From dorkbotvan at dorkbot.org Mon Jan 1 19:22:02 2007 From: dorkbotvan at dorkbot.org (Alex Beim) Date: Mon Jan 1 19:44:09 2007 Subject: [dorkbotvan-announce] January meeting Message-ID: <7306F2D6-E642-4839-BB07-734331AC2B3F@dorkbot.org> First of all: HAPPY NEW YEAR! We are having our first meeting at the Western Front, this Wednesday January 24th 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 could either stay for a bit and informally share ideas, or we could head to a pub close by and do the same but over beers. I would like to encourage people to take their projects to the session, no matter what stage they are at. I would really like to create a Dorkbot Vancouver Video podcast of the presentations. I'm looking for one volunteer (or more) to shoot the video and compress it, we don't need to do any editing. If you can help please send me an email back to talk about the details. Here is a little background about the speakers and their presentations: Danjel van Tijn Occupation: Engineer at co-op radio, teach audio electronics and electronic music at the Arts Institute of Vancouver, build robots for a company called Storefront.com and a variety of other music and electronic contract work. Passion: minimal techno/ambient music, building/designing small synths/fx Experience and Previous work: I have been making electronic music (in various forms) for over 12 years and building circuits for even longer. I have performed live or Djed in England, Sweden and various parts of Canada. Most recent performance was at the New Forms Festival with Tomas Jirku and Rob Warren (with whom I am also on the netlabel: Rivers of Recordings). The presentation: I will demonstrate some home built devices, and talk about open source electronic music projects and valuable resources. Robin Oppenheimer Occupation/Passion: Full-time Ph.D. student in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at SFU Full-time student of life and passionate about music, media art, and ideas Experience and previews work: 25 years in the media arts field in the U.S. Media arts historian, writer, curator, and educator The Presentation: Dorkbot's art and technology roots: A glimpse of the 1966 historic "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering" Event A brief overview, with historic film clips, of the 1966 "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering" Event in New York City that gives a glimpse of the artists, engineers and their collaborative performances and processes. Featuring rare footage of Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Alex Hay, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Whitman, Lucinda Child, and other artists as well as Bell Lab's Billy Kluver who founded Experiments in Art and Technology E.A.T. Jeremy Thorp Occupation: Freelance web developer and digital artist. Instructor at Langara College's Electronic Media Design Program Passion: Exploring the application of scientific techniques and concepts to creative media. Experience and Previous Work: I have been creating digital art in various forms for 8 years. Recently, my work has been exhibited internationally and I am a regular speaker at conferences across North America. The Presentation: Evolutionary Computing Techniques in Art and Music: Artists in various disciplines around the world have recently been exploring the use of evolutionary techniques in artistic media. I will give a short introduction to EC and genetic algorithms, and will show some of my recent work exploring the applications of these techniques. Feel free to forward this email Hope to see you all there Cheers Alex Beim 604 7103091 Dorkbot Vancouver ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're getting CCed or forwarded this email, you can subscribe to the mailing list by clicking here -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotvan-announce/attachments/20070101/6986cb38/attachment.html From dorkbotvan at dorkbot.org Tue Jan 23 03:17:50 2007 From: dorkbotvan at dorkbot.org (Alex Beim) Date: Tue Jan 23 03:25:03 2007 Subject: [dorkbotvan-announce] Dorkbot friendly reminder Message-ID: This Wednesday 24th at 7PM at the Western Front http://www.front.bc.ca/ Presentations by: Danjel van Tijn The presentation: I will demonstrate some home built devices, and talk about open source electronic music projects and valuable resources. Robin Oppenheimer The Presentation: Dorkbot's art and technology roots: A glimpse of the 1966 historic "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering" Event A brief overview, with historic film clips, of the 1966 "9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering" Event in New York City that gives a glimpse of the artists, engineers and their collaborative performances and processes. Featuring rare footage of Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, Alex Hay, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Whitman, Lucinda Child, and other artists as well as Bell Lab's Billy Kluver who founded Experiments in Art and Technology E.A.T. Jeremy Thorp The Presentation: Evolutionary Computing Techniques in Art and Music: Artists in various disciplines around the world have recently been exploring the use of evolutionary techniques in artistic media. I will give a short introduction to EC and genetic algorithms, and will show some of my recent work exploring the applications of these techniques. 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