[dorkbotnyc-announce] next dorkbot-nyc meeting TOMORROW: 06 May 2009

[douglas repetto]

The 1937th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, May
6th, 2009 at Location One in SoHo.

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

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 luxuriantly airborne:

     	
justin downs: how to be creative not making art, and how to make art
creatively not be itself.
The projects i have typically worked on have been large scale art
ventures (engineering design/fabrication of the Carbon Arc Lamp for the
Starn Twins 2003 and Play the Building for David Byrne 2005,2008, 2009
two examples). Recently I have found avenues of working which allow for
interesting projects that have functional utility. The last project was
building a solar powered tree house in the Kenyan Maasai land. The
current one is developing with the Wave Farm a semi intelligent solar
powered mesh network, which will hopefully translate into tracking
collars and techniques, for african wildlife.
http://www.grndlab.com
http://www.johnhenryshammer.com
     	
Conrad Shawcross: Slow Arc III
British sculptor and Location One international fellow creates
multimedia kinetic sculptures that explore the artist's interest in
philosophy, science and the mysterious structures of the universe. He
will present a new work which features a halogen light moving along an
articulated arm inside a mesh cube and some of his earlier work.
http://www.location1.org/conrad-shawcross
     	
Graham Smith: Social Network--A Digital Painting
I have 413 Facebook friends and in one week I saw more then 100 of them
in RL. I wanted to create a work of art about virtual friends so to do
that I visited them in person. I got a picture of me with lost friends,
childhood buddies, ex-girlfriends, family, and people from high school I
didn't talk to. I asked them about their RL friends, asked for a
physical souvenir, and took their pulse to be used for a 'digital
painting' of lightning bugs. The 'painting' is a wall mounted laptop
running a looped program.