Friday 13 May 2011 at 10:48 pm
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DORKBOT :: Friday 20 may 2011 :: 8.30 pm
timelab (http://www.timelab.org/) :: free
Brusselsepoortstraat 97 :: 9000 Gent
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Duncan Speakman
He is the new resident artist at timelab and also new resident of Ghent (he is moving to Ghent this spring). Duncan’s work explores how we use sound to navigate social and physical environments. His recent work has focused on headphone based experiences that draw on cinematic styles and create participatory performances in public spaces (‘subtlemobs’)
There is an underlying agenda to explore how mobile technology can be 'hacked' to create more engagement with the user's immediate environment (as opposed to the ability to connect to remote locations/people, which in turn creates an isolating effect in a shared social space.)
In this presentation he will showcase his approach to using mobile technologies in public space. From embedded computing platforms and portable radio transmitters, to micro video projectors and mass participation soundwalks/subtlemobs, he constantly rethinks the technologies in our pockets to help us connect with the people and places surrounding us.
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Thursday 07 April 2011 at 6:13 pm
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DORKBOT mini-cnc :: Friday 15 april 2011 :: 8.30 pm
timelab (http://www.timelab.org/) :: free
Brusselsepoortstraat 97 :: 9000 Gent
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This month's Dorkbot features :
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mini-cnc
Lieven Standaert en Kurt Van Houtte hebben op timelab een open-source, zelfbouw CNC freesmachine ontwikkeld. Hun doel was om een kit voor een machine te maken, met alle onderdelen in één doos, die je op een weekend zelf kan assembleren tot een werkende, computergestuurde Dremel.
Deze machine werd getest op het Pixelache-festival in maart, waar een groep deelnemers een aantal machines in elkaar gezet hebben.
Op 15 april wordt ze officieel voorgesteld op timelab.
Tijdens de avond geeft Lieven een presentatie over de ideeën achter het project en een verslag van het bouwproces.
Er wordt gedemonstreerd wat de machine kan en je kan ze zelf uitproberen.
Meer info over de machine vind je op:
http://timelab.org/miniCNC
De flyer voor de avond:download de flyer,
De plannen en documentatie van de machine werden online gepubliceerd en vind je op:
http://www.repairablemachines.com/doc.html
Versie 1.0 van de miniCNC is beschikbaar als bouwkit.
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Tuesday 08 March 2011 at 8:31 pm
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DORKBOT goes SPACE :: Friday 18 march 2011 :: 8.30 pm
timelab (http://www.timelab.org/) :: free
Brusselsepoortstraat 97 :: 9000 Gent
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Nic Geeraert
Concept: “Shiptree”
“ the shape of a tree is the history of the forces which were acting on it as it grew”
http://www.bath.ac.uk/mech-eng/biomimetics/about/smart.html
Consider the potential of all of earth’s biota.
what if we could ask trees to go with us into space, biomimicry all survival strategies
vital for space travel. Imagine the roles which could be played by ants, spiders, algae,
squids , cetaceans and other fauna & flora. Liberate the possibilities of cohabitation
within large natural space capable biospheres. Let us all engage in the creation and
quantum collapse of future possibilities. The combined consciousness energy emanating
from a myriad of entitys can achieve miracles. Through co-evolution, natural patience,
harmonious dedication and biological bravery life can boldly go and explore the cosmos.
Shiptree foundation / kiblix / maribor 2010
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Angelo Vermeulen
will talk about ‘Space Ecologies’, an artistic research platform initiated in 2009. It is a critical and artistic inquiry into the future of mankind in outer space, with a special focus on the potential roles of ecology. Vermeulen works together with the MELiSSA research team of ESA, and is a member of ESA’s upcoming Arts & Science Topical Team. Last year he showed a first art work inspired by MELiSSA’s microbiological research, co-created with sociologist Tine Holvoet. During his talk he will focus on two upcoming art projects inspired by the concept of ‘terraforming’. The first is a collaboration with the Compostmeesters in Willebroek, the second a community project on the Merapi volcano in Yogyakarta, in collaboration with the artist collective House of Natural Fiber (HONF). He will conclude his presentation with a brief report on an astrobiology field trip in the Sahara desert organized by ESA and NASA past February.
more info:
www.angelovermeulen.net
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Sunday 20 February 2011 at 5:36 pm
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DORKBOT fabFood :: Friday 25 februari 2011 :: 8.30 pm
timelab (http://www.timelab.org/) :: free
Brusselsepoortstraat 97 :: 9000 Gent
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fabFood: een Open Urban Gastronomie, DIY koken én tuinieren, horizontaal én verticaal, high én low tech, zout én zoet!
fabFood onderzoekt hoe gastronomische concepten zich kunnen ontwikkelen met open en gedeelde technologieën. Aan de hand van de machines, ideeën en concepten die het fabLab en timelab vormgeven, presenteert fabFood niet enkel eten, maar onderzoekt het naast vorm en smaak ook hoe men voedsel in een stedelijke context kweekt, oogst en bewaart. In dit proces vindt fabFood aansluiting bij een netwerk van internationale initiatieven.
