From douglas at music.columbia.edu Tue Jan 1 22:38:14 2008 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Tue Jan 1 22:36:11 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] electroweak and symmetry breaking dorkbot-nyc! Message-ID: <477B0726.1020403@music.columbia.edu> What: dorkbot-nyc Where: Location One, 20 Greene St (Canal/Grand) When: 7pm, 2 January, 2008 $$$: FREE! Info: http://dorkbot.org +++++ The 10^15th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, January 2nd, 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 the electroweak and symmetry breaking: Paul Davies: The Trouble of Interactivity As a sculptor I have been attracted to the deep engagements that interactivity offers. My practice is not one of inward contemplation and self reflection but rather an active examination of current social and political events and currents. Interactivity offers the artist the opportunity to create a rich dialog with the public. Interactivity also poses great challenges to the artist. The challenges of fabrication, cost, and robustness are ever present. How can an artist make an interactive sculpture that 'lasts' more than 10 minutes into opening night? In the presentation I will show how interactivity has evolved in my work and how my quest for robust interactivity has shaped my choices. Afterwards there will be a discussion of success and failure stories. Paul Davies is a sculptor whose work often includes interactive elements. He has shown internationally at numerous galleries and museums over the past 15 years. http://www.xraylab.org Jessica Thompson: Wearable Sound Projects Jessica Thompson's studio practice involves the creation of wearable sound projects that explore social interactions within public space. Using elements of game-playing and performance, her work attempts to create collaborative situations with the audience where the integrity of the artwork is entirely determined by willing participants. She is best known for her project called SOUNDBIKE, a mobile sound piece that uses motion-based mini-generators mounted to an ordinary bicycle to broadcast the sound of laughter as the bike is pedaled. At dorkbot Thompson will discuss two recent projects, "Give It Up" (a networked breakdance battle) and "Public Sound Project: Bike Hack + Soundride" (bicycle-mounted noisemakers). http://www.pmgallery.ca/Catalog_View_Summary.php?ID=22 Jeff Snyder: New Electronic Music Instruments Jeff Snyder has been developing some electronic instruments for the past year or so, and he'll be showing them off. Plus, he may even demonstrate them and warm your heart with their angelic sounds. http://www.scattershot.org From douglas at music.columbia.edu Thu Jan 3 17:25:08 2008 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Thu Jan 3 17:23:54 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] thanks! Message-ID: <477D60C4.5040600@music.columbia.edu> We had another fun-filled, electroweak, and symmetry-breaking dorkbot last night. Thanks again to Paul Davies, Jessica Thompson, and Jeff Snyder for their terrific presentations. Some blurry pics: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc/02.jan.2008 Next meeting: 06.feb.2008 And get to work on those theme songs! Don't be shy, you know you've got something cooking... douglas From douglas at music.columbia.edu Wed Jan 30 21:07:10 2008 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Wed Jan 30 21:05:02 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] la =?iso-8859-1?q?divinit=E0_e_terribilit=E0_dorkbot-nyc!?= Message-ID: <47A12D4E.5090604@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