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Dorkbot SoCal 37***** Saturday, July 11, 2009***** 1:00pm ***** Machine Project ***** 1200 D North Alvarado Street ***** Los Angeles, CA 90026 ***** Google map of Machine Project Heather Knight http://www.marilynmonrobot.com/ A newbie Angelino and recent alumnus from the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, Heather is a Social Roboticist who works at the Jet Propulsion Lab. She has two degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a minor in Mechanical Engineering, working in Robotics since 2002 under Professor Cynthia Breazeal. This dorkbot she will present her work enabling robots to understand nonverbal human gestures and talk about the potentials for interactive technology incorporated into everyday objects, such as clothing.  Jody Zellen http://www.jodyzellen.com/ Jody Zellen is an artist living in Los Angeles, California. She works in many media simultaneously making photographs, installations, net art, public art, as well as artists' books that explore the subject of the urban environment. She employs media-generated representations of contemporary and historic cities as raw material for aesthetic and social investigations. 
Xuan "Sean" Li http://www.way2sky.com/portfolio/ Xuan "Sean" Li creates works that merge concepts and ideas from different disciplines into new digital and electronic expression. He has worked in the areas of web design, game level design, product design, and 3D rendering and animation. His most recent work attempts to expand the role of information visualization as an art form through a novel combination of physical sensors with generative visuals, exploring new aesthetic possibilities by expressing the nature of the wireless data flow.  PREVIOUS EVENT: Dorkbot SoCal 36***** Saturday, June 20, 2009***** 1:00pm ***** Machine Project ***** 1200 D North Alvarado Street ***** Los Angeles, CA 90026 ***** Google map of Machine Project 
DESIGN ALGORITHMS: SKEUOMORPHS, SPANDRELS & PALIMPSESTS This event will explore how cultural objects shift over time, with each presenter exploring a single term related to patterns of cultural change. Skeuomorphs - Garnet Hertz - UC Irvine "An ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques" Garnet Hertz is an interdisciplinary artist, Fulbright Scholar and is an affiliate of the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction in the Department of Informatics at UC Irvine. He has shown his work at several notable international venues in eleven countries including Ars Electronica, DEAF and SIGGRAPH and was awarded the prestigious 2008 Oscar Signorini Award in robotics. His research is widely cited in academic publications, and popular press on his workhas disseminated through 25 countries including The New York Times, Wired, The Washington Post, NPR, USA Today, NBC, CBS, TV Tokyo and CNN Headline News. Spandrels - Tim Durfee - Art Center "The roughly triangular space between the left or right exterior curve of an arch and the rectangular framework surrounding it" Tim Durfee is an architect based in Los Angeles. His independent and collaborative work has produced buildings, exhibitions, temporary installations, furniture, urban sign systems, interfaces, videos, and maps. He is a partner of the Los Angeles office Durfee | Regn and teaches at Art Center College of Design in the Graduate Media Design Program. He was director of the Visual Studies Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), and recently completed a Visiting Professorship at Woodbury University. Current projects include several houses, a penthouse loft and rooftop in downtown LA, signs for the Gallery Row district in Los Angeles, and a museum on the history of transportation in Los Angeles near the Port of Los Angeles. With Durfee Regn Sandhaus (DRS), Tim Durfee has also created award-winning exhibitions for museums across the country. Palimpsests - Norman Klein - CalArts / Art Center "A manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible." Norman Klein is a cultural critic, and both an urban and media historian, as well as a novelist. His books include "The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory," "Seven Minutes:The Life and Death of the American Animated Cartoon," the data/cinematic novel, "Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-86" (DVD-ROM with book), "The Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects", "Freud in Coney Island," and the forthcoming "The Imaginary 20th Century." His essays appear in anthologies, museum catalogs, newspapers, scholarly journals, on the web -- symptoms of a polymath's career, from European cultural history to animation and architectural studies, to LA studies, to fiction, media design and documentary film. His work (including museum shows) centers on the relationship between collective memory and power, from special effects to cinema to digital theory, usually set in urban spaces; and often on the thin line between fact and fiction; about erasure, forgetting, scripted spaces, the social imaginary. |\ | |_ \ / (_ | \| |_ \/\/ __)No news right now...
