[spectre] [event] [8 JUNE - EINDHOVEN netherlands] DORKBOT EINDHOVEN #2

[Tulpje Tulp]

After a successful first Dorkbot, we are back for the second Dorkbot
Eindhoven night on Wednesday, June 8th, 20.00 at the Gaslab
TU/eindhoven.

http://dorkbot.org/dorkboteindhoven / dorkboteindhoven at dorkbot.org 
our mailing list:
http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkboteindhoven-announce
Around the globe there is a movement of small, autonomous functioning
groups 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 we started
up in Eindhoven and on June 8th it continues.

PRESENTATIONS/PERFORMANCES (in dutch)

*** Michiel van Overbeek
Michiel van Overbeek is a trained scientist, having studied at the
TU/delft. He has always been interested in the relationship between
art, science and technology, and since 2004 he has been working at his
own studio in Dordrecht on a project about time movement. The project
is based on the Paso's of Spain and South America during the week
before Easter, the Semana Santa. This is the walk in which several men
carry a big statue of the Virgin Mary through the streets of the city.
Michiel will be presentings his own project studying the 'Paso
carriers' with the goal of building a (real-size) Paso that can be
carried through the streets independently by 4 robots (Xavier, Pepe,
Juan and Carlos) that have adopted the same motion as the human
Paso-carriers.

*** Egbert Teeselink / http://www.demoscene.info / http://www.mattcurrent.org 
Egbert Teeselink was born in 1983. He is currently studying computer
science at the TU/e and has been involved in the Dutch as well as
international demo scene since the '90s. He will be presenting an
overview of the international as well as Dutch demo scenes and showing
some of his own works as well as those of others.

*** MAD / http://mad.dse.nl/
MAD emergent art center is a laboratory, platform and provider at the
intersection of art, science and technology interested in issues of
transparency of technology and an active collaboration between the art
and technology fields. Rene Pare of MAD will be giving an overview of
the center, which will be followed by the presentations of two
collaborative netart projects. Lutsen Stellingwerff is an Eindhoven
based web and graphic designer with his own one-man design agency Biep
en Lu and will be presenting ColorStalker. Peter Heijens, also based
in Eindhoven, is an interdisciplinary artist focusing on visual as
well as audio work and will be presenting the piece BabylonMachine.

*** Roel Vliegen / MagnaView
Roel Vliegen is a computer science student at the TU/e. He is
finishing his master degree in the Visualization section of Jack van
Wijk. Together with the TU/e and Erik-Jan van der Linden he started
MagnaView. Their mission: visualize anything. Databases, hard-disks,
even phone calls in a student house.... and: who calls who??

*Dorkbot Eindhoven is an initiative of Art & Technology Festival STRP
in collaboration with Studium Generale (TU/e). Dorkbot Eindhoven is
supported by Stichting City Dynamiek Eindhoven & Gemeente Eindhoven.

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DORKBOTeindhoven #2: Michiel van Overbeek, Egbert Teeselink, MAD /
Rene Pare / Lutsen Stellingwerf f/ Peter Heijens & Roel Vliegen
WEDNESDAY, 8 JUNE @ 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
dorkboteindhoven at dorkbot.org for directions)
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