[dorkbotnyc-announce] the humid and tropical dorkbot-nyc!

[douglas repetto]

What: dorkbot-nyc meeting
Where: Location One, 20 Greene St (Canal/Grand)
When: 7pm, 5 December 2007
$$$: FREE!


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The 1492nd dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday,
December 5th, 2007 at Location One in SoHo.

The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to share.

Also: we need more theme songs! Bring one and we'll post it on the
website and play it at the beginning of the meeting. Come on! So far a
couple of little girls are kicking your butts!!!

Also: dorkbot t-shirts! $15 in person, $17 online. Cute colors, cute
cuts. Profits go to support our host, Location One!


Featuring the humid and tropical:

Ted Johnson: Build Your Own Secret Laboratory
I will talk about how to build your own secret laboratory in a small
NYC-sized space and at a low cost, and thereby produce silly and useless
gadgets such as those shown at my web page:
http://users.rcn.com/ted.johnson

Fiona Hallinan (aka Fink): Playskip
I would like to tell a story about my first interactive experience
between computers and people, which occurred when I was twelve years
old. In some roundabout way I hope this will introduce to you an
installation I made as part of my Msc in Multimedia Systems this year,
called Playskip. I will also introduce some past work of mine if it
seems right to.
http://www.thefirst47.com/playskip.html

Andrew Schneider: Click. Buzz. Drone (experimental devices for performance)
My multidisciplinary work attempts to critically investigate human and
technological interdependence. I see this interdependence as both
emotional and physical. We are all infinitely removed from everything,
everyone, and more so, from ourselves. Our inners do not connect to our
outers with any sort of transparency. Language separates us from the
experience of the real. All of us is filtered. We are performing rather
than living our lives everyday. We as humans seem to have countered this
predicament with technology. I am interested in highlighting this
concept through the magnification and extension of the themes of
inability and dependence. EXPERIMENTAL DEVICES for PERFORMANCE reifies
this notion by placing technological media over the body, masking the
layer that masks the layer that interprets our corporeal devices of
communication (our senses). EDP is a suite of five wearable devices
examining our state of communication. Small screens cover and confuse
the "truths" of the mouth and the eyes. Sensor-embedded shoes map
footfalls to soundtracks. A camera-coated hat only displays its cameras'
signals when the wearer's head comes in contact with a television. A
Polaroid picture is taken every time someone blinks. In order to control
the media, a performer must also control his/her body in artificial
ways. The performer controls the media controls the performer.
http://andrewjs.com