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

[Eric Singer]

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

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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.

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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

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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)

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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.

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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/>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.

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.

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