Dorkbot Canberra October Meeting

This month at Dorkbot Canberra we welcome Josh Wodak.

Josh will be presenting the Interaction+Interface Designs he made
for the collaborative interactive installation ‘Emergence’
(www.buildyourownbeing.com). He will be showing a range of Designs that
formed different techniques+strategies for exploring the themes+issues
within ‘Emergence’ and in interactive electronic art at-at-large. The
prototype of ‘Emergence’ premiered at the Sydney Opera House (SOH) Studio
in 2005 and the full version was staged in 2007 at the SOH Studio,
Melbourne Arts House and Canberra Street Theatre.

Josh (www.arch-angle.net) is a writer, artist and interaction designer
working in electronic+media arts. From a filmmaking and music
composition+performance background, in 2003 he began making interactive
installations with fellow intermedia artists, designers, social
scientists, engineers and technologists. Since 2004 he has been doing a
practice-based-research PhD at the ANU on interactive electronic
installation art. His films, AV performances and interactive installations
include stagings at Sydney Opera House Studio (2005+2007), Sydney Festival
(2006+2007), Melbourne Arts House (2007), National Museum of Australia
(2005+2006), ANU School of Art (2004) and numerous film festivals,
performance spaces and nightclubs around Sydney and Canberra.

Tuesday Oct 28 at 5:30pm in the Fireplace Room, Gorman House.

Hope to see you there!

Alex

Dorkbot Canberra September Meeting

This month we are pleased to present Clem Baker-Finch talking at Dorkbot Canberra.

Clem is an academic in the Computer Science Department at ANU.  His
Computer Science research interests are inscrutable and esoteric, but
he is also an artist and postgraduate student in Photography and Media
Arts at the ANU School of Art.  He will talk about Vigil, an
interactive installation in Domain 2007, and perhaps some other
Dorkbot-ish work that he’s been doing lately in his ample spare time.

Tuesday Sept 23 at 5:30 in the Fireplace Room, Gorman House.

Be there and be square!

Alex and Tracey

Links from ISEA talk part 2

Hi All here are some of my favourite presentations/works/exhibitions from ISEA.

-Alex

• Syntfarm http://syntfarm.org
• Man with a Movie Camera : The Global Remake http://dziga.perrybard.net
• Moonwalk Full Dome Projection http://www.clea-t.de/moonwalk.html
• The Tibetan Book of the Dead Live http://www.goldensunfoundation.org/TBOD.htm
• Experimenta Play ++ Exhibition http://www.experimenta.org/top_experimentaPlay.html
• Cloudland http://www.cloudland.aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
• Walkersdorf -Centre of the World http://www.wd8.org

Dorkbot Canberra August Meeting

Dear Canberra Dorks,

We have a meeting this coming Tuesday where Tracey and myself will give you a rendition of our highlights from ISEA 2008 (International Symposium for Electronic Arts) both Tracey and myself traveled to Singapore last month for the symposium + also presented papers there.

Date: Tuesday 26 August 2008
Time: 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Location: The Fireplace Room, Gorman House Arts Centre
Street: Ainslie Ave. Braddon

upcoming meeting dates are 23/9, 28/10, 25/11
and 16/12 to add to your diaries.

Hope to see you there!

Alex

Erica Seccombe’s Talk

Thanks so much to Erica Seccombe, who came and spoke about her very interesting project ‘Nanoplastica’, which is now showing at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space. Erica’s talk covered how the work developed whilst undertaking an artist-in-residence supported by an artsACT new work grant at the ANU’s Department of Applied Mathematics.

We look forward to seeing Erica at our regular meetings.

Dorkbot Canberra June meeting – speaker Erica Seccombe

This month dorkbot is pleased to present Erica Seccombe talking about
her Nanoplastica exhibition currently on at CCAS.

Erica Seccombe is a Canberra based artist who is currently exhibiting
work created using a unique scientific program called Drishti. Her
project began in 2006 at the ANU’s Department of Applied Mathematics
with an artist-in-residence supported by an artsACT new work grant.
Since then she has been extremely priviledged to work with Associate
Prof. Tim Senden and Dr Ajay Limaye as they have developed the very
lastest X-ray microcomputed tomograph technology alongside a volume
rendering visualisation program called Drishti. From her first day of
learning how to change the light bulb in a multi-milliondollar
microscopic X-ray to animating volumetric transfer functions and time
series; this journey has resulted in Erica’s exhibition Nanoplastica
at CCAS.

Erica will talk in the CCAS gallery amongst her work.

