From dorkbotvan at dorkbot.org Tue Feb 13 01:49:53 2007 From: dorkbotvan at dorkbot.org (Alex Beim) Date: Tue Feb 13 01:55:50 2007 Subject: [dorkbotvan-announce] Dorkbot Vancouver Message-ID: <226A2A01-0499-45C8-8837-32E8E5383372@dorkbot.org> Hi Sorry it took me such a long time to write again. First I wanted to thank everybody for the great support, and for making the first Vancouver Dorkbot meeting a great success. I felt super inspired after the 3 great presentations. We are probably going to be hosting our next meeting at the Western Front again on March the 12th (I'll confirm that soon) We have 2 presentation confirmed for the event, I'm still looking for a third one. If you have an interesting project you want to share with the group let me know. Volunteering somebody else is cool too :) I would love to hear more comments, what you liked and didn't like so we can make things better in the future. 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URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotvan-announce/attachments/20070213/7d404f9f/attachment.html From dorkbotvan at dorkbot.org Sat Feb 17 00:51:59 2007 From: dorkbotvan at dorkbot.org (Alex Beim) Date: Sat Feb 17 00:52:07 2007 Subject: [dorkbotvan-announce] [dorkbotvan-blabber] P2P: Outdoor Art Videos References: Message-ID: <88464329-6054-478C-8152-3793249B65EF@dorkbot.org> Begin forwarded message: > From: Kate Armstrong > Date: February 16, 2007 3:30:45 PM PST (CA) > To: > Subject: [dorkbotvan-blabber] P2P: Outdoor Art Videos > Reply-To: "A discussion list for dorkbot-van (vancouver)" > > ? > In partnership with Upgrade! International, Upgrade! Vancouver is > launching a series of outdoor screenings of local and international > art videos. > > Appropriating the functional model of online videosharing sites > such as Youtube, we are creating a series of exploratory events > that translate social videosharing into the analogue environment of > the urban street. > > Video programmes are curated by individual Upgrade nodes and > screened outdoors in the built environment of cities including > Vancouver, Paris, Montreal, Belgrade, Seattle, Scotland, Skopje, > Chicago, Amsterdam and Istanbul. Videos will travel between cities, > being screened locally and internationally. > > The social software aspect of these events is explored through a > deliberately low-tech model in which flyers containing contact > information for participating artists will be circulated at the > screenings, with the intention of encouraging people in these > cities to develop individual connections. > > The series will launch in Vancouver in March, 2007. > > For more information, to submit work, or to get involved: Kate > Armstrong : kate at katearmstrong dot com > URL: http://www.katearmstrong.com/upgrade/vancouver/ ?..................................................................... ... > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with > electricity.......... > ..........................http:// > dorkbot.org............................ > ...................................................................... > .. -------------- next part -------------- Skipped content of type multipart/related From alexb at tribalddb.ca Wed Feb 28 02:40:45 2007 From: alexb at tribalddb.ca (Alex Beim) Date: Wed Feb 28 02:40:59 2007 Subject: [dorkbotvan-announce] Dorkbot meeting March 12th Message-ID: We are having our second meeting at the Western Front, on Monday March 12th at 7:00 PM Western Front Society 303 East 8th Avenue Vancouver, British Columbia Canada V5T 1S1 The 20 minute presentation will be followed by Q&A. At the end of the night we will go to a pub close by for beers. Here is a little background about the speakers and their presentations: Mini-sumo Robots Dave Hylands Occupation: Principal Software Developer Passion: Robotics Experience and Previous Work: Have about 20 years of experience working in software development, typically at the systems level. www.davehylands.com Bob Cook Occupation: Development Manager, Web Security Appliance, Sophos Inc. Passion: Robotics Experience and Previous Work: Sixteen years in product development, about ten as a software developer. www.bobandeileen.com The Presentation: We will be discussing the game, the problems to solve, the electronics, the mechanics, the software, the results. www.vancouverroboticsclub.org Hacking the human: using AI to model creativity, living portraits and emotional new media systems. Steve DiPaola Occupation/Passion: Assoc Professor, SFU ( Interactive Arts and Tech) New Media Artist Experience and Previous work: An artist, scientist and SFU professor, DiPaola directs iVizLab which strives to make interactive systems bend more to the human experience by incorporating bio & cognitive models. He came to SFU from Stanford and NYIT CGL and has held leadership positions at Electronic Arts, Saatchi Innovation and Silicon Valley start-ups. His art has been exhibited international including the AIR and Tibor de Nagy galleries in NYC, the Whitney and Smithsonian museums. He collaborated with Nam June Paik and Kraftwerk and is known for making new media tools used equally by artists and scientists. See dipaola.org. The presentation: Can we create new expression systems by modeling living/cognitive systems with Artificial Intelligence? Steve will demonstrate his work in portraiture, the Vancouver Aquarium Whale Interactive, and experimental systems that explore expression and creativity. Low-cost Multitouch Screen Jon Nakane Occupation/Passion: Lab Manager, UBC Engineering Physics Project Lab http://www.engphys.ubc.ca/projectlab/ Experience and previews work: Several years as an instructor for Physics 253, an autonomous robot-construction class for 2nd year Engineering Physics students. http://www.engphys.ubc.ca/phys253/ The Presentation: The 26?x20? portable touchscreen prototype is based on a touch-screen system developed by Jeff Han from NYU, which has garnered interest with many research groups (http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=PLhMVNdplJc). Three undergraduate students designed and constructed the hardware and software for the system as a demonstration/teaching tool for the Engineering Physics Project Lab, various undergraduate courses, and as a mechanism for physics/ engineering outreach to the community. Photos and videos of the touchscreen can be seen at: http://my.7x24.com/multitouch/ Feel free to forward this email Cheers Alex Beim 604 7103091 Dorkbot Vancouver dorkbot.org/dorkbotvan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're getting CCed or forwarded this email, you can subscribe to the mailing list here: http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotvan/mailinglist.shtml -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotvan-announce/attachments/20070227/5df82ff7/attachment.html