/*++ ++ ++ D O R K B O T S H E F F I E L D # 3 +++ ++ + ++ http://sites.music.columbia.edu/dorkbot/dorkbotsheffield/ + ++ ++ People doing strange things with electricity ++ */ When: 6:30pm, Friday 23rd March, 2012 Where: Showroom Cinema, Sheffield (Half a minute's walk from Sheffield train station) Within: LoveBytes festival (more info up soon - will be a cracking weekend) Door tax: Tickets available soon via showrooms box office. Antisocial: facebook, twitter, lanyrd What: MEGADORK featuring a cabaret of talks and performances from among the UK's dorkiest, to entertain and amaze: PAUL GRANJON - An extra strange performance from the world renowned self-made robot artist. PATRICK TRESSET - talks about his drawing robot Paul (on show at the Intuition and Ingenuity exhibition in LoveBytes) DANIEL JONES AND JAMES BULLEY - talking and demoing their new MAELSTROM installation SARAH AND JENNY ANGLISS - playing robot SPACEDOG music from past futures SERGI JORDA - talks about the Reactable tangible tabletop music playground (which you'll be able to try out at LoveBytes) DAN STOWELL - Demonstrates his use of the Risset illusion in techno music SILICONE BAKE - Live coded pop songs about love, death and counterfeit watches, where all lyrics are taken from spam emails. Dorkbot is a meeting of people interested in electric/electronic art in the broadest sense; robotics, kinetic art, microcontrollers, interactive art, algorithmic music, net.art... The only real conditions are that it is a bit strange and involves electricity in some way. It is really defined by whoever turns up, be it engineers who want to be artists, or artists who want to be engineers, or the otherwise confused. Dorkbot started in New York, spread to London, and now dozens of cities around the world including several active UK chapters; Sheffield, Bristol, Anglia, Newcastle, Cardiff and Alba (Scotland).