From penguin at supermeta.com Fri Jan 4 06:26:04 2008 From: penguin at supermeta.com (Sebastien Bailard) Date: Fri Jan 4 06:26:11 2008 Subject: [dorkbotottawa-blabber] Dorkbot meeting - Feb 5, and then first Tuesday evenings? Message-ID: <200801040626.04883.penguin@supermeta.com> Hope everyone has enjoyed the holidays. Ryan Stec has proposed that we meet every first Tuesday evening of the month, beginning with Feb 5th. Does that work for everyone? Regards, Sebastien Bailard From brutusgates at gmail.com Sat Jan 5 10:42:25 2008 From: brutusgates at gmail.com (Brutus Gates) Date: Sat Jan 5 10:42:30 2008 Subject: [dorkbotottawa-blabber] Dorkbot meeting - Feb 5, and then first Tuesday evenings? In-Reply-To: <200801040626.04883.penguin@supermeta.com> References: <200801040626.04883.penguin@supermeta.com> Message-ID: Evenings work for me... On 1/4/08, Sebastien Bailard wrote: > Hope everyone has enjoyed the holidays. > > Ryan Stec has proposed that we meet every first Tuesday evening of the month, > beginning with Feb 5th. Does that work for everyone? > > Regards, > Sebastien Bailard > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ......................... http://dorkbot.org ........................... > ........................................................................ > From justinbarca at gmail.com Mon Jan 7 19:11:52 2008 From: justinbarca at gmail.com (Justin Barca) Date: Mon Jan 7 19:11:56 2008 Subject: [dorkbotottawa-blabber] Dorkbot meeting - Feb 5, and then first Tuesday evenings? In-Reply-To: <200801040626.04883.penguin@supermeta.com> References: <200801040626.04883.penguin@supermeta.com> Message-ID: I hope to be able to make it, but I'm not sure what that time space has in store for me yet. Do we have a set topic or presentation for February ? I've been kind of curious about this Processing software for graphics that you mentioned, and I may want to give an introduction to it in the March depending on how I find it. I'll try and remember to post and update on that, but feel free to give me a poke if you don't hear from me. Cheers, ~Justin~ On Jan 4, 2008 6:26 AM, Sebastien Bailard wrote: > Hope everyone has enjoyed the holidays. > > Ryan Stec has proposed that we meet every first Tuesday evening of the month, > beginning with Feb 5th. Does that work for everyone? > > Regards, > Sebastien Bailard > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ......................... http://dorkbot.org ........................... > ........................................................................ > From dave at drobilla.net Tue Jan 8 15:38:24 2008 From: dave at drobilla.net (Dave Robillard) Date: Tue Jan 8 15:38:30 2008 Subject: [dorkbotottawa-blabber] Dorkbot meeting - Feb 5, and then first Tuesday evenings? In-Reply-To: References: <200801040626.04883.penguin@supermeta.com> Message-ID: <1199824704.29155.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:11 -0500, Justin Barca wrote: > I hope to be able to make it, but I'm not sure what that time space > has in store for me yet. Do we have a set topic or presentation for > February ? > > I've been kind of curious about this Processing software for graphics > that you mentioned, and I may want to give an introduction to it in > the March depending on how I find it. I'll try and remember to post > and update on that, but feel free to give me a poke if you don't hear > from me. Processing is pretty cool (though the performance leaves a bit to be desired... Java :/ ). You can do some pretty cool things without much code (and it's pretty easy to grok for non-hackers) I could do intros for pretty much anything in the free software / linux / audio world if there's interest, though it seems everyone's more into graphics. Maybe fluxus? -DR- From justinbarca at gmail.com Tue Jan 8 18:12:25 2008 From: justinbarca at gmail.com (Justin Barca) Date: Tue Jan 8 18:12:28 2008 Subject: [dorkbotottawa-blabber] Dorkbot meeting - Feb 5, and then first Tuesday evenings? In-Reply-To: <1199824704.29155.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <200801040626.04883.penguin@supermeta.com> <1199824704.29155.