From douglas at music.columbia.edu Wed Sep 2 12:20:54 2009 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:20:54 -0400 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] 1st dorkbot-nyc meeting of the new season! Message-ID: <4A9E9B66.7040901@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. +++++++ 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. http://www.sunsetspark.org 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 From douglas at music.columbia.edu Wed Sep 30 10:19:37 2009 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:19:37 -0400 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] dorkbot-nyc: 07 Oct 2009 Message-ID: <4AC368F9.70306@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: 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 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 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