From tedwards at gmail.com Wed Feb 4 01:27:23 2009 From: tedwards at gmail.com (Thomas Edwards) Date: Wed Feb 4 01:27:32 2009 Subject: [dorkbotsocal-blabber] Machine Project classes Message-ID: <2fd1fa350902032227i92d7c0dpf79a07ef17cf469e@mail.gmail.com> Machine Project, venue for recent Dorkbot SoCal meetings, has a bunch of new classes starting soon: 1) Max/Msp - Everyone's favorite sound/video/installation visual programming environment. Four Sundays with Lewis Keller starting Feb 8th. http://machineproject.com/classworkshop/2009/02/08/intro-to-maxmsp/ 2) Processing - an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. A great introduction if you've always wanted to learn programming. Saturdays and Mondays with Chandler McWilliams starting Feb 14th http://machineproject.com/classworkshop/2009/02/14/intro-to-processing/ 3) One day workshop introduction to SuperCollider, a fast, interpreted programming environment for producing and processing audio. Saturday March 7th with Ezra Buchla http://machineproject.com/other/2009/03/07/supercollider/ -Thomas From garnethertz at gmail.com Tue Feb 24 11:15:47 2009 From: garnethertz at gmail.com (Garnet Hertz) Date: Tue Feb 24 11:15:57 2009 Subject: [dorkbotsocal-blabber] Fwd: DIY Survey In-Reply-To: <1102474291774.1101676014730.617.6.8082502@scheduler> References: <1102474291774.1101676014730.617.6.8082502@scheduler> Message-ID: Hey folks - in case you are interested, here's a survey that Eric Paulos (Survival Research Labs, Intel Research Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon) is doing about DIY communities - enjoy! http://tinyurl.com/DIYCommunities Garnet -- http://www.conceptlab.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Eric Paulos Date: Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:25 AM Subject: DIY Survey To: ghertz@uci.edu Living Environments Lab SURVEY DIY Life, DIY Community, DIY DIY We want to hear from you about Do It Yourself projects, cultures, and communities. Let your opinion matter! As researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, we are conducting a brief 10 min survey on DIY life. In the name of science (and for fun) please complete the survey located at the website below: http://tinyurl.com/DIYCommunities We thank you for your time and effort. Forward email This email was sent to ghertz@uci.edu by eric@paulos.net. Update Profile/Email Address | Instant removal with SafeUnsubscribe? | Privacy Policy. Email Marketing by Urban Atmospheres | 2150 Shattuck Ave #1300 | Berkeley | CA | 94704 From mail at davisanddavis.org Wed Feb 25 02:48:54 2009 From: mail at davisanddavis.org (Davis & Davis) Date: Wed Feb 25 02:49:17 2009 Subject: [dorkbotsocal-blabber] =?windows-1252?q?Ceci_n=92est_pas_CAA_at_?= =?windows-1252?q?The_Public_School?= Message-ID: [of potential interest to Dorkbotters...] Ceci n?est pas CAA Feb 27 & 28 at The Public School thepublicschool.org / telic.info The Public School is hosting its own conference with many of the same amazing people who are visiting Los Angeles for CAA. Ours will be free; it will be modeled as a long, open, informal conversation, occasionally interrupted by screenings and short presentations; and it will encourage as much overlap, cross-pollination, and running over time as possible. Drop in and drop out when you can - the following schedule is a guide to what might be happening. FRIDAY 5:00-? Michael Gerald Bauer - Vagabondism Scott Rigby - Plausible Artworlds Olgas Kopenkina - Reading Lenin with Corporations Dara Greenwald - Love It or Leave It 8:00 Screening of Short Films (45 mins) 9:00 Screening of Tarnation (90 mins) Q&A with Jonathan Caouette, Director SATURDAY 11:00-6:00 Sarah Lewison - Rural China and Land Laws Angie Waller - The most Boring Place in the World Making Something out of Something Al Larsen & Charles Roderick - DIY Abigail Satinsky - InCUBATE Alan Moore - Alternative Spaces and Social Centers The Public School 972B Chung King Road, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA To find The Public School from Hill street, enter the alley just before you reach Full House Restaurant (walking north/east). Take your first right into another alley and walk two-thirds of the way to the end. You will see a TELIC sign on the ground to your left. The door next to the sign leads downstairs into The Public School. Walking From CAA: 2.5 miles - Take Olympic to Grand and head North-East. Bus from CAA: Take the 94 North along Hill street. The closest stop to the Public School is at Hill and College. