[spectre] [event] DORKBOT EINDHOVEN, Netherlands 6 April, 20:00, Gaslab TU/e

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PREPARE FOR TAKE OFF!

DORKBOT EINDHOVEN(Netherlands) is launching Wednesday April 6th,
20:00, at the Gaslab TU/eindhoven.

http://dorkbot.org/dorkboteindhoven / dorkboteindhovenATdorkbot.org
 
our mailing list:
http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkboteindhoven-announce

Around the globe there is a movement of small, autonomous functioning
organizations with a similar goal: offering artists/ programmers/
engineers/ geeks an opportunity for informal peer review; establish a
forum for the presentation of new art works/ technology/ software/
hardware; help establish relationships and foster collaboration
between people with various backgrounds and interests. This movement
is called Dorkbot and on April 6th it starts in Eindhoven.

PRESENTATIONS/PERFORMANCES (in dutch)

***Koert Mensvoort / http://www.koert.com
Koert Mensvoort is a Dutch multimedia artist and scientist currently
assistant professor in the Industrial Design Department of the TU/e
and a teacher at the Sandberg Institute in Amsterdam. His main
interest is investigating the strange and the beautiful. He will be
presenting Amateurs (a short film), Active Cursor (interactive
presentation), Drift (internet dancefilm with motion capture
technique), Bos ruikt naar Shampoo (documentary fragment) &
Datafountain (short film).

***NMN/dorkbot gent / http://www.nmn.be
NMN is a not-for-profit organization that has been running Dorkbot
Ghent in the last years and has been producing a variety digital art
projects involving sound and/or interactivity for the past 5 years.
NMN will be talking about Dorkbot Ghent over the years as well as
presenting some of their projects involving both code and art.

***Danielle Roberts / http://www.numuseum.nl
Danielle Roberts is a new media artist living and working in Breda,
Netherlands. Originally trained as a sculptor/monument designer she
has been active in new media since 1998. She most often is creating
works using photography/scans, video, and text combined with
programming. She will be presenting numuseum, an ongoing project since
1998, which houses Danielle's new media works and has become one
itself. It fuses 3 equal components: the computer, the visitor and the
artist, which all interact to become part of the whole.

***Berto Aussems / http://www.bertoaussems.nl 
Digital Art Group Maastricht / http://www.digitalartgroup.nl
Berto Aussems is a self-taught new media artist, working in the field
since 1981. He has has built numerous installations and new media
works that deal with electronic music and generative animations. He
was also founding member of the Electronic Art Collective Limburg
(early '90s) and the Digital Art Group Maastricht (1999). He will be
showing some pieces from the overview DVD produced by the Digital Art
Group Maastricht (including the pieces Morface by Andre Dezelak, Cubic
Transformations by Jos Mulders and Peristaltique by Berto Aussems).
The screening will be accompanied by an overview of the way digital
art and the group have developed in South-Limburg in the past 23 years
and a presentation of Berto's own work.

*Dorkbot Eindhoven is an initiative of Art & Technology Festival STRP
in collaboration with Studium Generale (TU/e).
 
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DORKBOTeindhoven #1: Koert Mensvoort, NMN, Danielle Roberts & Berto Aussems/DAG
WEDNESDAY, 6 APRIL @ 20:00 (doors open)/20:30 (presentations begin)
GASLAB, TU/eindhoven, Netherlands (for map:
http://www.tue.nl/tue-algemeen/index_route.htm or email
dorkboteindhovenATdorkbot.org for directions)
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