From douglas at music.columbia.edu Tue Nov 6 16:01:12 2007 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Tue Nov 6 16:25:39 2007 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] The universal and undecidable dorkbot-nyc! (Tomorrow night!!!) Message-ID: <4730D618.8050803@music.columbia.edu> What: dorkbot-nyc When: Wednesday, Nov 7th, 2007, 7pm Where: Location One, 26 Green St (between Canal and Grand) $$$: FREE!!! +++++ The {{1, 2} -> {1, 1, -1}, {1, 1} -> {1, 2, -1}, {1, 0} -> {2, 1, 1}, {2, 2} -> {1, 0, 1}, {2, 1} -> {2, 2, 1}, {2, 0} -> {1, 2, -1}}th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007 at Location One in SoHo. The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to share. And wear something you made! 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. Also: dorkbot t-shirts finally arrived! This month only: $12 ($15 thereafter and $17 online). Cute colors, cut cuts. Profits go to support our host, Location One! online. +++++ Featuring the universal and undecidable: Kuba Bakowski: TV Zero Zones The TV Zero Zones project consisted in nightly broadcasting of four video-animations (one a night) on the TV test-card of Polish National Television TVP 2. TV Zero Zones were shown between September and November 2004 the whole night from the end of the regular program schedule (about 1:30 a.m.) till its start on the following day (about 6:00 a.m.) First prepared in a television studio (blue box) and then computer-processed clips with the moving figure on transparent background were put one after another as picture layers on the TV test-card that Polish Television has emited for nearly 40 years. So, TV Zero Zones was a project which was created at that particular moment, i.e. the moment of emission, from two constituents: traditional, "classic" TV test-card and the author's interference into its structure. http://www.kubabakowski.net Thessia Machado: pluck or dot matrix space resonator pluck or dot matrix space resonator: composition for exhibition space, freckles, visitors and strings in the key of 1 bedroom apartment is a sound installation with a 6-string custom-built self-playing instrument. Each string is tuned to the frequency value correspondent to the area of each room in a NY apartment. The strings are plucked in a rhythm based on the pattern of dots (freckles) on my torso using the principle of the player piano. This assembly is mounted directly on the wall, making the room itself part of an instrument that resonates the tones of another space. In this process, the host space adds its own harmonic stamp to the sound. Rob Seward: "KILL" "RUN" "HOME" Over the last year I have been building mechanical signs in which tiny florescent lights spin over a black background. This creates an enchanting abstract visual spectacle. This alone, would be cool, but every minute or so the lights come together to spell a word. So far I've made signs that spell "KILL," "RUN," "HOME," and "YOU WILL DIE." I'm going to talk about why I'm doing this (there are reasons), and if there's time, show some other electronics I'm working on. http://robseward.com From douglas at music.columbia.edu Thu Nov 8 19:14:27 2007 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Thu Nov 8 19:12:34 2007 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] thanks! Message-ID: <4733A663.2060605@music.columbia.edu> Thanks again to Kuba Bakowski, Thesia Machado, and Rob Seward for their terrific presentations last night. Some photos here: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc/07.nov.2007 We're still looking (hearing?) for more theme songs, so get to work! Next meeting: 05 December 2007 From douglas at music.columbia.edu Wed Nov 28 09:34:01 2007 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Wed Nov 28 09:33:05 2007 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] the humid and tropical dorkbot-nyc! Message-ID: <474D7C59.9020000@music.columbia.edu> What: dorkbot-nyc meeting Where: Location One, 20 Greene St (Canal/Grand) When: 7pm, 5 December 2007 $$$: FREE! +++++ 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, cut 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