[dorkbotnyc-blabber] LEMUR ReSiDeNt show Friday + more news

[Eric Singer]

LEMUR News at a Glance

* ReSiDeNt Show this Friday, 8-11 pm at LEMUR, 461 3rd Ave, Brooklyn
* March ReSiDeNtS Announced: Luke DuBois + Lesley Flanigan, Hannah 
Perner-Wilson + Mika Satomi and Jay Alan Zimmerman
* April ReSiDeNt Submissions Open through March 15th
* Winter Classes Continue including Arduino 2, Video Tracking, 
Pyrotronics, Sensors for Dancers, and Robotics for Artists

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Second ReSiDeNt Show Friday

LEMUR's second ReSiDeNt show is this Friday, February 29th, featuring 
Holland Hopson, Zach Layton and Max Lord + Ellen Godena.

January's show was a blast, with great works by Joshua Goldberg, Drew 
Krause and Taylor Kuffner, with 200 people in attendance. It also 
spawned the first ReSiDeNt collaboration project - LEMUR and Taylor 
will be working together to make a permanent robo-gamelan, with an 
NYC debut show to be announced shortly thereafter.

ReSiDeNt shows take place at LEMUR on the last Friday of each month.

ReSiDeNt @ LEMUR: New Works, New Instruments, New Artists
461 Third Avenue between 9th & 10th Sts., Brooklyn
Friday February 29th
8 pm - 12 pm
$5 at the door
http://lemurbots.org

Holland Hopson is a composer, improviser, and electronic artist. 
Holland will bring Old-Time Appalachia to the League of Electronic 
Musical Urban Robots by creating new pieces for the LEMUR bots and 
Tru One, his clawhammer banjo/sensor interface.

Zach Layton is a composer, improviser, curator and new media artist 
based in new york with an interest in biofeedback, generative 
algorithms, experimental music, biomimicry and contemporary 
architectural practice. His work investigates complex relationships 
and topologies created through the interaction of simple core 
elements like sine waves, minimal surfaces and kinetic visual 
patterns. He is planning to create a new work for guitar, sax, drums 
plus robots. His piece will be composed using an open score format 
encouraging improvisation among the human players and neural network 
software to encourage improvisation among the robots.

Max Lord is a percussionist who will be writing a new piece for the 
LEMUR robots in collaboration with NYC-based choreographer Ellen 
Godena. The score will integrate a live performance on the Marimba 
Lumina with robot percussion and spontaneous robot-inspired movement.

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March ReSiDeNts Announced
April Submissions Now Open

Our third group of ReSiDeNts is a big one, including two teams of 
collaborators. They will be creating new works at LEMUR in March to 
be debuted March 28th.

R. Luke DuBois is a composer, performer, video artist and programmer. 
He has collaborated on interactive performance, installation, and 
music production work with many artists and organizations including 
Toni Dove, Matthew Ritchie, Todd Reynolds, Michael Joaquin Grey, 
Elliott Sharp, Michael Gordon, Bang on a Can, Engine27, Harvestworks 
and LEMUR. Lesley Flanigan is a sculptor, vocalist, curator, and 
sound artist in New York City. Her diverse range of work explores 
relationships between people and their inventions using metaphors of 
sound, communication, and mechanics. Their plan is to play the robots 
by using transducers to resonate and damp their sound.

Fascinated by details and interested in exploring alternative and 
seemingly bizarre human computer relations, Hannah Perner-Wilson 
indulges in breaking technologies down to a basic level, from which 
she is able to develop her own interaction solutions and scenarios. 
Mika Satomi is interested in exploring the concept of an urban body 
extension in the realm of wearable technology. Their previous 
collaborations have explored wearable technology as a medium for 
commenting on technological and social aspects. They propose to map a 
verbal language onto motion captured from a performer's body and to 
feed back auditory output, resulting in a dialog between performer 
and machines.


Jay Alan Zimmerman is an experimental multimedia composer whose works 
for dance, film, and theater have been shown in hundreds of venues 
including art galleries, Lincoln Center, the Edinburgh Fringe 
Festival and the Pompidou Center in Paris. With both classical music 
training and a BFA in Film from Tisch/NYU, he stretches boundaries by 
working with diverse collaborators including instrumentalists, 
Broadway singers, aerial performers, visual artists, drag queens and 
now robots. In addition, as Jay has become deaf to most sound, he 
plans to create a visual symphony during his residency.

Artists from all performing and installation disciplines are 
encouraged to apply to ReSiDeNt, including musicians, composers, 
dancers, choreographers, video artists, interactive installation 
artists, performance artists, multimedia artists and others. To learn 
about applying to ReSiDeNt, visit http://lemurbots.org/resident.html. 
Deadlines are rolling, with April submissions accepted until March 
15th.

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Winter Classes

LEMUR's winter classes continue in March. For more information and to 
register, visit http://lemurbots.org/classes.html. Upcoming classes 
include
- Microcontroller Programming for Artists: Introduction to the 
Arduino System, Level 2
- Video Tracking in Jitter: Expert Video Tracking for Sound and Video Control
- Pyrotronics: Pyrotechnics & Control for Artists
- Sensors for Dancers: Wireless Sound and Video Control Through Movement
- Electromechanical Systems and Robotics for Artists

For related classes in software and fabrication, please visit our 
Art/Tech Educational Alliance partners Harvestworks 
(http://harvestworks.org) and 3rd Ward (http://3rdward.com)
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