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Mang @ Dorkbot SF 7/23/2009

General September 22nd, 2009

dorkbot san francisco
People doing strange things with electricity

time:
7:30pm Wednesday
23 September 2009

place:
Tcho!
Pier 17
San Francisco, CA 94111
tcho

FREE ADMISSION but donations to our host Tcho much appreciated.

Michael Ang – Light, Attraction and Emotion: Projects with Photons,
Biology and Electrons

Inverse Parasol is an illuminated parasol that becomes a portable
space for personal interaction on dark nights. Strange Attractor seeks
the intersection of human and insect aesthetics as an intended object
of desire for both humans and butterflies. Mang’s recent work with the
GigaPan robotic camera system explores how the tool can be used to
capture story, emotion, and discrete moments of time. Together these
projects represent the use of technology to explore and interact with
the physical, biological, and social world around us.

Michael Ang (http://www.michaelang.com) is an artist, hacker and
engineer working at the intersection of art, technology and human
experience. He is a graduate of NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications
Program (ITP) and currently works at the Internet Archive in support
of its goal of Universal Access to All Knowledge.

Inverse Parasol
http://michaelang.com

Mark Pauline – Survival Research Labs

Mark will talk about what ever the hell he feels like. Probably the
robot-building business, large scale machine performances and 30 years
of intriguing machine prank/art anecdotes…
Mark Pauline (born December 14, 1953) is an American performance
artist and inventor, best known as founder and director of Survival
Research Labs. Pauline founded SRL in 1978 and it is considered the
premier practitioner of “industrial performing arts”, and the
forerunner of large scale machine performance. SRL is known for
producing the most dangerous shows on earth. Although acknowledged as
a major influence on popular competitions pitting remote-controlled
robots and machines against each other, such as BattleBots and Robot
Wars, Pauline shies away from rules-bound competition preferring a
more anarchic approach. Machines are liberated and re-configured away
from the functions they were originally meant to perform.

Pauline has written of SRL, “Since its inception SRL has operated as
an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the
techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military
away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or
warfare.” Since its beginning through the end of 2006, SRL has
conducted about 48 shows.

In August 1990, ArtPark, a state-sponsored arts festival in Lewiston,
New York, cancelled a Pauline performance when it turned out he
intended “to cover a sputtering Rube Goldberg spaceship with numerous
Bibles” that would “serve as thermal protective shields” and be burned
to ashes in the course of the performance.[1]

According to Pauline “I like to make machines that can just do their
own shows… machines that can do all that machines in the science
fiction novels can do. I want to be there to make those dreams
real.”[2]

Boris_169
http://srl.org

Timothy Childs – Technology and Chocolate

Timothy will talk about different technologies used in the making of
Tcho chocolates!
Timothy is the Co-Founder and Chief Chocolate Officer of Tcho!

Timothy leverages his experience as a serial entrepreneur, super
taster and inventor to engage a multidisciplinary community around the
art and science of making the world’s best chocolate. As a founder and
Chief Chocolate Officer at TCHO, Timothy is the creative force behind
the company.s vision and strategy, including TCHO’s Flavor-driven
approach to chocolate making as well as TCHOSource, the company’s
project to improve livelihoods and generate prosperity throughout the
cocoa value chain.

Prior to founding TCHO, Timothy launched the successful retail brand
Cabaret Chocolates, where he co-pioneered single-origin marketing with
distribution through national outlets. He is also the founder of early
stage companies in the Internet and computer graphics industries and
also co-founded VeRGe and the Web3D RoundUP. Before becoming hooked on
chocolate, he developed machine vision systems for NASA’s Space
Shuttle program.

Timothy is a sought-after speaker whose other obsessions include
community building, artistic and cultural movements, paragliding and
multi-camera video time-lapse projects.

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http://tcho.com/

Please mail Karen Marcelo (dorkbotSF [at] dorkbot [dot] org) if you
would like to open dork (10-15 min mini-presentation)

Update: Video and slides from the talk are now available!

One Response to “Mang @ Dorkbot SF 7/23/2009”

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    October 21st, 2009 at 8:10 pm

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