Another month came already since the last Dorkbot in May. A day before Canada Day long weekend, June Dorkbot had 12 people in presence.

We had 3 speakers: Shannon Hoover, Robyn Moody and me.

Shannon talked about his experience at the Bay Area Maker Faire held on May 21st & 22nd and discussed the possibility to have Mini Maker Faire Calgary with an example of Mini Maker Faire Vancouver back on June 25th & 26th.

Robyn presented his past & recent artwork, starting from his performance piece; Public Opinion (2002) to his latest installation; Butterflies (2010).

Butterfly 1: On the origin of species from Robyn Moody on Vimeo.

I presented my artwork: Filled II, Symforest and Kehai as a process for my practice of body-responsive installation. Especially, the current interest with GSR sensor that originated in traditional lie detector.

Untitled from shiori saito on Vimeo.

Dorkbot is a loose organization of people doing strange things with electricity and nurtures a local electronic arts community and encourages emerging and established artists to present new works for informal peer review. I think the meeting is going once in two months so far.

I started following their events since the last meeting in March. It’s a nice peer reviewing community that gives me inspirations from others’ electronics projects.

When: Tuesday May 24th 7 pm
Where: EMMEDIA

Presenters:

Dana Schloss and Katherine Ziff

Dana likes making exhibits that people like playing in.  She came to Calgary to develop exhibits(with the help of Calgary’s helpful population) as part of the team at the New Science Centre. Before arriving in Canada she worked as a designer, prototyper and fabricator in Childrens Museums and Science Centers in Philadelphia and New York.  (more…)