Op deze Dorkbot worden de lopende fabFood projecten voorgesteld:
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Karen Van der Perre, fabFood tuin
Karen is Masterstudente Multimediale Vormgeving aan het KASK.
Ze is bezield door planten en gelooft ook dat planten bezield zijn. Vanuit deze animistische ingesteldheid maakt ze haar masterproject, een tuin voor groenten & planten, hier op timelab.
Een groententuin in zelfgenaaide containers, uitgerust met technologie waar de groentjes goed bij varen.
more info:
http://www.timelab.org/node/333
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Maarten Cammaert, CoGeo
Vorig jaar lanceerde timelab www.eteningent.be, een interactief portret van Gent. Een Gent van mensen die hun eten zelf zaaien, kweken, plukken en oogsten! Op de site konden mensen zichzelf en hun moestuin, terraskruiden en andere zelfgekweekte zaken voorstellen en overschotten met elkaar ruilen. De interface hiervoor is een Google map van Gent.
Dit jaar komt er een nieuwe, verbeterde versie van de site. Hiervoor wordt een Open Source Platform, CoGeo, ontwikkeld waar ‘eten in Gent' een toepassing van wordt. CoGeo wordt een platform voor ‘community based geo-tagging'. Een platform dat niet enkel in een browser werkt maar waarvan ook een Android en Iphone app gemaakt wordt.
Maarten Cammaert, een Flex ontwikkelaar, komt de technische aspecten van CoGeo voorstellen.
more info:
http://www.timelab.org/node/333
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Maison Caro, fabFood Resto residentetimelab introduceert in 2011 de fabFood Resto's. Telkens een avond als ‘toon/degustatie moment' van een korte, intense fabFood residentie van een designer / vormgever / kok / kunstenaar / ... in timelab.
De eerste fabFood residente is Caro van den Hole van Maison Caro.
Caro ontwerpt een frame, een kader een toolbox, een ervaring. ipv dwingende objecten om een fabFood Resto vorm te geven. Ze komt dit concreet toelichten met een korte presentatie.
more info:
http://www.timelab.org/node/333
www.maisoncaro.be
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Tuesday 07 December 2010 at 9:14 pm
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DORKBOT :: Thursday 16 december 2010 :: 8.30 pm
timelab (http://www.timelab.org/) :: free
Brusselsepoortstraar 97 :: 9000 Gent
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working and playing on the edge of science, art and technology.
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Juliana Borinski (in residentie) and Marie-Laure Delaby (participant
summercamp Electrified 2010) will present their work.
Juliana Borinski
The German/Brazilian artist Juliana Borinski is artist in residence at
timelab till the end of januari. The work of Juliana starts from a total
fascination for film in its purest form. The work of scientist Joseph
Plateau, active in Ghent in the first half of the 19th century, forms a
great inspiration for Juliana. Plateau discovered the after-effect of the
image on the eye and was therefore responsible for a part of the basis of
the later cinematography. Also other scientific research by Plateau, his
work around surface tension, is at the basis of Juliana's residency at
timelab. We are collaborating with the Science Museum of the Ghent
University which hosts an archive around Joseph Plateau.
During her residency, Juliana want to unite old and new techniques to work
around abstract material to penetrate deep into the soul of film. Also she
will experiment with soap bubbles in the tradition of Plateau but with the
aim to create artworks.
more info:
http://www.julianaborinski.com/
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Marie-Laure Delaby
Marie-Laure Delaby works in Brussels (imal) and lives in Ghent. As an artist
she works with painting, digital media, electronics and light. By assembling
things together she creates hybrid works which intend to question the
reality of space, image and experience. Taking inspiration from urban spaces
encountered in daily life, she mostly focuses on non-places, disconnected
environments and their parallel existences.
Marie-Laure was one of the twelve participating artists in timelab's annual
summercamp. With phosphorescent paint, LDR sensors, Arduino and it's
waveshield, she created a painting in a forgotten space in Ghent. Through
the use of torches you could discover former structures in the building, a
sort of ghost architecture. For the sound she collaborated with Jari
Suominen, the Finnish musician and sound artists who was also part of
Summercamp Electrified 2010. In the context of this presentation, we invite
Marie-Laure to make a new phosphorescent painting at the new location of
timelab. The work will be revealed at the presentation and will be part of
the timelab Collection.
more info:
http://www.disconnectedmacha.be
http://disconnectedmacha.wordpress.com
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and while you're here also visit :
TANTAMOUNT / LABEL.07 GHENT - KANAZAWA
LABEL is a monthly event organized by students of the 'Multimedia Design'
program (K.A.S.K. Ghent).
Two students curate the event and develop an interesting presentation
context for
visual and live art of their fellow students and professional artists.
LABEL.07 is the initiative
of Dries Douibi and Annelien Vermeir in cooperation with the Japanese
curator Masahiro Saito.
'TANTAMOUNT / LABEL.07 GHENT - KANAZAWA' is an exhibition concept in which
the curators investigate the boundaries and the challenge of the exhibition
format.
