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Robobot!
Wednesday, October 6th, 2004 at 7.30 pm
Center on Contemporary
Art, Seattle, WA
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Pablos and Eric Johanson, “Wi-Fi Hackerbot
(Putting the ‘bot’ Back in ‘dorkbot’)”:
Notorious internet men of mystery Pablos and Eric
Johanson work on crypto, security and privacy-related
projects with The Shmoo Group (http://shmoocon.org),
and have built the first hacker robot (http://hackerbot.com).
They will bring the the hackerbot and talk about how
hacking and robotics go together. Please be sure to
leave all laptop computers, cellphones and other portable
electronic devices at home (just kidding!). Regulars
at dorkbot-sea and occasionals at dorkbot-sf, they
spend most of their time implementing science fiction.
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James Coupe, “Exploring the Boundaries
of Robotic Art”: James Coupe arrived at the
UW’s Department of Digital Arts and Experimental
Media a fortnight ago (http://www.washington.edu/dxarts/coupe)
to begin a new post as artist and research associate.
Previously Senior Lecturer in Digital Art at Thames
Valley University (London, England), his work uses
cybernetics, computer networks and artificial intelligence
to explore and expose the systems behind the robot,
considering the point at which an entity stops being
a corporeal robot in the industrial sense of the word,
but artistically, creatively, conceptually and socially
still functions as a robot – not as a physical
object, but as an environment or an autonomous, distributed,
viral creation. http://www.ctrl.me.uk
tells you more.
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Michael J. Laine, “Space Elevators
Need Robots Too”: Michael Laine, President
of LiftPort Group (http://www.liftport.com),
will be presenting imagery and hardware developed
by his Bremerton-based firm. LiftPort is dedicated
to constructing a Space Elevator, a revolutionary
space access device. An essential piece of the infrastructure
will be autonomous climbing robots, called "Lifters."
In addition to showing a working Lifter prototype,
LiftPort-commissioned Space Elevator-themed art will
be on display.
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Larry Barello,
"That Balancing Robot”: Seattle Robotics
Society (http://www.seattlerobotics.org)
contributor Larry Barello has devoted much of the
last six years to hobby robotics and programming the
Atmel AVR® series of micro controllers, returning
to his roots as a designer of embedded processors
for industrial, medical and communications industries.
He has developed a small real time operating system
called AvrX (short for AVR Executive) which he uses
as the foundation for all his non-trivial AVR projects,
one of which, his balancing robot, he’ll be demonstrating
and discussing on the 6th. http://www.barello.net/
gives more info.
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Robot Show And Tell: Have robot? Here microphone!
Bring your robotics projects or your robotics-relevant technologies,
take the floor and tell us all about them. Hate public speaking?
Find me before the meeting and we’ll find you table
space so you can set up and talk with fellow dorks while
the DJ spins. Best of all: let me know if you’re interested
in an open dork spot by email, dorkbotsea
[@] dorkbot [.]
org and I’ll add you to the
roster, the website and all that jazz.
Josh Herrala: Josh Herrala is the artist and DJ
behind Deluxe Curl Records (www.deluxecurl.com),
a minimal techno/micro-house label based in Seattle. Coming
up in the Detroit area, he began DJing in the early 1990s
during the 'Third Wave' of the Techno revolution. By day
he is a mild mannered network engineer who works for a local
training company. Building OOPic based robots is his primary
hobby.
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