[dorkbotnyc-blabber] [Fwd: The Draftmasters are serious business]

[douglas repetto]

These guys performed at the "You're Doing It Wrong" screening we did a 
few months ago. I'll make them do a dorkbot next season!



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Subject: 	The Draftmasters are serious business
Date: 	Wed, 13 May 2009 12:15:44 -0400
From: 	Daniel Iglesia <dei2101 at columbia.edu>

Hi everyone, these are being sent around the intertubes, feel free to
share!!!

http://www.vimeo.com/4611451
http://www.vimeo.com/4621363


Performance videos by The Draftmasters, who take 80's-style pen-plotters
and hack the firmware to allow live mechanical control. They control
them with a physical interface that turns their gestures into vector
commands. Electromagnetic pickups mounted on the printers turn their
electrical fields into the sound. Video input (from camera's trained on
the printers) gets analyzed on the fly to create live graphics for 3D
glasses.

They've performed around NYC, being called "a band of renegade tech
geeks...like Robocop on the fritz" (Time Out NY)




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