[dorkbotnyc-announce] 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