[dorkbotnyc-announce] The 110208th dorkbot-nyc meeting!

[douglas repetto]

The 110208th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, 
December 3rd, 2008 at Location One in SoHo.

The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to share.

We're always looking for (and playing) more dorkbot theme songs! Bring 
or email one and we'll play it at the meeting.

+++++++

Featuring the alkaline and perchlorated:
     	
Fang-Yu Lin: Political Science 101
Political Science 101: A Crash Course in Civil Discourse on Political 
Blogs is a net art installation that constantly scans and monitors 
hundreds of political blogs for headlines, keywords and trends. The 
"learnings" are presented as slides that are generated in real-time, 
using textbook style charts and graphs. A hacked slide projector 
projects these virtual slides to the screen in a simulated classroom 
setting. Hence, the class is a study of blogs as a political medium, and 
an appraisal of its traits and uses.
http://compustition.com/projects/polisci101
     	
Alicia Gibb: Bug Labs
Bug Labs is a new kind of technology company, enabling a new generation 
of engineers to tap their creativity and build any type of device they 
want, without having to solder, learn solid state electronics, or go to 
China. Bug Labs envisions a future where CE stands for Community 
Electronics, the term "mashups" applies equally to hardware as it does 
to Web services, and entrepreneurs can appeal to numerous markets by 
inventing "The Long Tail" of devices. We believe everybody is an 
inventor at heart, so we've developed a platform for users to create and 
forever modify their favorite gadget, allowing for ultimate 
customization and use.
http://www.buglabs.net
     	
Jeremy Rotsztain: Media Impressionism
Media Impressionism is just one possible term for the practice of 
remixing cinematic imagery using well known practices from painting 
(such as collage, pointillism, and action painting), but using 
software-based tools. In this dorkbotty presentation, I'll discuss a few 
of my recent video art and computational imaging projects and share my 
working process.
http://www.mantissa.ca