[commedia] Dorkbotlondon#4!

Bill Best bill at commedia.org.uk
Mon Mar 11 10:18:40 GMT 2002


dorkbot - people doing strange things with electricity

 a meeting of people with an interest/involvement in the creation of
electronic art, in the broadest sense

 this is the london, uk version, check http://dorkbot.org for original new
york flavour, and forthcoming austin and melbourne flavours.

 -= TIME =-

 7pm, Wednesday 13th March

 -= FEE =-

 free

 -= PLACE =-

 The Boxing Club
Limehouse Town Hall
646 Commercial Rd. E14 7HA
t: 0207 9870655

 -= SPEAKERS =-

 Paul Granjon
- describes Z lab projects, including the cybernetic parrot sausage,
automated forest, robotHead and the fluffy tamagotchi.  Paul will develop
on his understanding of (low-) technology in relation to electronic arts,
and explain how the BBC micro influenced the Z Lab's R&D programme.

 Han-earl Park
- returns to demonstrate artifacts of the new non-spiritual religion
concerned with the liberating properties of granular synthesis.

 Zooleika
- synthetic poetics; experimental text.  lyrical and combinatorial poetry
generated by code, spoken by a hand-made synthesised voice.

 -= ALSO =-

 - bbc micro programming competition!  win a bbc micro!  judged by the bbc
master, Paul Granjon
- usual chatting and drinking of beer

 -= TRAVEL =-

 By Tube
Limehouse DLR from Bank or Tower Gateway

 By Bus
15 from Trafalgar Sq
115 from Aldgate
D6 from Hackney
D3 from Bethnal Green

 Get onto Commercial Road and travel East from Aldgate or Whitechapel. Keep
going until you pass Limehouse DLR on your right (you go under the DLR
train bridge) and you'll see a modern red brick church also on the right,
then a pair of ESSO stations on either side of the street, then the
library with a statue of Clement Atlee in front of it, then you'll see the
Town Hall, with the Limehouse Hawksmoor church behind it. At this point
you should get off the bus/out of the car and come ring on the "Boxing
Club" bell.

-= CONTACT =-

 dorkbotlondon at dorkbot.org
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotlondon/





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