love the robots: live robotics [putting this one in my diary] #Brisbane #robots #geekgirl

_love the robots :: Live Robotics Theatre at The Edge, Brisbane_
_Performance 2.00 – 5.00pm 28 January 2012 :: Live Streaming at
lovetherobots.com _
_love the robots _is a showcase combining media art, workshop, network
performance, informal lecture and discussion centered around the theme of
robots, contemporary art, culture and society. The hybrid format combines
practice, theory and an exhibition showcase, serving as a catalyst for an
international network of collaborations and contacts among local and
international artists and audiences.The _love the robots _event encourages
diverse creative and artistic approaches to the presentation, process,
production and practice of contemporary robotics, audience engagement and
community building. Artists will present live and via remote
participation. The performance will also be streamed live on the internet
to allow participation by audiences outside of Brisbane.

http://www.lovetherobots.com

[4]http://edgeqld.org.au/love-the-robots

Melbourne Mini Maker Faire – follow up for bits, bobs and knobs. #steampunk #hackers #robogals #arduino #geekgirl

The atrium at Swinburne Jan 14th, (2012) for Melbourne Mini Maker Faire was bursting with busy people making ‘things’. Cardboard boxes were de rigueur: so were peeps travelling from one session to another like industrious ants scurrying to erect a new home. Such are the vicissitudes of people who make things – synapses crammed with crafty ideas and soldered attitudes. It was a pretty good arvo, with all ages and sexes, from whack to knack, hackers to robogals! Here are just a few of things I discovered: plus I now know I really want a 3D printer, and that red teapot (or any teapot) made by @atosha.

@atosha
http://www.mortartown.com
About
My name is Atosha McCaw and I am a graphic designer. I work for a trade union. I am also one of the founding directors of Creative Unions, www.creativeunions.org, a not for profit aimed at improving the level and reputation of graphic design in trade unions.

Prof. Uncle Festa
Steampunk Inventions
- Inventor – Explorer – Artist – Philosopher
profunclefesta.wordpress.com
About
I grew up with steam trains, well model ones at least. Some of my earliest memories are of beautiful old trains roaring around a track, and a live steam engine making a wheel turn rapidly. Very exciting! And then along came Michael Moorcock’s great book “Warlord of the Air” which I read in about 1974 at the ripe old age of 14. Then I got fully into cyberpunk novels and the whole cyberpunk role-playing and sub-culture in the 90s.

Jump forward to Neal Stephenson’s “Diamond Age” in the late 90s and I was fully hooked on what became known as Steampunk. I’ve always made things rather than buy them where possible, from a very simple mechanical computer in the mid 70s, through to a kit computer in late 70s, to a fish-pond recycling system last year, and along the way various steampunk things. Well I’ve missed out 20 years of various cyberpunk and steampunky things, but I’ll show some on this site…stayed tuned old chaps and ladies.

freetronics
www.freetronics.com
About
Freetronics designs, sells and supports a range of flexible, easy to use Arduino-compatible boards and modules (right here in Melbourne). Arduino is the most popular microcontroller board in the world/ It’s been used to make robots, home automation gadgets, automotive projects, for sensing and controlling lights, motors, locks and servos, sound and video, interative objects like animated sculptures, toys and games, radio link and just about anything else you can dream up!

Hack melbourne
Connected Community HackerSpace
http://www.hackmelbourne.org/
Next meetup CCHS
Tuesday general meeting
Tue, 31 January, 18:00 – 22:00
Camberwell, Victoria
General meeting, open to all.
Email AndyG at Geekscape or Twitter DM @geekscape for specifics.

Humanity+ @Melbourne with Aubrey de Grey
(picked up a flyer)
Aubrey de Grey has seen much attention about his theories on robust rejuvenation.

Here is an article in the Age in 2005:

“With the right engineering and maintenance, humans can live until they are 1000″, says Aubrey de Grey. John Elder investigates.

AUBREY DE GREY looks like a scrawny Ned Kelly, with his beer-catching beard and red-rimmed eyes, a thriving survivor of the long past. His name suggests someone born a long time ago. Maybe it’s a name that will come back in vogue hundreds of years hence?

Dr Aubrey de Grey — despite his love of ale and junk food — hopes to be there, walking around in that far-away future. De Grey says he knows what is required to cure ageing.”

See Aubrey speak at Humanity+, 5 -6 May 2012 — Location to be announced.

Squarebit
www.squarebit.com.au
facebook.com/squarebit
About
Squarebit is an online store stocking useful electronic bits for students, hobbyists, hackers, experts and anyone else interested in learning about electronics!

robogals Melbourne
http://melbourne.robogals.org.au
About
Robogals is an International, student-run, organisation whose goal is to increase the number of females pursuing engineering in their tertiary studies and in their careers.

