<div>For July, we're giving you the heads up early so you can be sure and mark your calendars and buy a ticket!</div>
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<div>WHAT: <font color="#990000"><strong>FrayedWire: a one day mini conference: the Dream Art/Geek Event</strong></font></div>
<div> <a href="http://frayedwire.com/">http://frayedwire.com</a></div>
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<div>WHEN: <font color="#990000"><strong>Saturday, July 11th,</strong> 9:00am to midnight</font></div>
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<div>WHERE: <font color="#990000">Daytime at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, Reception at 911 Media Arts Center</font></div>
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<div>ADMISSION: <font color="#990000">40$ if you buy tickets by April 29th:</font> <a href="http://frayedwire.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">http://frayedwire.eventbrite.com/</a> </div>
<div> --<em>this is a not for profit event; $$ raised beyond expenses will be donated to 911</em></div>
<div><em> --volunteer if you want to get in for free! email shelly: <a href="mailto:shelly@wagglelabs.com">shelly@wagglelabs.com</a></em></div>
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<div>Dorkbot is collaborating with 911 Media Arts Center, Youngstown, and friends, to bring you FrayedWire: a one day mini conference designed to inspire, educate, and build community for people at the intersection of art and technology. FrayedWire is a mix of presentations, workshops, an open lab space, open discussions, and an evening reception with "Strange Things" artists' talks. More details below. See full speaker bios at <a href="http://frayedwire.com/?page_id=53">http://frayedwire.com/?page_id=53</a> or view our <strong><em>tentative</em></strong> schedule at <a href="http://frayed-wire.pathable.com/meetings" target="_blank">http://frayed-wire.pathable.com/meetings</a>. </div>
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<div>Our speaker schedule is full, however if you would like to participate as a workshop organizer, or discussion leader, there is still space available. Please complete our proposal for participation form by May 15th: <a href="http://frayedwire.com/?page_id=15">http://frayedwire.com/?page_id=15</a></div>
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<div><strong>Ward Cunningham, AboutUs.org <em><font color="#222222">(opening talk)</font></em>: <span style="COLOR: #993300">Augmented Ways of Seeing</span></strong></div>
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<div><strong><span style="COLOR: #993300"></span></strong>In this talk, Ward will discuss how we may leverage technology to augment the way we see and process the world in social media, science, and art, drawing from his own experiences as an inventor, developer, and tinkerer. Ward Cunningham is well known as the inventor of the first wiki and for his contributions to the developing practice of object-oriented programming, the variation called Extreme Programming. </div>
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<div><strong>Trimpin, Artist <em><font color="#222222">(closing talk)</font></em>: <span style="COLOR: #993300">Inventions in Music and Kinetic Scuplture</span></strong></div>
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<div><strong><span style="COLOR: #993300"></span></strong>Trimpin is a Seattle, Washington-based kinetic sculptor, sound artist, musician, and composer. Most of his pieces integrate both sculpture and music in some way, and many make use of computers to play these instruments. He will be talking about his history of work, exploring inventions in music and kinetic sculpture. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimpin">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimpin</a></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><strong><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Robin Oppenheimer, University of Washington:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><font color="#990000">A Brief History of the 9 Evenings: the Theatre and Engineering Event that Started E.A.T.</font></font></strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Learn about the early history of art and technology in this talk on the inspiration for the Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) — a non-profit organization established in 1967 to develop collaborations between artists and engineers. </font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Robin Oppenheimer is an internationally recognized media arts consultant, historian, curator, writer, and educator who has worked in the field since 1980. She is currently a professor at the University of Washington.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"></span></span><strong><span style="COLOR: #993300"><font size="2"><font color="#000000">Jeff Brice, Cornish:</font> Philosophy in Motion</font></span></strong></p>
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<div>What is the relationship between language and our sense of self within our associational communities? ‘Philosophy in Motion’ is Jeff's current body of work that visualizes diagrammatic movements of conceptual sequences and singular moments of conceptual framing. Jeff Brice is currently an Associate Professor in the motion design concentration within the Design Department at Cornish College of the Arts. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimpin">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimpin</a> </div>
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<div><strong>Susie Lee, Artist: <span style="COLOR: #993300">Experiential Arts, Interstitial Moments</span></strong></div>