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: Hey Dave, Long time no see, curious to know how things are going with your Free Software studio. Glad you're in the loop on the dorkbot (and I'm assuming ArtEngine). ArtEngine is doing a series of workshops this year, so maybe a workshop like you suggested should run under the ArtEngine banner so it gets promoted to a wider audience. This brings up an issue to be resolved: how are we to decide what kind of presentations should be made under dorkbot, if it will be doing workshops at all. Maybe dorkbot should stay out of this workshop business all together considering this quote from their webpage: "dorkbot isn't really a forum for formal artist talks or lectures". Yeah, I'm curious to know how Processing compares to python libraries I build to similar purposes to do the vector graphics stuff you can see in http://playful-geometer.deviantart.com (just started playing with the GIMP, which has up'd the coolness factor exponentially with a mere handful of clicks). I irk at the thought of using Java again though :-P ***END BLABBER*** ~Justin~ On Jan 8, 2008 3:38 PM, Dave Robillard wrote: > On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:11 -0500, Justin Barca wrote: > > I hope to be able to make it, but I'm not sure what that time space > > has in store for me yet. Do we have a set topic or presentation for > > February ? > > > > I've been kind of curious about this Processing software for graphics > > that you mentioned, and I may want to give an introduction to it in > > the March depending on how I find it. I'll try and remember to post > > and update on that, but feel free to give me a poke if you don't hear > > from me. > > Processing is pretty cool (though the performance leaves a bit to be > desired... Java :/ ). You can do some pretty cool things without much > code (and it's pretty easy to grok for non-hackers) > > I could do intros for pretty much anything in the free software / > linux / audio world if there's interest, though it seems everyone's more > into graphics. Maybe fluxus? > > -DR- > > > > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ......................... http://dorkbot.org ........................... > ........................................................................ > From artistic at artengine.ca Tue Jan 8 18:49:26 2008 From: artistic at artengine.ca (Ryan Stec) Date: Tue Jan 8 18:49:33 2008 Subject: [dorkbotottawa-blabber] Dorkbot meeting - Feb 5, and then first Tuesday evenings? In-Reply-To: References: <200801040626.04883.penguin@supermeta.com> <1199824704.29155.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <47840C06.8050109@artengine.ca> Hey Justin, I think the essentially Dorkbot should be for less formal presentations and exchange. So although we are not talking about formal artist talks we are hoping to have a series of presentations where people can present works in progress or give an overview of something they have experience with. For Artengine workshops we are looking at a more specific and somewhat more formal engagement. With our workshops we expect a course outline, and a certain level of knowledge passed on to the course attendees. Their is also the case of $. There will usually be a formal fee structure for both participants and instructors. In general Artengine has a more formal structure around it with committees, boards, staff, operating grants etc. Dorkbot creates a more flexible environment for exchange and learning not bound up in the formal structure of Artengine. So I think we are going for fairly informal presentations that do not require too much of the presenter and with which they can get some feedback about what they have been working on if they are interested. Somewhere I have a few ideas Sebastian and I discussed I will post them in the next few days. Cheers r Ryan Stec Artistic Director Artengine 2 Daly Ave. Ottawa, ON K2P 0G5 613.686.1941 Justin Barca wrote: > Hey Dave, > > Long time no see, curious to know how things are going with your Free > Software studio. Glad you're in the loop on the dorkbot (and I'm > assuming ArtEngine). ArtEngine is doing a series of workshops this > year, so maybe a workshop like you suggested should run under the > ArtEngine banner so it gets promoted to a wider audience. This brings > up an issue to be resolved: how are we to decide what kind of > presentations should be made under dorkbot, if it will be doing > workshops at all. Maybe dorkbot should stay out of this workshop > business all together considering this quote from their webpage: > "dorkbot isn't really a forum for formal artist talks or lectures". > > Yeah, I'm curious to know how Processing compares to