The show takes place simultaneously on two radically different locations,
KAPO (Kanazawa Art Port) - Kanazawa (Japan) and timelab - Ghent (Belgium).
The Japanese artwork, sent by airmail from japan, will be on view in timelab
(Ghent),
together with a representation of the original Belgian work which will be
physically present in KAPO (Japan).
At the same time the Belgian work will be on view in KAPO (Japan)
in relation with the virtual representation of the original Japanese works.
The project's intension lies in creating one exhibition/event that reflects
on a virtual level.
The exhibition will be open for public from 16/12/2010 until 24/12/2010
(11AM - 5PM)
Closed on monday 20/12/2010 and tuesday 21/12/2010.
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Sunday 21 November 2010 at 7:03 pm
Thanks to the speakers for great and diverse presentations, thanks to the the attentive audience for listening. The source code of the projects discussed can be found here:
http://www.introspector.be/index.php?/shareandtell/session-01/
It certainly was a good experience and we are will see if we can follow this up with a next session, either in a presentation or more workshop format. So please drop a message if your intrested in a future events or if you want to present a project/workshop at SHARE&&TELL or dorkbot. Mail to Corneel cc[a]introspector.be or Kurt kurt[a]hexmatic.com
Thursday 11 November 2010 at 9:38 pm
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DORKBOT SHARE && TELL :: Friday 19 november 2010 :: 8.30 pm
timelab (http://www.timelab.org/):: free
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This month's Dorkbot features :
Simon Geilfus (www.antivj.com) will show some of his custom made tools and interfaces for audio visual live-performance made for antivj and murcof (see http://www.flickr.com/photos/simongeilfus/)
Jan Vantomme (www.vormplus.be) will talk about playing with code in his creative practice and in teaching using processing.
Gwen Vanhee (www.revoid.be) will talk about coding strategies for a creative workflow: How to create and maintain a creative workflow - things I've learned so far. Programming a strategy to create visuals with Flash/AS.
Frederik Vanhoutte (www.wblut.com) will hopefully demo his ubercool HE_Mesh library for processing... ;)
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SHARE && TELL is a platform for creative coding. It connects people who write code, script or patch as integral part of a creative process. In an opensource spirit participants are invited to share insights into the creative process of writing code, results of their creative practice and source code.
SHARE && TELL is organised by corneel cannaerts and hosted by dorkbot and timelab.
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As always if you want to come and show your project, let us know.
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Monday 17 May 2010 at 09:40 am
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DORKBOT :: Woensdag 26 mei 2010 :: 8.30 pm
timelab (naast Vooruit, http://www.timelab.org/):: gratis
Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 21 :: 9000 Gent
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Een ontmoetingsavond voor iedereen die bezig is met / geïnteresseerd is in kunst en technologie.
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Deze maand hebben we volgende presentaties:
Troy Rogers - 'Stemmetje' project
Presentation of work in progress on a singing, speaking robot.
There exists a long and rich tradition of mechanical 'talking machines', one that has been extended by digital speech synthesis and more recently by robotic speaking machines. Drawing on his own experiences with
Expressive Machines Muscial Instruments (EMMI) in the US and the expertise of Dr. Godfried Willem Raes and the
Logos Foundation in Gent, Rogers is developing a cheap, open-source, portable, virtuosic robot capable of producing a wide range of vocal utterances. He will present his work to date on the project, carried out while he is in residence at the Logos Foundation as a Fulbright Research Scholar in 2009-10 .
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Thomas Laureyssens - #plant
Met het werk Plant onderzoek ik hoe de militaire machine als een groot levend proces kan gevat worden. Hoe kunnen we met de historische overblijfselen van de wereldoorlogen in interactie gaan, om ze zo op nieuwe manieren te interpreteren en te accepteren? Voor de BAT kunstroute wek ik door middel van technologieën een representatie van de Stelling van Antwerpen tot leven. Het startpunt hierbij is een cartografie van de omgeving, een historische militaire kaart waarop de Antitankgracht en de schootsvelden van de bunkers aangeduid zijn. De bunkers en de richting van de kanonnen zijn door de militaire strategen zo geplaatst dat ze het terrein zo goed mogelijk dekken tegen oprukkende troepen. Omdat de plaatsing gebaseerd is op de lokale geografische context, is het resultaat iets dat er natuurlijk uit ziet. Met wat verbeelding kan je in de kaart zelfs een biologische plant herkennen. Plant groeide uit het schietgat van een bunker: de wortels groeiden naar binnen, en de bladeren en stengel groeiden langs de buitenmuur naar boven. Door een spel van perspectief kan je, als je op een afstand van de bunker staat, de oorspronkelijke militaire kaart herkennen. Via sensoren reageert Plant op de aanwezigheid en bewegingen van de bezoekers. Door in interactie te gaan kan je de verdedigingsgordel levend aanvoelen.
more info:
http://bat2010.wordpress.com/de-kunstenaars/thomas-laureyssens/
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