[dorkbottac-announce] Tacoma Dorkbot meeting #1 - Tuesday, Feb 20

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LOCATION: 1117 Broadway, Tacoma (be sure to look for the door at this
address marked "Club SOTA")
TIME: 7:00 PM
DATE: Tuesday, February 20, 2007
ADMISSION: Free and open to all

dorkbot
"people doing strange things with electricity"

The first Tacoma dorkbot meeting will be on Tuesday, February 20 at Tacoma
School of the Arts' club SOTA

Laura and Joe will talk a little to introduce dorkbot, encourage people to
present at future meetings, and answer questions.

The presenters for the evening are:

Justin Gorman: The Justin Show is a multi-media presentation by
Tacoma-based artist Justin Gorman, a cohesive collage of unique short
stories, rants, observations and satirical political critique. The
presentation is a synthesis of produced videos drawn from Mr. Gorman's
four solo CD releases, and PowerPoint presentations inspired by the ease
of appropriation in this era of digital information. More information on
Justin is available at http://www.justinjgorman.com

Eric McNeill: Untitled: Portrait, Movement - Rabbit!!!: Seattle-based
artist and technologist Eric McNeill will discuss the design and
construction of his animated LED panels, and will also give an
introduction to using Rabbit Microprocessors. In addition to simply
showing lo-res video, "Untitled (Portrait/Movement)" is an example of some
of the more advanced things you can do with a $50 micro like the Rabbit -
for example, networking support to allow the piece to put or fetch media
on or from the Internet. More info about Eric can be found at
http://smellsnew.com

There will also be an open dork after the presentations where anyone can
take the floor for about 10 minutes to show us what you're working on,
make announcements, look for collaborators, etc.

--- Special thanks to SOTA for making Club SOTA available to dorkbot ---

For more information please visit http://dorkbot.org and
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbottac

We look forward to seeing you there!