From shellyhivemind at gmail.com  Wed Oct  7 17:50:19 2009
From: shellyhivemind at gmail.com (shelly@hive-mind.com)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:50:19 -0700
Subject: [dorkbotsea-announce] Fwd: October Dorkbot: Joining the Creative
	Conversation on Art and Technology
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Reminder!  This is tonight!

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From: shelly at hive-mind.com <shellyhivemind at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:12 PM
Subject: October Dorkbot: Joining the Creative Conversation on Art and
Technology
To: dorkbotsea-announce at dorkbot.org

Hello Dorkbots!
Well, summer is over and it's time to think Dorkbot thoughts!  For October,
this next Wednesday, we'll be joining *Arts Leadership Lab, for* *A Creative
Conversation on Art and Technology - Current and Possible Intersections*, on
Wednesday, October 7, 7 - 9 PM at Kirkland Arts Center.  Come out and meet
some Eastside dorks!

Featuring panelists Hugo Solis Garcia, Elan Lee, Genevieve Tremblay, and
Kristina Erickson Hudson, and moderated by Susie J. Lee.  Brought to you by
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, *KBCS 91.3 FM Community
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, *Kirkland Arts
Center*<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102706063878&s=2191&e=001geGES31thqRjhAoXX1Ru8ZdiAHi9ZdLaksvQbLAAixlUIzkJrQB-wAFEUWZwiVqeiRQiALetK-e0Z1UOwg2xSNe8OJ7kxtek1q4NyWM8whIss-vmMNJCH9iVtbjuklo8>,
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 More info below.

*On Future Dorkbot Meetings:*  As you may know, we will no longer have
regular meetings at the 911 Media Arts Center, because they moved into a
smaller space.  Your friendly overlord committee is meeting THIS VERY NIGHT
to discuss alternative spaces!  If you know of a venue we should consider,
ideally with ~100 seats and screen, somewhere in Seattle, please let me know
at shellyhivemind at gmail.com.

**************

*Arts Leadership Lab presents **
A Creative Conversation on Art and Technology -
Current and Possible Intersections*

*at Kirkland Arts Center, Wednesday, October 7, 7 - 9 PM*



*Arts Leadership Lab* invites you to *A Creative Conversation on Art and
Technology - Current and Possible Intersections*, on Wednesday, October 7, 7
- 9 PM at Kirkland Arts Center.

As we all know, the Eastside is home to some of the most powerful
technology-based companies.  It is also home to a community of technology
creatives: artists and technologists for whom the lines of distinction
blur.  Join in presentations and conversations on those blurring lines and
opportunities for cross-over and collaboration, then enjoy a post-panel
reception with presenters and fellow attendees.

Featuring panelists Hugo Solis Garcia, Elan Lee, Genevieve Tremblay, and
Kristina Erickson Hudson, and moderated by Susie J. Lee.

Brought to you by
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.



*The Moderator:

Susie J. Lee<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102706063878&s=2191&e=001geGES31thqRBakX2hsBeQKAbu_6R6bjDV8AZNG1aD5XES3n5BC4uYZuc045sZRqX6uSX3V8GoyWYawl29iR4o7VhMyhBMg9fSxsJ-v8Wp0_6X65LpASBOg==>,
artist*

A new media artist, Susie merges digital technologies with physical objects,
to create systems of experiential art forms from material phenomena.
Exploring the potential of experimental technologies, her installations and
sculptures investigate the time-based activation of light, sound and image
to hover between the physical and the ephemeral.  In her recent work "For
these Unclosings," she developed a complex, real-time composition that
seamlessly integrated movement, sound and image.  Three distinct characters
- dancer, line and music - pushed, pulled, and reacted to one another in
this performance.  Boundaries dissolved between illusion and reality,
digital and analog, and presence and absence.  Lee's work has been exhibited
locally, throughout the US, and internationally in Korea and Italy, and has
been collected by prominent private institution collections.  She has taught
at the Frye Art Museum, Centrum Arts Organization and the University of
Washington, written about the intersection of art and science in the Journal
of Science Communication in Naples, and has been awarded a number of grants,
awards and public commissions.  Her background is in Molecular Biophysics
and Biochemistry at Yale University with a Masters in Science Education at
Columbia University.  She received her MFA at the University of Washington.
Susie is represented by Lawrimore Project in Seattle and Galleria Tiziana Di
Caro in Italy.

*The Panelists:*



*Hugo Solis Garcia<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102706063878&s=2191&e=001geGES31thqTzVgM88oLdZKsCFqIjIbj6twuDIthq6y820C_oGWIY_t66RdWwPAxGYlNCU8BlOxLbOv-uNpWCP6842OCZI8qNvYd_vTnZXjs=>,
artist*

Interested in technology and improvisatory music, Hugo is founder of the
NICROM Trio, an interdisciplinary ensemble of electro-acoustic improvisatory
music with action painting.  Playing piano and electronics, he has
collaborated in many interdisciplinary projects in conjunction with dancers,
painters, film-makers and radio-artists.  A PhD student at DXARTS, Hugo's
main interests are musical structure of improvised music, human computer
musical interaction, and audiovisual systems.  He is currently working on
the development of sonic and visual extensions for acoustic pianos, the
production of tools for collective creation, the creation of interactive and
multimedia installations, and also plays with the Juum duet.  He holds a DEA
of Computer Sciences and Digital Communication from the Pompeu Fabra
University where he was a member of the Music Technology Group, and an MA in
Media Arts and Sciences from the MIT Laboratory Opera of the Future group
where he developed the Improvisatory Music and Painting Interface, the
audiovisual program for improvisatory music.

