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

[Brad]

I went to the dorkbotSEA "strange things with electricity" show in
Seattle at the 911 a while back and shot several min of video.  Got it
somewhere that I can dig it up and post.  They must have had well over
1000 visitors (most stuck around for a while!)  They also had alcohol
and probably raised enough funds from $6 drinks to cover group
expenses for a while.

I thought it was a fantastic show and I could never forget any part of
it.   I had imagined that with more of a nervous system the pieces
might have made a greater whole that would have had more impact on how
the (already positively charged, even giddy) visitors see their world.
 Everyone from that show was clearly on the same wavelength as it was,
and they were  collaborating in small groups of 2-3.

I believe with DBpdx,  if we just reached out in some little way by
figuring out how we can port our ideas, and just inter-connected some
seemingly minor things (serial/OSC/midi/TCP/www/facebook/???) through
whatever medium our best gizmos happen to be in, a powerful message
would emerge, and we would say something that would start
conversations that would spread like fire and have people from all
over coming to see with their own eyes what makes Dorkbots around the
world so special. <not making this an art rant, at all, but yes, I
would like Dorkbot to be a household name, maybe not a name for your
children, but perhaps useful in mad libs minimally>.

The naysayers say the worlds in the shitter, so I presume now is as
good a time as any to put yourself out there with whatever you do best
and leave would-be distractions from your best abilities to others.

brad

On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 6:38 PM, Mykle Hansen <mykle at mykle.com> 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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