From douglas at music.columbia.edu Thu Mar 1 00:13:13 2007 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas irving repetto) Date: Thu Mar 1 00:17:18 2007 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] March 7th: a limber and startling dorkbot! Message-ID: The 42147th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place on Wednesday, March 7th, 2007, at 7pm at Location One in SoHo. Please bring snacks to share! Featuring the limber and startling: Erik Sanner: Rothko shock, the singularity, and painting without paint "Rothko shock" refers to the paralyzing weight of human cultural history. Has everything been said and done? Looking forward to the singularity makes me say not a chance. Technology enables me to make paintings that move. http://eriksanner.com/ Christine Gatti: 18 project From late July 2004 through mid-January 2006, I took two photographs?one of my face and the other of my surrounding environment?on the 18th minute of each hour of every day. The motivation behind the project was to find a vehicle to become more present in my daily life, to come out of my head for a moment or two every hour and take note of where I was in the physical world, to become aware of my feet on the ground. I saw the project as a meditation; a ritual; a commitment added to a less committed life; an experiment. This process, to become mindful for a few moments on the hour, has produced more than 20,000 images. http://www.christinegatti.com derivart: financial art What do artists make of Wall Street? The financial markets have a big influence over the people on the street, and artists are beginning to talk about it. We will present a museum exhibition in Madrid that brought together electronic artists, from Rome to San Francisco, that engaged, critiqued or re-imagined global capital markets. http://www.derivart.info -- From douglas at music.columbia.edu Tue Mar 6 23:19:33 2007 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas irving repetto) Date: Tue Mar 6 23:19:47 2007 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] March 7th: a limber and startling dorkbot! Message-ID: Tomorrow!!! The 42147th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place on Wednesday, March 7th, 2007, at 7pm at Location One in SoHo. Please bring snacks to share! Featuring the limber and startling: Erik Sanner: Rothko shock, the singularity, and painting without paint "Rothko shock" refers to the paralyzing weight of human cultural history. Has everything been said and done? Looking forward to the singularity makes me say not a chance. Technology enables me to make paintings that move. http://eriksanner.com/ Christine Gatti: 18 project From late July 2004 through mid-January 2006, I took two photographs, one of my face and the other of my surrounding environment, on the 18th minute of each hour of every day. The motivation behind the project was to find a vehicle to become more present in my daily life, to come out of my head for a moment or two every hour and take note of where I was in the physical world, to become aware of my feet on the ground. I saw the project as a meditation; a ritual; a commitment added to a less committed life; an experiment. This process, to become mindful for a few moments on the hour, has produced more than 20,000 images. http://www.christinegatti.com derivart: financial art What do artists make of Wall Street? The financial markets have a big influence over the people on the street, and artists are beginning to talk about it. We will present a museum exhibition in Madrid that brought together electronic artists, from Rome to San Francisco, that engaged, critiqued or re-imagined global capital markets. http://www.derivart.info -- From douglas at music.columbia.edu Wed Mar 28 11:11:18 2007 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas irving repetto) Date: Wed Mar 28 11:27:49 2007 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] The self-replicating 3D wind virus: next on dorkbot-nyc! Message-ID: The 32,112th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place on Wednesday, April 4th, 2007, at 7pm at Location One in SoHo. Please bring snacks to share! Featuring the lithe and fearless: Gabe McNatt "Wind-Composition" is a software program created in MAX-MSP that allows the user to adjust the volume and pan of nine different sound-layers. The idea is for the user to create his/her own soundscape, or composition; a completely original work that exists once and only once, and then disappears without recreation. He/she uses his/her ears and own sense of fancy to compose a throw-away-composition. The nine sound-layers consist of synthetically created wind-noises, and pre-recorded sounds created by wind. Despite the user's ability to control the overall volume and pan levels, each layer constantly and randomly modulates giving the sounds a more elusive, and thus more characteristic wind quality. Caitlin Berrigan: Viral Confections "Viral Confections" are edible chocolates shaped into the molecular structure of the hepatitis C virus. These designer chocolates illustrate the inventive protein structure of the hepatitis C virus. A model of the virus was printed as a rapid prototype from a 3D algorithmic illustration of the virus from the Protein Data Bank. The chocolates were then cast into this molecular form. These delicious truffles do not carry hepatitis C. Each one was lovingly handmade from 72% Belgian roasted cocoa. Desire to eat the enticing chocolates is mixed with a repulsion for the infectious virus. This unnerving dialectic has proved to be an exciting and approachable way to ignite discussion and create awareness about an extremely prevalent and underrepresented disease. Dorkbots will have the opportunity to consume the chocolates at the meeting. http://www.membrana.us Zach Smith: RepRap RepRap is an open source 3D printing technology that a Maker can truly appreciate. It uses a thermoplastic extruder to melt and lay down a fine stream of plastic. Feed it an object file, and it will hum to life. Line by line, layer by layer, your object slowly appears. Forget the cutting edge, the melted edge is here! http://reprap.org --