Dorkbot

7pm — Wednesday February 7

This event happens EVERY first WEDNESDAY

• WHERE:Location One, 26 Greene St. between Canal & Grand
• COST:FREE, but bring snacks to share, RSVP recommended (send email to dorkbotnyc@dorkbot.org)
• SUMMARY:”People doing strange things with electricity.” ie “dorkbot-nyc is a monthly meeting of artists (sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers, students, scientists, and other interested parties from the new york area who are involved in the creative use of electricity.”
• THIS WEEK:
  free103point9: Transmission Arts: “free103point9 is a non-profit arts organization focused on establishing and cultivating Transmission Arts. This genre includes experimental practices in radio art, video art, light sculpture, and installation and performance utilizing the electromagnetic spectrum.”
  
  31 Down: Pay-Phone Theater: “31 Down is a theater company that uses radio and network technologies as the backbone for their storytelling in performances and installations.
  
  Brad Borevitz: The State of the Union: “The website provides searchable access to the corpus of all the State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2007, and uses visualization software which allows a user to explore how specific words gain and lose prominence over time.”
  
  Tianna Kennedy: “Tianna will talk about the paradoxical role of nostalgia in the avant-garde of sound technology. Along the way she’ll touch on edison’s gramophone, Sir Oliver Lodge’s Etheric experiments, and her collaborator, Tarikh Korula’s own recent archaeoacoustic stylus, which is supposed to retrieve latent ambient historical sound trapped in objects at the moment of their production.”