From douglas at music.columbia.edu Mon Mar 17 10:43:17 2008 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Mon Mar 17 10:43:23 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] [Fwd: Blue Man Group is looking for a Creative Director] Message-ID: <47DE8385.2050709@music.columbia.edu> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Blue Man Group is looking for a Creative Director Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:25:21 -0400 From: Debbie Mayer ************************************************** *Creative Director R&D* Location: New York Title: Creative Director, Research & Development Status: Full-time/Regular Blue Man Productions, best known for Blue Man Group, is looking for a seasoned Creative Director of Research & Development to conceive and design concepts in all creative areas, including: sets & scenery; props; instruments; gadgets; special effects; graphics and other cool, inspiring new stuff. The Creative Director will be able to solve creative problems through innovation and creativity. Reporting to the Senior GM/Production, he or she will oversee and direct the work of the creative teams: Associate Creative Directors; R&D members; outside Creative Contractors & Consultants. He or she will ensure that as new projects are developed, their progress is continuously communicated to the CCO & Creative Directors, and that creative feedback is effectively communicated and applied to the projects teams. Responsibilities: * Ensure that Blue Man Group values and artistic vision are understood and supported across the organization. * Understand, articulate and build upon the evolving Blue Man visual aesthetic * Partner with the CCO and Creative Directors to conceive, articulate, iterate & execute creative concepts in all areas: sets and scenery; props; instruments; gadgets; special effects; graphics, etc. * Provide leadership for research and development; produce and communicate design ideas. * Oversee and/or assist with the execution of design and research ideas as directed by the Senior GM/Production. Requirements: * Minimum 7+ years leadership experience in creative, collaborative environments required. * Minimum 5+ years experience in fields of special effects, production design, special events or magic industry strongly preferred. * Proven track record of leadership in large scale design and concept execution. * Fluency in production and communication of design ideas, including: development of models; sourcing materials and fabrications; producing drawings and models. * Excellent communication skills. To be considered, please submit your resume and web links of your work with the title "Creative Director of R&D" in the subject line to hr@blueman.com Please do not mail any materials to us at this time. -- ............................................... http://artbots.org .....douglas.....irving........................ http://dorkbot.org .......................... http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp .......... repetto............. http://music.columbia.edu/organism ............................... http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas From douglas at music.columbia.edu Thu Mar 20 10:06:03 2008 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Thu Mar 20 10:06:15 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] [Fwd: Arduino Hacklab, Sat., March 29th @ NYC Resistor] Message-ID: <47E26F4B.2010104@music.columbia.edu> Great event! -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Arduino Hacklab, Sat., March 29th @ NYC Resistor Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:40:10 -0400 It's time for another arduino hacklab! We have a new location for this month's hacklab, NYC Resistor, a new hacker space in downtown Brooklyn. We spend enough time alone staring at our computers; we are proposing to work together. So often issues that arise when working can be solved with a quick two minute discussion that would take hours to solve alone. We have Dorkbot to see people's work, we have Share where anyone can play, we have workshops and universities to learn from. This is a meeting where we all can come to work. Writing a library? Working on a shield design? Putting the final tweaks on your pet robot dog? Bring your projects and put the collective unconscious to work. Location: NYC Resistor http://www.nycresistor.com/ 397 Bridge St., Brooklyn, NY 11201 5th floor - Look for the pack of resistors on the door 212.931.0593 or 800.210.0966 (shop phone Time: next Saturday, March 29th 11am til 5pm (come early so you can get some work done!) http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1164834526/22#22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Also, there is a related event at NYC Resistor tonight, the Microcontroller Study Group, it is more newbie friendly for those who want to warm up for the hacklab: http://www.nycresistor.com/2008/03/18/nycresistor-microcontroller- study-group/ -- ............................................... http://artbots.org .....douglas.....irving........................ http://dorkbot.org .......................... http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp .......... repetto............. http://music.columbia.edu/organism ............................... http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas From drjuanarroyo at yahoo.com Sun Mar 23 18:38:35 2008 From: drjuanarroyo at yahoo.com (john arroyo) Date: Sun Mar 23 18:38:45 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] call for music & sound art submission, remixin.org Message-ID: <491127.79478.qm@web50809.