Tomorrow is November’s Dorkbot, Same dorkbot time, same dorkbot place:

What: dorkbot-nyc meeting
Where: Location One, Greene St. between Canal and Grand
When: 7-9pm, 04 November, 2009
$$$: $FREE$

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The 30.97376th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday,
November 4th, 2009 at Location One in SoHo.

The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to
share. YUMM. Last month someone brough homemade vegan cupcakes!?! CAN
YOU TOP THAT???

We’re always looking for (and playing) more dorkbot theme songs! Bring
or email one and we’ll play it at the meeting.

Featuring the waxy and light-bearing:

Julia Burns: Privacy Online
I am a new media artist based in Sydney, Australia. I am interested in
the changing concepts of privacy and public access to the private sphere
online. In addition to leading an audience-based discussion regarding
Mark Klein’s book “Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine…” regarding
internet surveillance, I will present my latest series of works that use
performance and vintage technology to examine contemporary issues
concerning Facebook, Twitter, and Google Cache.

http://juliaburns.com

Yuliya Lanina: Mechanical Dolls
Lanina is a Russian born American artist living and working in New York
City. Lanina creates alternate realities in her works — ones based on
sexuality, fetishism, and identity. All of Lanina’s characters are dolls
and toys made from dissembled parts that have been restructured with
other found objects. The modifications Lanina makes to the figures are
both visual and electronic; she turns them into robotic creatures with
altered functional capabilities. Lanina works in collaboration with
Theodore Johnson who helps with bringing the dolls to life using
electronics and micro-controllers.

http://www.yuliyalanina.com

Britta Riley: Window Farms
The Windowfarms project helps New Yorkers to grow food in their building
windows year-round by means of vertical hydroponic curtains. New Yorkers
assemble their windowfarms from recycled bottles and local hardware
store materials using a set of open designs. Behind the open designs is
a mass collaboration by ordinary folks who contribute innovations and
test optimizing factors for the system. Co-Founder Britta Riley will be
presenting recent progress and the challenges her team is working
through on the Windowfarms project as it transitions from art project to
social venture.

http://www.submersibledesign.com