Wednesday, April 20, 2011
dorkbot Chicago CANCELLED for April
unfortunately our dorkbot Chicago event is CANCELLED for April. looking fwd to seeing yawl in May.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Joey Carr at dorkbot Chicago on Thursday March 31st at 7pm
Joey Carr at dorkbot Chicago on Thursday March 31 at 7pm
A demonstration of techniques related to the algorithmic production of electronic noises and a discussion of the computer as an aesthetic model of cognition and culture.
"Live coding is not about tools. Algorithms are thoughts. Chainsaws are tools." -- the TOPLAP manifesto. I'm gonna present work and explain techniques related to miniature computer programs that beatbox, speak nonsense, and sing off key. I'll also discuss some ongoing "research" into stuff like linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cultural studies, and the way these disciplines inform my interpretation of live coding work.
DATE:
THURSDAY MARCH 31 2011
TIME:
7 PM - 9 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!
A demonstration of techniques related to the algorithmic production of electronic noises and a discussion of the computer as an aesthetic model of cognition and culture.
"Live coding is not about tools. Algorithms are thoughts. Chainsaws are tools." -- the TOPLAP manifesto. I'm gonna present work and explain techniques related to miniature computer programs that beatbox, speak nonsense, and sing off key. I'll also discuss some ongoing "research" into stuff like linguistics, artificial intelligence, and cultural studies, and the way these disciplines inform my interpretation of live coding work.
DATE:
THURSDAY MARCH 31 2011
TIME:
7 PM - 9 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!
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Nick Briz at dorkbot Chicago on Thursday February 24 at 7pm
Nick Briz at dorkbot Chicago on Thursday February 24 at 7pm
Nick Briz is a new-media artist living and working in Chicago IL. He has been an active participant in digital culture and "dirty" new-media, specifically through his research and writing on glitch art as well as through his lectures and curatorial work in a number of institutions and events.
Nick will walk us through a recent project: the "Coldplay Song Generator," an app that generates likely Coldplay songs based on a set of conventions and formulae.
DATE:
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 24 2011
TIME:
7 PM - 9 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!
Nick Briz is a new-media artist living and working in Chicago IL. He has been an active participant in digital culture and "dirty" new-media, specifically through his research and writing on glitch art as well as through his lectures and curatorial work in a number of institutions and events.
Nick will walk us through a recent project: the "Coldplay Song Generator," an app that generates likely Coldplay songs based on a set of conventions and formulae.
DATE:
THURSDAY FEBRUARY 24 2011
TIME:
7 PM - 9 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!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Philip Tibitoski & Devon Scott-Tunkin at dorkbot Chicago on Thursday January 27 at 7pm
Philip Tibitoski & Devon Scott-Tunkin at dorkbot Chicago on Thursday January 27 at 7pm
Octodad is an award-winning adventure game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about a day of his life. His existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodian nature a secret from his human family. The game is a student showcase winner at the 2011 Independent Games Festival. It's free & available now at http://octodadgame.com/
Octodad was developed by students at DePaul University, located in Chicago, Illinois. Developers Philip Tibitoski & Devon Scott-Tunkin will share technical information about the game, its unique control system and where the project is headed next.
DATE:
THURSDAY JANUARY 27th 2011
TIME:
7 PM - 9 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!
Octodad is an award-winning adventure game about destruction, deception, and fatherhood. The player controls Octodad, a dapper octopus masquerading as a human, as he goes about a day of his life. His existence is a constant struggle, as he must master mundane tasks with his unwieldy boneless tentacles while simultaneously keeping his cephalopodian nature a secret from his human family. The game is a student showcase winner at the 2011 Independent Games Festival. It's free & available now at http://octodadgame.com/
Octodad was developed by students at DePaul University, located in Chicago, Illinois. Developers Philip Tibitoski & Devon Scott-Tunkin will share technical information about the game, its unique control system and where the project is headed next.
DATE:
THURSDAY JANUARY 27th 2011
TIME:
7 PM - 9 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!
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Chicago Botluck! Thursday November 18th at 7pm
In lieu of our monthly dorkbot meetup, let's get together and share food, conversation and strange electronic projects! Bring something to eat (if you like), something to drink (if you want) or something to hack (if you dare)! We'll have table space for your projects and/or food, and a video projector if you have something you'd like to see something large on the wall.
DATE:
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 18th 2010
TIME:
7 PM - 9 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!
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Alex Barnett @ dorkbot Chicago on Thursday October 28th at 7pm
Alex Barnett @ dorkbot Chicago on Thursday October 28th at 7pm
Intro to PCB Layout with EAGLECAD
EagleCAD is a free and useful computer-aided layout editor for the development of printed circuit boards. This introductory presentation will briefly cover the merits and feasibility of using a layout editor and professional board house for inexpensive home projects. Alex will cover some theory behind circuit board behavior, rules of thumb for layout, and common "gotchas" for inexperienced board designers. The event will include a work-along tutorial where we will come up with a simple layout. The tutorial is designed for brand new beginners up to someone who has laid out a few boards and wants to learn a little more. Please bring laptops (windows, mac, or Linux). People are welcome to attend without a laptop, but it will certainly be more fun and useful to work along.
Alex Barnett is a musician and electrical engineer. His limited layout experience comes from interaction with full-time PCB designers as well as home projects.
Note: The software for this workshop is available to download for free from http://www.cadsoft.de/download.htm . We'll have the software at the workshop on USB thumb drives as well.
DATE:
THURSDAY OCTOBER 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!
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Rosa Menkman: Glitched TONIGHT 2010.09.20 6 PM!
Rosa Menkman: Glitched
Thursday, September 30, 6 p.m | Rosa Menkman in person!
Every technology possesses its own inherent accidents. Rosa Menkman is a Dutch artist and theorist whose focus is on visual artifacts created by accidents in digital media specifically. She describes these as “the uncanny, brutal structures that come to the surface during a break of the flow within a technology; they are the primal data-screams of the machine.” Working at the experimental junction of glitch, noise, and new media art, Menkman creates glitch work and writes texts about codecs, interpolation, and compression going awry. This evening, Menkman will introduce a selection of videos followed by a real-time performance. Rest assured, the equipment is working, though it may not look like it is. This presentation coincides with GLI.TC/H, an international noise and new media conference taking place from September 29 to October 3 at various locations around Chicago. Visit http://gli.tc/h. Rosa Menkman, 2006–10, Netherlands, multiple formats, ca. 75 min (plus discussion).
ROSA MENKMAN (1983, Arnhem, Netherlands) is the leading international theory-practitioner of glitch art. She has written extensively on digital artifacts and noise, including the Glitch Studies Manifesto (2010). Her videos and real-time performances have been included in festivals like Blip, Europe and U.S.; Haip, Ljubljana; Cimatics, Brussels; Video Vortex, Amsterdam and Brussels; and Pasofest, Ankara. She has collaborated on art projects together with Alexander Galloway, little-scale, Govcom.org, Goto80 and the Internet art collective, Jodi.org. Menkman received her Master’s degree in 2009 and is currently a PhD student at KHM Cologne, writing on the subject of Artifacts.
Conversations at the Edge is a weekly series of screenings, artist talks, and performances by some of the most compelling media artists of yesterday and today.
CATE is organized by SAIC's Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation in collaboration with the Gene Siskel Film Center and the Video Data Bank.
Programs take place Thursdays at 6 p.m. at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State / Chicago, IL / 312.846.2600), unless otherwise noted.
http://conversationsattheedge.org
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