dorkbot-boston

dorkbot-boston 200903
http://www.dorkbotboston.com
FREE EVENT

Tue, Mar 31, 7-9PM
Willoughby&Baltic Hackerspace
195 Elm Street, Somerville.
(Davis Square, alley between Joey’s Thai & the Subway sandwich shop)

Dorkbot-boston is a monthly gathering of people doing strange things with electricity. Bring your projects, in whatever state they are in, and bring 10 friends!

This months presenters:

• Todd Vanderlin (www.toddvanderlin.com) is an artist, designer, and technologist at the R&D Lab at Arnold, a Boston based new media agency. A graduate of Parsons School of Design, his research involves exploring touch and flocking interfaces, eye tracking, large-scale projections, computer vision, and sensory design. Todd is also a key contributor to the openFrameworks project (openframeworks.cc), a software toolkit for creative coding and art. His recent work includes software experiments w/ iPhoto, interactive projections, touchable sound installations, and a drawing robot.

• Gilad Lotan (http://www.giladlotan.com) is an artist, designer, and technologist at Microsoft Startup Labs, Cambridge. He is passionate about the intersection between culture, technology, and spatial design, made possible through interactive design. Previous work includes imPulse — a technological interface for augmenting intimate moments between people at a distance by allowing users to share their pulse with one another, stage design for Faust International Theater, Hong Kong, and Kotel — an installation that uses 3d technology and touch sensors embedded within a rock to interact with live images from the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. Some of his work from his time at NYU-ITP is featured in Tom Igoe’s “Making Things Talk”

  “My background is in both computer science and design and my professional identity centers around bridging these two worlds. I am a seasoned traveler, anxious to learn about and experience new ideals and cultures. While I dream of a network that connects us all, social and cultural barriers are reproduced online. People tend to stay in their familiar neighborhoods, even when consuming through the safety of their screens. My goal is to create work that takes down these existing walls, and presents its viewers with a new perception for a diversity of cultural perspectives.”

• OpenDork – Everyone is encouraged to bring your own recently completed or projects-in-progress for OpenDork, a lightning round-the-room session of peer-review and general showing-off. Art and technology projects at all stages (sketchbook to polished) and of all levels of complexity are welcomed. This is the perfect chance to say, “Hey, I’m trying to do something interesting… here is what I’ve got so far. Can anyone offer suggestions to move forward?”