people doing strange things with electricity

.:::: dorkbot Cardiff #4 • 13th October 2011

dorkbot Cardiff #4 took place on October 13t 2011 at Milgi's garage

Line up:

Cathy Treadaway and Mark Heseltine

 Sea Sounds
The presentation by Mark Heseltine and Dr. Cathy Treadaway, Reader in Creative Practice at Cardiff School of Art and Design, UWIC will describe a collaborative art making project. Sea Sounds #1,#2, #3 are a series of interactive artworks, embedded with electronics, that are currently exhibited in Momentum, Craft in the Bay, Cardiff
The Sea Sounds artworks are part of a larger body of work produced during the Shorelines research project and are an investigation into collaborative creativity using digital technology:
Mark Heseltine writes: The "Sea Sounds" collaboration was my first electronics project. I'll talk through what I did and what I learnt along the way.
Mark Heseltine

Presented a pitch for a Hackspace Cardiff and how far the project is.

http://hackspace.org.uk/view/Main_Page

Aidan Taylor had to cancel, we hope to see him soon in dorkbot Cardiff!

Aidan Taylor is a musician and tinkerer who creates simple electronic circuits for musical performance. He makes instruments to generate drones, process real world sounds and hacks consumer electronic devices to produce insane and beautiful noise and glitches

http://www.switchdialogue.co.uk/ataylor

Julia Thomas

Following her presentation in dorkbot Cardiff #1, Julia Thomas talked about an interactive piece in-progress, exploring a disturbance in the human blueprint metaphor through taking external input from the microphone and physical sensors such as a pressure sensor. The visuals are generated by a program written using Processing code and linked up with the electronics platform Arduino.

Paul Granjon

Oriel Factory
Paul showed a documentary film about his current project Oriel Factory that turned the Oriel Davies gallery,Newtown, Powys into a factory building robots and their environment from electronic waste, 3D prints and lots of human (and solar) power.

Ollie Palmer

Ant Ballet
An entomological adventure coalescing choreography from (somewhat) obstinate insects
The project was a two-year study into ant and human behaviour that culminated in the creation of the world's first ballet performed by ants. The machine will be installed in London Zoo later this year and touring internationally over the next few years.

http://olliepalmer.com/ant-ballet/
Open dorks

Peter Hathaway presented the Post Apocalyptic puppet theatre show him and Amelia Johnstone created recently, and Paul Waterfield demo-ed a programmable RGB LED strip