python libraries > I build to similar purposes to do the vector graphics stuff you can > see in http://playful-geometer.deviantart.com (just started playing > with the GIMP, which has up'd the coolness factor exponentially with a > mere handful of clicks). I irk at the thought of using Java again > though :-P > > ***END BLABBER*** > > ~Justin~ > > > > On Jan 8, 2008 3:38 PM, Dave Robillard wrote: > >> On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:11 -0500, Justin Barca wrote: >> >>> I hope to be able to make it, but I'm not sure what that time space >>> has in store for me yet. Do we have a set topic or presentation for >>> February ? >>> >>> I've been kind of curious about this Processing software for graphics >>> that you mentioned, and I may want to give an introduction to it in >>> the March depending on how I find it. I'll try and remember to post >>> and update on that, but feel free to give me a poke if you don't hear >>> from me. >>> >> Processing is pretty cool (though the performance leaves a bit to be >> desired... Java :/ ). You can do some pretty cool things without much >> code (and it's pretty easy to grok for non-hackers) >> >> I could do intros for pretty much anything in the free software / >> linux / audio world if there's interest, though it seems everyone's more >> into graphics. 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URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotottawa-blabber/attachments/20080108/6f827abd/attachment.html From dave at drobilla.net Tue Jan 8 20:45:22 2008 From: dave at drobilla.net (Dave Robillard) Date: Tue Jan 8 20:45:34 2008 Subject: [dorkbotottawa-blabber] Dorkbot meeting - Feb 5, and then first Tuesday evenings? In-Reply-To: References: <200801040626.04883.penguin@supermeta.com> <1199824704.29155.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Message-ID: <1199843122.28674.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 18:12 -0500, Justin Barca wrote: > Hey Dave, > > Long time no see, curious to know how things are going with your Free > Software studio. The usual: 100% time spent working on the software, 0% time actually using it (and school hardly helps). One of these days....... :) There's a lot of cool stuff happening in the linux-audio-dev world right now, just needs to get kicked out the door and announced to the world. > Glad you're in the loop on the dorkbot (and I'm > assuming ArtEngine). ArtEngine is doing a series of workshops this > year, so maybe a workshop like you suggested should run under the > ArtEngine banner so it gets promoted to a wider audience. This brings > up an issue to be resolved: how are we to decide what kind of > presentations should be made under dorkbot, if it will be doing > workshops at all. Maybe dorkbot should stay out of this workshop > business all together considering this quote from their webpage: > "dorkbot isn't really a forum for formal artist talks or lectures". Oh, I wasn't thinking anything remotely formal at all, just dorkbot show and tell :) > Yeah, I'm curious to know how Processing compares to python libraries > I build to similar purposes to do the vector graphics stuff you can > see in http://playful-geometer.deviantart.com (just started playing > with the GIMP, which has up'd the coolness factor exponentially with a > mere handful of clicks). I irk at the thought of using Java again > though :-P Personally I'm a much bigger fan of using general purpose languages to accomplish artey things than special purpose "systems" like supercollider or processing. There's simply more available to play with, and art specific stuff (and a lot more (mashups!)) can be done in a general purpose language just as well in most cases. Writing in python is definitely waaay more enjoyable than writing in Java anyway :) Cheers, -Dave From darsha.h at gmail.com Tue Jan 8 23:38:50 2008 From: darsha.h at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?.=B7:*=A8=A8*:=B7.darsha.=B7:*=A8=A8*:=B7._?