For you artists and people who like to mix their science and creativity jones and are looking for some inspiration, there are 11 (soon to be 12) Dorkbot presentations up on DorkBot’s Vimeo page. They range from electronic projects at elementary schools, personal indoor farms for nyc apartments, dolls mutated into sexy robots, and other incredibly interesting visions from artists all around. They were captured by me and edited by my good friend Joe Frey. We are calling this little thing of ours Content Content and will continue to bring you an archive of Dorkbot -NYC’s exciting presentations.

Dorkbot meets every the first Wednesday of every month at 7p at Location 1 in soho.   (continue reading…)

dorkbot-nyc, 01 April 2009 — Erik Sanner: Paintings that Move, Spring Planting, and How to Enjoy Traffic Cones from Dorkbot on Vimeo.

Ever since i saw this presentation in april, i have noticed with alarming regularity how useless, numerous, and different traffic cones are. This is the last presentation from their April Fools Dorkbot. I should be uploading the May 6th meeting soon. Some powerful and beautiful images in that one. (continue reading…)

dorkbot-nyc, 01 April 2009 — Daniela Kostova & Olivia Robinson: Waste to Work from Dorkbot on Vimeo.

Daniela Kostova & Olivia Robinson: Waste to Work

Follow the link for more info on this really clever and ingenious venture by two Science-artists. This particular presentation captures one aspect of dorkbot that i love: (continue reading…)

I have been saying for some time now that i had the opportunity to team up with the originator and coordinator of Dorkbot  NYC, Douglas Repetto, and film the last two Dorkbot meetings. My colleague, Joe Frey, and i felt that the meeting was so fun and interesting, it needed to be archived and put on the web. So, we approached Douglas to film and format each presentation for the web. I hope we can continue doing it when the next season starts in September. Right now, we are showing the entire presentation from start to finish, but later on, we hope to cut them down to the most interesting parts of these “fun with electricity” projects. They run the gamut, from art, science, technology, crafts, commercial and the highest forms of creativity and ingenuity with electricity being the current running between them. If you haven’t been to one yet, you are really missing out. The community is fun and interesting, and the setting is always low key. If you have anything you want to present, let them know!

The presentation in this video is of a model airplane, dubbed the towel,  that is made from throw away parts. It allows the crafty mind to design their own plane that they can test without fear of breaking. They include videos of the plane in flight. After the presentation, they took their best flyer out to fly in front of  location 1 in soho and flew it around to the delight of the crowd and to the chagrin of the neighbors. The video is after the break: (continue reading…)