From maindanger at gmail.com Thu Sep 10 15:23:16 2009 From: maindanger at gmail.com (Sarah Snider) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:23:16 -0400 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] Exhibition: Toward the Sentient City Message-ID: Toward the Sentient City An exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous computing, architecture, and urban space Curated by Mark Shepard and organized by the Architectural League of New York September 17?November 7, 2009 www.sentientcity.net Opening reception Thursday, September 17, 2009 6:00?9:00 p.m. 457 Madison Avenue New York City As computing leaves the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets, and public spaces of the world around us, we increasingly find information processing capacity embedded within and distributed throughout the material fabric of everday urban space. Artifacts and systems we interact with on a daily basis collect, store, and process information about us, or are activated by our movements and transactions. Ubiquitous computing evangelists herald a coming age of urban infrastructure capable of sensing and responding to the events and activities transpiring around them. Imbued with the capacity to remember, correlate and anticipate, this near-future ?sentient? city is envisioned as being capable of reflexively monitoring its environment and our behavior within it, becoming an active agent in the organization of everyday life in urban public space. Toward the Sentient City explores alternate trajectories for the design and inhabitation of this near-future urban environment. Organized around five newly commissioned projects distributed throughout the city, the exhibition features: Too Smart City JooYoun Paek, David Jimison Amphibious Architecture Living Architecture Lab (David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang), xdesign Environmental Health Clinic (Natalie Jeremijenko) Natural Fuse Usman Haque, Nitipak Samsen, Ai Hasegawa, Cesar Harada, Barbara Jasinowicz Trash Track SENSEable City Laboratory, MIT Breakout! Anthony Townsend (Institute for the Future), Georgia Borden, Amanda Kross, Jung Hoon Kim, Antonina Simeti (DEGW), Dana Spiegel (NYC wireless), Laura Forlano (Parsons The New School for Design), Tony Bacigalupo (New Work City), Sean Savage (PariSoMa), Elysse Preposi (Sarah Lawrence College) For more information, visit www.sentientcity.net or (beginning September 18) the Sentient City Hub: The Urban Center 457 Madison Avenue New York City Monday?Saturday (Closed Thursday), 11 a.m.? 5 p.m. Toward the Sentient City was made possible by the J. Clawson Mills Fund of the Architectural League and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Additional support has been provided by the Department of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning and the Department of Media Study, College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Buffalo. League programs are also supported by the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotnyc-blabber/attachments/20090910/789efe25/attachment.html From joshlevy.ny at gmail.com Thu Sep 17 21:48:29 2009 From: joshlevy.ny at gmail.com (Josh Levy) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:48:29 -0400 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] Software Freedom Day Message-ID: <5bac3d940909171848u19de598bnbc2d06a2d5d44a4f@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, The following event is dorkbot approved! I am helping James Vasile of the Software Freedom Law Center to host a participatory celebration of SFD this Saturday. Wanted to extend the invitation and would be happy to see you there. The event that would surely benefit from a dorkbot presence and promises to be a lot of fun. Details are below. A link to the event is also available at: http://hackervisions.org/?p=523 Thanks. Josh Open Source / Open Culture at Lime Labs OSOC at LimeLabs presents "From Software to Everywhere" LimeLabs and Open Kulture invite you to the 2009 NYC Software Freedom Day Celebration! This year, we will make Software Freedom Day one to remember by reaching out not only to the free and open source software world, but the community at large. Our production model, our ethos, and our focus on transparency, running code and the freedom to share are spreading beyond software to other areas of culture, including government, media, science, and the arts. We want to make the most of these cross-disciplinary pursuits by coming together to create new opportunities and rekindle old friendships. In New York City, Software Freedom Day will mark the launch of a series of quarterly Open Source / Open Culture events designed to engage free software hackers, creative commons artists, open government activists, and open science innovators. We want to bring together