[dorkbotnyc-announce] dorkbot-nyc: 05 March 2008!

[douglas repetto]

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!

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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