people doing strange things with electricity
people doing strange things with electricity
"Home Improvement" by Brendan Shanahan,
GQ Australia, April/May 2012
Article about diy technology, modding, etc., with a focus on dorkbot:
online
"Techies and Futurists Meet, Mingle at Dorkbot" by Jennifer Mills,
The Measure (The L Magazine blog),
08 February 2012
Write up of February dokbot-nyc meeting:
online
"Sobre bizarrismo electrónico" por Adrián Pino, Blog Hanger,
Febrero 2012
Entrevista con Álex Posada y Antonia Folguera, organizadores de
dorkbot-barcelona:
online
"The Beauty of being a dork" by Yoda, Service Center
(Service Center for Contemporary Culture and Community's blog),
19 December 2011
Blog post about dorkbot-indy:
online
"Du bist die Fabrik" by Tobias Moorstedt, Süddeutsche Zeitung
(German national newspaper), April 2010
Article on small scale fabrication, featuring dorkbot-aachen regulars:
online or
local pdf copy
"dorkbot-nyc Wins Again" by Joanna Burgess, Nerdabout (Discovery Channel's blog),
09 October 2009
A report on the October dorkbot-nyc meeting:
online
"WDR Lokalzeit Aachen - TV Beitrag", WDR (local TV station), 03 September 2009
Local TV report on dorkbot-aachen:
online mp4 video
"Dorkbot - Doing 'Strange Things with Electricity' from New York to Linz" by Jonathan David Farley,
bridges, vol. 21, April 2009
An account of the re-inauguration of dorkbot-linz:
online
"Interview de Douglas Repetto" by Anne Laforet, arte.tv, 21 April 2009
Interview with Douglas in Paris:
online
"All the fun of the Dorkbot fair" by Darren Waters, BBC News dot.life, 15 Mar 09
Post about BBC reporter visiting dorkbot at SXSW:
online
"creative electronic community" by Alistair Riddell, Read Time Arts, issue 89
Review of the dorkbot-canberra year end exhibition of works:
online
"Computer Interface Makes 19th-Century Pipe Organ Rock" by Gareth Edwards, Xcell Journal, first quarter, 2009
Account of the "Waldflöte" robotic pipe organ project undertaken by dorkbot peeps in Scottland:
online
The website of the French newspaper Liberation has published many stories about dorkbot-paris: online
"Arduino-controlled two-motor walker" by Gareth Branwyn, Make Blog, 15 December, 2008
Shout out to Richard Sewell's project presented at dorkbot-bristol:
online
"Encuentro de robots artistas" por Silvana Burgell, La Diaria (Uruguay), 21 November, 2008
Newspaper article about dorkbot-mvd (Montevideo):
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"See my Franken-toaster?" by Nadja Sayej, The Globe and Mail, 19 September, 2008
Story on dorkbot meetings in Canada:
online
"DORKBOT" by Vern Graner, Nuts & Volts, August, 2008
General dorkbot article with a focus on dorkbot-austin:
online
"How I learned to stop worrying and love the hackers" by Carla Diana, interactions, Volume 15, Number 2 (spring 2008)
Article about DIY/hacker "movement":
online (requires subscription)
"SXSW: Playing With Electricity at Dorkbot Austin" by Jenna Wortham, Wired - underwire, 10 March, 2008
Post about dorkbot-austin @ SXSW:
online
"Dorkbot creates local 'electronics community'" by Jennifer Quinn, Boulder County Business Report,
15 February 2008
Article on dorkbot-303 (Colorado):
online
"Dorks Try to Mingle in New York" by Ian Chillag, NPR, 7 February, 2008
Radio story on a reporter's visit to a dorkbot-nyc meeting:
online
"Duelo al sol <
"Dorkbot weds art and science" by Niki Sullivan, The News Tribune, May 28, 2007
"Getting your geek on" by Michael Machosky, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, January 25, 2007
《奇思妙想ｷ｢源地》, CG Magzine, China,
Nov, 2006
"'Dorkbot surfaces at U, mixing technology and art", The Minnesota Daily, January 22, 2007
"BEST! GEEK! CITIES!", Wired, January, 2007
"Hearts of Dorkness" by Rachel Beckman, The Washington Post, December 21, 2006
rocket boom, 7 September, 2006
"Electrical Overlord" by Jeremy Smerd, Columbia Magazine, Summer 2006