=) Date: Tue Jan 8 23:38:53 2008 Subject: [dorkbotottawa-blabber] DorkbotMTL 5 Message-ID: Salut, Hello, Dorkbot MTL vous invite ? vous joindre ? son 5e ?v?nement. DorkbotMTL invites you to join its 5th event DORKBOTMTL 5 Th?me : ? Autres ?nergies ? Theme : " Other Power " d?sol? pour le cross-posting http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotmtl/ --------------- D?TAILS: Jeudi le 10 janvier ? partir de 19h00 January 10th at 7pm @Oboro, 4001 Rue Berri, Studio 01 (2e ?tage/2nd floor) http://maps.google.ca/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=fr&tab=wl&q=4001,%20rue%20Berri,%20Montreal,%20QC --------------- SCHEDULE/HORAIRE (l'horaire peut changer/tentative): (chaque/each pr?sentation ca. 20' + 10' discussion) 0. BIENVENUE/WELCOME 1. Darsha Hewitt Topic: Tales From Popular Electronics Magazine (circa 1950): What Alternative Energy Looked like in the Olden Days. Darsha will make a short presentation and commentary on a few images and articles from dated tech. magazines. 2. Robyn Moody In town for a show at Skol, Canadian multi/new/omni media artist Robyn Moody will present examples of past and current work and discuss the underlying technology, especially as it relates to this month's topic. http://www.skol.ca/programmation/0708/expo.html 3. Micheal Caffrey (Ottawa via teleconference) Topic: Solar powered DC sound systems + grassroots off-grid Dance Parties (Teknival) 4. Kyd Campbell Topic: The FARM THE FARM is a publicly managed sound environment bringing the country to the city, a solar powered outdoor audio installation created by Kyd campbelll and Steve Helsing. It was hosted by Concordia University from 2004-2005. 5. Moshe Daniel Topic: The Moe-Joe Cell - Functions and Theory Daniel will speak about the Moe-Joe cell, which is a spherical prototype of the Joe Cell developed by himself, Moshe Daniel. http://www.moe-joe-working.com 6. Jim and Peter Topic: Solar Engines Experiments One half of your DorkbotMtl friends will to attempt impress you with their forays into making art with Solar Engines. --------------- BIOS: DARSHA HEWIIT ...is a Canadian artist from Ottawa. She makes sound performances and installations using experimental electronics, Open- Source programming software/hardware, ageing technology and public vicinities. Her artwork looks at the role of automation in everyday life and how technology-reliant society silences and reinterprets identity. The electronics she builds are ungrounded and tap into the invisible ethereal realm. She teaches workshops on versatile technologies, makes presentations about experimental approaches to technology, and does consulting with communities new to electronic media and open source practices. Her Recent exhibitions include: PSE at Video Pool (CA), Damaged Goods at Piksel '06 (NO), Press Play at Interaccess (CA), Racines D'origine with Art origine (FR), Make Art Festival '07 (FR), Encodeurs at Pierre- Fran?ois Ouellette art contemporain (CA), Media Povera at the Ottawa Art Gallery (CA) and the HTMlles Festival (CA). Darsha will be artist in resident at the Western Front Society (CA) in Spring 08. ~~~ ROBYN MOODY Currently based in Calgary, Alberta, Robyn Moody takes a whimsical approach to his work, using electronics, film, performance, installation, sculpture, painting, or whatever a project requires. He holds an MFA from NASCAD University in Halifax and has exhibited his innovative work extensively within Canada along with projects realized in Amsterdam and Milan. Robyn Moody vit et travaille ? Calgary en Alberta. Il aborde son travail dans un esprit ludique, ayant recours ? l'?lectronique, au cin?ma, ? la performance, ? l'installation, ? la sculpture, ? la peinture ainsi qu'? toute autre discipline requise par ses projets. L'artiste d?tient une ma?trise en arts plastiques de l'universit? NSCAD (Halifax). Ses installations, sculptures et performances ont ?t? pr?sent?es dans plusieurs galeries ? travers le Canada et l'Europe. ~~~ KYD CAMPBELL ...is an independent programmer and curator specialized in circulation, media and noise music and is also a digital artist creating public interactive situations. She is from Montreal but remains in constant transit. Remaining independent allows her some freedom to speculate and experiment, to welcome all forms of collaboration and information exchange. http://frontierlab.org http://www.tinynoise.com Longer Farm Description: The Farm works with the idea of an enclosure to metaphorically recast the courtyard of Concordia University's Fine Arts complex into a corral. During daylight hours the installation produces a continuous, amplified audio stream of sounds that are commonly associated with farms and farming life. The audio stream can be paused briefly by working the lever of a hand-operated water pump. The farm assumes that casual visitors to the courtyard might