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Introducing the launch of Dorkbot SoCal's 2013 Hackerspace Tour - your chance to get inside Southern California's most exciting hackerspaces. Our launch event will be at Droplabs - come on out and bring your friends. ***** Sunday, May 5, 2013 ***** 1:00pm to 3:00pm ***** Droplabs ***** 651 Clover St. ***** Los Angeles, CA 90031 ***** (Directions) ***** No cover charge / donations to venue welcome Droplabs is a collaborative coworking space, classroom and makerspace near Downtown Los Angeles. Come see a presentation about their 3D avatar engine / web service, a classroom / coworking management system, and more! Photos of the event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/youraccount/sets/72157633419283609/ Video of the event by Douglas Welch:  Previous Events...Dorkbot SoCal 51***** Saturday, January 26, 2013***** 3:00pm-5:00pm ***** The Public School ***** 951 Chung King Road ***** Los Angeles, CA 90012 ***** Google map of The Public School Dorkbot SoCal will host a presentation by artists participating in "Poetic Codings", an exhibition that explores the relationship between art and technology through juxtaposing code-based works for the wall with those made for mobile devices. John Carpenter http://www.johnbcarpenter.com/ John Carpenter is a Los Angeles-based, interactive digital artist and designer. He will be creating a new interactive work for this exhibition that continues his explorations of natural systems and complex data and spaces. 
Erik Loyer http://www.erikloyer.com/ Erik Loyer uses tactile and performative interfaces to tell stories with interactive media. His award-winning website The Lair of the Marrow Monkey was one of the first to be added to the permanent collection of a major art museum, and his serialized web narrative Chroma went on to win the Best Digital Creation award at the Montreal International Festival of New Cinema and New Media. 
Casey Reas http://reas.com/ Los Angeles-based Casey Reas' generative software pieces undulate and transform indefinitely. As the code moves through the stages of the algorithms, and shapes colors criss-cross on the screen creating overlapping patterns. For "Poetic Codings" Reas will present a new monitor-based work. 
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. 
Dorkbot SoCal 50***** Sunday, December 16, 2012***** 1:00pm-3:00pm ***** Machine Project ***** 1200 D North Alvarado Street ***** Los Angeles, CA 90026 ***** Google map of Machine Project Speakers will include... Michael Kontopoulos Michael Kontopoulos is an artist-inventor interested in constructing mechanical systems and tools for exploring the poetics of everyday, eccentric human behaviors.His work draws from strategies in speculative fiction in order to investigate the circumstances und er which people might build custom devices to suite their nuanced needs or respond to various socie tal failings. Buy constructing electromechanical artifacts and exploring them through video, he tel ls the story of those people, and the world they inhabit. Born in Philadelphia, Michael has lived and worked in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles and has exhibited his work at various galleries, festivals and conferences in the US, Asia and Europe. Joy Padiyar An overview of Holography is given with reference to its origins, techniques and methods. The various technical applications of holography and its usage are covered in widely differing areas such as security, the internet, industrial optics and imaging systems. The use of holography as an artists' medium is shown, along with specific examples of holographic artwork. Joy has previously worked for American Bank Note Holographics in the laser lab, where she produced several well-known images such as the MasterCard hologram, and security holograms for Intel and USPS. After meeting Dinesh Padiyar - a fellow holographer and scientist, they both moved to San Diego and established their own company, Triple Take Holographics, featuring both high-tech applications and commercial uses of holograms.  
Aaron Rasmussen Aarom was visited in his dorm by the military after building his first robot in college. Since then, he has launched the Kickstarted projects BlindSide, an audio-only survival/horror adventure game, and Mr. Ghost an iPhone electromagnetic field (EMF) detector.  Dorkbot SoCal 49***** Sundary, April 22, 2012***** 2:00pm ***** ATX Stage (near ATX Kitchen) ***** Atwater Crossing ***** 3245 Casitas Ave ***** Los Angeles, CA 90039 Jay Yan http://www.jay-yan.com Jay Yan is an artist from Los Angeles focusing mostly on interactive projections in relations to architectural form. He did his studies at UCLA's Design|Media Art and his work has been shown all over the world from Den Haag to Sao Paulo. He will talk about his current and past works involving interactive projections and projection art in relations to architecture. 
Rob Ray http://robray.net Electronic artist and fabricator Rob Ray has spent the last nine years integrating and maintaining alternative energy technologies for electronic artworks in the extreme climate of the militarized salt flats of Wendover, Utah. His projects have included the circuitry and power generation of a radio tower designed and built by Deborah Stratman, a push-button system for film projection and viewing, and interpretive audio kiosks for the Center for Land Use Interpretation, in addition to his own artworks. Rob will present his experiences and research from these projects. Rob will also explore the technical, fiscal, and creative implications of alternative energy technologies on sound, video, and interactive artworks. 
Chris Reilly http://www.chris-reilly.org/ Chris Reilly is a Los Angeles-based artist, writer, hacker and teacher. He received his BFA with a focus on New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2006. Chris is currently employed as a mobile game developer at 3CD, an author at Lynda.com and a teaching and research assistant at UCLA's Design| Media Art department. Since 2003, Chris has shown work in several solo and group art exhibitions in the US and Europe; he works with modded video games, virtual/augmented reality, scripting/programming and kinetic sculpture. Chris wears many hats professionally: mobile game developer; web programmer; digital fabrication specialist; small business owner; open-source hardware/ software developer. He is the co-creator of the DIYLILCNC project, a free and open-source set of plans for an inexpensive, fully functional 3-axis CNC mill that can be built by an individual with basic shop skills and tool access. 
DORKBOT SOCAL 48 - EXCURSION TO NORTON SALES - This Saturday (March 31st 2012) 11am[ S P E C S ]*** March 31st 2012, 11am *** Norton Sales inc. *** 7429 Laurel Canyon Blvd *** North Hollywood, CA 91605 *** http://www.nortonsalesinc.com  [ D E T A I L S ] This is an impromptu event - come on up to Norton Sales! We did this as a Dorkbot excursion in May 2007, and was a lot of fun. Here are some pics of the last event: http://www.flickr.com/photos/youraccount/sets/72157600183546485/ Here's some info on Norton Sales: "Norton Sales has been a leading supplier of Aerospace and Industrial supplies since 1962. Our customers tend to be small shops and individuals who are looking for very specific, and often hard to find, parts for rocketry, stunt equipment, movie props and old school hydraulics." Long story short: it's an aerospace junk / surplus dealer that is completely surreal. Norton Sales may be of interest to hackers, people interested in aerospace technologies, STS folk, nerds, etc. or just people looking for something random and interesting to do. Unlike many junkyards, there is also no age restriction (like bringing kids) to the place - so feel free to bring kids along if you like. Come on out, bring some money, your friends and some dirty clothes. URLs: Norton: http://www.nortonsalesinc.com More photos of Norton Sales: http://flickr.com/photos/tags/nortonsales/show/ Map: http://g.co/maps/4xb56 Hope to see you there at 11am on Saturday! Garnet Previous Events...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 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.
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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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