[dorkbotnyc-blabber] Friday: Skateboarding with Robots and more

[Eric Singer]

April ReSiDeNt Show
This Friday, May 2nd
Featuring new works by Dafna Naphtali, Andrew Schneider and Simon Morris

This month's show features Simon Morris on his newly constructed 
SensorSkate, a skateboard custom-wired with sensors and programmed to 
control the LEMUR robots. Dafna Naphtali has been brewing up a 
soundstorm of dynamically controlled algorithmic improvisation and 
live audio processing, using Wiimotes and vocal cues to trigger and 
manipulate the bots. Andrew Schneider will be doing musical theater, 
presenting a dance number and interfacing his movements with the 
robots via custom-built wearable controllers. This promises to be an 
exotic, entertaining evening.

ReSiDeNt @ LEMUR: New Works, New Instruments, New Artists
Friday, May 2nd
8 pm - 11 pm
$5 at the door


Dafna Naphtali is a sound-artist and improviser-composer from an 
eclectic musical background. As singer/guitarist/electronic-musician 
she performs and composes using custom sound processing of voice and 
other instruments. Besides her composing and improvised projects, she 
co-leads the digital chamber punk ensemble What is it Like to be a 
Bat? with Kitty Brazelton (http://www.whatbat.org) and has 
collaborated/performed with Lukas Ligeti, David First, Joshua Fried, 
Ras Moshe, Alexander Waterman, Kathleen Supové and Hans Tammen, among 
others and done sound design and programming for Jin Hi Kim, Shelley 
Hirsch, Pamela Z, Phoebe Legere, Fred Frith, Jim Staley, Henry 
Threadgill, Steve Coleman, Chico Freeman and others. Dafna can be 
heard with Mechanique(s) on a forthcoming release on In-situ, and was 
featured vocalist on José Halac's CD "Dance of 1000 Heads" (Tellus), 
as well as on her acclaimed release with What is it Like to be a Bat? 
on Tzadik/Oracles.


  is a multimedia designer and performer whose work investigates 
human/technological interdependence. He is the co-founder and 
Associate Artistic Director of the Chicago-based theatre company, 
BigPictureGroup. His solo performance work has been seen at P.S.122, 
Monkeytown, The Prelude Festival, and The Tank. His multimedia 
devices have been featured in Art Review, Wired, TimeOut NY, Maker 
Faire, SIGGRAPH, Dorkbot, the Telfair Art Museum, and at the Center 
Pompidou in Paris. His Solar Bikini has been featured internationally 
and is slated to be featured in the next Sports Illustrated swimsuit 
edition. His latest projects include Experimental Devices for 
Performance (.com) and Acting Stranger (.com). Andrew Holds a Masters 
Degree in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU. He is currently 
working with The Wooster Group. (http://andrewjs.com)


Born in New York City, Simon Morris (US/France) is a new media artist 
exploring urban landscapes, new musical interfaces and skateboarding. 
Investigating new forms of musical expression, his work examines 
technology  and its role as a socially engaged art practice. He has 
conducted live performances at Eyebeam, NYC, the Article Biennale 
2006 in Stavanger, Norway, the KiasmaMuseum in Helsinki, Finland and 
the Barker Theatre in Turku, Finland.
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