find the soundscape novel and entertaining, but students or staff who frequent the Fine Arts complex and its courtyard would soon tire of the sounds and be compelled to operate the water pump. ~~~ MICHAEL CAFFREY ...is an independent electronics arts/music technician, musician and all-round alternative energy enthusiast based in Hull Quebec. Micheal's interest in clean ways of charging batteries began in 1997 when he met a young lady playing a solar powered Casio in the sun. Since then he has been setting up solar powered DC sound systems at DIY dance parties in the woods, mainly with the region's Teknival community. These days Michael is a member of the Montreal based synth psych rock band 'The Unireverse' and is working alongside the Casio player he met in the sun on getting their home off the grid. ~~~ MOSHE DANIEL ...is a naturopathic doctor, homeopath, kabbalist, alchemist, free-energy energy researcher and developer, singer/songwriter, and published author. He practices naturopathic medicine in Sutton Quebec, specializing in homeopathy and helping people with myasthenia gravis, an auto-immune illness which he personally experienced and successfully healed. Moshe is also the author of The Last Four Books of Moses, and The Revolution of Naturopathic Medicine. He has just recently launched two projects that are very special to him: His musical album with inspirational poetic music titled the Psalngs of David and the global online project for world unity called EveryNationLand / Nutopia. He wishes everyone to recognize that they are a part of Nutopia and join him in his effort to move the world toward peace and says that EveryNationLand / Nutopia is the culmination of all of his work. Umbrella Website: www.david-house-productions.com Moshe Daniel est naturopathe, kabbaliste, alchimiste, enseignant et auteur et travail sur la creation des "device" pour un energie alternative. Il a notamment appliqu? la philosophie de la gu?rison dans le cadre de son travail avec la maladie auto-immune d?nomm?e myasthenia gravis. La maladie n'a pas arr?ter Moshe, et il continue a jouer au ultimate frisbee comp?titif. Il est l'auteur du livre sur la Kabbale intitul?e The Last Four Books of Moses, Book 1 - The Letting Go of Free Will, ainsi que d'un livre sur la philosophie de la m?dicine, The Revolution of Naturopathic Medicine. Il est gradu? d'un cours avanc? en hom?opathie et a re?u le titre d'Hom?opathe ma?tre clinicien (Hom?opathique Master Clinicien, HMC). Il exerce la naturopathie ? Montr?al (sp?cialisation en hom?opathie et consultation), enseigne la Kabbale, travaille sur un deuxi?me tome sur la Kabbale ainsi que sur le projet Foundation in Philosophy Project en relation ? sa profession de naturopathe. Il termine le d?veloppement d'un projet d'unification globale en ligne d?nomm? EveryNationLand - voyez le site Web en construction: http://www.everynationland.com -- ~computer incantations for world peace~ JL Ponty -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotottawa-blabber/attachments/20080108/4c222bf5/attachment.html From penguin at supermeta.com Wed Jan 23 21:39:38 2008 From: penguin at supermeta.com (Sebastien Bailard) Date: Wed Jan 23 21:39:44 2008 Subject: [dorkbotottawa-blabber] Building oscilloscopes-for-soundcards for dorkbot? Message-ID: <200801232139.38614.penguin@supermeta.com> Are people interested in building these at the dorkbot meeting? (February 5, Tuesday Evening) -Sebastien This is part of the draft, (along with me doing a RepRap demo, and a few other people tentatively lined up): "We will be building xoscope circuits. This is a buffer+amplifier circuit which will enable you to use your computer's sound card as an oscilloscope. (An oscilloscope is a tool that measures, records, and graphs the voltage in an electrical circuit.) This circuit may be helpful as a buffer/amplifier for circuit bending as well." Resources: *xoscope for Linux http://xoscope.sourceforge.net/ *soundcard oscilloscope for Windows http://www.zeitnitz.de/Christian/Scope/Scope_en.html *AudioXplorer - Sound analyzer for Mac OS X http://www.arizona-software.ch/audioxplorer/ *wikipedia on oscilloscopes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscilloscope "We'll be soldering up these circuits ourselves. Please email by noon, Friday January 25th if you want to reserve a kit (printed circuit board and components); there will be a small materials fee ~$10."