"Get your dork on" by Sarah Frank, The Austin American Statesman, June 2006
"Cómo hacer cosas raras con electricidad" por Noa de la Torre, La Razón, mayo 2006
"Plugged in" by Noah Davis, Time Out New York, April 2006
"The Geek Mind Behind Dorkbot" by Rachel Metz, Wired News, April 2006
"'Dorkbot' Meetings Develop Cult Following" By Desmond Butler, Associated Press, April 2006
"London Dorkfest", Deutche Wella Newslink Plus, April 2006
"Dorkbot la revanche des nerds" by Marie Lechner, Libération,
March 2006
"Dorkbot inicia en Madrid sesiones alternativas de artistas y 'hackers'" by Adolfo Estalella, El Pais,
4 November, 2004
"TECHNICAL KNOCK-OUTS" by Ben Davis, artnet Magazine, 24 January, 2006
"A king, a judge, a robot and lots of dorks" By Andisheh Nouraee, Creative Loafing,
18 January 2006
"When Art and Science Collide, a Dorkbot Meeting Begins" By Brian Braiker, New York Times,
17 January 2006
"This Is No Two-Bit Music Player" by Rachel Metz, Wired News, 15 Sept. 2005
"Just Between Us Girls" by Regina Lynn, Wired News, 27 May 2005
"Fur Gehirn und Gemut" by Annina Zimmermann, Regioartline Kunstmagazin, 2 March 2005
"dorkbot: Warehouse of wild, weird, and wonderful projects." by David Pescovitz,
Make Magazine, Volume 1
Reviews of the "People Doing Strange Things with Electricity II @ CoCA" show in Seattle.
"Feelings, Wo, Wo, Wo, 'Filn'" by Rachel Metz, Wired News, January 11, 2005
"Scientific Discovery, Midtown and Downtown" by Gary Shapiro, The New York Sun, January 7-9, 2005
"Notes From Academe" by Daniel Engber, The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 3, 2004
"Messing with Microsoft: Alexei Shulgin's WIMP", res magazine, July/August 2004
"Dept. of Invention: Incomprehensible", The New Yorker, June 7, 2004
dorkbot-sofia's press page
Article on dorkbot Montevideo that also mentions Madrid, Valencia and Ciudad de Mexico:
online
Article on dorkbot-tac (Tacoma): online
Article on dorkbot-pgh (Pittsburgh):
online
Article in a Chinese magazine on dorkbot-bj (Beijing): pdf
Article on the first dorkbot-msp (Minneapolis/St. Paul) meeting:
online
Wired ranked cities on their geekiness and used the number of dorkbot attendees as one
of the metrics:
online,
jpeg scan
Article on dorkbot-dc:
online
Video blog segment on a dorkbot-nyc meeting:
online
Short article about dorkbot's connection to Columbia University and the Computer Music Center:
jpeg scan
Article about the first dorkbot-austin meeting:
online
article about dorkbot-bcn at La Séptima edición del Festival de Investigación Artística de
Valencia Observatori:
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dorkbot-nyc preview:
online
Interview/podcast with Douglas: online
AP article about a dorkbot-nyc meeting: online
The story about dorkbot-london's "Dorkfest" starts about 45 minutes into the program. Features
Saul talking with a funny accent!:
online
According to Saul (dorkbot-london), this is a "partially fictional short story about dorkfest london".
The Babelfish translation is hilarious, and includes the wonderful phrase:
"Dorkbot (dork for "poor guy", and club-footed for automat)."
online
Article about dorkbot-madrid.
online,
photo
Nice review of a dorkbot-nyc meeting. online
A dork-obsessed reporter covers dorkbot-atl's first meeting.
online
Nice article about dorkbot in the NYTimes Science Times section. With photos!
online,
jpeg
Write up of Tristan Perich's "One Bit Music" presentation at dorkbot-nyc:
online
Preview of a dorkbot-sf meeting:
online
A nice review of a dorkbot-swiss meeting: online
A short article focusing on dorkbot-sf: jpeg
Article about Jason Van Anden's dorkbot-nyc presentation of his game Farklempt:
online.
Short column about a dorkbot-nyc meeting and Michelle Rosenberg's work:
jpg
A dorkbot profile:
jpg (with images)
pdf (no images)
A brief mention of the Runme-Dorkbot City Camp:
res magazine cover,
res magazine article
dorkbot in The Talk of the Town!:
web,
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