[dorkbotnyc-announce] Tomorrow! -- la divinità e terribilità dorkbot-nyc!

[douglas repetto]

What: dorkbot-nyc meeting
When: Wednesday, February 6th, 2008, 7pm
Where: Location One, 26 Greene St between Canal and Grand
$$$: $FREE$


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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 divinità e terribilità:

     	
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