<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite">On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Donald Delmar Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ddelmardavis@gmail.com">ddelmardavis@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-top: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; "><div>Actually, I think Mykle is onto something here. <div><br></div><div>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. </div></div></blockquote></blockquote><br></div>i really try hard to side-step the "that is art and that is not art" debate,<div>but i feel like we've got a group of talented technologists, who are</div><div>maybe getting so carried away with the technology that they're forgetting</div><div>about the art. i would always like to see new people in Dorkbot, and</div><div>sure, if we were less dorky we might attract a different demographic.</div><div>but Dorkbot is really succeeding at something, and lots of people are</div><div>coming to meetings. i wonder how we can focus those people</div><div>towards their own art ambitions a bit more.</div><div><br></div><div>i was really inspired by that presentation on the Seattle dorkbot art show.</div><div>i had hoped that more people would do something for Lightbar, but</div><div>the stuff that was done for Lightbar was rad and also I certainly can see</div><div>how a proper gallery with walls, light, locks, etc is a better place to</div><div>have an art show than some tent in a guy's yard. =)</div><div><br></div><div>so maybe there's some other possibility for a show? i know Brad has</div><div>some concept of creating a gallery in his garage. Galleries don't have</div><div>to be huge. i was at a show at the Good Gallery on Mississippi on Friday,</div><div>it's smaller than a garage and all the art pieces are tiny, but it's cool.</div><div><br></div><div>as a child i was incredibly, incredibly inspired by a show my dad took me</div><div>to in Minneapolis back in the '70s, that was a show of kinetic art. i can</div><div>draw you a picture of every single piece i saw in that show, i was 8. it was </div><div>rad and cool and beautiful. No computers involved, but lots of electricity.</div><div><br></div><div>i would love to see another show around kinetic art. or a show around</div><div>light. or a show around sound sculptures. i'm not a gallery owner, but</div><div>i can dream can't i?</div><div><br></div><div>-m-</div><div><br><div><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>