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

[Thomas Lockney]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Helena Schniewind <lena at opticnoodle.com>wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> This thread couldn't come at a better time. I'm an artist who uses all
> sorts of A/V stuff in live performance, I've just relocated to Portland, and
> I was involved in Dorkbot London while I was doing an MA there. You can get
> an overview of what I'm doing and interested in at
> http://www.opticnoodle.com
>

Welcome to Portland and DorkbotPDX!


> 1) Probably the best place to start is to present my work at the next
> presentation type dorkbot. Sign me up!


Consider yourself signed up. I'm just looking for a good place to host the
next one, but it will hopefully be happening in another month or two.


> 2) I'd also be up for leading a performance-based workshop. Or series of
> workshops. Performance techniques/expression for shy folks/bold dorks/just
> people, explore ways to incorporate classic dorkbot creations into
> interactive performance environments, etc. I'm open to addressing any aspect
> of tech in performance that there seems to be intereste in. Feel free to
> contact me with things you've been curious about.


This would be wonderful. I'd like to hear more of your thoughts on this.

3) I am in desperate need of a technical collaborator. I've got a prototype
> system I created in Isadora that I'd love to migrate to open source tech.
> Too involved to go into here.
> Quite possibly a long-term thing, strong emphasis on the collaboration bit.


I would suggest maybe a second email to the list in a new thread where you
could describe a bit about what you're looking for. I know there are a lot
of people in the group who would love to get involved with something like
this. Of course, some of us are your typical, flaky tech nerds (I consider
myself in this group), so proceed with caution. ;~)


> 4) I might be useful as a sort of UI consultant for "interactive" projects.
> I'm really keen to push the user's experience of interactive work out of
> safe places that we've been lulled into and would ask tough questions that I
> hope would help move ideas past the creator/creation love affair into
> meaningful engagement with an audience.


Good to know. I suspect there are a lot of projects/groups who could use
this insight.


> 5) Medialab Prado (http://medialab-prado.es/) has an interesting model for
> fostering the types of collaborations discussed here. fyi. reference...
>

Ah, this reminds me... for those who don't already know, but who are active
users of Delicious for keeping bookmarks, we have a tag based feed that gets
pulled into the sidebar on Dorkbotpdx.org. If you tag your links with
'dorkbotpdx', it will get pulled into the feed. I'll send out another email
shortly with this and other similar things we've got set up.
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