[dorkbotnyc-announce] You're Doing It Wrong -- dorkbot-nyc special event!

[douglas repetto]

(This is a small venue and tickets are going fast, so you might want to 
purchase online.)


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You're Doing It Wrong: Creative Misuse of Technology

Please join us at 92YTribeca for a selection of historical and
contemporary short videos and live performances featuring inappropriate,
inadvisable, and occasionally disastrous creative uses of technology.

When: Wed, Feb 11, 2009, 8:00pm
Where: 92YTribeca Screening Room, 200 Hudson Street
$$$: $10.00

http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc/YDIW/
http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T-MM5FF02

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Program (subject to change)

Jeremy Bailey: live demonstration of the SOS operating system -- Jeremy
will demonstrate his radical ideas for a new kind of operating system.

Guy Ben-Ner: I'd Give It to You -- Ben-Ner and his family build a
bicycle from parts found in an art museum.

The Draftmasters + Daniel Iglesia: live pen plotter performance -- a
musical performance using old electro-mechanical pen plotters as a sound
source. The pen plotters draw and the sound from their motors is
amplified and processed. Meanwhile video of what they are drawing is
turned into anaglyphic 3D and projected on the movie screen. 3D glasses
provided!

Kelly Dobson: Omo/Blendie/Screambody -- machine therapy and wearable
body organs.

fur: Pain Station -- losing should hurt.

Daniel Greenfeld: mini-disasters -- recreations of famous transportation
disasters in miniature.

Jon Kessler: Cape Carnival/Cookie Machine/Marcello 9000/Rowing
Machine/Still Life (with pork chop)

Daito Manabe: face shock/face copy -- Daito Manabe plays tones into
electrodes connected to his face, causing muscle spasms. He then hooks
up his friends and uses his face to control theirs.

Sam Pluta: data structures/monoliths ii (for chion) -- live video cutup
mayhem.

Ride the Planets: Rock Wings

Tetranitrate: Laser Tattoos -- what not to do with a laser cutter.

Tom Sachs: NASA -- an incredibly detailed mis-re-imagining of a NASA
space mission.

Paul Slocum: You're Not My Father -- crowd-sourced video of strangers
reenacting a clip from 1980s sitcom Full House.