<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">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.)<div><br></div><div>Susie Lee and Yoko Ott presented a class+artwork they did with the <a href="http://fryemuseum.org/exhibition/3049/">Frye</a>, in which students were encouraged to go on a <a href="http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/2.derive.htm">dérive</a> 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.</div><div><br></div><div><div>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 "<a href="http://www.candyfab.org/article.php/complexshapes">candy fab</a>" is hard to beat. Or the chocolate-based fused-deposition machines.)</div><div><br></div><div>After the break we talked about the emergent communication protocols for <a href="http://projects.dorkbot.org/dorkbot-wiki/EmergentCommunication">PDSTWE4</a>. 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 <a href="http://projects.dorkbot.org/dorkbot-wiki/EmergentCommunication/ChronosProtocol">Chronos</a>) 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.</div><div><br></div><div>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 <a href="http://projects.dorkbot.org/dorkbot-wiki/EmergentCommunication?action=fullsearch&value=emergent&fullsearch=Text">full-text search for "emergent"</a> also gets you a nice list of pages.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>