[dorkbotpdx-blabber] But is it ahht. (was ...)

[Mykle Hansen]

> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Donald Delmar Davis <ddelmardavis at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> Actually, I think Mykle is onto something here.
>
> I was wondering how we could either do a better job of connecting  
> the dorks to the arts or even better teach our dorks to be artists.

i really try hard to side-step the "that is art and that is not art"  
debate,
but i feel like we've got a group of talented technologists, who are
maybe getting so carried away with the technology that they're  
forgetting
about the art.  i would always like to see new people in Dorkbot, and
sure, if we were less dorky we might attract a different demographic.
but Dorkbot is really succeeding at something, and lots of people are
coming to meetings.  i wonder how we can focus those people
towards their own art ambitions a bit more.

i was really inspired by that presentation on the Seattle dorkbot art  
show.
i had hoped that more people would do something for Lightbar, but
the stuff that was done for Lightbar was rad and also I certainly can  
see
how a proper gallery with walls, light, locks, etc is a better place to
have an art show than some tent in a guy's yard. =)

so maybe there's some other possibility for a show?  i know Brad has
some concept of creating a gallery in his garage.  Galleries don't have
to be huge.  i was at a show at the Good Gallery on Mississippi on  
Friday,
it's smaller than a garage and all the art pieces are tiny, but it's  
cool.

as a child i was incredibly, incredibly inspired by a show my dad took  
me
to in Minneapolis back in the '70s, that was a show of kinetic art.  i  
can
draw you a picture of every single piece i saw in that show,  i was  
8.   it was
rad and cool and beautiful.  No computers involved, but lots of  
electricity.

i would love to see another show around kinetic art.  or a show around
light.  or a show around sound sculptures.  i'm not a gallery owner, but
i can dream can't i?

-m-


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