[dorkbotsea-announce] Reminder: May Dorkbot (tomorrow!): Projects from the UW

[shelly at hive-mind.com]

Please join us for our May Dorkbot, Projects from the UW, including Eunsu
Kang talking about DXARTS 400 class show "in-progress", Nathan Wade's Serial
Cyborg, Anna Czoskia's Dual Points of Interest, and Jon Malkin's Vocal
Joystick.  Updated info below--

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WHAT:             May 2008 Dorkbot:  Projects from the UW

WHEN:             Weds, May 7th, 7:30 - 9:30pm

WHERE:          911 Media, 402 9th Ave N.

                           http://www.911media.org/

ADMISSION:    FREE, ALL AGES AND SPECIES

                       but bring a couple of bucks to support 911 Media!  We'll
have donation jar out by the beer.  ;)


Eunsu Kang, instructor of DXARTS 400 class at UW, will introduce media arts
projects from students in her class, exhibited through last weekend at the
DXARTS "In-Progress" show at the Sand Point Gallery.  Projects include video
installation, 3D processed sculpture, spatial sound art, site-specific sound
art, multichannel audiovisual installation, stereo image sculpture,
interactive audiovisual installation and more by by Julie Bruk, Anna Czoski,
Mollie Fabric, Robert Gay, Kjell Hansen, Mijong Jang, Daren Keck, Amber
Manuguid, Mike McCrea, Toby Mckes, Erik Parr, Nathan Wade and Alexis Egbert.

Nathan Wade and Anna Czoskia, artists of the show will talk about their
piece and relevant researches in DXARTS.
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Serial Cyborg by Nathan Wade
Nathan Wade is a second year Digital Arts and Experimental Media
undergraduate. His focus is the intersection of Art and Technology;
misappropriation of technology and scientific research to convey an artistic
deviation, with emphasis on a persistent engagement with the user that
reveals something about the individual, our environment, sociological
construct or hidden systems.
Serial Cyborg aims to misappropriate advanced medical reverse engineering
technologies to elaborate on our default physical instantiation and passage
through space as malleable data structures than can reveal hidden systems of
emergence, informing us of subsystem and complex spacial interaction; the
mundane motion serialized as memory, freezing systemic status' of physical
reality at micro-second resolution and creating an over saturation of data
containing position and status present in every waking second of particle
reality.
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Dual Points of Interest by Anna Czoski

Anna's interest center on creating inviting systems and spaces that explore
augmented environments. Her research centers on emulative systems that
explore the interconnection between us and the nature world.

Dual Points of Interest is an exploration of how a projected animation can
be grounded within a space. The animation morphs between a sky-space of
imagined, geometric forms into the familiar night sky. The seating aims to
allow a posture of contemplation, which is equivalent to how one views the
starts.
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Jon Malkin, PhD student in Electrical Engineering will talk on the Vocal
Joystick.  In his own words:

Consider the following SAT analogy:
speech recognition:keyboard::______:mouse
Lacking good technology for the blank, we created the Vocal Joystick.
We can control a mouse pointer, our own drawing program, and even a
robotic arm. Come hear how we do it and what it sounds like.
http://ssli.ee.washington.edu/vj/


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If you have a short announcement or something for "open dork" please let me
know at shellyhivemind at gmail.com.

As ever, special thanks to 911 Media Arts Center for providing such a great
venue and friendly support for our monthly Dorkbot meetings.

See you on Wednesday!
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