Rob Ray @ dorkbot Chicago!

Electronic artist Rob Ray rides his water bike out of the militarized salt flats of Wendover, Utah to return to Chicago and present alternative energy technologies for electronic artworks! Ray (the former organizer of dorkbot Chicago and DEADTECH electronic arts center) will explain the technical, fiscal, and creative implications of alternative energy technologies on sound, video, and interactive artworks at the August dorkbot Chicago meeting. He may even also describe the subversive potential of reprogramming ATM machines with an "under-the-hood" tour of the ATM kiosk construction, electronic card-reader and push-button interaction systems, and movie and video game creation.

DATE:

Thursday August 27th 2009

TIME:

7 PM

LOCATION:

Enemy Sound
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave 3rd Fl.
Chicago, IL 60622
http://www.enemysound.com

COST:

FREE

WTF:

What is a "dorkbot"?! The idea of the international dorkbot network is "people doing strange things with electricity" and meeting in informal, friendly environments to discuss their projects. These projects could include hardware hacks, New Media Art projects, creative code, circuit bent musical instruments or wild DIY garage science!

open for this month (August) dorkbot Chicago

hi yawl

we are currently open for this month (August) dorkbot Chicago so if any of yawl have suggestions or wanna present please let us know! we have sum presenters who are preparing for later months but currently August is open, so let's discuss possibilities
looking fwd to hearing bax from yawl!

jonCates
http://systemsapproach.net/

low pass filter circuit from July dorkbot Chicago workshop!

Kevin Meinert's low pass filter circuit from Sandra Rosas Ridolfi's July dorkbot Chicago workshop! more documentation coming soon...

schematics and photos from mark beasley & tamas kemenczy's crt hax

mark & tamas posted some great photos & schematics from their crt hacking presentation last month: http://arcanebolt.net/

Mark Beasley and Tamas Kemenczy @ dorkbot Chicago!

Mark Beasley and Tamas Kemenczy will demo a few mnml vga hacks to bend naive cathode rays using microcontrollers and some old crt monitors from the beige days.

Mark Beasley is an artist/educator making software, video, performance and web art.

Tamas Kemenczy branches and merges interactive fiction, the demoscene and programmable spells.


DATE:

Thursday June 25th 2009

TIME:

7 PM

LOCATION:

Enemy Sound
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave 3rd Fl.
Chicago, IL 60622
http://www.enemysound.com

COST:

Free

photos from Alex Inglizian's presentation

Alex Inglizian rocking dorkbot Chicago!

thnx to everyOne for coming out to dorkbot Chicago with Alex Inglizian!

these photos are by Eric Leonardson, thnx Eric! more photos by Eric are on Flickr tagged "dorkbot" and "dorkbot Chicago": http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/dorkbotchicago/

also, if you took photos, please tag them with "dorkbot" and "dorkbot Chicago"

Alex Inglizian rocks dorkbot Chicago! May 27, 7 PM

It's on again as Alex Inglizian rocks a presentation/workshop on "integrating hacked, modified, and circuit bent devices into a tempo synced electronic music system." This is your chance to get your hands dirty @ dorkbot Chicago and dig into a fresh plate of Chicago style dirty circuit bending! As always, dorkbot Chicago is FREE (as in pizza and beer, and also free as in speech and software)!

DATE:

Wednesday May 27 2009

TIME:

7 PM

LOCATION:

Enemy Sound
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave 3rd Fl.
Chicago, IL 60622
http://www.enemysound.com

COST:

Free

WTF:

What is a "dorkbot"?! The idea of the international dorkbot network is "people doing strange things with electricity" and meeting in informal, friendly environments to discuss their projects. These projects could include hardware hacks, New Media Art projects, creative code, circuit bent musical instruments or wild DIY garage science!