From douglas at music.columbia.edu Tue Feb 5 11:23:27 2008 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Tue Feb 5 11:21:18 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] Tomorrow! -- la =?iso-8859-1?q?divinit=E0_e_terribilit=E0_dorkbot?= =?iso-8859-1?q?-nyc!?= Message-ID: <47A88D7F.40702@music.columbia.edu> What: dorkbot-nyc meeting When: Wednesday, February 6th, 2008, 7pm Where: Location One, 26 Greene St between Canal and Grand $$$: $FREE$ +++++ The 1475th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008 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. Also: dorkbot t-shirts! $15 in person, $17 online. Cute colors, cute cuts. Profits go to support our host, Location One! Featuring la divinit? e terribilit?: Eric Redlinger / Mrmr - dynamic user interfaces for mobile devices Mrmr, an open protocol for creating and pushing user interfaces to mobile devices will be demoed. In this demo, a user interface will be constructed from scratch and sent to an iPod, which in turn will be used to control an interactive performance (via its newly created UI). Eric, currently a research fellow at Brooklyn Polytech, has a long history working in multiuser, interactive performance environments. Beginning in the 90s with the keyworx project (http://www.keyworx.org), he has contributed to a number of open-source initiatives and is active as a core member in the NYC node of the global Share (http://share.dj) community. http://poly.share.dj/wiki/index.php/mrmr Andrew Senior: artificial life In this talk I'll describe three recent art projects that explore artificial life ideas: "Couch Potato Farm" imagines an ecosystem that lives in TV signals; "Earthwords" explores the secret lives of texts; and my current project "Pomona" which proposes robotic plant prostheses. http://andrewsenior.com Jason Van Anden: Bubble Beats The musician Beck said in a recent interview that it would be cool if people could take his songs and "play them like a videogame." Jason Van Anden's newest project, BubbleBeats.com makes his dream a reality, and then some. Based on technology he originally invented to enable robots to interact improvisationally, anyone can visit and combine colorful bubbles filled with music (or other sounds) to create new living compositions. Jason and musician Nat Hawks will be presenting the beta version of BubbleBeats to the early adopters at dorkbot-nyc. http://www.bubblebeats.com From douglas at music.columbia.edu Thu Feb 7 13:51:09 2008 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Thu Feb 7 13:49:06 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] thanks, photos, next meeting Message-ID: <47AB531D.8020104@music.columbia.edu> Thanks again to our wonderful presenters last night. Archive of the meeting, with images, at: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc/06.feb.2008/ A dorky NPR story on the meeting: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18764927 Send in your dorkbot theme songs! We premiered a new one by Alan Tlusty last night, it was a hit! http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc/themes.shtml Next meeting: 02 April 2008 From douglas at music.columbia.edu Sun Feb 10 00:15:14 2008 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Sun Feb 10 00:15:22 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] correction: next meeting is march 5th! Message-ID: <47AE8862.804@music.columbia.edu> The next dorkbot-nyc meeting is 05 March 2008, not 02 April 2008, as stated in the last email. Sorry about that, thanks to Elisa for noticing! douglas From douglas at music.columbia.edu Wed Feb 27 19:27:42 2008 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Wed Feb 27 19:27:53 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] dorkbot-nyc: 05 March 2008! Message-ID: <47C5FFFE.9020507@music.columbia.edu> The omega-th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 at Location One in SoHo. The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to share. Please bring theme songs! +++++ Featuring the inscrutable and polymorphous: Marie Evelyn: Analogous and similar projects Complexity Theory is not new to art or to our culture. It migrated from computer science and biology to economics and art and, with the advent of the world wide web, it invaded our collective subconscious. Analogous seeks to support complexity-driven art and artists playing under this conceptual umbrella of "Interaction Art". Progress often occurs by metaphor and analogy. So their hope is that, by bringing together people and projects irrespective of media and genre, they can help to enable philosophical crosstalk. In this way, Analogous endeavors to serve the community as a sort of, ahem, "Santa Fe Institute" for the arts ..but without the millions of dollars and Nobel Prize winners. (Although, if you have millions to share, they are totally agreeable.) http://AnalogousProjects.org Noel Hidalgo: On the Luck of Seven on 07 july 2007, noneck noel departed new york city to surf his social network. affably named "on the luck of seven," for seven months he stood on six continents and documented his connection to free culture, social innovators and global change. using micro-payments in-exchange for a children's book he will write, the trip was funded by over 500 internet users from around the world. at dorkbot, he will talk about the world's hospitably and 21st century anthropological view of the personalities in physical / digital world we cohabit. http://luckofseven.com Burak Arikan: MYPOCKET I will talk about my recent project MYPOCKET, the personal spending prediction software, and Meta-Markets, an experimental stock market for trading socially networked creative products. http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/mypocket http://meta-markets.com