the diverse members of free and open source culture and provide a platform and an audience with which to collaborate and create. The event on September 19th will feature lightning talks by a range of speakers (including Debian Developer Micah Anderson, MakerBot?s Bre Pettis, Bkrpr?s Ian Sullivan, Shift Space'sMushon Zer-Aviv, and Sita Sings the Blues filmmaker Nina Paley) designed to address the multifaceted efforts of open culture in New York. These speakers will cover a variety of topics, but all share one theme: currently active projects that are going to change the world. The idea is "From Software to Everywhere". Each talk is an invitation to participate. More information about Software Freedom Day can be found at When: Saturday, Sept. 19th from 6pm to 10pm. Where: 148 Lafayette Street, Penthouse, between Howard and Grand RSVP required to joshlevy.ny at gmail.com We look forward to seeing you there! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotnyc-blabber/attachments/20090917/93329234/attachment.html From spluta at gmail.com Mon Sep 21 10:16:15 2009 From: spluta at gmail.com (Sam Pluta) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:16:15 -0400 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] a concert some dorkbotters might like Message-ID: <11AA5D8A-7F52-42E7-A8E9-864A361E702B@gmail.com> hello dorbotters, perhaps you would enjoy this concert. peter's most famous work is an insane robotic piano that talks. sadly, no robotic piano at this concert, but lots of great music based on fft's! The Wet Ink Ensemble Presents: A Portrait Concert of Peter Ablinger September 23, 2009 - 8pm St. Peter's Church- Chelsea 346 W. 20th St. (1/C/E to 23rd St. - btw 8th and 9th Ave) Tickets: $10 at the door The Wet Ink Ensemble opens its 11th season with a mid-career retrospective of the music of renowned Austrian composer Peter Ablinger (*1959), one of the most original voices in contemporary concert music. The September 23rd concert marks the first major presentation of Ablinger?s work in the U.S. Best known for his 'Reality Studies', which recreate with astonishing fidelity the sounds of human speech on an acoustic player piano, Peter Ablinger has also created a rich and diverse body of electronic music and work for ensemble. Drawing on influences ranging from free jazz and Spectral music to Conceptualism and the Visual Arts, Ablinger has devoted his career to the single-minded exploration of the experience and mechanics of hearing. In celebration of his 50th birthday, the Wet Ink Ensemble presents a portrait concert of his music, featuring five U.S. and world premieres. The program ranges from the delicate density of Verk?ndigung (inspired by the playing of free jazz legend Cecil Taylor), to Weiss / Weisslich 22, which compresses the complete symphonies of the six great Classical symphonists into a four- minute wall of noise. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotnyc-blabber/attachments/20090921/9f4f479d/attachment-0001.html From maindanger at gmail.com Tue Sep 22 11:20:36 2009 From: maindanger at gmail.com (Sarah Snider) Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:20:36 -0400 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-blabber] Toward the Sentient City: Scrapyard Challenge Message-ID: Toward the Sentient City: Scrapyard Challenge Saturday, September 26 Workshop, 10:00 a.m. ? 6:00 p.m. Performance and reception, 6:00 p.m. The Old American Can Factory 232 Third Street at Third Avenue Gowanus, Brooklyn Architectural League members, $30; non-members, $50 The Scrapyard Challenge Workshops, led by artists Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katharine Moriwaki, are intensive workshops where participants build simple electronic music controllers (both digital and analog inputs) out of found or discarded ?junk? (old electronics, furniture, outdated computer equipment, appliances, turntables, monitors, gadgets, etc.). Participants also build simple drawing robots or ?DrawBots? with motors, batteries, and drawing markers that can be connected to Serial or MIDI interface. At the end of the day or evening, the workshop participants have a small performance/concert where they play their instruments together as a large ensemble. No electronics skills or any experience with technology is necessary for the workshop. This program is part of the Architectural League of New York?s exhibition Toward the Sentient City, on view at The Urban Center from September 17 - November 7. For the complete exhibition program schedule, please visit sentientcity.net. NB: Attendance at the workshop is limited to fifteen participants, but the performance and reception at 6:00 p.m. is open to all for free admission. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotnyc-blabber/attachments/20090922/7b17851e/attachment.html