[dorkbotnyc-announce] dork-con-flux-bot!

[douglas repetto]

The new dorkbot season is upon us! Rejoice!

The 1493.456 × 10^23rd dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place on Wednesday, 
September 5th, 2007, at 7pm at Location One in SoHo. Info, directions, 
etc at: http://dorkbot.org

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It's a special pre-Conflux Festival preview!

Members of the Conflux 2007 curatorial team will introduce this year's 
Conflux, highlighting several key projects and covering the schedule of 
events.

Featuring the sun-kissed and downy:

     	
Christian Croft & Kate Hartman: Energy Harvesting Dérive
The Energy Harvesting Dérive combines new modes of pedestrian movement 
with alternative energy research goals. The project hacks the recently 
popular Heelys roller sneaker to transform it into a platform for 
generating electricity from human motion. Electricity harvested from 
rolling powers electronics on the shoes that deliver random directions 
for pedestrians to follow.
http://xncroft.com/projects/energyshoes.html
     	
Mouna Andraos: Sustainable practices in electronic art and design
A few case studies and lots of questions. I will present a series of 
electronic objects/projects i have recently been working on, from 
electronic crafts to alternative power sources.
http://www.missmoun.com
http://www.electroniccrafts.org
     	
Michael J. Dory: Concrete Crickets
Graffiti is one of the most powerful and most personal displays in the 
urban experience, and can be used to make statements, tag territory, 
spread messages — urban markup language in practice. However, the output 
is nearly always visual in nature, making this experience 
one-dimensional. Furthermore, rarely does the work have a brain of its 
own, and is usually incapable of reacting to anybody observing it. 
Concrete Crickets was created to address this deficit, creating small 
devices that will be aware of passers-by as well as other units of their 
kind. Each unit consists of a sound generator, amp, speaker and sensory 
system, and is housed in camouflage appropriate to the streets of the 
city — soda cans, cigarette packs, and the like.
http://www.confluxfestival.org/conflux2007/concrete-crickets-2