See you there at 5:30 pm Tuesday 24th June.

-Alexandra Gillespie and Tracey Meziane-Benson

Dorkbot Canberra April Meeting – Speaker Ben Lippmeier

Announcing our April meeting in association with Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS), Dorkbot CBR presents Ben Lippmeier.

Date: Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm
Location: The Fireplace Room, Gorman House Arts Centre
Street: Ainslie Ave. Braddon

Ben Lippmeier is a final year PhD student and occasional lecturer in Computer Science at the ANU. One of his favorite pastimes is writing programs to draw animations, and then passing it off as useful work. He also maintains the ANU Plot graphics library that he will demonstrate.

March dorkbot cbr meeting – Speaker: Benjamin Forster

Announcing our March meeting in association with Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS), Dorkbot CBR presents Benjamin Forster, member of dorkbot cbr and BEAM.

Date: Tuesday, 25 March 2008

Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Location: The Fireplace Room, Gorman House Arts Centre

Street: Ainslie Ave. Braddon 

Tracey:  What are you thinking about presenting at the meeting this month?

Benjamin: My plan is not to give a formal presentation but rather to facilitate a conversation around the issues of machine creativity, and perhaps more generally the externalisation of the art-making process. I will probably show the development of my own drawing machine, along with the work of some other relevant artists, for example Harold Cohen’s AARON.

Biography: Benjamin Forster (b. 1985 Sydney Australia)

Since a young child Benjamin Forster has been obsessively intrigued by drawing.  This obsession led him to undertake formal education in Visual Arts at the Australian National University in 2004. Continuing this study, Benjamin has just recently commenced his Honours of Visual Arts majoring in Printmedia and Drawing. As a complement to his education, and interest in visual arts, Benjamin currently works as a museum assistant at Canberra Museum and Gallery. Over the last two years his investigation of drawing, both as a physical act and also as a cognitive process, has culminated in his attempts to teach a computer to draw. Benjamin’s work has been exhibited in several group exhibitions, as well as being projected on buildings around Canberra as part of the Beam Group.

February dorkbot cbr meeting – Speaker: David Broker

Announcing our February meeting in association with Canberra Contemporary Art Space (CCAS), Dorkbot CBR presents David Broker, Director CCAS.

Date: Tuesday, 26 February 2008

Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pm

Location: The Fireplace Room, Gorman House Arts Centre

Street: Ainslie Ave. Braddon

Cost: There is a $3 door donation to cover room hire. BYO snacks to share

Presentation overview statement:

I will be talking about the process by which I was slowly seduced by a number of artists who have taken part on the new media revolution. Beginning in the early 1990s I will recount a personal history of contact with digital artists, naming names and making some startling confessions on behalf of other people. This is not always a pleasant story but hey … its interesting and it raises many important issues in relation to digital media, its uses, misuses and muses.

Biography:

David Broker is a writer, curator, and currently, Director of Canberra Contemporary Art Space. He began his career in the arts at the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia where he was administrator and co-editor of Broadsheet magazine and moved on to become Deputy Director of Brisbane’s Institute of Modern Art in 1996. David has curated and managed many exhibitions including, Beauty 2000 at the IMA in 1998, Primavera 2002 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, the IMA/Ssamzie Space International Residency Exchange in Brisbane and Seoul in 2004, and in 2007, Streetworks an exhibition of work by Shaun Gladwell and Craig Walsh toured by Asialink to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. Having completed a Bachelor’s Degree Visual Arts majoring in Photography and Film at the University of South Australia David’s keen interest in art theory lead to an auxiliary career as an arts journalist. His articles and reviews have been published in periodicals such as Artlink, Art Monthly, Broadsheet, Eyeline and Photofile, and he has contributed to books such as Shoosh! A History of the Campfire Group (IMA 2005) and Ray Cook Photographs – Dairy of a Fortunate Man (QCP 2007). For many years David has also produced and presented arts radio shows on 4ZZZ in Brisbane and 5UV in Adelaide.

2nd dorkbot cbr meeting – 30 January 2008

Thanks to all who came along to the first dorkbot CBR meeting!Announcing our second meeting in association with Canberra Contemporary Art SpaceDorkbot Canberra presents Mitchell Whitelaw on the 30th January 2008.Date: Wednesday, Jan 30, 2008.Time: 5:30pm – 7:30pmLocation: The Fireplace Room, Gorman House Arts Centre.Street: Ainslie Ave. BraddonCost: There is a $3 door donation to cover room hire. BYO snacks to share.