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

[shelly at hive-mind.com]

Oh, and one more thing:  Heather Lowe will give a short overview of a new
light festival coming to Seattle February 2009 called Northern Lights NW.
The new week-long event will provide a new, exciting platform for creativity
for different light mediums and much more.

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:42 AM, shelly at hive-mind.com <
shellyhivemind at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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--
>
> **************************************************************************************************************
>
>
> 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.
> -------------------------------------------
> 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.
> -------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------
>
> 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.
> -------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------------------
>
> 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/
>
>
> ************************************
>
> 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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