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Dorkbot SoCal is a monthly meeting of artists
(sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers,
students and other interested parties from the Los Angeles / Southern California area
who
are involved in the creation of electronic art (in the broadest sense of
the
term.)
The purpose of Dorkbot SoCal is to:
Imaginary presentation topics:
Dorkbot SoCal meetings are free and open to the public. Space at some events may be limited, so you are encouraged to come a bit early.
You can also see photos of some past events on Flickr. Here are recent photos tagged with "dorkbotsocal", and here are some interesting ones. Some sets of specific events are also at Flickr: Dorkbot SoCal 15 (July 2006), Dorkbot SoCal 09 (May 2006), Dorkbot SoCal 08 (Dec 2005), Dorkbot SoCal 06 (Dec 2004), Dorkbot SoCal 05 (Nov 2004), Dorkbot SoCal 02 (June 2004), and Dorkbot SoCal 00 (April 2004).
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Dorkbot SoCal meetings have been hosted in several
different
locations around the Southern California area, but are currently being held in Los Angeles (Echo Park) for the next while. They are coordinated by Garnet Hertz. Co-curation is also done by Thomas Edwards.
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Dorkot SoCal meetings occur at least every other month. There is no "fixed schedule", but they tend to be at 1PM on Saturdays or Sundays.The dorkbotsocal-announce mailing list is used to send out meeting announcement reminders and other pertinent information. Please subscribe to the list if you'd like to receive such information. In addition to this, you can also subscribe to the "blabber" list, in which we discuss new ideas, where to get gear, other related local events, and all sorts of other stuff. If you want to keep in touch with what is going on, you're encouraged to subscribe to both. There is also a Facebook group for Dorkbot SoCal.
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Dorkbot SoCal meetings have taken place in different locations around
Southern California. Currently, we're going to be meeting at Machine Project gallery in Echo Park (Los Angeles) for the next while. Meeting locations and directions will be posted at
this website about one week before the event,
http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotsocal/
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To attend a Dorkbot SoCal meeting, just show up
and hope there's room. To give a presentation at a meeting please email
Garnet at garnethertz *-at-* gmail *-dot-* com. please see below for
details on giving presentations.
_ _ _ ___ |_ / \ |_) |\/| /\ | | \_/ | \ | | /--\ |Dorkbot SoCal meetings are largely informal, but to save everyone time and energy a certain amount of planning will go into each meeting. The current structure for presentation/demo events is:
In other words, each meeting is about 2 hours long and features three presentations.
On the other hand, "open hack" events will be more free-form:
just bring your stuff, work on it (or show it) and get feedback. _ _ __ _ _ _ _ __ |_) |_ (_ / \ | | |_) / |_ (_ | \ |_ __) \_/ |_| | \ \_ |_ __)You are encouraged to provide most of the resources needed for your presentation. However, some equipment may be available for your use. Please be prepared to give your presentation with only the resources you bring with you. Available resources may - by some chance - include:
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Q: I want to present something at Dorkbot SoCal. is my project
appropriate? what styles/genres/scenes does Dorkbot SoCal
represent?
Q: What if I just want an audience for my new piece?
Q: I make cold, hard, intense, machine-robot-skull-hammer music, and am
bent on the annihilation of the human species. Can I participate in
Dorkbot SoCal meetings?
Q: I do soft, warm, dreamy, auto-electrolysis live performance video and
founded a local PETA chapter. Can I participate in Dorkbot SoCal
meetings?
Q: Do I have to join something to participate in Dorkbot SoCal?
Q: Why are Dorkbot SoCal meetings on the one day in the month i'm
busy?
Q: Well can you change the date? How about the first Tuesday of the month?
Q: is Dorkbot SoCal run by a university?
Q: Dorkbot is a stupid name.
FOR MORE INFO ON DORKBOTSOCAL, CONTACT GARNET HERTZ AT garnethertz *-at-* gmail *-dot-* com |
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