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DORKBOT #4
september 23, 2006

This dorkbot session was organized and held in cooperation and together with
CRAC (Creative Room for Art and Computing) and Ersta Konsthall.

01. Rasmus Albertsen	www.rasmusalbertsen.dk
...presented his project involving loops of old Commadore 64 tapes - that means making actual loops with the tape, several seconds long. These tapes are be played back on 3 (originally 6) old taperecorders from the 80'es - playing 1-3 tapes at a time, to a degree random and improvised. Rasmus also showed his movie Super 64 with music created this way.	watch movie
02. Lennart Westman	www.swedish-english.com/sonicart
... a composer from the Sonic Art group, and Gunnar Jutelius (video) showed their video SPIRITUS inspired by Gustaf Fröding's poetry from 1898. The first part of the movie, Passacaglia Spiritus, has been shown around the world at various art fairs and conventions. The multicoloured visions and formations in combination with low bass surround music hypnotize and enchant spectators from the very first seconds. The movie is available with Flash 8.	watch movie (Flash 8)
03. Henrik Jäfvert	www.qeshi.com
...was showing his Japanese anime-inspired flash movies about a baby lion called Rår	watch movie
04. Martin Jonsson and Ylva Fernaeus
researchers at the IT-department of Stockholm university presented their project on new forms of alternative human-technology interaction – interactive Erzulies Altar. How can we create a new symbol language and rituals for a domain where spirit and technology impregnate each other?
05. Mikael Goralski
...in cooperation with Herbert Neuwirth, Ola Hermanson, Stefan Larsson, Emil Thuvander och Gustav Wiklund from TOP 109 presented their electric shock machine. Watch also their video Playing doctor (Leka doktor).	you tube here
06. Klokie Grossfeld	www.surface2air.com
...from the design group Surface To Air presented his Java-powered interactive webcam system. A usual webcam is interacting with everything that moves around it by making sounds.
07. Jonas Runberger	www.krets.org
...and Pablo Miranda from architectural research group Krets will present their new reactive wall paneling system SplineGraft, featuring distributed intelligence, learning algorithms and shape memory alloy/muscle wire for kinetic effect.