Cool dorkbot-nyc meeting: cyborgs, food and roaches...!

[Marlon Barrios Solano]

What: dorkbot-nyc meeting
When: 7-9pm, 07 Oct 2009
Where: Location One, 20 Green Street, north of Canal
$$$: $$$FREE$$$


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The 35.453th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday,
October 7th, 2009 at Location One in SoHo.

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

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

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Featuring the pale green and salt-forming:


Torino:Margolis: Action Potential
Torino:Margolis is a performance art team that crosses physical and
psychological barriers, using invasive electronics and biomedical tools.
They explore the idea that the self is transient, elusive and modular by
playing with the notion of control and free will. In their new
media/dance piece, Action Potential, they harvest a dancer's neuronal
impulses using electromyography machines. Using Arduino and XBees, the
signals are sent wirelessly to Pure Data open source software, which
transforms the signals into sound. Sound/programming by Lee Azzarello
and choreography by Dana Kotler.
http://www.torinomargolis.com


Stefani Bardin: Chemical Proust: Remembrance of Things Pastiche
I'm a media maker interested in the intersections of food, technology
and science. By examining industrial food production alongside the media
rich stylized presentation of food and using such tools as artificial
smells (that "flavor" our food supply) and gastroenterology technology I
look at food as both a mediating agent and phenomenological reference
point within our society and how its role has changed through the modern
influences of technology and corporate culture.
http://www.petrifiedunrest.net

Lee von Kraus: cyborgs and cybernetics
I will discuss the roborat, roboroach, and other cybernetics stuff I'm
working on. The roborat is a rat that is trained to move in directions
specified by electronic signals sent to its brain via electrodes. The
roboroach is a cockroach that is tricked into moving in specified
directions by using mechanically actuated antenna stimulation. The
'other cybernetics stuff' refers to a goal of augmenting brains via
induction of new circuit formation.
http://leevonk.com

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