[dorkbotnyc-announce] meeting next week!

[douglas repetto]

What: dorkbot-nyc meeting
When: 7pm, October 1st, 2008
Where: Location One, 20 Greene St between Canal and Grand
$$$: $FREE$


The 1261047th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, 
October 1st, 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.

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Featuring the volatile and isotopic:

Mark McNamara: Large Interactive Musical Toys
I have been very lucky during the first half of this year to be involved 
in creating two large-scale musical toys that invited and relied upon 
public interaction. The HAN project asked TUFTS students to acoustically 
map their environment. We then created an interactive toy to access that 
database of recordings. David Byrne's Playing the Building turned a 
landmarked building in lower Manhattan into a large musical instrument 
that he then invited the public to play.
http://www.landonmark.net
     	
Seth Herr: The Africanized Bee
The 'Bee' is a mobile communication system developed by the Division of 
Communication at UNICEF that allows for communication, connectivity and 
data access in field conditions where such technologies are often 
difficult or impossible to use. Included in the first prototypes are 
webcams, radio transmitters and ultra-low-power computers. These 
components are run with open-source software designed to support the 
efforts of field workers and partners, and to be locally adapted for 
ongoing use. At dorkbot, we'll explain the design and technical 
development of the Bee, as well as future use-cases and implementations. 
We'll also bring along our latest prototype.
http://www.unicef.org/emerg/index_45259.html
     	
Ayah Bdeir: Recent Works
With an upbringing between Lebanon, Canada and the United States, 
Bdeir's work uses technology to look at cross cultural dialogue and 
media representation of the Middle East and its identities. Her work 
spans a range of mediums including interactive installations, electronic 
fashion, gadgets, reactive furniture, and has been published and 
exhibited in conferences, festivals and galleries in Amsterdam, Paris, 
New York, Rhode Island, Boston, Sao Paolo and others.
http://www.ayahbdeir.com/