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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Hey Justin,<br>
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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. <br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Somewhere I have a few ideas Sebastian and I discussed I will post them
in the next few days.<br>
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Cheers<br>
r<br>
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Ryan Stec
Artistic Director
Artengine
2 Daly Ave. Ottawa, ON
K2P 0G5 613.686.1941</pre>
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Justin Barca wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://playful-geometer.deviantart.com">http://playful-geometer.deviantart.com</a> (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 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dave@drobilla.net"><dave@drobilla.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 19:11 -0500, Justin Barca wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap="">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-
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