*Elan Lee, Founder/Chief Designer at Fourth Wall
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*

Considered among the foremost Alternate Reality Gamer creators in the world,
Elan Lee believes that if you're bored, you're doing something wrong.  A
self-identified entertainment-addict, Elan has spent his career finding and
sharing ways to extract adventure from the world around us.  From surfing
down the flooded streets of LA to broadcasting a radio drama over thousands
of ringing payphones, Elan has pioneered breakthroughs in the area of
entertainment and immersive gaming.  Elan started his career at the
Microsoft Game Studio where he was a Lead Designer for the X-Box launch
portfolio.  Next, he co-founded and served as the Vice President of 24
Entertainment (the company behind I Love Bees, The Vanishing Point, Nine
Inch Nails: Year Zero, and The Dark Knight.)  He was also the Co-Founder of
EDOC Laundry, and most recently the Co-Founder and Chief Designer at Fourth
Wall Studios.

*Genevieve Tremblay, cultural
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*

Genevieve is a creative catalyst and public scholar who provides strategic
vision to pioneering community ventures at the digital convergence.  She has
worked with community leaders and educators at all levels to develop
programs and partnerships, residencies and roundtables that leverage the
synergy between artists, designers, scholars, technologists and industry
professionals to serve the public good.  Her current research and curatorial
efforts identify innovators who are redefining culture, community and the
environment through public art and the creative application of digital,
social, mobile and gaming technologies.  Genevieve is working to drive the
development of cultural assets in our community and has recently worked with
an interdisciplinary team to create a model for a public/private partnership
and catalyst real estate asset for digital arts/technology in the newly
rezoned Bel-Red Corridor.

*Kristina Erickson Hudson, Interactive and Digital Media Specialist
for enterprise
Seattle<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102706063878&s=2191&e=001geGES31thqRp6AZlGjEpHL7nTwWfQ6SN17Ul6MkEIOg6fBBixAL1o--pxGygSFyz1J4RvMHXY-I0EzXOx9hrwRHZPPnqRt0LIYJJu_cic9ufCu5O-XwKk98kCWNaEuC1>
*

Kristina is the Interactive and Digital Media Specialist for enterprise
Seattle, a public private economic development partnership representing King
County.  Guided by a strong industry task force, Kristina works to promote,
nurture, and grow the interactive media and technology industries in
Seattle.  Five years ago, she founded the Washington Interactive Network, a
program designed to brand the Seattle region as a global center for video
game development.  She believes that his region is the apex of arts and
technology - a place where the technology is disruptive and the spirit of
innovation thrives.
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From shellyhivemind at gmail.com  Tue Oct 27 14:38:47 2009
From: shellyhivemind at gmail.com (shelly@hive-mind.com)
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:38:47 -0700
Subject: [dorkbotsea-announce] November Dorkbot: Projects from Burning Man
	2009
Message-ID: <37bd773c0910271138y43b4ad88t560d3120f1423b99@mail.gmail.com>

This year at Burning Man a few really great large scale, collaborative
projects came out of Seattle!  Come hear about the Groovik
s Cube (multi-user controllable LEDs), Steve the Robot H.E.Ai.D.
(interactive music and lasers), and Incunabulum (fire sculpture).

************************************************************
**************************************

WHAT:            November 2009 Dorkbot:  Projects from Burning Man 2009
WHEN:             Weds, Nov 4th, 6:30 - 9:00pm  (talks start at 7:00
promptly)

WHERE:           Waid's: 1212 E Jefferson St, Seattle, WA 98122, by Seattle
U
                        http://waidshouse.com/

ADMISSION:    Free!  But bring $$ for food/drinks from Waid's kitchen.

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**************************************

Presentations:

*The Groovik's Cube, presented by Barry Brummit*

Earlier this year, I led a team of ~70 engineers and other motivated
luminaries on a mad 6 month rush to design, produce, and install Groovik's
Cube (a 40' tall, user-controllable Rubik's Cube: http://
theblight.net/09/bm/73PICT120394.jpg) which, rather than being mechanical,
is illuminated & animated from within by 324 (or 1.8KW of) LEDs. I'd like to
share with you not just the design & enabling technologies (Arduinos,
GumStix, and custom high-current LED drivers), but also the engineering and
management practices (social contracts, redundancy, etc.) that helped a
fledgling team complete this complex project on an incredibly compressed
timeline.

Plus, I'll show some really pretty pictures from our
exceeded-all-expectations installation in Black Rock City, aka Burning Man.

Dr. Barry Brumitt is a Software Engineer & Tech Lead with Google, Inc with a
peripatetic background in robotics, physics, computer engineering, AI,
ubiquitous computing & software development.

*Steve the Robot H.E.Ai.D., presented by Peter Brown and Christopher
Overstreet*
*
*
*
Steve is a 35 foot, interactive, collaborative installation that allowed
people to create sound and music together.  Steve is a sensing, reactive
playspace; using video sensors to collect people?s motion and interactively
generate music and lasers. This is a H.uman E.nergized Artifical i.
ntelligence D.evice.  Learn more about Steve here:
http://dbltht.org/ubergeek.  For this presentation Peter and Chris, two of
the developers on the team, will discuss the technology that made Steve a
reality.

Incunabulum, presented by Tabasco and Kay Morrison

In`cu?nab"u?lum is a literal microcosm. The universe as we know it - formed
into the shell of an egg, cradled by the hand of man. The Iron Monkeys built
this 15' art piece over the course of the summer of 2009, and trucked it to
Burning Man to display for a week.

We will share the process of physically building the piece, including the
brainstorming, construction and implementation of the propane flame system
which lit the piece every night.
*

**************************************************************************************************

Special thanks to Waid's for providing such a great venue!  Show your
support by drinking their drinks and eating their food.   Happy hour until
7.

See you on Wednesday, November 4th!
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