives and outlooks on the artistic possibilities of free software and hardware that emanate from a wide-ranging community. These include, but are not restricted to connections to art, science and society as well as demonstration of innovative and intuitive interactions. We encourage a wide range of submissions from all levels of proficiency with the software as well as from emergent and diverse PureData communities. Submissions will be evaluated by peer review committees. Proposals are sought in the following categories: Artwork/Performances: The selected artworks should make use of PureData. All forms of audio and visual art including real-time interactive works, improvisations with technology, instrumental/electroacoustic mixes, sound installations, performances, network art, robotics, software art and interdisciplinary work are welcome. Papers and posters: We are accepting papers that offer varying perspectives on technical, social, cultural as well as art theory/historical aspects of PureData or the aesthetics and politics of Free / Open Source Software (FOSS) culture. Demos: Externals, Performance patches, Packages of abstractions, sensors and physical computing interfaces, etc. Workshops: Beginner to advanced level hands-on workshops, installation help, DIY etc. ::applicants are invited to submit in multiple categories:: please read the application guidelines: http://convention.puredata.org/guidelines |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| L'oeuvre ouverte|Congr?s PureData 2007 - Appel de propositions * Du 21 au 26 ao?t 2007, Montr?al, Canada * Appel ? participation ? Jusqu'au 28 f?vrier pour les projets artistiques et les ateliers, le 31 mars pour les expos?s. http://convention.puredata.org/convention07-fr Le comit? organisateur du Congr?s de PureData accepte maintenant les propositions en vue de participer ? L'oeuvre ouverte, 2e Congr?s international de PureData. L'oeuvre ouverte propose une relation d'ouverture entre l'oeuvre d'art et le public et encourage les attitudes et les pratiques ouvertes dans les domaines de la programmation, de la cr?ation artistique et de la recherch? scientifique. Le congr?s r?unira artistes, d?veloppeurs et th?oriciens qui sont les cr?ateurs de PureData, qui exploitent le logiciel ou en font l'objet de leur r?flexion. Le Congr?s t?moignera de toute la gamme des disciplines artistiques et techniques qui exploitent le logiciel libre et s'int?ressera aux questions d'ouverture et d'accessibilit?. Il servira de cadre th?orique et artistique pour la compr?hension des aspects esth?tiques et politiques propres ? la culture du logiciel libre. Les propositions retenues refl?teront les nombreuses perspectives que le logiciel libre et ses applications, ?manant d'une collectivit? diversifi?e, offrent en mati?re de possibilit?s artistiques, qu'il s'agisse, notamment, de jonctions ?tablies entre l'art, la science et la soci?t? ou de la pr?sentation d'interactions innovatrices et intuitives. Les propositions les plus diverses sont les bienvenues, peu importe le degr? de comp?tence de l'auteur ? l'?gard du logiciel. L'invitation est lanc?e, entre autres, aux collectifs de PureData en ?mergence. Les propositions seront ?valu?es par des comit?s de pairs. Les propositions doivent se situer dans les cat?gories suivantes: Oeuvres d'art/installations: les ?uvres de toute nature, produites ? l'aide de PureData, soit toute forme d'art audio et visuel, y compris les ?uvres interactives en temps r?el, les improvisations technologiques, les pi?ces instrumentales et ?lectroacoustiques, les installations sonores, les performances, l'art robotique et t?l?matique et les ?uvres multidisciplinaires. Expos?s et affiche: communications apportant diverses perspectives sur les aspects techniques, sociaux, culturels, l'histoire de l'art de PureData, de m?me que sur les aspects esth?tiques et politiques de la culture du logiciel libre. D?monstrations: p?riph?riques, outils de performance, extras, senseurs et interfaces, etc. Ateliers: travaux pratiques de niveau d?butant ? avanc?, aide aux installations, activit?s manuelles, etc. SVP lisez les lignes directrices: http://convention.puredata.org/guidelines-fr ::Les int?ress?s sont invit?s ? faire des propositions de nature multiple:: _______________________________________________ PD-announce mailing list PD-announce@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-announce From lucieb at gmail.com Wed Jan 31 14:07:00 2007 From: lucieb at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Lucie_B=E9langer?=) Date: Wed Jan 31 14:07:09 2007 Subject: [dorkbotmtl-infusion] Urgent - Looking for a 5m firewire cable Message-ID: <292d277d0701311107v42ea37b1o6e9c48133726b754@mail.gmail.com> Bonjour a tous, Elie et moi aurions besoin d'un cable firewire male 6 pins 5m, ou d'une extension. Nous en aurions besoin le plus tot possible et nous vous le remettrions jeudi soir des la presentation terminee. 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