Announce: Dorkbot SoCal March 20
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Dorkbot SoCal 39
***** Saturday, March 20, 2010
***** 1:00pm
***** Machine Project
***** 1200 D North Alvarado Street
***** Los Angeles, CA 90026
http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotsocal
Presenting:
Ruth West, Todd Margolis, Joachim Gossmann
http://www.atlasinsilico.net/
"ATLAS in silico" is the result of a vibrant collaboration between
artists and scientists spanning new media, computer science,
metagenomics, biology, and engineering.
Ruth West is an artist with background as a molecular genetics
researcher. She is Director, Interactive Technologies for CENS (Center
for Embedded Networked Sensing) on the UCLA campus and is concurrently
an Artist-Research Associate at the UCSD Center for Research in
Computing and the Arts, where she is the first CALIT2 New Media Artist
crossing over to the Digitally Enabled Genomic Medicine Layer.
Todd Margolis is currently the Technical Director of the Center for
Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at UCSD. In 2004, he
received his MFA in Electronic Visualization from the Electronic
Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He
is a founding member of the immersive and interactive art and
technology non-profit organization, Applied Interactives, and also a
member of the art collaborative Sine::apsis Experiments.
Joachim Gossmann is an audiocentric media artist interested in a true
interdisciplinary discourse between science and the senses. He is
currently working on a PhD in Computer Music at the Center for
Research and Computing in the Arts at U. C. San Diego. He also holds a
a Tonmeister degree from University of the Arts, Berlin, a MFA in
Composition/Experimental Sound Practices from the Californian
Institute of the Arts, and has 6 years of professional experience in
research, production and development of music in experimental media
working at Fraunhofer IMK and the Center for Arts and Media Technology
in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Dane Picard
http://www.danepicard.com/
Dane holds an MFA from CALARTS, and creates electronic sculptural
works that blur the line between organic and inorganic.
MluM
http://mlum.com
MLuM is a Long Beach and Singapore based punceptual histriophonic art
ensemble, comprised of multi-national artists whose creato-researchive
interests include: The utilization and/or incorporation of scientific,
scientistic and pseudo-scientific technologies, methodologies,
idealogies and procedures in(to) aesthetic and artistic processes and
practices; The aesthetics of sustainability; Sustainability as
artistic tradition and genre; The geographics of social networking
pertaining to the environmentics of location and mindset; Performance
orientations relative to interactive systems within improvisational
structures and environments; Charting influence within the aesthetic-
ismos.
Always in search of collaborators, MLuM will deliver a paper
(presented at MUSICACOUSTICA, Beijing) entitled "Databasethetics."