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The September dorkbot-nyc meeting took place at 7pm on Wednesday, September 7th, 2011 at Location One in SoHo.

It featured the predominantly herbivorous and occasionally bipedal:

Vital: Hangalong
Humans are social animals and we have a deep psychological need for face to face interaction with others. We are also driven by desire to grow and expand outwards (meet new people and experience or learn new things). Most of us have some real friends that serve those needs. What happens when our personal interests and activity preferences do not line up with those of our current friends? How could one go about meeting new people that are completely disconnected from our real life social circles? Is there an easy way to make friend with a stranger?
http://hangalong.com

Mark G. Taber: Finite Heroes
Mark G. Taber uses commercial graphics software to create light boxes. He is interested in Embodied Realism, Embodied Cognition, and Metaphor Theory. This philosophy argues that human reason is shaped and constrained by the body and abstract ideas are expressed though body based metaphors. These ideas have emerged since the early 1980's from the fields of linguistics and robotics research and are a radical way to think about the nature of the human mind. His new work expresses these ideas in a visual art format.
http://marktaber.net

Amelia Marzec: Enabling activist communities through innovative uses of technology.
I will present a couple of ongoing projects: The Gender Anarchy Project, a site-specific installation that gives the participant the experience of a gender-neutral space; and Signal Strength, a project to advance mobile democracy through ad-hoc, offline, untraceable communications.
http://www.ameliamarzec.com

Douglas's pics from the meeting

NEXT MEETING: 05 October 2011

	Vital: Hangalong Humans are social animals and we have a deep psychological need for face to face interaction with others. We are also driven by desire to grow and expand outwards (meet new people and experience or learn new things). Most of us have some real friends that serve those needs. What happens when our personal interests and activity preferences do not line up with those of our current friends? How could one go about meeting new people that are completely disconnected from our real life social circles? Is there an easy way to make friend with a stranger? http://hangalong.com
	Mark G. Taber: Finite Heroes Mark G. Taber uses commercial graphics software to create light boxes. He is interested in Embodied Realism, Embodied Cognition, and Metaphor Theory. This philosophy argues that human reason is shaped and constrained by the body and abstract ideas are expressed though body based metaphors. These ideas have emerged since the early 1980's from the fields of linguistics and robotics research and are a radical way to think about the nature of the human mind. His new work expresses these ideas in a visual art format. http://marktaber.net
	Amelia Marzec: Enabling activist communities through innovative uses of technology. I will present a couple of ongoing projects: The Gender Anarchy Project, a site-specific installation that gives the participant the experience of a gender-neutral space; and Signal Strength, a project to advance mobile democracy through ad-hoc, offline, untraceable communications. http://www.ameliamarzec.com