[Event Chat] Dorkbot Cambridge #1 - 25/02/15

Kicking off a new series of free events presenting experiments and inventions in arts and technology.

Dorkbot is 'People doing strange things with electricity' Dorkbot encourages grassroots meetings of artists, engineers, designers, scientists, inventors and anyone else working under the very broad umbrella of electronic art.

Started by Douglas Repetto at Columbia University in 2000, dorkbot is now global in almost 100 cities. Following on from a successful Cambridge event with Dorkbot Anglia #12 at Makespace in August 2013, Cambridge finally gets its own Dorkbot series with local and guest talks and short OpenDorks for quick project presentations.

http://www.dorkbot.org/

Presentations:

• Richard Hoadley -- Musician and technologist Richard Hoadley presents ongoing work on dance-music-text piece 'Semaphore' and translating the expressive domains of music and dance using notation and technology.

http://rhoadley.net/

• Bettina Furnée and Dylan Banarse -- 'Reality Rules' project. Augmented reality, participation and printmaking on Parkers Piece.
http://www.2bok.com/

• Colin Dewar --

Generating visuals based on the movement of a violinist’s arm interfacing wireless sensors and Processing.

Short presentations/OpenDorks:

• Marco Galardini 'Nuncha: music with a Wii nunchuck'
Arduino + Wii nunchuck + Mozzi sonification library
An experiment to introduce new ways to make electronic music, using gestures every Wii player is familiar with.
Made at Makespace.

Plus OpenDorks / show and tell -- turn up and talk about your project?

Dorkbot Cambridge:

http://www.twitter.com/dorkbotcam
http://www.facebook.com/DorkbotCambridgeUK

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