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

[Donald Delmar Davis]

Tuesday it is then.

On Mar 8, 2009, at 6:38 PM, Mykle Hansen wrote:

>> 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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