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsocal-blabber/attachments/20090224/a4da1157/attachment.html From tedwards at gmail.com Thu Feb 26 03:18:17 2009 From: tedwards at gmail.com (Thomas Edwards) Date: Thu Feb 26 03:18:27 2009 Subject: [dorkbotsocal-blabber] @ - Reception at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles Message-ID: <2fd1fa350902260018o6440d3c3ia57e846ad52eec79@mail.gmail.com> [note: not my event, but looks cool. -Thomas] http://www.arsvirtua.com/more.php?p=114 @ - Reception at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles 9:30PM Thursday February 26 [this event is free and open to the public, the show will be open in SCI-arc only through Saturday and is next to the ?Lecture Hall?] New Media Caucus Reception: for the Exhibition ?@? Curated by James Morgan, Leslie Raymond, E. Marie Robertson, and Vagner M. Whitehead with ?Analog Interactivity? curated by xtine burrough, a virtual performance by Second Front and live cinema by Be Johnny and Potter-Belmar Labs @ is an exhibition that examines space and site. With simultaneous locations in Los Angeles and Second Life (SL), @ challenges artists to consider place & placelessness from within the context of networked culture. The physical gallery space will be replicated within SL, featuring an actual window between the virtual and real worlds to observe and be observed. The exhibition space will feature a floor-to-ceiling projection and a streaming video camera. This wall will serve as the interface between the Real Life (RL) in the gallery and its replication in Second Life. The intent for @ is to exploit the philosophically rich mirroring between RL and SL, as well as the paradoxical condition of being the observer and observed.? http://transition.turbulence.org/blog/2009/02/25/live-stage-second-life-and-los-angeles/ SCI-Arc is located a short cab ride (3 miles) from the Convention Center, near Little Tokyo. The exhibits and panels are in the SCI-Arc?s W.M. Keck Lecture Hall, located near the center of the building. SCI-Arc is located at 960 East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013 The building entrance and parking lot are located at 350 Merrick St, between 4th Street and Traction Avenue driving instructions (http://www.sciarc.edu/portal/exhibitions/locations/index.html) If you cannot join us in Los Angeles, please join us in Second Life at the mirror/concurrent exhibition, by following the link below: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Seventh%20Eye/32/86/48 From chris at spurgeonworld.com Fri Feb 27 16:28:03 2009 From: chris at spurgeonworld.com (Chris Spurgeon) Date: Fri Feb 27 16:28:58 2009 Subject: [dorkbotsocal-blabber] Got some free TVs and monitors if you want 'em In-Reply-To: <2fd1fa350901211122j656c6f79q5381f84608c87a4c@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Dorkbot folks... A friend of mine has two TVs and two CRT monitors that she'd like to get rid of. Instead of just donating them to Goodwill or the Salvation Army or something (not that there's anything wrong with that) she was wondering if there was anyone around that could put them to good use in some sort of cool electronic art project. Here's what she has... 27" RCA tube TV - new condition barely used 13" sony tube TV - decent condition, rarely used - primarily served as a preveiw monitor for animation 17" hitachi CRT monitor - green gun is dying but it still displays 17" CRT monitor - toasted but still turns on. If you're interested in any or all of these items, contact her. Her name's Malinda, and her email address is malinda@animegirlie.com . Thanks all! Chris Spurgeon