[dorkbotnyc-announce] Did someone say DORKBOT!?!

[douglas repetto]

What: dorkbot-nyc meeting
When: 7pm, September 3rd, 2008
Where: Location One, 20 Greene St between Canal and Grand
$$$: $FREE$

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The 1002306th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, 
September 3rd, 2008 at Location One in SoHo.

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

We're always looking for (and playing) more dorkbot theme songs! Bring 
or email one and we'll play it at the meeting.

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Featuring the thermally and electrically conductive:

     	
David Steinberg: mobile music machines
Lots of interesting musical software have been developed more or less 
recently for portable videogames consoles (Gameboy, PSP, etc.), PDAs or 
other similar platforms. I'll present many of these applications (for 
Nintendo Gameboy, Palm OS, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, Gamepark consoles, 
etc.), explain what's needed to use them, who created them, what are the 
advantages and disadvantages of developing musical software for each 
platform and of course show some examples of what can be done with these 
new instruments.
http://www.oscillateur.com.com
     	
Christina McPhee : Shake Stations
California-based filmmaker and artist Christina McPhee is 'outback' in 
earthquake country this summer, shooting HD video at Parkfield, 
California with new media installation artist DV Rogers (New 
Zealand/Sydney). DV is building and activating a major land art work- an 
hydraulically activated, remote -sensor activated seismic intervention 
table. DV's PIEQF installation reacts to mini-tremors and shakes in 
realtime. http://pieqf.allshookup.org Following DV and crew as they 
install the project this summer and fall, Christina's documentary takes 
on the gradual installation of the table as an elaborate time based 
performance, with ironic and playful resonances to land art and the 
highly saturated dramatic space of sixties nouvelle vague (new wave) 
film. http://uk.youtube.com/slipstreamandromeda Via abstract drawing, 
experimental video and photomontage, Christina makes performative 
recordings at generative 'moment-tensors' where biological systems clash 
and meet with technological. and often security-challenged, sublime 
landscapes at the urban edge. At places of emergence at folds or 
'tesserae' in landscapes of latent energy, her methods involve 
meditative engagement in remote sites like Parkfield, and also this year 
at live geothermal plants over the San Andreas Fault, next to the 
declining aquifer of Salton Sea, near the Mexico/California border. Her 
work slips past the indexical to trace dynamic loops between biological 
and technologically emergent states, making connections between human 
traumatic memory, disturbed terrains, and bare life.
http://christinamcphee.net
     	
Sam Pluta: data structures/monoliths ii (for chion)
Video samplers. Software as musical scores. Data structures as musical 
materials. Copyright laws. Data loops. Why Chewbacca is not in the OS X 
spell checker. Blocks of sounds. Laptop improvisation. And Michel Chion. 
All this and more will be discussed as Sam Pluta presents his work, data 
structures/monoliths ii (for chion).
http://www.samuelpluta.com