creative sydney's come together - presentation by pia van gelder

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Piavan GelderDORKBOT-SYD

DID SHE SAY... DORGBOOT?

www.dorkbot.org

“people doing strange things with electrcity”

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There are 83 Dorkbots around the world!

“start a dorkbot in your city!/what is dorkbot?”

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• DORKBOT-SYD started up in 2006 at Lanfranchis Memorial Discoteque.

• It runs regularly every last Tuesday of the month at Serial Space.

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• The open motto attracts people from all fields

artists, engineers, scientists, inventors...

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•SIMPLE STRUCTURE =

(Beer + Kraftwerk + mingling) + (2 or 3 presentations (approx 20 mins each)) + open show & tell

• Dorkbot is a free event.

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• Presentations are generally about a single project made by one person or a group of people.

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• Presentations range in style from ppts to physical demonstrations.

• Some examples of projects that have been presented at Dorkbot are...

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• Dan Stocks and “The Radar MkII”

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• Mari Valonaki from the Australian Center of Field Robotics and their work “Fish-Bird Circle B – Movement B”

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• Neil Jenkins and his webbased work “Exquisite Copse”

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•Tim Boykett from Times Up, and their work “SPIN”

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• James Nichols & the “DubTable”

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•Nick Wishart & “CeLL”

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• Stephen Jones and his video synthesizers

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• John Jacobs and his “Paper Circuits” and various circuit bent wonders

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• Alex Davies and his work “Dislocation”

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• Aras Vaichas and his “WavRuta”

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• Wade Marynowsky and his “Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Robot”

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• Dorkbot facilitates friendships and creates opportunities for collaboration.

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Regular meetings pose as an opportunity for...

• public discussion

• peer review

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Dorkbot is a great place to workshop

• new ideas

• experiments

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• Guest Programming

• Excursions

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• Workshops

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• Electrofringe 2007,2008 “Dorkshop”.

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• “Electropark”, 2007 (Victoria Park)

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• Dorkbot is a fantastic place to meet like-minded folk and talk shop, get introduced to new skills or just get mind-boggled.

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• Since 2006 we have grown in numbers and solidified into an open and welcoming community of curious people

• Come along!

www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotsyd