From adina at collab-orators.com Sat Oct 10 12:06:37 2009 From: adina at collab-orators.com (Adina Levin) Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:06:37 -0400 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] Collab Message-ID: Collab has been created to provide space, technology and manufacturing equipment for Artists, Architects, Painters, Filmmakers, Fashion Designers, Neuroscientists, Writers, Thinkers, Robotic Engineers, Graphic Designers, Environmental Earth Scientists, Musicians, Photographers, and others from a diversity of interdisciplinary pursuits, to work on their ideas while collectively developing socially and environmentally conscious prototypes and solutions for this new era. Collab is a combination think tank and fabrication laboratory, providing members with the tools to work on their ideas, and an open source platform, if they chose, for expanding and exchanging those ideas with other members. The belief is that by juxtaposing, for example, the work of a neuroscientist with a musician in an environment of tools, machinery and technology, a heighten and expansive creativity will be stimulated. In creating this network and encouraging an exploratory aesthetic, the possibilities for innovation that may sustain our ecosystem, economy and imagination become almost limitless. Memberships are available, For more information, visit www.collab-orators.com -- ----- PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you receive this transmission in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete the material from any computer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotnyc-blabber/attachments/20091010/2c2806a9/attachment.html From jluciani at gmail.com Sun Oct 11 19:36:59 2009 From: jluciani at gmail.com (John Luciani) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:36:59 -0400 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] Sanguino + New Design + Altoids Message-ID: <608bfe540910111636g659f5ae8k7745f1a6ba07ba24@mail.gmail.com> I just installed the Sanguino software add-ons to my arduino-0017 installation. Very quick install and it WORKS! The couple steps I did are listed at http://tinyurl.com/yjcvgj6 The Arduino and Sanguino crew have done quite a nice job on these tools. I just finished a prototype for a new board I am working on -- NB2A which is '644+RTC+DAC+Altoids. I used the Arduino+Sanguino setup and my RTC and DAC libraries to write a couple '644 apps. The DAC and RTC applications are listed in the "Applications Hints" section at http://tinyurl.com/ykp9ocd The sparsely doxygenated documentation is under the "Libraries" section. (* jcl *) --------------------------------------- www: http://www.wiblocks.com twitter: http://twitter.com/wiblocks blog: http://luciani.org From cerealnumber at gmail.com Sat Oct 17 21:14:29 2009 From: cerealnumber at gmail.com (Marie Evelyn) Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:14:29 -0400 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] Analogous Projects // Action Potential: An EMG performance at Devotion Gallery Message-ID: <52fb26fa0910171814x2a128d8fv79202b519d1b44e1@mail.gmail.com> .................................................................................. ."Action Potential: A Work-In-Progress Presentation".............................. ... Saturday October 24th, at 6:00 p.m........................................... Devotion Gallery, 54 Maujer Street in Brooklyn (L to Lorimer / G to Metropolitan). ................................. R.S.V.P. to http://LiveActionPotential.com...... ............................CONTACT: Marie at AnalogousProjects.org.................. .................................................................................. NEW YORK -- Analogous Projects is pleased to announce a new Analogous Project! "Action Potential" is a sound piece that gives voice to human free will through the detection of volitional movement. "Action Potential" will debut as a work-in-progress at Devotion Gallery in Williamsburg on October 24th. Volitional movement is produced as a result of conscious choice. For this Interaction Art Incubator project, biomedical artists Torino:Margolis -- together with sound-artist/programmer Lee Azzarello and choreographer/dancer Dana Kotler -- will detect this expression of free will and transform it into sound. "Action Potential: A Work-In-Progress Presentation" will be a hybrid of tutorial, performance, and hands-on workshop: Attendees will be invited to play the newly-conceived "electromyographone", the biomedical music instrument developed for use in "Action Potential". "Action Potential: A Work-In-Progress Presentation" will take place at 6:00 p.m. on October 24th at Devotion Gallery (54 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11206). Admission is free and open to the public, however, R.S.V.P. to http://LiveActionPotential.com is recommended. (Space is limited.) Visit http://LiveActionPotential.com for more information. ........................................ ABOUT ACTION POTENTIAL http://LiveActionPotential.com "Action Potential" is a new media work exploring the physiological and sonic difference between volitional and non-volitional movement. Volitional movement is produced as a result of conscious choice. For this Interaction Art Incubator project, Torino:Margolis -- together with sound-artist/programmer Lee Azzarello and choreographer/dancer Dana Kotler -- will detect this expression of free will and transform it into sound. Electromyography (EMG), a method of sensing electrical potentials generated during voluntary action, will be used to sense a performer's intentional movement. A wireless radio interface will be used to transmit that extracted information to software for audio processing. A second performer will physically manipulate the connected performer, such that the physiological difference between volitional and non-volitional movement is illustrated through sound and silence. In this way, "Action Potential" seeks to present, and give voice to, human free will. ........................................ ABOUT TORINO:MARGOLIS http://TorinoMargolis.com Torino:Margolis is a performance art team that crosses physical and psychological barriers, using invasive electronics and biomedical tools. They explore the idea that the self is transient, elusive, and modular by playing with the notions of control and free will. Their extraction of physiological processes concretizes these concepts and presents them as questions to the viewer -- not to illustrate the mechanism, but to explore the human experience. ........................................ ABOUT THE INTERACTION ART INCUBATOR http://AnalogousProjects.org The Analogous Projects Interaction Art Incubator is part artist-residency, part laboratory-fellowship. This intensive two-year program provides fellows with technical-assistance, conceptual-development, fund-development, project-management, inclusion in curated exhibitions and performances, and other forms of ongoing support. Applications are accepted on a yearly basis. For more information about this program, please send your letter of inquiry to Marie at Marie at AnalogousProjects.org. ........................................ ABOUT ANALOGOUS PROJECTS http://AnalogousProjects.org Complexity theory is not new to art or to our culture. It migrated from computer science and biology to economics and art and, with the advent of the world wide web, it invaded our collective subconscious. Analogous seeks to support complexity-driven art and artists playing under this conceptual umbrella of "Interaction Art". Progress occurs by metaphor and analogy: Their hope is (by bringing together people and projects irrespective of media and genre) to enable philosophical crosstalk. Analogous events and performances have been reviewed in The Wire, Make Magazine, Time Out New York, and The Village Voice. They received a Village Voice Best-of-NYC Award in October 2008 for "Best Arts Organization Centered Around Recycling". For more information about Analogous and current Analogous projects, visit http://AnalogousProjects.org. ........................................ ABOUT DEVOTION GALLERY http://AreYouDevoted.com Devotion is a new gallery located in Williamsburg, where space exists as a cross-section of the world at-large. Devotion combines science, art, sound, data, and complexity to reveal our existence as part of an integral whole. Devotion Gallery will open its doors to the public at 7:00 p.m. on October 31, 2009. Visit http://AreYouDevoted.com for more information. ........................................ CONTACT ---> Marie at Marie at AnalogousProjects.org R.S.V.P. ---> http://LiveActionPotential.com ........................................ From cerealnumber at gmail.com Sat Oct 17 21:17:25 2009 From: cerealnumber at gmail.com (Marie Evelyn) Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:17:25 -0400 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] Analogous Projects // Action Potential: An EMG performance at Devotion Gallery In-Reply-To: <52fb26fa0910171814x2a128d8fv79202b519d1b44e1@mail.gmail.com> References: <52fb26fa0910171814x2a128d8fv79202b519d1b44e1@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <52fb26fa0910171817i58c10129hdf4910afdaf53cb9@mail.gmail.com> "Action Potential: A Work-In-Progress Presentation" Saturday October 24th, at 6:00 p.m. Devotion Gallery, 54 Maujer Street in Brooklyn (L to Lorimer / G to Metropolitan) R.S.V.P. to http://LiveActionPotential.com CONTACT: Marie at AnalogousProjects.org NEW YORK -- Analogous Projects is pleased to announce a new Analogous Project! "Action Potential" is a sound piece that gives voice to human free will through the detection of volitional movement. "Action Potential" will debut as a work-in-progress at Devotion Gallery in Williamsburg on October 24th. Volitional movement is produced as a result of conscious choice. For this Interaction Art Incubator project, biomedical artists Torino:Margolis -- together with sound-artist/programmer Lee Azzarello and choreographer/dancer Dana Kotler -- will detect this expression of free will and transform it into sound. "Action Potential: A Work-In-Progress Presentation" will be a hybrid of tutorial, performance, and hands-on workshop: Attendees will be invited to play the newly-conceived "electromyographone", the biomedical music instrument developed for use in "Action Potential". "Action Potential: A Work-In-Progress Presentation" will take place at 6:00 p.m. on October 24th at Devotion Gallery (54 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11206). Admission is free and open to the public, however, R.S.V.P. to http://LiveActionPotential.com is recommended. (Space is limited.) Visit http://LiveActionPotential.com for more information. ........................................ ABOUT ACTION POTENTIAL http://LiveActionPotential.com "Action Potential" is a new media work exploring the physiological and sonic difference between volitional and non-volitional movement. Volitional movement is produced as a result of conscious choice. For this Interaction Art Incubator project, Torino:Margolis -- together with sound-artist/programmer Lee Azzarello and choreographer/dancer Dana Kotler -- will detect this expression of free will and transform it into sound. Electromyography (EMG), a method of sensing electrical potentials generated during voluntary action, will be used to sense a performer's intentional movement. A wireless radio interface will be used to transmit that extracted information to software for audio processing. A second performer will physically manipulate the connected performer, such that the physiological difference between volitional and non-volitional movement is illustrated through sound and silence. In this way, "Action Potential" seeks to present, and give voice to, human free will. ........................................ ABOUT TORINO:MARGOLIS http://TorinoMargolis.com Torino:Margolis is a performance art team that crosses physical and psychological barriers, using invasive electronics and biomedical tools. They explore the idea that the self is transient, elusive, and modular by playing with the notions of control and free will. Their extraction of physiological processes concretizes these concepts and presents them as questions to the viewer -- not to illustrate the mechanism, but to explore the human experience. ........................................ ABOUT THE INTERACTION ART INCUBATOR http://AnalogousProjects.org The Analogous Projects Interaction Art Incubator is part artist-residency, part laboratory-fellowship. This intensive two-year program provides fellows with technical-assistance, conceptual-development, fund-development, project-management, inclusion in curated exhibitions and performances, and other forms of ongoing support. Applications are accepted on a yearly basis. For more information about this program, please send your letter of inquiry to Marie at Marie at AnalogousProjects.org. ........................................ ABOUT ANALOGOUS PROJECTS http://AnalogousProjects.org Complexity theory is not new to art or to our culture. It migrated from computer science and biology to economics and art and, with the advent of the world wide web, it invaded our collective subconscious. Analogous seeks to support complexity-driven art and artists playing under this conceptual umbrella of "Interaction Art". Progress occurs by metaphor and analogy: Their hope is (by bringing together people and projects irrespective of media and genre) to enable philosophical crosstalk. Analogous events and performances have been reviewed in The Wire, Make Magazine, Time Out New York, and The Village Voice. They received a Village Voice Best-of-NYC Award in October 2008 for "Best Arts Organization Centered Around Recycling". For more information about Analogous and current Analogous projects, visit http://AnalogousProjects.org. ........................................ ABOUT DEVOTION GALLERY http://AreYouDevoted.com Devotion is a new gallery located in Williamsburg, where space exists as a cross-section of the world at-large. Devotion combines science, art, sound, data, and complexity to reveal our existence as part of an integral whole. Devotion Gallery will open its doors to the public at 7:00 p.m. on October 31, 2009. Visit http://AreYouDevoted.com for more information. ........................................ CONTACT ---> Marie at Marie at AnalogousProjects.org R.S.V.P. ---> http://LiveActionPotential.com ........................................ From deniseflasz at hotmail.com Tue Oct 27 23:50:28 2009 From: deniseflasz at hotmail.com (denise Flasz) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:50:28 +0000 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] Thesis project /Intangible self Message-ID: Hi everyone, I am an MFA Design and Technology student currently developing my thesis. My project will be an art installation that allows users to visualize their intangible self by touching a transparent electrode to attract ferrofluid particles to their real time energy field. Based on basic laws of physics I am exploring the invisible everyday interaction between electricity and our energy in an interactive art installation. The foundation of this project is the Kirlian photography device (High voltage, low amp circuit that outputs a discharge spark on any desired object/subject) and here is where I am starting to struggle. It's been hard to find a community of people that could be interested or could know how to help me, whether if it's with suggestions, ideas or engineering the schematics of the circuit. I have tried many prototypes and successfully got a HV spark from them, but then my power source starts to die. I was wondering if there is someone that could be interested in helping me figure out the problem of my circuit, or simply giving it a shot. Thanks! Cheers Denise _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: Simplify your PC. Learn more. http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/windows-7/default.aspx?ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_evergreen1:102009 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Voice conversations are initiated by a topic rather than a user profile, which takes away the superficiality and personal risks of profile-based sites. *Asterisk Administration and Integration with Java* *Position*: Chatfe is looking for people interested in technology entrepreneurship. Our needs include Asterisk PBX administration and configuration and interfacing with a Java based web application. Requirements include Java / programming experience. VoIP / SIP knowledge and experience is a plus. Both part-time and full-time applicants are welcome and since we're a startup, at this point, these are unpaid positions. >From us, you can expect an open and collaborative working environment and the opportunity to experience and contribute to a technology startup first hand. *Qualifications*: Interest in technology and willingness to work hard and contribute to the team in developing a fantastic new web application. You must be a quick study and self starter in designing and coding modules and deliverables. *Applying for position*: If interested, please go to chatfe.com , read about our product and send your resume to recruiting at chatfe.com . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotnyc-blabber/attachments/20091028/58c4472c/attachment.html From rjones3 at gmail.com Wed Oct 28 14:45:39 2009 From: rjones3 at gmail.com (Russell Jones) Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:45:39 -0400 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] Thesis project /Intangible self In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <46bf943f0910281145k20a318cenfe130cac1a68fba8@mail.gmail.com> Hello Denise! I'd be glad to give you some input. I'm most interested in the current schematic/HV source you are using as well as what you mean by "die." Best of luck, Russ www.rjones3.net On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:50 PM, denise Flasz wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am an MFA Design and Technology student currently developing my thesis. > My project will be an art installation that allows users to visualize their > intangible self by touching a transparent electrode to attract ferrofluid > particles to their real time energy field. > > Based on basic laws of physics I am exploring the invisible everyday > interaction between electricity and our energy in an interactive art > installation. The foundation of this project is the Kirlian photography > device (High voltage, low amp circuit that outputs a discharge spark on any desired > object/subject) and here is where I am starting to struggle. It's been hard > to find a community of people that could be interested or could know how to > help me, whether if it's with suggestions, ideas or engineering the > schematics of the circuit. I have tried many prototypes and successfully got > a HV spark from them, but then my power source starts to die. > > I was wondering if there is someone that could be interested in helping me > figure out the problem of my circuit, or simply giving it a shot. > > Thanks! > Cheers > Denise > > ------------------------------ > Windows 7: Simplify your PC. Learn more. > > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotnyc-blabber/attachments/20091028/77babcd9/attachment.html