The 1002306th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday,
September 3rd, 2008 at Location One in SoHo.

The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to share.

We're always looking for (and playing) more dorkbot theme songs! Bring
or email one and we'll play it at the meeting.


Featuring the thermally and electrically conductive:


David Steinberg: mobile music machines
Lots of interesting musical software have been developed more or less
recently for portable videogames consoles (Gameboy, PSP, etc.), PDAs or
other similar platforms. I'll present many of these applications (for
Nintendo Gameboy, Palm OS, Sony PSP, Nintendo DS, Gamepark consoles,
etc.), explain what's needed to use them, who created them, what are the
advantages and disadvantages of developing musical software for each
platform and of course show some examples of what can be done with these
new instruments.
http://www.oscillateur.com.com

Christina McPhee : Shake Stations
California-based filmmaker and artist Christina McPhee is 'outback' in
earthquake country this summer, shooting HD video at Parkfield,
California with new media installation artist DV Rogers (New
Zealand/Sydney). DV is building and activating a major land art work- an
hydraulically activated, remote -sensor activated seismic intervention
table. DV's PIEQF installation reacts to mini-tremors and shakes in
realtime. http://pieqf.allshookup.org Following DV and crew as they
install the project this summer and fall, Christina's documentary takes
on the gradual installation of the table as an elaborate time based
performance, with ironic and playful resonances to land art and the
highly saturated dramatic space of sixties nouvelle vague (new wave)
film. http://uk.youtube.com/slipstreamandromeda Via abstract drawing,
experimental video and photomontage, Christina makes performative
recordings at generative 'moment-tensors' where biological systems clash
and meet with technological. and often security-challenged, sublime
landscapes at the urban edge. At places of emergence at folds or
'tesserae' in landscapes of latent energy, her methods involve
meditative engagement in remote sites like Parkfield, and also this year
at live geothermal plants over the San Andreas Fault, next to the
declining aquifer of Salton Sea, near the Mexico/California border. Her
work slips past the indexical to trace dynamic loops between biological
and technologically emergent states, making connections between human
traumatic memory, disturbed terrains, and bare life.
http://christinamcphee.net

Sam Pluta: data structures/monoliths ii (for chion)
Video samplers. Software as musical scores. Data structures as musical
materials. Copyright laws. Data loops. Why Chewbacca is not in the OS X
spell checker. Blocks of sounds. Laptop improvisation. And Michel Chion.
All this and more will be discussed as Sam Pluta presents his work, data
structures/monoliths ii (for chion).
http://www.samuelpluta.com