From douglas at music.columbia.edu  Wed Aug 26 13:30:50 2009
From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto)
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:30:50 -0400
Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] 1st dorkbot-nyc meeting of the new season!
Message-ID: <4A95714A.5020804@music.columbia.edu>


The 22.98977th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, 
September 2nd, 2009 at Location One in SoHo.

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

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 silvery and highly reactive:

Gaelen Hadlett: Electric Home Ec
While lending a hand at a couple local elementary schools, I work with 
kids on all sorts of projects involving engineering, science, and 
programming mixed in with everyday arts and crafts. I'll share 
highlights and missteps of past projects and the kids' responses to the 
advanced subject matter.
     	
Hye Yeon Nam: The Sound of Kiss
The Sound of Kiss facilitates an amorous ambience in which couples 
digitize their love while kissing. One wears a headset and the other's 
tongue is affixed to a magnet. When they kiss, the magnet and the 
electro-magnetic sensor interact to create spontaneous music. The 
musical composition depends on how far one's tongue is away from the 
other's lips/tongue and their style of action.
http://www.hynam.org/HY/sou.html
     	
Ben Woodeson: The Health and safety Violations Trained in Glasgow, 
Scotland, Ben Woodeson now lives in London, England. His practice 
revolves around absurd and quietly confrontational sculptures; the works 
set out to challenge the viewer and the exhibiting institution in a 
playful kind of art chicken. Since December 2008 he has been working on 
a new series of "deliberately dangerous" works entitled "The Health and 
safety Violations" and as part of Location One's Virtual Residency 
programme he has been collaborating with the artist Ursula Endleicher, 
they have never met but will spend the last week before the exhibition 
opens on 9/9 finalizing works together. He has shown throughout Europe, 
Canada, and America and he has an upcoming solo show at Electrohype in 
Malmo, Sweden.
http://www.woodeson.co.uk
http://vres.location1.org
http://www.electrohype.org