dorkbot pittsburgh January 25, 2007

dorkbot pittsburgh is a monthly salon and show-and-tell for artists, scientists, social engineers, and others who enjoy doing strange things with electricity. Meetings are free and held upstairs at Brillobox. The dorkbot pittsburgh meeting is non-smoking, but smoking is allowed downstairs in the bar.

The January meeting of dorkbot pittsburgh will feature three speakers:

-- Kazuhiro Jo, Ph.D. student researching auditory interaction design at the University of Tokyo. Kazuhiro is a co-founder of dorkbot tokyo and acts as a member of The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA, a member of Monalisa project, a member of a performance unit "aeo" with eye (e.g. Boredoms) and Taeji Sawai(e.g. portabole[k]ommunity).

-- Jacob Ciocci, Paper Rad. Jacob is a founding member of the art group Paper Rad. Paper Rad synthesizes popular material from television, comics, video games, and advertising, allowing these materials to contextualize and cross-reference each other. Within Paper Rad, Jacob's animations, web art, music, and performances address the relationship between belief, transcendence and popular culture.

-- Roger Dannenberg, Associate Research Professor in the School of Computer Science and School of Art at CMU. He is internationally known for his research in the field of computer music. His current work includes research on computer accompaniment of live musicians, content-based music retrieval, interactive media, and high-level languages for sound synthesis. Among other projects, Dannenberg and his colleagues created "McBlare", a robotic bagpiper.

Official Website: http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotpgh