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Dorkbot SoCal 47***** Saturday, December 3, 2011***** 4:00pm ***** SCI-Arc hosts Dorkbot in the Robotics & Simulation Lab ***** 960 East 3rd Street ***** Los Angeles, CA 90013 Note: only 50 spaces available, RSVP ASAP at this URL: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2543349226 Introduction by Peter Testa / Devyn Weiser Demonstration by Brandon Kruysman / Jonathan Proto SCI-Arc Robotics and Simulation Lab (SRSL), initiated and designed by faculty members Peter Testa and Devyn Weiser, builds upon the school's strengths to create a next generation platform for experimentation and speculation on the future of architecture. Situated conceptually and physically between studio and shop, school and industry, SRSL is more than simply a logical progression in digital tooling. The lab offers the opportunity to develop a unique, institute specific position in the emerging field of robotics in architecture.  The 1,000 square-foot double height robot cell focuses on multi-robot collaboration and multi-media simulation using 5 state-of-the-art Staubli robot systems: (2) RX160, (2) TX90, and (1) TX90L. The relatively lightweight, six-axis robotic arms are in a range of positions (floor and ceiling mounted) to create a reconfigurable 3D work space with many possible applications. The adjacent simulation lab houses the Staubli TX40 robot where students, along with their instructors, conduct hands-on training and testing. For more information, see http://www.machinators.org. Previous Events...Dorkbot SoCal 46***** Sunday, October 16, 2011***** 1:00pm-3:00pm ***** Machine Project ***** 1200 D North Alvarado Street ***** Los Angeles, CA 90026 ***** Google map of Machine Project Sean Bonner - Safecast.org http://www.safecast.org/ Sean Bonner will present Safecast, a global project working to empower people with data, primarily by mapping radiation levels and building a sensor network, enabling people to both contribute and freely use the data collected. Created 1 week after the 3/11 Japan earthquake, Safecast has deployed 25 mobile, 50 handheld, and 50 static radiation sensors. 
Carlyn Maw - Store Front Music http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/07/store-front-music-the-diy-edition.html Carlyn Maw is a co-founder of Crash Space, a hackerspace in Culver City, CA. Carlyn will describe the Crash Space group project "Store Front Music", which allows people who walk past the hackerspace to interact with a music making machine. 
Jim Jenkins http://www.jimjenkins.net/ Part sculptor, part engineer, and part choreographer, Jim Jenkins' work primarily features the animation of text and objects to represent a situation or an observation. Inspirations also come from simple movements often found in nature, such as the rhythmic flapping of a bird's wings to the hypnotic swaying of a cat's tail. 
Dorkbot SoCal 45 & Book Launch: Xtine Borrough, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Jeremy Rotsztain***** TUESDAY, JULY 26th, 2011***** 7:00pm ***** Machine Project ***** 1200 D North Alvarado Street ***** Los Angeles, CA 90026 ***** Google map of Machine Project Presenters will include... 1. Xtine Borrough http://missconceptions.net http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415882224/ xtine is a media artist, educator, editor of Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design (Routledge 2011) and co-author of Digital Foundations (New Riders/AIGA 2009). Informed by the history of conceptual art, she uses social networking, databases, search engines, blogs, and applications in combination with popular sites like Facebook, YouTube, or Mechanical Turk, to create web communities promoting interpretation and autonomy. xtine believes art shapes social experiences by mediating consumer culture with rebellious practices. As an associate professor of communication at CSUF, she bridges the gap between histories, theories, and production in design and new media education. Her website is http://missconceptions.net. "Net Works: Case Studies in Web Art and Design" offers an inside look into the process of successfully developing thoughtful, innovative digital media. In many practice-based art texts and classrooms, technology is divorced from the socio-political concerns of those using it. Although there are many resources for media theorists, practice-based students sometimes find it difficult to engage with a text that fails to relate theoretical concerns to the act of creating. Net Works strives to fill that gap. Using websites as case studies, each chapter introduces a different style of web project--from formalist play to social activism to data visualization--and then includes the artists' or entrepreneurs' reflections on the particular challenges and outcomes of developing that web project. Scholarly introductions to each section apply a theoretical frame for the projects. Beyond project summaries, chapters also include an explanation of the websites' technological components; historical, cultural, and ethical perspectives; a list of links; key words; and short online exercises that relate technical skills to individual projects. Combining practical skills for web authoring with critical perspectives on the web, Net Works is ideal for courses in new media design, art, communication, critical studies, media and technology, or popular digital/internet culture.  2. Jonah Brucker-Cohen http://www.coin-operated.com http://www.scrapyardchallenge.com http://www.twitter.com/coinop29 Jonah Brucker-Cohen is a researcher, artist, and writer. He received his Ph.D. in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College Dublin. He is an adjunct assistant professor at Parsons MFA in Design & Technology. He has held a Research Fellow positions at Media Lab Europe and Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology in New York City. His work and thesis focuses on the theme of "Deconstructing Networks" which includes over 77 projects that attempt to critically challenge and subvert accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. His writing has appeared in numerous international publications including WIRED Magazine, Make Magazine, Neural, Rhizome.org, Art Asia Pacific, Gizmodo and more, and his work has been presented at events and organizations such as DEAF (03,04), Future Everything (2004, 2009), Art Futura (04), SIGGRAPH (00,05),Transmediale (02,04,08), ISEA (02,04,06,09), Institute of Contemporary Art in London (04), Tate Modern (03), Whitney Museum of American Art's ArtPort (03), Ars Electronica (02,04,08), ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art (04-5), Museum of Modern Art (MOMA - NYC)(2008),San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) (2008), and Palais Du Tokyo, Paris (2009). His work has been reported about in The New York Times, Wired News, Make, El Pais, Gizmodo, Engadget, The Register, Slashdot, The Wire, Rhizome, Crunch Gear, Beyond the Beyond, Neural, Liberation, Village Voice, IEEE Spectrum, The Age, Taschen Books, and more.  3. Jeremy Rotsztain http://www.mantissa.ca http://twitter.com/jmantissa http://www.photoribbons.com Jeremy Rotsztain is a Canadian digital artist who, taking cues from the practice of painting, works with movies, images, and sound as a kind of malleable and expressive material. In his work, popular narratives, pixels, and sound bites are sampled, transformed, re-arranged and composed in an effort to examine the language and patterns of contemporary media and the shared cultural experiences that we have with them. Jeremy writes custom software, enabling him to collect, edit, and compose with his materials in hybrid and unconventional ways that aren't supported by existing commercial software applications. His work has been screened, performed and exhibited at the Cooper Hewitt and the New York Hall of Science in NYC, Urban Screens in Melbourne, Subtle Technologies and InterAccess in Toronto, Electric Fields in Ottawa, SAT in Montreal, and New Forms Festival in Vancouver. Action Painting is a series of animated digital paintings composed using cinematic gestures from Hollywood action flicks. Moving visual elements from popular action films -- explosions, fistfights, car chases, and gunshots-- are used as compositional material to create works in the style of abstract expressionist painters such as Jackson Pollock. Action Painting brings together the adrenalin-filled culture of action cinema and the formalist canon of modernist painting. It is a line of inquiry into spontaneity and self-expression that contrasts user-generated web 2.0 culture against the work of the genius craftsman -- and reflects cinema's use of violence as pure spectacle. 
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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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