We thought we ought to have another get together this Wednesday (12th), to sort out what’s what for the show. We’ll be in McGinty’s again opposite the library on Northgate Street, Ipswich from 8pm.
The Proverbs Show (Mark I) is set for the last four days of November, that’s Thursday 27th to Sunday 30th. Two weeks on Thursday. I think we were all quite surprised just how much it looks like we’ll be able to show - good stuff!
Cheers,
Dave
Jon and I went down to dorkbot last night.
The main presentation was from Nick Stedman who spoke about his robotic Blanket Project, a blanket that rolls and crawls of its our free will. His second project was After Deep Blue a robotic Rubik’s Snake that curls around whoever holds it. Nick’s work is currently on show in the Schematic exhibit in the SPACE studios, London.
Alex Zivanovic gave a great opendork on Carnivorous Domestic Entertainment Robots, a project he’s been working on with James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau. These are robots that get power by eating flies and in one case mice! This is a robot that steals flies from spider’s webs:
Iain Sharp who built Cyclepong 2.0 on Southwold Pier, was plugging DorkSnow which sounds like a fun weekend.
Our friends at Key Arts have an interesting new exhibit, Isabella Pitisci‘s The Writing of Light: a Photographic Journey in Space.
“During her month-long residency, Isabella Pitisci is using ambient light and pinhole photography to explore the architecture of the church, and the effects of recent urban regeneration taking place on Key Street.“
The exhibit is on until Sunday (9th); weekdays 11am to 3pm, Saturday and Sunday 11am to 4pm. There’s a family workshops on Saturday (noon to 3pm) and a talk on Sunday (1pm).
Remember, remember… our next get together is next Wednesday evening (5th November) at 8pm - in McGinty’s opposite the library on Northgate Street, Ipswich. We’re in the Green Room which is downstairs and connects to the outside area.
I guess we ought to have some sort of Guy Fawkes kinda theme… bring your ideas and proverbs and let’s see what we can do!
On Thursday (6th November) it’s dorkbotlondon, 7pm at Limehouse Town Hall, if you fancy heading down for that.
Cheers,
Dave
Now this is fun…
“It’s hard work carving the slopes by day and carving the ice by night. For one Special night Australian ski resort Mount Buller was illuminated by ENESS’ signature eyeball installation. Materials used a laptop, 1 cold projector, snow and snow plough.“
Love to give this a go - let’s hope we get some snow in Ipswich this year!
Related: Maker Faire: Video Head and Two Unusual Projection Spaces
This is great! The Play Coalition’s Plantbot is a robotic pot-plant that seeks light… [via make]
Other fun plant projects include Douglas Irving Repetto’s Fly Away (Not Going Very Far)
Our next get together is next Wednesday evening (22nd October) at 8pm - in McGinty‘s opposite the library on Northgate Street, Ipswich. We’re in the Green Room which is downstairs and connects to the outside area.
The Proverbs Show is coming together nicely - so we’ll hear all about that and please bring along anything you’d like to show and any ideas you’d like to share.
Cheers,
Dave
On Thursday Alex and I went to the Rove Gallery on Hoxton Square to see the Kinetica Museum‘s Creatures Great and Small show, part of the Concrete and Glass festival.
There are pieces from 10 artists, “experimenting with evolution, hybridisation and the infiltration of technology”. One of my favourites was Reuben Margolin‘s Pentagonal Wave, a kinetic sculpture with 288 strings:
The show is open until 17th October, but closed Sunday 5th & Sunday 12th.
Later on we went to see Pixelh8 playing at Catch - great stuff!
Hi Everyone,
Our next get together is next Wednesday evening (8th October) at 8pm - in McGinty’s opposite the library on Northgate Street, Ipswich. We’re in the Green Room which connects to the outside smoking area.
As before the plan is to preview the proverbs to see what we’ve done and what’s still to do. So if you’ve got something you’ve been working on please bring it along. If you don’t have a proverb, please come along too - perhaps you’ll be able to help someone else out.
Bring along anything else you’d like to talk about too. Alex, Matthew and I will also report on Concrete and Glass.
Cheers, hope to see you on Wednesday,
Dave
Last month our curious delegates Alex, Cefn and Dave went off to see the weird and wonderful on show at the annual Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria. Over the weekend they were entertained by a mix of interactive exhibits, experimental music and absinthe.
It was an inspirational place with both famous attendees such as the guys behind the Absolut Quartet as well as less well-known technoart enthusiasts.
The full spectrum between technology and art was represented, where some exhibits were impressive because of the new nuggets of technology on show, and others, where the technology used was entirely tacit, led the audience into a world of wonder and occasionally astonishment.
Highlights included:
Bleu Remix - An example of one of the more astonishing exhibits because it was human (we think!)
Ephemeral Melody - Bubble-induced melody
Structured Creature - A compelling use of nitinol wire
Paul Granjon - A musical performance with accompanying machines
A plaything for the great observers at rest - An exploratory interface into the processes behind heliocentric and geocentric thinking
It’s fire, you can touch it - Hold fire in your hand
levelHead - A 3D spatial memory game
openFrameworks - for creative coding
reactable - collaborative electronic music instrument
Touched Echo - hear through your elbows
ten thousand cents - crowdsourced money
Tablescape Plus - allowing tabletop objects to be both projection screens and input devices
Sticky Light - by smart markerless laser tracking
Next year sees Linz as Europe’s Capital of Culture and we can only imagine that the next Ars Electronica festival will be even bigger. The theme will be ‘the future’ and we’ll certainly be going again - we recommend you join us!
