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Presenter Archive

DorkbotSF Archive

Open Dork Archive

2024

  • Jul 30 2024 - Ocean Room
  • Scott Kildall - Sensors and Soundscapes
  • Michael Ang - Desert Media Art
  • Samuel Coniglio IV - Creature Comforts in Space

2023

  • Jun 28 2023 - FIRST IN PERSON MTG SINCE COVID!
  • Kal Spelletich and Jonathan Foote - Pouring Voice Into A Laser Beam
  • Anja Ulfeldt - Charged Enivronments - Electricity, Connectivity, and Community
  • Noisebridge AI Fiber Group - AI Dreamweaving: A Collaborative Exploration of AI and Textile Development
  • Yasmin Mawaz-Khan - Magical Mythical Maker Spaces: A Brief Look at Where It All Started and here Its All Going

2022

  • Nov 16 2022 - Tenth Virtual dorkbotSF
  • George Hall - Zoetrope Renaissance
  • Steve diPaola - Exploring Emergent Creative AI Systems for Art, Health, Social Good and Design
  • Alex Merlin Glo - iPad to KiCad: A Workflow for Art PCBs

  • Feb 09 2022 - Eigth Virtual dorkbotSF
  • Moldover - Retro Electronics as Music Controllers and Playable Packaging
  • Kimric Smythe - Sounds of the Analog Machine
  • Christopher Robin Short - Laser Installations

2021

  • Aug 25 2021 - Seventh Virtual dorkbotSF
  • Clay Graham - Crypto Loa: Conjuring Emergent Ghosts on the Etherium Blockchain
  • Zach R - Creating Your Own DIY Air Monitoring System
  • Virj Kan - Spheres of Experience: Interactions across Human Information Ecosystems

  • May 05 2021 - Fifth Virtual dorkbotSF
  • Mari Bastashevski - UnWhorl
  • Charlie Gadeken and Brian Bulkowski - Entwined
  • Steve Piasecki - The Magic Mirror
  • Tom Zimmerman - Light Controlled Hex Oscillators

2020

  • Aug 26 2020 - Third Virtual dorkbotSF
  • Joel Leonard - Thorminating for a Better Tomorrow
  • Kimric Smythe - Electrical Rust Printing
  • Greg Leyh - Tesla Coil Wireless Powered Roadster
  • Bosco Kante - ElectroSpit
  • Brent Heyning - Problem Solving with Off-World Projects
  • Zolie Sarriugarte and Karydis Johnson - The Lettuce

  • Jun 24 2020 - Second Virtual dorkbotSF
  • Anouk Wipprecht - Robotic Couture in the Time of Social Distancing
  • Anuradha Vikram - Drive By Art
  • Jorvon Moss aka Odd Jayy - Companion Bots
  • Graham Plumb - Magnetic Letterpress
  • Tom Zimmerman - How to Put a $3 MP3 Player to Use
  • Spaceman Sam - Zero Gravity Cocktail Glass - A Post Mortem
  • Tracy Swedlow - Reads from Her Upcoming Sci Fi Book
  • V. Vale and Marian Wallace - Perform their Protest Song
  • John Weiss - The BOOM
  • Phil Bowman - Engineers Without Borders

  • Apr 15 2020 - First Virtual dorkbotSF
  • Jonathan Foote - Shows us his workbench
  • John Weiss - Engineers without Borders and the BOOM
  • Dave Mathews - Open Source Ventilators, Hacks
  • Jaw Din - Low Bandwidth Intimacy Analysis
  • Tom Zimmerman - Laser Generated Lissajous Patterns on a 6x10 Canvas
  • Tom Zimmerman - Seeing Bubbles Pop in Real Time Slo Mo
  • Evo Heyning - Virtual events, Production Workflows
  • Zach Reed - Open Source PAPR Powered Air Purifying Respirator
  • V. Vale - RE/Search - Performs a coronavirus song

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2005

2004

    December 2004 - The Crucible

  • Gary Goddard | The Paradox of Engineering Art
  • Bruce Cannon | Trends in Electronic, Robotic, Interactive, and Kinetic Art and The Crucible's Emerging Curriculum
  • Christopher Palmer | Recent Works, Automata and Other Stuff
  • Jeremey Lutes | Self-organization and Emergent Behavior in Distributed Systems of If Mother Natuer Does It, It Must Be Good

2003

2002


Open dorks:

Dan Collard - Pickle Light
Jon Sarriugarte - Mortar Launch from the Backyard
Kevin Mathieu - Steve Kurtz update
Spot Draves - Electric Sheep/Spotworks easter egg
Matthew Bennett - mod'd xbox
Jonathan Foote - VideoBots - http://www.fxpal.com/?p=foote
Bruce Damer - Cyberwearz - http://damer.com/
Scott Minneman - Liberty Science Center mobile - http://www.onomy.com
Stephen Dunifer - FM and TV transmitters build and designed by Radio Free Berkeley
Mike Estee - Surface Mount boards
Eddie Codel - Webzine
Mark Pesce - Swarm Tech / VRML / Playful World
Erik Davis - Techgnosis
Paul Spinrad - author of the vj book | http://thevjbook.com
Kimo Crossman - providing public input into the city's (SF) TechConnect WIFI process | http://webnetic.net
Jonathan Moore - SVG plugin hacking in the new firefox
Team1031 - high school robotics | http://www.team1031.org
Oron Catts - tissue culture art | http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au
Jake Appelbaum - monochrom/roboxotica
Jonathan Moore - CO2 Confetti Launcher
Wendy Tremayne - Swap-o-rama-rama | http://swaporamarama.org
Fuze Factory - a/v break-pop from switzerland | http://www.fusefactory.ch/
Bill Jarrold - human feedback for AI systems | http://www.openheartlogic.org
David Calkins - 3rd Intl Robolympics | http://robolympics.net
Kal Spelletich and Anu Vikram - AI and Frankenstein Theory of Robotics | http://seemen.org
Leila Hasan - Gigapan | http://gigapan.org
Simone Davalos - El Espanol Borracho | http://suicidebots.com
Bjoern Hartman - Color Field Camera | http://www.bjoern.org/projects/cfcam/
Simran Gleason - Kepler's Orrery | http://www.art.net/simran
Jonathan Moore - External Combustion Engine | http://0x0000.org
Raj - Tiki Graffiti | http://tikirobot.net/wp/tikigraffiti
Eddie Codel presents Jonathan Lassoff - Michelle Clay - Magic Safire | SF Mooninites
Ken Murphy - LED Light Bugs | http://www.blinkybug.com/ledart.html
Leila Hasan - Yuri's Night | http://www.yurisnight.net/2007/
Marc Powell - Delicious Corpse | http://www.deliciouscorpse.com/
Courtney Sexton - NOSO Project | http://nosoproject.com/
Jesse Zbikowski - Gumstix/BA Linux User Group | http://upcoming.org/event/165473
Rudy Rucker - Monkey View | http://monkeybrains.net
Starpause and Computer Truck - Chiptunes | http://dutycycle.tumblr.com/
Randy Sarafan and Noah Weinstein - Joydick | http://instructables.com/member/noahw and /randofo
Simran Gleason - Diffusion Limited Aggregation == Zombie Freeze Tag
Trademark G - Safeway Card Exchange
Christian Ristow - Hand of Man
Katherine Becar - Vaccum Tube Pins and Pocketed Tool Belts | http://blue-moon-designs.com
Evil Mad Scientists - EggBot | http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/eggbot
Kyle Machulis - Open Kinect | http://slashdong.org
Mark Pesce - Plexus | http://plexus.relationalspace.org/
Anselm Hook - Wherecamp
Big Red - Dancing Bliss
Bre Pettis - Thingiverse | http://www.thingiverse.com
Barney Haynes and Jennifer Parker - sonicSense | http://www.sonicsense.net
Addie & Stefan - lasersaur | http://lasersaur.com
Warren Stringer - iPad/Kinect Hacking | http://www.youtube.com/ikoino#p/u/0/aFO6j6tvdk8
Mitra Ardron - Natural Innovation | http://naturalinnovation.org
Joshua Gourneau and Justin Jach - Biometrics Photobooth | http://josh.gourneau.com/ and http://vimeo.com/justinjach
David Normal - http://normal-design.com/
Eric Michaud - http://collegeoflockpicking.com/
Courtney Sexton - Trumpet Hero | http://www.behance.net/korntee
William Nye - Christmas Candles Digital Logic
Mang (Michael Ang) - Craig Dorety's Light Objects and Lunar Topologies | http://craigdorety.com/
Rachel McConngell - Awesome Foundation | http://www.awesomefoundation.org/
Evil Mad Scientists - WaterColorBot | http://watercolorbot.com/
Mitch Altman - Hackers in Residency | http://hackerspace.org/
Marc Powell - Everything is Networked and Nothing is Connected (Poems of Dot Com Dissidence)
Brady Forrest - Highway1
David Kendall - Self Balancing Robot
Marque Kornblatt - Game of Drones
Justin Quimby - BlueSprout
Aaron Ximm - waatch
P. Segal - artist housing foundation - Bohemia Redux
Florian Bienefelt - Swissnex Cyber Virus Exhibit and Events
Segue Fischlin - Frankentrike Demo