From tedwards at gmail.com Sun Oct 11 15:27:03 2009 From: tedwards at gmail.com (Thomas Edwards) Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:27:03 -0700 Subject: [dorkbotsocal-announce] Dorkbot SoCal 38 - Oct. 31 Message-ID: <2fd1fa350910111227i360336bfl77305fabd335b074@mail.gmail.com> Announcing... Dorkbot SoCal 38 ***** Saturday, October 31, 2009 ***** 1:00pm ***** Machine Project ***** 1200 D North Alvarado Street ***** Los Angeles, CA 90026 [Yes, Halloween - Costumes are encouraged, but not mandatory] Speakers will include... Micha C?rdenas - Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, UCSD // Artist/Researcher, Experimental Game Lab and b.a.n.g. lab Chris Head - MFA Candidate UCSD // Artist/Researcher, Experimental Game Lab and b.a.n.g. lab Elle Mehrmand - MFA Candidate UCSD // Musician, Assembly of Mazes // Artist/Researcher, b.a.n.g. lab http://va-grad.ucsd.edu/~drupal/node/918 The Freephone is an art project that aims to provide people just deported from the US with a free phone call. To achieve this, a group of UCSD MFA students and graduates came together to present the phone at the Lui Velazquez gallery in Tijuana, just a few feet from the turnstiles where people who are deported are dropped off by the border patrol. The project is by Chris Head, Micha C?rdenas, Elle Mehrmand, Katherine Sweetman, Felipe Zu?iga and Camilo Ontiveros The Freephone is an effort to use new media performance art or performance with technology to make the experience that people who are deported from the US a little bit less difficult. To make the phone, the artists bought a non working payphone casing from Ebay.com, wired it to a new $10 phone from a store and hooked that up to an adapter which would allow the phone to make calls over the internet. Then, the phone was installed outside of the Lui Velazquez gallery and the artists invited people coming through the turnstiles at the border to make a free phone call. D.V. Rogers http://pieqf.allshookup.org/ Leaving No trace, the Parkfield Interventional EQ Fieldwork (PIEQF) was a geologically interactive machine earthwork temporarily installed in the remote township of Parkfield, Central California during the summer of 02008. This time-sharing, performance earthwork merged together the micro-seismic resonance of geological time and the autonomous operation of a ready-made, modified machine, producing an immersive, digitally mapped 21st century machine earthwork action. Owen Gerst http://stolondesign.com/ Owen Gerst is engaged in the process of architecture, but casts aside the title of architect. He is a representative of ideas, and draws a distinction between building and architecture. Building serves basic raw needs. Architecture is about something - an IDEA. It is the IDEA that, through the creative process, serves as the catalyst in a process of transformation - turning the very basic into something special, unique, and magnificent. The IDEA is the essence of architecture, and it is the IDEA that Gerst is interested in - the IDEA in all its forms and methods of representation.