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

[douglas repetto]

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.