From douglas at music.columbia.edu Tue Feb 3 22:52:19 2009 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Tue Feb 3 22:52:35 2009 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] dorkbot-nyc -- next meeting: 04 February 2009 Message-ID: <498910F3.7030108@music.columbia.edu> The 4706th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 at Location One in SoHo. The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to share. We're always looking for (and playing) more dorkbot theme songs! Bring or email one and we'll play it at the meeting. dance-techTV is experimenting with streaming and archiving dorkbot meetings. So if you can't make it in person, tune in! +++++ Featuring the beautiful of the face and unswervingly patient: Benjamin Caras: CNC for artists I am an artist who has broken out of traditional creative realms and engineered a simple CNC machine utilized to make art that is capable of many tasks (more and more every day). In its current configuration it can be set up to plot on a large scale or to run a plasma cutting machine. Built (against advisement from professionals) from parts that are available at most hardware stores and capable of results that rival cnc machines that cost tens of thousands of dollars. All for under $750. I will also be discussing improvisational mechanics/engineering, a DIY / "who needs you?" approach to outsourcing digital fabrication, organic knowledge bases, and open source ideas and methods. http://www.artdoxa.com/benjamin Thessia Machado: synf An analog synthesizer based on a quad nand oscillator and a divider chip. Synf is a portable and somewhat unpredictable racket-maker in a handy package, complete with built-in amp and speaker. Also, some thoughts and images on a work-in-progress involving "harvested" lcd screens and more oscillating frequencies. http://www.thessiamachado.com Hans-Christoph Steiner: Reware We are surrounded by gadgets, from iPods to phones to PDAs. These little black boxes are in fact full-fledged computers and are eminently hackable. Yet these devices are locked down to try to prevent you from doing anything but consuming: consuming media and consuming minutes. On top of that, we discard these devices at an alarming rate. Thanks to many hardcore hackers, you can now run the Linux kernel on many of them. We are building on top of that work to turn these devices into an Arduino-like platform for hacking. We are starting with Pd and Python firmwares, now available in alpha releases. http://dev.eyebeam.org/projects/reware/wiki/Reware From douglas at music.columbia.edu Thu Feb 5 19:32:58 2009 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Thu Feb 5 19:33:03 2009 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] thanks! + upcoming events... Message-ID: <498B853A.9020801@music.columbia.edu> Thanks again to Benjamin Caras, Thessia Machado, and Hans-Christoph Steiner for their terrific presentations last night. What a crowd! Links and images from the meeting here: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc/04.feb.2009/ +++++++ Next dorkbot event: You're Doing It Wrong: Creative Misuse of Technology Feb 11th, 8pm @ 92YTribeca http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc/YDIW/ +++++++ Next regular dorkbot meeting: 04 March 2009 From douglas at music.columbia.edu Tue Feb 10 10:58:29 2009 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Tue Feb 10 10:58:33 2009 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] You're Doing It Wrong -- dorkbot-nyc special event! Message-ID: <4991A425.7060806@music.columbia.edu> (This is a small venue and tickets are going fast, so you might want to purchase online.) +++++ You're Doing It Wrong: Creative Misuse of Technology Please join us at 92YTribeca for a selection of historical and contemporary short videos and live performances featuring inappropriate, inadvisable, and occasionally disastrous creative uses of technology. When: Wed, Feb 11, 2009, 8:00pm Where: 92YTribeca Screening Room, 200 Hudson Street $$$: $10.00 http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotnyc/YDIW/ http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T-MM5FF02 +++++ Program (subject to change) Jeremy Bailey: live demonstration of the SOS operating system -- Jeremy will demonstrate his radical ideas for a new kind of operating system. Guy Ben-Ner: I'd Give It to You -- Ben-Ner and his family build a bicycle from parts found in an art museum. The Draftmasters + Daniel Iglesia: live pen plotter performance -- a musical performance using old electro-mechanical pen plotters as a sound source. The pen plotters draw and the sound from their motors is amplified and processed. Meanwhile video of what they are drawing is turned into anaglyphic 3D and projected on the movie screen. 3D glasses provided! Kelly Dobson: Omo/Blendie/Screambody -- machine therapy and wearable body organs. fur: Pain Station -- losing should hurt. Daniel Greenfeld: mini-disasters -- recreations of famous transportation disasters in miniature. Jon Kessler: Cape Carnival/Cookie Machine/Marcello 9000/Rowing Machine/Still Life (with pork chop) Daito Manabe: face shock/face copy -- Daito Manabe plays tones into electrodes connected to his face, causing muscle spasms. He then hooks up his friends and uses his face to control theirs. Sam Pluta: data structures/monoliths ii (for chion) -- live video cutup mayhem. Ride the Planets: Rock Wings Tetranitrate: Laser Tattoos -- what not to do with a laser cutter. Tom Sachs: NASA -- an incredibly detailed mis-re-imagining of a NASA space mission. Paul Slocum: You're Not My Father -- crowd-sourced video of strangers reenacting a clip from 1980s sitcom Full House. From douglas at music.columbia.edu Wed Feb 11 10:46:28 2009 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Wed Feb 11 10:46:33 2009 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] You're Doing It Wrong -- SOLD OUT! Message-ID: <4992F2D4.1090909@music.columbia.edu> I'm happy/sorry to say that the You're Doing It Wrong screening tonight is SOLD OUT. Tomorrow I'll post a complete rundown of the program and links for anyone who wants to play along at home. best, douglas From douglas at music.columbia.edu Wed Feb 25 17:11:25 2009 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Wed Feb 25 17:11:30 2009 Subject: [dorkbotnyc-announce] next meeting: 04 March 2009 Message-ID: <49A5C20D.7090209@music.columbia.edu> +++++++ What: dorkbot-nyc Where: Location One, Greene St north of Canal When: 7pm, 04 March 2009 $$$: $FREE$ +++++++ The 98.2.8th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 at Location One in SoHo. The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to share. YUMMMMMMM! +++++++ Featuring the ovate and finely serrated: Kate Hartman & Rob Faludi: Wireless Wearables and the Lilypad XBee From instrumental bird masks to networked pajamas, these sewable radios open up a world of new possibilities. The LilyPad XBee is a radio transceiver that you can sew into your clothes. We will start with an overview of communication and construction techniques for creating wireless wearables and end with current examples of clothing that talks! http://lilypadxbee.katehartman.com Brian Whitman: The Echo Nest Remix API Make things with music. http://code.google.com/p/echo-nest-remix http://developer.echonest.com Stephan von Muehlen: Energy Hub EnergyHub is a Brooklyn-based startup that provides tools for consumers to lower their energy costs and save money. Recognizing the urgent need for more responsible consumption, we help make homes and communities energy aware and energy efficient with hardware and software that connect to the 'Smart Grid'. http://www.energyhub.net