dorkbot-sea - people doing strange things, electricity optional

people doing strange things with electricity

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Dorkbot-sea thanks: These days, dorkbot-sea is organized by a group of friendly and dedicated overlords led by Shelly Farnham, but we are eternally grateful to our founder, Kate Seekings. If you’d like to reach Kate Seekings, (now studying in Vancouver, BC), you can do so via kate AT seekings (dot) net. Huge thanks go to our former webmaster, Otis Fodder for three years of outstanding creative and logistical support.

Next meeting: Projects from the UW

On Wednesday, May 7^th at 7:30 PM at 911 Media Arts (402 9^th Ave N, 98109)

Eunsu Kang, instructor of DXARTS 400 class at UW, will introduce media arts projects from students in her class, exhibited through last weekend at the DXARTS "In-Progress" show at the Sand Point Gallery. Projects include video installation, 3D processed sculpture, spatial sound art, site-specific sound art, multichannel audiovisual installation, stereo image sculpture, interactive audiovisual installation and more by by Julie Bruk, Anna Czoski, Mollie Fabric, Robert Gay, Kjell Hansen, Mijong Jang, Daren Keck, Amber Manuguid, Mike McCrea, Toby Mckes, Erik Parr, Nathan Wade and Alexis Egbert.

Nathan Wade and Anna Czoskia, artists of the show will talk about their piece and relevant researches in DXARTS. Jon Malkin, PhD student in Electrical Engineering will talk on the Vocal Joystick.

Last meeting: April Foods and Dorkbot Community Meeting

On Wednesday, April 2^nd at 7 PM (April Foodery from 7 - 8, Meeting 8 - 9) at 911 Media Arts (402 9^th Ave N, 98109)

April Foods Day Potluck!
This is your chance to bring whatever food, drink, or snack that does something strange with electricity, illustrates your favorite physics phenomenon, explodes, best illustrates your sense of humor, or just plain looks really cool or tastes really yummy! (Don't be surprised if some of our April Foods Day dishes are...well...inedible. We may end up having to order a pizza). Let me know if you want some show and tell time to explain your special treat (shellyhivemind@gmail.com).

Dorkbot Community Meeting
We need your feedback! Please join us for a special Dorkbot community meeting. Your friendly Dorkbot overlord committee needs to hear from you on a number of issues to help our planning over the next meeting:

What kinds of Dorkbot meetings do you want? More presentations, workshops, discussions, movies, social hours?
What particular topics would you like to see covered in the next year of Dorkbot presentations? Who would like to hear speak?
What tools for community, collaboration, and awareness would you like to see made available to Dorkbot folks, if at all?
What collobaration spaces/worshops do you already use, and what do you think you need, but don't have access to?
How would you like to participate in the next year?
What is "dorkbot" and "dorkbot art" anyways?

We will have an hour to talk about these and other dorkbot topics

photo: t-t

Dorkbot calendar: We are always looking for speakers for future meetings, and while it's now too late to add artists to our upcoming show, there will be more in future. We have tentative themes lined up, but we're always willing to accommodate interesting speakers who approach us.

Upcoming: Bio-dork, Dorkmusik, and plenty of space for wonderful ideas from YOU.
Back to normal!: now that the show is finished, we'll be sticking to a regular schedule of having something on the first Wednesday of every month, at 911 Media Arts.

Welcome to dorkbot-sea, the Seattle-based outpost of the global dorkbot empire, a monthly meeting of artists (sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers, students and other interested parties... who are involved in the creation of electronic art (in the broadest sense of the term.)

The purpose of dorkbot is to:

Give artists/programmers/engineers an opportunity for informal peer review
Establish a forum for the presentation of new artworks/technology/software/hardware
Help build relationships and foster collaboration between people with various backgrounds and interests
Give us all a chance to see the cool things that our neighbors are working on

dorkbot-sea meets on the first Wednesday of every month, and these meetings, their speakers and performers are announced both via these pages and our dorkbotsea mailing lists.

Watch overlord-in-chief Shelly Farnham talk about dorkbot, take a look at our previous meetings and sign up for our mailing lists or feeds (RSS or Atom). If you would like to speak at a future dorkbot meeting, or if you'd like to dj or perform music after the presentations, please let us know at dorkbotsea [@] dorkbot [.] org

For more info, contact: dorkbotsea [@] dorkbot [.] org

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