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<div><strong><span style="COLOR: #993300"></span></strong>Susie Lee’s work merges digital technologies with physical materials, codifying phenomena into a system of experiential art. In particular, she explore the interstitial moments between what we experience and what we remember, what we hold on to and what we let go. Susie received her MFA at the University of Washington and currently resides in Seattle. Susie is represented by Lawrimore Project in Seattle and Galleria Tiziana Di Caro in Italy. Learn more at: <a href="http://www.susiejlee.com/" target="_blank">http://www.susiejlee.com/</a></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Sumit Basu, Microsoft Research: <font color="#990000">Technology Shaping Art</font></strong></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Having worked on a variety of projects that use technology as an element for auditory and visual artwork, I’ve been intrigued at the ways in which the tools we use shape the art that we create.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>I’ll walk through several examples from my own work to help us think about the effects that new technologies have on the way we make – and the way we think. </font></span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Sumit Basu is a Researcher in the Knowledge Tools Group at Microsoft Research, Redmond.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>His recent work includes Songsmith: a songwriting tool that takes melodies as input and uses statistical modeling to help users develop accompaniments for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~sumit">http://research.microsoft.com/~sumit</a></font>b</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Robert Campbell, Cornish:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><font color="#990000">Collaborative Video for Dance</font></strong></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In this talk, Bob Campbell will describe recent work exploring collaborative video for dance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Bob works as an installation artist, digital printmaker, documentary filmmaker and video artist, and is also currently a Professor of Video/Experimental Studio/and Digital Imaging at Cornish School of the Arts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span> Since 1992 his collaborative video-for-dance work has premiered in On The Boards’ New Performance Series, Northwest New Works Festival Series, and Artist Access Series. His dance-on-video work has been presented in the Dance on Camera Festival at New York’s Lincoln Center, and in Seattle’s New Dance Cinema Festival.</font><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></p>
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<h2><font size="2">Joshua Kopel, KolaborationStudio: <span style="COLOR: #993300">Intro to the Arduino</span></font></h2>
<p>It’s the Year of the Arduino, with this small, easy to use microcontroller appearing as the tool of choice in new media and electronic arts. Get a brief intro to the Arduino in this hands-on workshop. Josh has been hacking electronics since he first discovered BYTE magazine in the early 1980’s In between then and now has acquired degrees in sculpture and metalsmithing, and built a career developing web sites and flash applications. He currently teaches Arduino classes at 911 Media Arts Center.</p>
<h2><font size="2">Joseph Gray, Grauwald Design: <span style="COLOR: #993300">Augmented Sculpture</span></font></h2>
<p>This workshop explores how audiovisual technology can be used to transform, create, expand, amplify and interpret physical spaces. Joseph Gray earned a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in 1999, focusing in video and sculpture. Since then his work has primarily been seen as live video accompaniment to musicians from the Seattle area, playing in various venues in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest. Learn more at <a href="http://grauwald.com/" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc">http://grauwald.com/</font></a></p>
<h2><font size="2">Christopher Prosser, Dorkbot: <span style="COLOR: #993300">Basic Electronics for Artists</span></font></h2>
<p>A crash course in basic electronics to get you started incorporating electronics into your art. Chris Prosser received his BS in Computer Science at UMASS Amherst. He currently works at Adobe Systems as an Engineering Manager on Adobe After Effects. In his spare time he works on kinetic sculpture exploring the relationship between people and their pets and any other mad scientist ideas that come his way. Learn more at: <a href="http://www.nart.org/" target="_blank">http://www.nart.org/</a></p>
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<h2><font size="2">Open Lab</font></h2>
<p>The open lab is a space for you to share what you are doing, or work on DIY/Maker projects over the course of the day. If you prefer a more hands-on experience, come prepared with:</p>
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<li>Your latest cool project to demo or work-in-progress to share
<li>Your laptop
<li>Miscellaneous tools
<li>“Robot Vomit” for the junk exchange </li></li></li></li></ul>
<p>You can make what you want of this space. There will be tables, power strips, and some tools waiting for you!</p>
<h2><font size="2">Open Space Discussions</font></h2>
<p>In the tradition of open space meetings, we have set aside a block of time that is dedicated to participant-determined discussion sessions. You will have a chance to propose a discussion section in the morning, and topics will be chosen by popular vote.</p>
<h1><font size="2">Evening Reception and “Strange Things” Artists’ Short Presentations</font></h1>
<p>Join us for an evening reception at 911 Media Arts Center, where you will have the opportunity to see Dorkbot’s “People Doing Strange Things with Electricity” art exhibit, and see short, five minute, Ignite-style presentations from selected artists from the show.</p>