April showers bring May flowers musical robots.  I am fortunate enough to be a ReSiDeNt  at LEMURplex this month in Brooklyn.  LEMUR stands for the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots.  Um….could there be a more perfect residency?  I get to interface with their xylobot, guitarbot, hydrobots, and modbots.  I’m planning on using the Twitchset and Performoshoes (together)as a starting-off point with the bots.  I also plan on doing a lot with the fiddle~ object.  Fellow ITPer and now full time LEMURer, Leif gave me a breif walk-through of the space yesterday.  I’ll be setting up another blog over at LEMUR to document my stuffs.  Here we go…

Word. I was incredibled to see this spread about Dorkbot in the new issue of Art Review. I knew it was coming out, I just didn’t know it would be so dope. Regine Debatty wrote it, Douglas Repetto makes the Dorkbot wonderful, and A.J.J. Davis took this photo.

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“The 1492nd dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007 at Location One in SoHo.” And I’ll be showing my stuff! Experimental Devices for Performance comes out out of it’s fall hiatus and rears it’s experimental head to the SoHo masses. I’ll be featured with the other “Humid and Tropical” presenters Ted Johnson and Fiona Hallinan (aka Fink). Ted will be talking about “how to build your own secret laboratory in a small NYC-sized space and at a low cost, and thereby produce silly and useless gadgets” and Fiona “would like to tell a story about [her] first interactive experience between computers and people, which occurred when [she] was twelve years old.” I have no idea what to expect except that it’s free and everyone seems really very nice. So please come on out! Free (((BlinkCam))) pics!  (see below)

(Image by Lisa Max)

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Here we are. “The Golden Tube Sock.” I’ll be posting a video per day here hopefully chronicling my first trip to California as well as my time at the Second Annual Maker Faire. Disco Frisco!

I’ll be heading to San Mateo (just outside of San Fransisco) for the (second?) annual Maker Faire. Maker Faire’s site calls itself “a two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. It’s for creative, resourceful folks who like to tinker and love to make things. We call them Makers.” Indeed. I’ll be showing the Perform o shoes and the Prolixus which can each be seen at this glittery new URL: experimentaldevicesforperformance.com See you there!