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The 1114882nd dorkbot-nyc meeting took place at 7pm on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 at Location One in SoHo.

The meeting was free and open to the public. PEOPLE BROUGHT SNACKS TO SHARE!!! WE ATE THEM!!!

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It featured the self-assembling microtubularity of:

Mike Richison: Simulsuck
The piece I'm bringing in is entitled "Simulsuck". It utilizes a custom video controller comprised of discarded vacuum cleaners. The controller houses interactive electronic meters and dials that feed information such as volume and rate into the computer program Max/MSP/Jitter. The program then outputs the video while altering it according to the incoming data. For the video component, I gathered television commercials for cleaning products such as mops, sprays, sponges, and, of course, vacuum cleaners. The result is a rhythm-based improvisational musical performance. Audience members are more than welcome to interact with the sculpture.
http://www.mikerichison.com

[Manifest.AR]: augmented reality
Manifest.AR is an international artists collective working with emergent forms of augmented reality as interventionist public art. The group sees this medium as a way of transforming public space and institutions by installing virtual objects and artworks which respond to and overlay the configuration of located physical meaning. Utilizing this technology as artwork is an entirely new proposition and explores all that we know and experience as the mixture the real and the hyperreal.
http://www.manifestar.info

Joana Ricou: Oil-on-canvas bioart
Joana Ricou will talk about making portraits of organs and landscapes of tissues, by bringing a traditional art practice to represent the seemingly abstract art that is pouring out of biological labs. Ricou will share a project on neuroscience and other current directions.
http://joanaricou.com

Douglas's pics from the meeting
Roberto Tobar's pics from the meeting

NEXT MEETING: 06 April 2011

	Mike Richison: Simulsuck The piece I'm bringing in is entitled "Simulsuck". It utilizes a custom video controller comprised of discarded vacuum cleaners. The controller houses interactive electronic meters and dials that feed information such as volume and rate into the computer program Max/MSP/Jitter. The program then outputs the video while altering it according to the incoming data. For the video component, I gathered television commercials for cleaning products such as mops, sprays, sponges, and, of course, vacuum cleaners. The result is a rhythm-based improvisational musical performance. Audience members are more than welcome to interact with the sculpture. http://www.mikerichison.com
	[Manifest.AR]: augmented reality Manifest.AR is an international artists collective working with emergent forms of augmented reality as interventionist public art. The group sees this medium as a way of transforming public space and institutions by installing virtual objects and artworks which respond to and overlay the configuration of located physical meaning. Utilizing this technology as artwork is an entirely new proposition and explores all that we know and experience as the mixture the real and the hyperreal. http://www.manifestar.info
	Joana Ricou: Oil-on-canvas bioart Joana Ricou will talk about making portraits of organs and landscapes of tissues, by bringing a traditional art practice to represent the seemingly abstract art that is pouring out of biological labs. Ricou will share a project on neuroscience and other current directions. http://joanaricou.com