[dorkbotnyc-announce] The coherent and detectable dorkbot-nyc!

[douglas repetto]

what: dorkbot-nyc meeting
when: Wednesday, May 7th, 2008, 7-9pm
where: Location One, Greene Street between Canal and Grand
$$$: $FREE$


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The 1895th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, May
7th, 2008 at Location One in SoHo. This is the last meeting of the season!

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 coherent and detectable:

     	
Sean Montgomery: Vital Threads Biofeedback Apparel
I began developing Vital Threads biofeedback apparel to open fashion to
dynamic new forms of personal expression and interpersonal
communication. I will debut three prototype pieces from my Vital Threads
collection: heart-on shirt, truth wristband, and thinking cap. The
heart-on shirt projects rhythmic pulses of light synchronized with the
wearer's heart beat. The truth wristband displays the wearer's galvanic
skin response as a continuous metric of his/her psycho-emotional
response to the environment. The thinking cap measures brain activity
from the wearer's scalp EEG and projects changes in neuronal synchrony
on modular light arrays.
http://www.produceconsumerobot.com/vitalthreads
     	
Brian House: TXTML
TeXT message Markup Language and its software interpreter comprise a
(beta!) DIY system for creating interactive text-messaging applications.
It is the result of experimenting with text-messaging as a narrative and
performative medium and designing story-systems for non-traditional
contexts like Berlin's S-Bahn and the Statue of Liberty. TXTML also
reflects my philosophical interest in inventing formal languages to
reflect one's artistic biases. At the moment, TXTML is being used for
"The Wrench", an art project that re-imagines Primo Levi's novel The
Monkey's Wrench as a text-message exchange with an automated character.
http://brianhouse.net http://txtml.org
     	
NYCResistor: Barbot
NYCResistor is a new Brooklyn-based hacker collective that generates an
endless stream of amusing objects. One of our current projects is the
second iteration of our Barbot, a rack-mounted system designed to ensure
that anywhere that data is served, tasty beverages can be as well. We'll
also talk a bit about our new space, some of our other projects, and why
a marshmallow cooked over a 15,000V electric arc just tastes better.
http://www.nycresistor.com