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dorkbot-sea would like to thank:
- Seattle's
Center on Contemporary
Art for giving us a permanent home and exhibition
space
- University
of Washington Department of Digital Arts and Experimental
Media: fantastic
BFA and PhD programs in technology arts
- Proline
Audio Visual for a kind discount on equipment rental
- Peter
Mitchell at Seattle's
911 Media Arts Center for screening opportunities
- Otis
Fodder of Comfort
Stand Records for flawless web design and internet
wrangling
- Electrician
extraordinare Phil Romer
of PWRConsulting Inc. for selfless electrical assistance
- David
Peterman of Burning
Man Seattle for liaison with the Northwest burner
community
Local organizations supporting art and/or technology
initiatives :
- Center
on Contemporary Art
- Seattle's premiere venue for experimental contemporary
art
- Consolidated
Works - gallery, theatre, film, performance and
exhibition space
- Polestar
Music Gallery - outstanding experimental music venue
- 911
Media Arts Center - dedicated to film, video and
all things media
- Capitol
Hill Arts Center - vibrant new team creating a vibrant
new space; early dorkbot supporters
- Henry
Art Gallery - Lee Bul! James Turrell! The Henry
is way cool
-
Sand Point Arts and Cultural Exchange (SPACE) -
an incredible facility
- Weird
Science Salon - Bill Beaty's nexus for Seattle's
maddest scientists
- Burning
Man Seattle - BM regional contact David Peterman's
locus for Northwest Burners
- Seattle
Robotics Society - building robots in Seattle for
22 years
- SoniCabal
- free-form collective of rule-bending musicians and sound
manipulators
- Pratt
Fine Arts Center - the only arts education facility
of its kind in the US, right here in town
- Intel
Research Seminar Series - regular lectures on technology-focused
subjects
- University
of Washington Department of Digital Arts and Experimental
Media: unique and
extraordinary BFA and PhD programs in technology arts
Local resources for your art and technology needs:
- House
of Science - parts, smarts and repairs; everything
from equipment to consulting
- UW
Surplus Store
- palettes full of laptops, great auctions, hard-to-find
store
- Boeing
Surplus Store - everything you need that Boeing
doesn't
- Pacific
Industrial Supply - everything you needed but didn't
wake up in time to get at auction
- Central
Welding Supply - welding needs met and questions
answered
- Westlake
Electronic Supply - this is the place, especially
if the HoS ain't got it
- Gaspo
- Scott Gasparian knows everything you need to know about
LEDs and microcontrollers
- Display
& Costume - all spangly things start life here;
glue-guns galore
- Utrecht
- reasonably-priced art supplies
- Daniel
Smith Art Supplies - not-so-reasonably-priced art
supplies, but more of 'em
- UW
Bookstore Art Dept. - open student hours
- Pacific
Fabrics & Crafts - founded by the Pacific Iron
and Metal Company in 1917; great prices
- Seattle
Pottery Supply - enough to drive you to pot
Further afield - online fodder for your inner dork:
- dorkbot
central - if Douglas Irving Repetto is Dr. Frankenstein,
here be the monsters
- Creative
Commons - share your work with integrity
- Internet
Archive - digital library of Internet sites and
other cultural artifacts in digital form
- Open
Source Initiative (OSI) - all about open source
- The
Long Now Foundation - 10,000-year projects of extraordinary
cultural scope and meaning
- Survival
Research Laboratories (SRL) - there can be only
one
- Artbots
- annual robot talent show in NYC
- Negativland
- learn from learn from the ma learn from the ma ma learn
from the masters
- detritus.net
- heaven for cultural recyclers
- Experiments
in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) - they did it all
before, in 1966
- Burning
Man - get your just deserts
- Rotten
- "The soft white underbelly of the net"; parental
caution etc. etc.
If you'd like to add a link to an organization or
resource, local or otherwise, just email Kate
Seekings
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