From douglas at music.columbia.edu Tue Oct 6 17:51:14 2009 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:51:14 -0400 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] dorkbot-nyc: 07 Oct 2009 Message-ID: <4ACBBBD2.9020406@music.columbia.edu> What: dorkbot-nyc meeting When: 7-9pm, 07 Oct 2009 Where: Location One, 20 Green Street, north of Canal $$$: $$$FREE$$$ ******* The 35.453th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, October 7th, 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 pale green and salt-forming: Stefani Bardin: Chemical Proust: Remembrance of Things Pastiche I'm a media maker interested in the intersections of food, technology and science. By examining industrial food production alongside the media rich stylized presentation of food and using such tools as artificial smells (that "flavor" our food supply) and gastroenterology technology I look at food as both a mediating agent and phenomenological reference point within our society and how its role has changed through the modern influences of technology and corporate culture. http://www.petrifiedunrest.net Torino:Margolis: Action Potential Torino:Margolis is a performance art team that crosses physical and psychological barriers, using invasive electronics and biomedical tools. They explore the idea that the self is transient, elusive and modular by playing with the notion of control and free will. In their new media/dance piece, Action Potential, they harvest a dancer's neuronal impulses using electromyography machines. Using Arduino and XBees, the signals are sent wirelessly to Pure Data open source software, which transforms the signals into sound. Sound/programming by Lee Azzarello and choreography by Dana Kotler. http://www.torinomargolis.com Lee von Kraus: cyborgs and cybernetics I will discuss the roborat, roboroach, and other cybernetics stuff I'm working on. The roborat is a rat that is trained to move in directions specified by electronic signals sent to its brain via electrodes. The roboroach is a cockroach that is tricked into moving in specified directions by using mechanically actuated antenna stimulation. The 'other cybernetics stuff' refers to a goal of augmenting brains via induction of new circuit formation. http://leevonk.com From douglas at music.columbia.edu Thu Oct 8 12:38:37 2009 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:38:37 -0400 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] thanks! Message-ID: <4ACE158D.2040009@music.columbia.edu> Wow, what a fun meeting and a great crowd. Plus FOOD! Homemade vegan cupcakes!?! Incredible. Thanks again to our presenters, Stefani Bardin, Torino:Margolis, and Lee Von Kraus. Great job! Pics and info from the meeting: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc/07.oct.2009/ Next meeting: 04 November 2009 From douglas at music.columbia.edu Tue Oct 27 23:45:34 2009 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:45:34 -0400 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] dorkbot-nyc: 04 November 2009 Message-ID: <4AE7BE5E.1010208@music.columbia.edu> What: dorkbot-nyc meeting Where: Location One, Greene St. between Canal and Grand When: 7-9pm, 04 November, 2009 $$$: $FREE$ +++++++ The 30.97376th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at Location One in SoHo. The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to share. YUMM. Last month someone brough homemade vegan cupcakes!?! CAN YOU TOP THAT??? 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 waxy and light-bearing: Julia Burns: Privacy Online I am a new media artist based in Sydney, Australia. I am interested in the changing concepts of privacy and public access to the private sphere online. In addition to leading an audience-based discussion regarding Mark Klein's book "Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine..." regarding internet surveillance, I will present my latest series of works that use performance and vintage technology to examine contemporary issues concerning Facebook, Twitter, and Google Cache. http://juliaburns.com Yuliya Lanina: Mechanical Dolls Lanina is a Russian born American artist living and working in New York City. Lanina creates alternate realities in her works -- ones based on sexuality, fetishism, and identity. All of Lanina's characters are dolls and toys made from dissembled parts that have been restructured with other found objects. The modifications Lanina makes to the figures are both visual and electronic; she turns them into robotic creatures with altered functional capabilities. Lanina works in collaboration with Theodore Johnson who helps with bringing the dolls to life using electronics and micro-controllers. http://www.yuliyalanina.com Britta Riley: Window Farms The Windowfarms project helps New Yorkers to grow food in their building windows year-round by means of vertical hydroponic curtains. New Yorkers assemble their windowfarms from recycled bottles and local hardware store materials using a set of open designs. Behind the open designs is a mass collaboration by ordinary folks who contribute innovations and test optimizing factors for the system. Co-Founder Britta Riley will be presenting recent progress and the challenges her team is working through on the Windowfarms project as it transitions from art project to social venture. http://www.submersibledesign.com