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Hi dorkbot'ers, I'm looking for muscians, producers and sound artists to participate in an iterative derivative works project called remixin. The idea is to remix a small number of compositions into a large number in an iterative manner. More details are in the Call below. To listen to the available tracks please visit, http://remixin.org/project/round3.html The remixes are due April 18th. If you would like to participate but need a little more time, let me know we can probably work something out. thanks, -John John Arroyo | www.johnarroyo.com | www.remixin.org --------------------------------------------------------------- Remixin, Call for Round 3 Remix Participation --------------------------------------------------------------- Hello All, We are putting out a call for remixes for a derivative works project called remixin. The first two rounds went really well. We are now starting Round 3. We are looking for people willing to remix one of the available tracks. You can listen to the song that are available for remixing here, http://remixin.org/project/round3.html The key idea of this project is a never ending web of remixes. Someone remixes one track, another person remixes that remix, then another person remixes that remix and so on. What you end up with is ongoing chain of related works. The remix can be in any style or tradition you wish. Round one was anywhere from electro-acoustic/art music to something bordering minimal techno. Round two had some electronica & glitch. Maybe we'll have some hip hop and house in Round 3? It's all up to the remixers. All styles of remixes are encouraged. For more information on the remix project including basic rules of the remix go to http://remixin.org/project/index.html I hope many of you will consider making a remix, I think it's going to be a very interesting project in the end. Round 3 starts March 21st and ends April 18th. If you are interested but cannot do round 3, please consider signing up for round 4 which starts April 14th and ends May 12th. For those wanting to make a remix please email us (info@remixin.org) Thank you, -John ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping From list at ericsinger.com Mon Mar 24 21:08:05 2008 From: list at ericsinger.com (Eric Singer) Date: Mon Mar 24 21:08:27 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] ReSiDeNt show Friday + other LEMUR news Message-ID: LEMUR News at a Glance * ReSiDeNt Show this Friday, March 28, 8-11 pm at LEMUR, 461 3rd Ave, Brooklyn * LEMUR shows at Issue Project Room, Monkeytown, Schenectady, GamelaTron debut * Robotics for Artists Class March 29 & 30, still time to sign up * Marketing and Other Interns Wanted * April ReSiDeNtS Announced: Dafna Naphtali and Andrew Schneider * ReSiDeNt Submissions Open for June through May 15th *************************************************************************** Third ReSiDeNt Show Friday LEMUR's ReSiDeNt series continues this Friday, March 28th with new performances by Luke DuBois and Lesley Flanigan + Hannah Perner-Wilson and Mika Satomi + Jay Zimmerman LEMUR is decked out with video screens and flying drum sets for this month's show. The March ReSiDeNtS have been working hard to bring you a diverse set, including music, video, dance, robots and more. 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 March 28th 8 pm - 12 pm $5 at the door http://lemurbots.org R. Luke DuBois is a composer, performer, video artist, and programmer who has worked with Toni Dove, Matthew Ritchie, Todd Reynolds, Michael Joaquin Grey, Elliott Sharp, Michael Gordon, Bang on a Can, Engine27, Harvestworks, LEMUR, the Princeton Laptop Orchestra and Freight Elevator Quartet. He is a co-author of Cycling'74 Jitter, his music is available on Caipirinha/Sire, Cycling'74, and Cantaloupe music, and his artwork is represented by bitforms gallery. 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. Luke and Lesley's performance involves voice, transducer-driven cymbals, robots and more. 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. She is fascinated by details and interested in exploring alternative and seemingly bizarre human computer relations. She is attracted to the idea of soft electronics, and her recent work deals with wearable technologies, viewing them from social, wearable and functional perspectives. http://www.plusea.at Mika Satomi received an education in Graphic Design and Media Art in Japan and is currently based in Linz/Austria researching and practicing Media Art and Media Studies. Her recent projects explores the concept of body extension in the realm of wearable technology as an experiment on our plastic nature. Hannah and Mika have created wearable technology and crafted a dance work with LEMUR robots, to be performed by dancer Micaela Schedlbauer. Jay Alan Zimmerman is an experimental multimedia composer whose works for dance, aerialists, film, and theater have been shown in hundreds of venues including art galleries, Lincoln Center, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the Pompidou in Paris, the Zipper Factory Theater and the Sunlight Zone. 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. Despite having become deaf to most sound, Jay has created an audio-visual robotic symphony during his residency. *************************************************************************** Upcoming LEMUR Shows LEMUR presents debut collaborations with two of our favorite artists at the Dangerous Music festival at Proctor's Theater in Schenectady, NY on Saturday, April 5th. Bass clarinetist Michael Lowenstern and Mutantrumpet inventor and player Ben Neill split the evening, each performing their new works with the robots. (http://www.proctors.org), 7:30, $16 LEMUR storms Issue Project Room on Thursday, April 10th, with a night of special collaborations. Best of ReSiDeNt: The First Two Months showcases performances by January/February LEMUR ReSiDeNtS Taylor Kuffner debuting the GamelaTron robotic gamelan and Holland Hopson playing his customized MIDI banjo in an Appalachia-meets-robots performance. Then, Ben Neill presents the NYC premiere of new works for Mutantrumpet and LEMUR robots. (http://benneill.com) Issue Project Room @ The Old American Can Factory, 232 3rd Street @ 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn (http://issueprojectroom.org), 8 pm, $10 The next day, we drag the bots across town to Monkeytown