An overview of robots in art #geekgirl

senster3

Senster – a website devoted to Edward Ihnatowicz, cybernetic sculptor.
Also loving this site!!! – Interactive Architecture

#Robot Dreams – When the artist interacts with Artificial Intelligence #geekgirl

Nam June Paik Andy Warhol Robot, 1994 Sculpture Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
© 2010 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Photo: Helge Mundt, Hamburg

The Museum Tinguely in Basel and Kunsthaus Graz are co-organising an exhibition that addresses the subjects of “Artificial Intelligence” and “Robotics”. The title Robot Dreams is borrowed from a short story of the same name by Isaac Asimov, a biochemist and extraordinarily prolific writer of science fiction, in which Elvex, a robot, has to be destroyed because he has a dream in which he plans a revolt and starts to disregard the Three Laws that are intended to keep him subservient to humans.

Robots in everyday life
The exhibition looks at recent advances in Artificial Intelligence research and, through the medium of artistic projects, seeks to explore the broad topic of Robots and its association with various concepts. The questions here focus in particular on the interaction between man and machine, Embodiment, the feedback from these developments and its influence on human perception and behaviour, and the use of robots in everyday life. What is regarded today as utopian, even a source of disquiet, may tomorrow be part and parcel of household appliances. Communicating with the refrigerator, autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners and adaptive seat memory electronics in cars are already contemporary reality, as are nano-robots for medical use or software that is able to learn from its mistakes and adapt appropriately.

Contemporary art and science
The artists had virtually complete freedom to produce the works shown in the approximately 1000 m2 exhibition space devoted to Robot Dreams. They provide answers from very different perspectives to the question as to what contemporary art can contribute to our understanding and handling of the latest developments in the natural sciences. The visitor becomes an active participant in multimedia environments that illustrate the possibilities and limits of this interaction. John Bock’s history-inspired film oeuvre and Virgil Widrich’s anthology of film cover a century of the development and aesthetic of films and literature on robots and robotics. Kirsty Boyle’s work is influenced by Japanese Karakuri figures and combines contemporary research with the great tradition of Japanese automata. Using the technique of speech recognition, Sibylle Hauert and Daniel Reichmuth create an interactive experimental setting that leaves us uncertain as to whether we are (still) humans or machines, while Jon Kessler’s huge, circular installation inspired by Alexander Calder and Sisyphus elucidates the absurd logic behind acts of war.

9th June to 12 September 2010

Website: http://www.tinguely.ch

Japanese #Robot Genius Clones Model – introducing Geminoid F.

Japanese robot maker Hiroshi Ishiguro has unveiled his latest robot: Geminoid F. The robot is a replica of a 20-something woman who’s identity is being kept confidential. The robot is more advanced than the clone Ishiguro made of himself a few years ago, and can make much more convincing facial expressions. Is it even possible to see this without thinking about the 1975 movie, “The Stepford Wives”? 

Source Spectrum magazine

Momoyo Torimitsu Miyata Jiro Performance #Melbourne #robotics

Watch as life-size robotic businessman Miyata Jiro crawls his way commando-style through the Melbourne CBD battlefield like so many before him.  Tended to by his lovely nurse artist Momoyo Torimitsu – performances are not to be missed!

12 February 2010,  from 6:30pm – beginning at The Sofitel Melbourne on Collins, 25 Collins St, Melbourne

13 February 2010, the Arts Centre Precinct – check out experimenta.org for times!

15 February 2010, Collins Street– check out experimenta.org for times!

Anatomy to #Robots. A Leonardo Da Vinci Exhibition

17 October 2009 to 31 January 2010 – Anatomy to Robots – A Leonardo Da Vinci Exhibition – With life size anatomy models, interactive robots and inventions, art, copies of rare codices and a life size reconstruction of The Last Supper.

Open daily from 9.00am to 9.00pm in the Da Vinci Pavilion, 1 Queensbridge Square, Southbank, Melbourne.

Robogals, engaging girls in robotics.

Robogals Inc. is a not-for-profit organization, which aims to increase the number of girls undertaking science, engineering and technology courses at university. Robogals does this by engaging girls in robotics from a young age in a way that is fun and educational. The volunteer university students are trained in LEGO robotics and then visit schools to teach LEGO robotics to the students.

Robogals was founded in July 2008, and within three weeks, had enlisted the help of 80 university students. Within the next 2.5 months, Robogals taught over 120 girls from 7 schools in the state of Victoria, Australia. Since the founder moved to London, she has set it up in the United Kingdom, while the organisation has been successfully continued in Victoria, Australia, supported by the University of Melbourne and its students.

This organization has an international reach, operating in Australia and the United Kingdom.

Robogals

LEGO Mindstorms Sudoku Solver

You have to heart a robot that can solve Sudoku without any help from pesky humans [yay robots!]. This l’tle fella scans the puzzle box with a light sensor, computes the solutions and even writes in the answers. Beats a Roomba hands down, huh?

Visit http://tiltedtwister.com for more info.

Radiobots, fusing art with Technology

Matthew Gardiner is renown for his work that fuses art with technology, working across such areas as robotics, origami, computer programming, interactivity technology and projection. In collaboration with composer David Young, Matthew is developing a network of multiple Radiobots.

1-20 September
Shepparton Arts Gallery
Eastbank Centre, 70 Welsford Street, Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

Check out the details at  http://www.aphids.net/features/Radiobots_Shepparton