[dorkbotsea-blabber] Dorknotes

[David Whitely]

Thanks for the notes. I wasn't able to make it last night, so these really
help.
-David

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:14 AM, Wim Lewis <wiml at hhhh.org> wrote:

> I mentioned the idea last month of posting meeting notes to the list after
> the meeting. I didn't think to actually *take* notes, but here's a mental
> mishmash of what was at the meeting and my thoughts on it. (So don't take
> this as a reliable, impartial record or anything: it's very much my
> subjective record of the meeting.)
> Susie Lee and Yoko Ott presented a class+artwork they did with the Frye<http://fryemuseum.org/exhibition/3049/>,
> in which students were encouraged to go on a dérive<http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/2.derive.htm> which
> was recorded in photos, audio, video, and a (mapless) GPS track. Thinking
> about it later, I found myself wishing to know more about how the students
> thought about the activity: what they were expressing in each case, even if
> not in the language of the professional artist.
>
> Stephanie Andrews presented her work in which a whole motion-captured human
> movement (a few seconds of dance) is translated into a (virtual or physical)
> solid object by collapsing the time dimension. Some very pretty
> abstract-looking sculptures resulted, in which you could still see the human
> movement and form. (My friend described them as the advanced version of snow
> angels.) This put me in mind of the SFnal notion of a human life as a long
> four-dimensional worm (stretching from birth to death). Also, starch-based
> sintered-powder-style rapid prototyping— neat! (Though EMSL's sugar "candy
> fab <http://www.candyfab.org/article.php/complexshapes>" is hard to beat.
> Or the chocolate-based fused-deposition machines.)
>
> After the break we talked about the emergent communication protocols for
> PDSTWE4 <http://projects.dorkbot.org/dorkbot-wiki/EmergentCommunication>.
> There was concern we might have a problem getting critical mass for
> interesting interactions for any given mode of communication, since there
> are so many possibilities. The most popular modes seemed to be audio (eg
> Chronos<http://projects.dorkbot.org/dorkbot-wiki/EmergentCommunication/ChronosProtocol>)
> and some sort of IP-based text protocol (XML, Twitter, etc.), but some
> people were very interested in Zigbee or haptic communication. There seemed
> to be consensus that there should be some sort of hub/server object which
> speaks many protocols in order to tie things together, and possibly allows
> interaction from outside (eg, a publicly visible web page, responses to
> twitter hashtags, an email gateway). There wasn't much consensus on how best
> to prune the set of protocols in order to get more than one entry using
> each. Some people were specifically interested in a particular sort of
> protocol; some people sounded willing to adopt whatever other people were
> using.
>
> The wiki pages for these were hard to find. I renamed some of them so
> they're obviously related to the EmergentCommunication page, and made sure
> the links were working— hope this helps people find them. A full-text
> search for "emergent"<http://projects.dorkbot.org/dorkbot-wiki/EmergentCommunication?action=fullsearch&value=emergent&fullsearch=Text> also
> gets you a nice list of pages.
>
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