to present "LEMUR performs Man with a Movie Camera," a visionary silent documentary by Russian director Dziga Vertov. The film presents a gestalt portrait of life in Odessa in 1929: day breaks, the citizens file into factories, machines machinate, and the wheel of life spins, with all stops detailed and deconstructed by the omnipresent cameraman. Six composers - Zemi17, Leif Krinkle, Luke DuBois, Zach Layton, DJ Olive and Jim Coleman - have created original scores for LEMUR robots to accompany the film. Monkeytown, 58 N. 3rd St. between Kent and Wythe, Brooklyn (http://www.monkeytownhq.com), 7:30 and 10:00, $10 ********************************************************************** Electromechanical Systems and Robotics for Artists Sat-Sun 3/29, 3/30, 12:30-5:00 pm Instructor: Douglas Repetto A starter course for artists interested in using electromechanical elements in their work. We will cover basic devices and technologies (motors, solenoids, switches, relays), computer and electronic control options (Arduino, MidiTron), and ways of connecting elements together to make larger systems (linkages, belts and pulleys). We will also take apart consumer electromechanical systems (like inkjet printers) to see what's inside, how they're made, and what can be reused. Visit http://lemurbots.org/classes.html to sign up. 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) *************************************************************************** Marketing and Other Interns Wanted LEMUR is looking for marketing and administrative interns. Tasks may include design and implementation of marketing campaigns; online promotion and campaign design; scheduling events and classes; preparation of visual and online materials; fundraising and grant identification and writing; PR coordination; museum promotion design and outreach; and more. In addition, we have a continuing tech intern program. Details are at http://lemurbots.org/getinvolved.html. If you are interested in interning in any capacity, contact us by replying to this email. *************************************************************************** April ReSiDeNts Announced 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 Supov? 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 Jos? 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. Dafna's residency will involve dynamically controlled algorithmic improvisation and live audio processing, using vocal cues and controls to trigger and manipulate LEMUR robots. Andrew Schneider 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) Doing musical theatre with robots used to be Andrew's standard joke answer to the question "So what do you want to do with your life?" Finally, a life-long dream comes true. He plans to start with a dance number, interfacing his movements with the robots via custom-built wearable controllers. 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, and decisions are made shortly after the 15th of each month for the following month's residencies. Note: ReSiDeNt takes a break in May, returning again in June. Applications for June and beyond are accepted through May 15th. ********************************************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotnyc-blabber/attachments/20080324/5a487459/attachment.html From hans at eds.org Wed Mar 26 11:02:39 2008 From: hans at eds.org (Hans-Christoph Steiner) Date: Wed Mar 26 11:02:55 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] NYC Resistor Rent Party, this Sat., March 29th, 9pm-4am Message-ID: <29047E25-E9B4-4B77-B740-9BB33E197E42@eds.org> http://www.nycresistor.com/2008/03/26/nyc-resistor-rent-party/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Date: This Saturday, March 29, 2008. 9PM - 4AM Location: 397 Bridge St 5th Floor, Suite 502 Brooklyn, NY 11201 http://www.nycresistor.com/2008/03/26/nyc-resistor-rent-party/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Computer science is no more related to the computer than astronomy is related to the telescope. -Edsger Dykstra From hans at eds.org Thu Mar 27 17:55:14 2008 From: hans at eds.org (Hans-Christoph Steiner) Date: Thu Mar 27 17:55:27 2008 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] iPhoneDevCampNYC, Sat. April 19th @ Brooklyn Polytechnic Message-ID: <0A89A0AF-973D-47DC-BB5F-4A40D7903C88@eds.org> http://barcamp.org/iPhoneDevCampNYC A BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. iPhoneDevCampNYC is focused on developing software for the Apple iPhone, using the new Apple SDK, the existing hacker tools, the web- based tools, or anything else related to iPhone development. It is a non-commercial event, organized by volunteers, with attendance free to all. The event will be held at Polytechnic University in downtown Brooklyn, and out-of-town guests are welcome. iPhoneDevCampNYC will bring together iPhone developers, explorers, professionals, and owners, to share the current state and their visions for the future direction of development on the iPhone. Topics may include - but are not limited to - learning the SDK, hacking your own phone, the limitations of the SDK, iPhone entrepreneurship, and software demos. There will be some computers with the SDK installed available for use during the event. What can you talk about at iPhoneDevCampNYC? You can talk about anything related to iPhone development, from code to business practices, all is welcome. If you have a topic to discuss, a problem to pose, or a session to present, check out the sessions/schedule page on the wiki and then register to attend. (the password is c4mp) Where is iPhoneDevCampNYC? Polytechnic University Brooklyn Campus Rogers Hall (building A on the map) start in RH215 (there will be signs) Six Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY 11201 http://www.poly.edu/directions/ (iPhoneDevCampNYC is not affiliated with Apple, Inc.) http://barcamp.org/iPhoneDevCampNYC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---- Access to computers should be unlimited and total. - the hacker ethic