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Yes, Dorkbot is back, the meeting will be next thursday in Hangar at 21:00 pm. Yes, I know that you want to know what's going to be in the menu. Don't be impatient... Keep reading...

STREAMING AND TRANSMISSION OF DORKBOT MEETING HERE !!!!!!!!
url (copy paste in VLC) http://stream.hangar.org:8000/hangar.ogg
or just click here: http://stream.hangar.org/

Konic Thtr

How is that possible that Konic Thtr hadn't made their presentation at Dorkbot yet? We asked ourselves that question and since Konic are now touring their new show, we couldn't see a better ocasion to invite them to bring their stuff to Dorkbot. Konic Thtr have been investigating since the early nineties, the hibridation of the body on stage with the new technologies. They search for new languages based in the hibridation. Part of their research is focused in specific hardware and software development to be used on stage. Konic will show us some of the tools that they use in their shows. A true luxury!

PAD TO MIDI by Drumanart

One of the challenges that have today's musicians is to have the ability to play an instrument and make music without worriying about the informatics. Simpli play and have fun. With this in mind, there are being created lots of electronic instruments, like "PAD TO MIDI" made by Drumanart. It consists in a panel with 16 pads and a microcontroller circuit. The machine can send MIDI messages in 8 independent channels and is able to direct up to 8 sinthesizers with their own midi channels, velocity values, notes, etc. Hitting the PAD with sticks or the fingers MIDI commands can be sent to change programs, commuters, buttons, and even switching between analogic and digital.... and this is just the beginning! you can find further information here: http://www.drumanart.com

THE HUGGABLE

Robert Toscano presents The Huggable™, a sophisticated robot featuring a full body sensitive skin with over 1500 sensors, a project he was part of as a student and developer at the MIT Media Lab. The Huggable™ is a new type of robotic companion being developed for healthcare, education, and social communication applications. The Huggable™ is designed to be much more than a fun interactive robotic companion. It is designed to function as a team member that is an essential member of a triadic interaction. Therefore, the Huggable™ is not designed to replace any particular person in a social network, but rather to enhance that human social network.

HARDWARE DIY by Jano and Diego de Leon

Jano and Diego de Leon will present us their newest projects of electronic crafts, developed from two opposed points of view: the academic one and the self taught one. They will present some of the possible options in sound generation with free hardware "do it yourself" On the one hand we'll see the "Farophono" (a modular synthesizer specially created to be syncronized with the lighthouses lights) that belongs to the project Sonom (http://www.sonom.org). On the other hand the recycled toys of Diego de Leon (http://diegoeldeleon.blogspot.com). A more playful vision of electronica. The presentation will close with a little show performance of the possibilities of these machines.

LECTO-SENSORIAL MULTICIPLITY HELMET by Leandro Monasterio

In a world of growth of the hypermedia of the multimedia stimuli, the insertion of a device that allows to bring reading to a level further away from the written words is totally possible. The everyday insulating elements of the day to day, is getting more and more common, the appearance of technological objects like mp3 reading devices, cell phones etc, that insulate the individual from the person to person contact make not only plausible the appearance of devices such as the LECTO-SENSORIAL MULTIPLICITY HELMET, but also justified and necessary. To attach to the body an element of autonomy with the world. Its bubble shape, its individual use, its future independence of connection, highlights this feature of personal insulation. The project consists in a helmet that is used while reading. The creation of a device that performs and shows the translation of a text in sensorial stimuli (sound and vibration) simultaneously.

FLYING MOON by Julio Lucio

"Flight control of a ball interacting with an audience"
In this installation the flight of a ball (balloon) is controlled by a series of fans When we place a balloon over vertical air current, this will keep itself over it due to the difference of pressure. Using a surface built with fans, a camera is placed on the top and facing downwards. This camera perceives the position of the balloon over the surface and the localization of the audience that's around.In the model of artificial intelligence of the ball there will be two situations:
1) when there are no people around, the ball will move randomly over the surface
2) when there is an audience a function of "shyness" will be calculated, and will decide towards who in the audience the ball would move, the ball will be less shy to approach to the least crowded groups of audience and towards the least moving ones.
The installation is thought in a modular manner. Building modules of 32 fans (8 wide per 4 long) connecting them, we could design flight surfaces depending on the space where the installation is placed.

EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION STUDIO
Neokinok- A/V 8x8
By Daniel Miracle

The "NKTV-A/V 8x8" is an audiovisual analogic mixing console in a prototype state. The device can be used for both mixing televsion programs or videojamming sessions, because it allows a dynamic managing up to 8 video and audio sources in stereo, for input and output. You can connect cameras and video and audio players for automatic mixing, establishing different rhythms in the video channels, secuentially or in a random manner. This automatization of the mixing process can be combined with user interaction, allowing the possibility to create participative tv formulas. The machine uses the audio and video sources and sensors both input and output in an experimental way from the mixes MUX and MIX.
http://www.neokinok.tv/tiki-index.php?page=A%2FV+Edit+Station+8x8&bl
This machine in test stage has been used in the production of some videos of Sónar 2008 for www.vilaweb.tv and www.horitzo.tv.

LALALAB.ORG por Clara Boj + Diego Diaz

	The versatile Valencian artists who recently have created the platform of Dorkbot Valencia will present/display their last works to us. Clara Boj and Diego Diaz combine their artistic activity in solitaire with projects in collaboration since year 2000. Its work is mainly centered in the observation of the public space and the diverse transformations (architectonic, technological, functional, social, …) resultants of the incorporation of the new technologies to the space of the routine character, from which they generate facilities that combine physical and virtual qualities to try to generate bows of continuity between the old ones and the new forms of social relation, between old and the new spaces of communication.
http://www.lalalab.com
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotvalencia/

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PRESENTING "PLAiERiSM": THE NEXT DORKBOTIC EXPERIENCE

Galería Metrónom, C/ Fusina, 9, 08003 Barcelona
3 febuary 2006. Friday.
17h-20h: Experience
20h-22h : Dorkbot Barcelona Presentation

After several hot and sweaty months slaving away in the kitchen, we're pleased to announced that the next Dorkbot presentation is piping hot and ready to be served on the 3rd Febuary at the Metrònom gallery in Barcelona. The evening will commence at 5pm, when diverse electrical experiences will begin take place. From 8pm onwards there'll be the classic Dorkbot presentations. If you can't make it or if you prefer to stay at home because of the cold ... you can catch the entire event due to the modern magick of streamed audio and video via the Internet.

David Cuartielles > "Arduino" Project

Arduino is an open platform for physical computation base on a simple printer circuit board. Arduino is a free hardware project the does not belong to anyone but is supported by many.

http://arduino.berlios.de

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Fred Adam and Veronica Perales > Transnational Temps

Transnacional Temps favours getting closer to the biological world, technology has to be a tool that helps to know better the biosphere and to love and respect it. Reality and fiction are not based on a virtual representation, but rather by playing, like in life each one of us, the climate affects the economy, the economy politics and politics society (...)

http://www.transnationaltemps.net/

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Lluis Gomez > Modification of the x-box for free software applications

http://artefacte.org/

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Caen Botto > Dataglove controlled audiovisual performance

Under the guise of "Universomente lab", Caen Botto build an audiovisual perfomance using video game datagloves, canabalised hardware, sound and real-time 3D imagery.

http://universomente.xicnet.com

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Pablo Caedes > Creation of video games using free software

http://delcorp.org/

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Vidajoc >An invitation to be reborn in the digital world. Are you game?

. Vidajoc.net es un espacio de experimentación social donde se mezclan utopias, babilónias, filosofias de acción para que los jugadores puedan hacer un análisis profundo de nuestra sociedad y de todos sus elementos definitivos que marquen cada una de nuestras vidas y las llevan a la excepcionalidad.

http://vidajoc.net

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More information on the next event can be found here and there's also an Archive of previous Dorkbot Barcelona events


We always provide a live video and a live audio stream of each dorkbot barcelona experience.

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People doing strange things with electricity.

Dorkbot is a global grouping of collectives integrated with the elements essential to the development of experiences under the banner of new technologies.

Working to help bring together those interested as much in the understanding of, as in the development of these experiences, Dorkbots have appeared in New York, London, Gent, San Francisco, Linz, Melbourne, Seattle, Rotterdam, Lisboa, Sofia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Madrid and many other locations around the globe.

Dorkbot is an open platform: if you'd like to present your projects, performances or ideas send an email to :
dorkbotica-at-dorkbotbarcelona-dot-org

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