Frank Wang Yefeng @ dorkbot Chicago on Thursday June 24th 2010 @ 7pm!

Frank Wang Yefeng @ dorkbot Chicago on Thursday June 24th 2010 @ 7pm!

Frank Wang Yefeng will discuss developing digital graphics software and digital animation techniques at this dorkbot Chicago meeting. Yefeng will explain how he has developed methods for generating duplicated images and extreme slow-motion animation in the production of his most recent project entitled "A Figure." A Figure is exhibited as large scale a video installation, most recently in the exhibition Power of Copying at Xuzhou Museum of Art (China) and Effervescent Condition at Gallery X (Chicago).

DATE:

THURS JUNE 24 2010

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!

No chicago dorkbot this Thurs, but check out an awesome show at Enemy!

Howdy!

As we mentioned last month, due to a couple different scheduling
issues there will be no chicago dorkbot this Thursday May 27th. We'll
resume on June 24th with a presentation by Frank Yefeng Wang.

This Thursday evening there is a show at Enemy (our friendly chicago
dorkbot hosts) featuring electronic improv group Koboku Senju playing
sets with local musicians. Koboku Senju is a 5-piece experimental
improv group whose roster includes no-input mixer druid Toshimaru
Nakamura and noise-blues guitarist Tetuzi Akiyama. Check it out!

Also, we're making good progress on our kickstarter drive to buy a
dedicated dorkbot projector - we've got only 9 days and $155 to go --
thanks for all your support & spreading the word!

rock
jake+jon

Brian Labycz @ dorkbot Chicago on Thursday April 29th 2010 @ 7pm!

Brian Labycz @ dorkbot Chicago on Thursday April 29th 2010 @ 7pm!
free improvisational electronics: foundational concerns and confrontations

This presentation is an overview of electronics as instrument within an
improvisational context.

Topics to be covered:

• anatomy of sound


• electronics as instrument


• the generator


• interface


• performance/aesthetic concerns

brian labycz is an improviser hailing from chicago primarily performing with electronics. he draws from a range of sources utilizing a modular synthesizer, acoustic instruments, digital manipulations, field recordings, and self-made devices to produce and explore various expressive forms. with a primary focus on improvisation his aim is to produce dynamic gestures with electronics in a live setting. the goal is to transcend gadgetry to arrive at a fully realized performance instrument. working as a soloist and in various group settings he has performed and released work in the us and japan. he has also organized events in chicago and abroad and is actively hosting the myopic improvised music series.

DATE:

THURS APR 29 2010

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!

Brett Ian Balogh @ dorkbot Chicago on Thursday March 25th 2010 @ 7PM!

Brett Ian Balogh @ dorkbot Chicago on Thursday March 25th 2010 @ 7PM!

In this era of unprecedented media conglomeration, it has become important for the public to take media into their own hands. This dorkbot presentation takes a do-it-yourself approach to broadcast media where participants will learn to construct their own low-power FM radio transmitters. Participants will also learn about the issues of legality surrounding micro-power broadcasting as well as artistic/activist uses of the medium.

Brett Ian Balogh is an artist and an instructor at both the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology, teaching courses in DIY broadcasting, digital fabrication and acoustics.

NOTE: This is a hands-on workshop in which we'll be building low-power FM transmitters. Brett has ordered the required parts for 15 transmitters, which will be available for $15. If you'd like to order/bring your own parts, or build more than one transmitter, Brett has compiled a Jameco order you can use, available here: http://usrbin.info/jameco_radio_parts.pdf

Also PLEASE BRING SOLDERING IRONS and 9-VOLT BATTERIES!

DATE:

THURS MAR 25 2010

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!

Mitchell F Chan @ dorkbot Chicago on THURS FEB 25 2010 @ 7 PM!

Mitchell F Chan @ dorkbot Chicago on THURS FEB 25 2010 @ 7 PM!

Mitchell F Chan is a Canadian artist currently based in Chicago, and co-founder of art collective Studio F-Minus. The project he will be presenting, A Dream of Pastures, is an interactive projection machine created from a clever assembly of 6 streetlamp bulbs, an old exercise bike, and a dozen wooden cut-outs. The project debuted in 2008 to a one-night audience of over sixty thousand engaged viewers and participants, and in April will feature in the exhibition Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change, organized by the Corcoran Gallery in Washinton DC and later travelling to the SFMoMA and Tate Britain. At Dorkbot Chicago, Chan will walk through the history of the project to discuss principles of light projection and shadow-casting, project durability for high-volume interactive exhibits, and finding funding and art-world audiences for DIY experimental media.

DATE:

THURS FEB 25 2010

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!

video from Thomas Bey William Bailey's dorkbot Chicago presentation

Thomas Bey William Bailey @ dorkbot Chicago 2010.01.28 from joncates on Vimeo.

above is video from Thomas Bey William Bailey's dorkbot Chicago presentation on 2010.01.28. thnx to all who came out, stayed after listening to Bailey's selections on the turntable/laptop set + thnx again to Bailey for the talk! - jonCates

Thomas Bey William Bailey - Radical Electronic Music at Dorkbot Chicago on Thursday January 28th, 2010

Thomas Bey William Bailey presents Radical Electronic Music

What does “electronic music” mean in a world where nearly all recorded sound reaches us electronically? And what makes it a “radical” form in an age where nearly every minor deviation from the status quo is hailed as a “revolution” in affairs? What are the unique cultural strategies and social dynamics of ‘radical electronic music’ in the post-Techno era? Author and recording artists Thomas Bey William Bailey hopes to answer all these questions and more at his exclusive Dorkbot experience, discussing subjects including (but not limited to): the ongoing file-sharing debate, open-source music software, subversive uses of sampling technology, ‘microsound’ aesthetics, the real meaning of ‘extreme’ music, the debate over 'local scenes' vs. dissipated global communities linked through the internet, the new trend towards synesthesia (or sight-sound synthesis) in sound art, the shift in electronic music instruments from attempting to "emulate the real world" to creating one that is audibly alien...


Thomas Bey William Bailey is a multi-disciplinary artist and cultural researcher, whose work has manifested itself as books, articles, music releases, sound installations, experimental radio shows, and completely undocumented or personal creative actions / interventions. He has lived and worked in Japan, Central Europe,and the U.S., struggling to overcome the psychic fatigue which is unique to our 21st century congestion culture. His work critiques and frames this culture by avoiding the obvious, easily perceptible middle ground and instead focusing on 'micro' and 'macro' aspects of lived experience in an information-saturated epoch. To this end, Bailey's work tends towards either 'atomizing' life (e.g. making recordings of asthmatic breath and incomprehensible sleep-talking, strobing videos limited to only a couple visual elements) or illuminating its hyper-complexity with intense noise, etc. It is a celebration of 'life before death' and a valuation of intimate exploratory nature above mass technological progress. Many of these ideas are further fleshed out in Bailey's first book-length survey of his influences and allies, "Micro Bionic", published 2009 on Creation Books.

DATE:

Thursday January 28th 2010

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!