From douglas at music.columbia.edu Wed Oct 3 01:18:57 2007 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Wed Oct 3 01:29:21 2007 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] The 5, 16 or 600, 8, 24 or 120th dorkbot-nyc meeting! Message-ID: <47032641.40604@music.columbia.edu> dorkbot-nyc Wednesday, Oct 3rd, 2007, 7-9pm Location One: 26 Greene St (Canal/Grand) $$$FREE$$$ +++++ The 5, 16 or 600, 8, 24 or 120th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place 7pm on Wednesday, October 3rd, 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! Featuring the convex and polytopic: John Huntington: The Gravesend Inn--An Interactive Haunted Hotel City Tech's Gravesend Inn is a high-tech, audience-driven haunted attraction. 2007 marks the show's eight annual edition. The show control system Medialon Manager gives control over the entire attraction to the audience, which (unknowingly) triggers the effects as they move through the maze. A variety of industrial sensors are currently used to sense the position and location of audience members, and an infrastructure has been created for more sophisticated sensing in the future. John, author of the just released third edition of the book Control Systems for Live Entertainment, will describe and demonstrate the show control systems he designed for this attraction. http://www.gravesendinn.org Spencer Russell: SensorBib Spencer will be presenting his most recent project, the SensorBib. SensorBib is a set of capacitive distance sensors embedded in a fabric covering for an upright bass. A chopped-up Arduino board sends the data to a laptop running PD which uses the player's body position to process the bass sound in real time. The sensors themselves (called "MouseTrap") are of Spencer's own design, and all the schematics and PCB layout files are available on his website. http://www.columbia.edu/~sfr2105 Eric Singer: robots on fire Eric Singer is a musician, artist, engineer and programmer and the Founder and Director of LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, a group of artists and technologists who create robotic musical instruments and installations. Eric will talk about robots, fire and anything else that's on his mind. http://lemurbots.org From douglas at music.columbia.edu Wed Oct 3 09:24:06 2007 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Wed Oct 3 09:22:02 2007 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] The 5, 16 or 600, 8, 24 or 120th dorkbot-nyc meeting! In-Reply-To: <47032641.40604@music.columbia.edu> References: <47032641.40604@music.columbia.edu> Message-ID: <470397F6.9000204@music.columbia.edu> A couple notes I forgot: We'll finally (hopefully!) have dorkbot t-shirts! Not sure how much $, but as cheap as we can make them. If you want to do an "open dork" talk let me know at some point during the meeting. You can have 30seconds-2minutes to get up and talk about anything you like -- a new project, the cool shirt you just materialized, a show you're putting on, etc. We need a new theme song!!! ??? !!! See you tonight! douglas -- ............................................... http://artbots.org .....douglas.....irving........................ http://dorkbot.org .......................... http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp .......... repetto....... http://works.music.columbia.edu/organism ............................... http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas From douglas at music.columbia.edu Thu Oct 4 12:39:29 2007 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Thu Oct 4 12:37:32 2007 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] thanks! Message-ID: <47051741.3060504@music.columbia.edu> Thanks again to John, Spencer, and Eric for their presentations. We had a great crowd! Links and images from the meeting at: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc/03.oct.2007/ Next dorkbot-nyc meeting: 07 Nov 2007 WE'LL HAVE T-SHIRTS FOR SURE!!!!! From douglas at music.columbia.edu Wed Oct 10 16:25:59 2007 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Wed Oct 10 16:24:21 2007 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] [Fwd: [dorkbotdc-blabber] remote auction for SRL's Todd Blair] Message-ID: <470D3557.1080205@music.columbia.edu> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [dorkbotdc-blabber] remote auction for SRL's Todd Blair Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:12:42 -0400 From: Thomas Edwards Reply-To: An discussion list for dorkbot-dc To: An discussion list for dorkbot-dc Todd Blair from Survival Research Labs was involved in an accident when breaking down and SRL show in Amsterdam Sept. 23. Apparently a cage fell off a forklift and struck him, and he suffered severe head injuries . Dorkbot-SF is having an auction event to benefit Todd tonight, more info here: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/archive/200710/ You can also read about Todd's recovery here: http://toddblair.wordpress.com/ Karen from Dorkbot-SF also says you can participate remotely in the auction... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Karen Marcelo Date: Oct 10, 2007 3:47 PM Subject: [dorkbotsf-blabber] remote auction To: dorkbotsf-blabber@dorkbot.org, dorkbotsf-announce@dorkbot.org hi all in case you cant make it tonight but are interested in any of the items on auction, just email dorkbotsf at dorkbot dot org with your bid and if it is still available after tonight we'll let you know if you won and make arrangements for payment/delivery. a note about the boingboing ad, the auction for that closes in december (exact date to be announced soon). if you know anyone that would be interested in that just have them email their bids in as well and we'll notify them when they win. it's a 125x125 ad space on boingboing that will run for a month (subject to a few boingboing terms see the link below). bids for this have already been accepted! list here: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/archive/200710/auction.html thanks! -Karen From douglas at music.columbia.edu Wed Oct 31 11:17:51 2007 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Wed Oct 31 11:17:34 2007 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] The universal and undecidable dorkbot-nyc! Message-ID: <47289C9F.6010008@music.columbia.edu> What: dorkbot-nyc When: Wednesday, Nov 7th, 2007 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! $12, cute colors, cut cuts. Profits go to support our host, Location One! 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