dorkbot6

dorkbot-austin smashes into 2007 with an incredible carnival of strange and disturbing nerds, geeks, and, of course DORKS.

Sat. March 10, 6-8PM at Brush Square Park at 5th and Neches (map: http://tinyurl.com/ywuskp) – (best bet for free parking is at City Hall – 301 W. Second Street – it’s a short walk to the park)

An open mic and science fair mashup, Dorkbot gathers artists and hackers to do strange things with electricity.

This is a FREE SxSW Interactive event open to the public but RSVPs are required as space will be limited. Confirm your attendance at http://upcoming.org/event/154446/ or send RSVP to rsvp@dorkbotaustin.org before Saturday, March 10, noon. If you forget… the password is dorkbot6

* Phillip Torrone (Senior Editor – MAKE) and Limor Fried (former fellow at EYEBEAM R&D and mad genius behind adafruit industries) will talk about subversive technology.

* Paul Baker will mesmerize you with his video feedback projections

* John-Mike Reed (Bleep Labs) brings his trained thingamagoops

* The Geek Group has singing tesla coils. Enough said.

* John Funk reanimates old, discarded toys into wildly futuristic movie props.

* Music by Tree Wave and DJ Greg Most.

* Limited edition dorkbot6 posters designed by artist Noel Waggener from Subculture Press

* Dorks from dorkbots past return for their one and only reunion geek-out: The Robot Group’s diabolical menagerie, Craig Newswanger’s homebuilt telescope, Jerry Chamkis and the terrifying kosmophone, The Electric Pickle, Marvin Niebuhr and his new percussionator, and Alan Watts with his dancing mikons.

* Open Dork! Come with your own project and get 30 seconds on the mike to tell the crowd about your demented electronic pursuits before being unceremoniously buzzed off the stage by 20,000 volts of raw power! Enormously raw POWER!

* After dorkbot, check out the dorkbot/barcamp mashup at 8:00 and the dorkbot/barcamp after-party featuring soulhat at 10:00 at Bourbon Rocks (6th & Neches).

Robots, geeks, music, high voltage and beer. Will it blend?

Dorkbot-Austin is sponsored by MAKE Magazine, the International Game Developers Association-Austin and SXSW Interactive.