[Robotgroup] Fwd: Dorkbot - Opportunity to geek out TONIGHT through this weekend

[David Nunez]

Figured there might be a taker out there...

Begin forwarded message:

> From: David Nunez <david at davidnunez.com>
> Date: November 17, 2006 9:10:00 AM CST
> To: dorkbotaustin-announce at music.columbia.edu
> Subject: Dorkbot - Opportunity to geek out TONIGHT through this  
> weekend
>
> Thank you to all that came out to our last dorkbot!
>
> Here's a reminder for an event tonight that might inspire you to  
> MAKE something new this weekend!
>
> The original press release is below and the Austinist wrote up  
> something as well <http://www.austinist.com/archives/2006/11/16/ 
> dorkbots_and_playwrights_dork_this.php>
>
> Come tonight to Mundi to check out the details...
>
> **********************
> PRESS RELEASE
> For Immediate Release: October 30, 2006
> Media Contact: Christina J. Moore, christi at scriptworks.org,  
> 512-454-9727
>
> WHO:
> Austin Script Works and Dorkbot Austin
>
> WHAT:
> The Weekend Fling Playwriting and Dorkbot Challenge
>
> WHEN:
> Friday, November 17
> 6-8 PM
> Café Mundi
> 1704 E 5th Street
> ASW/Dorkbot Happy Hour
> Ingredients Announced
>
> Sunday, November 19
> 5:30 PM
> Vortex Theater
> 2307 Manor Rd
> ASW Salon
> FREE Admission
> Wine, beer, sodas and snacks available for purchase
>
> ADDITIONAL INFO:
> WHAT CAN YOU MAKE IN 48 HOURS?
> The AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS AND DORKBOT CHALLENGE
> NOVEMBER 17-19, 2006
>
> Austin Script Works, the regional advocate for playwright and new  
> play development, and Dorkbot-Austin, a community of artists and  
> inventors doing strange things with electricity, hereby issue an  
> unprecedented challenge:
>
> Dork This.
>
> Starting Friday, November 17, at 6 PM, Austin Script Works members  
> and area techno-artists will have 48 hours to write a 10 minute  
> play or prototype a new dork creation. No matter who they are or  
> what they make, they will somehow incorporate three “ingredients”  
> that will be announced that day. On Sunday, November 19 at 5:30 PM,  
> they will arrive at the Vortex Theater to show off their sizzling  
> new projects.
>
> Playwrights. Dorks. It’s a techno-theatrical, Franken-Gertrude  
> Stein-ian, melding of the minds collaboration. And totally Austin.
>
> “Every year, Austin Script Works offers a program called the  
> Weekend Fling to member playwrights,” explains Artistic Director C.  
> Denby Swanson. “They start on a Friday night and have 48 hours to  
> write a 10 minute play in response to a list of three special  
> ‘ingredients,’ which are usually provided by guest artists from  
> around the country. Last year, we wrote 5-minute radio plays, which  
> we produced with live foley sound during FronteraFest 2006. This  
> year, we decided that it would be fun to make the same program as  
> local and new and fresh as possible. And we decided to partner with  
> other folks who make stuff.”
>
> David Nunez, one of the instigators behind Dorkbot-Austin, agrees  
> that this event will drive amazing work, “Dorkbot is all about what  
> happens when people choose to tear their stuff apart and put it  
> back together in new and beautifully strange ways.  We’re mad,  
> renegade makers that sometimes have so many wildly divergent ideas  
> that we struggle to get stuff done and out of our garage studios.   
> Constraints, like deadlines or being forced to use a specific set  
> of ingredients, create a focusing energy that fires up our engines  
> of ingenuity.  Creating alongside the playwrights during the  
> Weekend Fling is exactly in that spirit of collaboration – we find  
> those unique, untried combinations, add heat, and stand back as we  
> plug in our creations.  We want to be cheering as our robots and  
> plays all come alive.”
>
> Each short play and each dork invention has to somehow include the  
> three “ingredients,” which will be announced on November 17 at a  
> kickoff happy hour at Café Mundi. There are no other requirements  
> for subject matter or theme – and playwrights and makers are  
> encouraged to be as imaginative and expressive as possible, and to  
> use the ingredients in unexpected ways. A show and tell will happen  
> during the regular monthly Austin Script Works Salon, Sunday  
> November 19 at the Vortex Theater, 5:30 PM. Playwrights should  
> bring copies of their script; Dorks should bring prototypes of  
> their interactive or kinetic art, machines, and robots.
>
> In March 2007, Austin Script Works and Dorkbot-Austin will produce  
> 8-10 of the short plays in a festival of new work called Out of  
> Ink, which will also feature the inventions, potentially as set  
> pieces or strange characters or installations. “We expect that  
> these new plays and dork creations will be presented together in  
> some thrilling and electrifying and Austin-tatious combination,”  
> says Swanson.
>
> Friday, November 17
> 6-8 PM
> Café Mundi
> 1704 E 5th Street
> ASW/Dorkbot Happy Hour
> Ingredients Announced
>
> Sunday, November 19
> 5:30 PM
> Vortex Theater
> 2307 Manor Rd
> ASW Salon
> FREE Admission
> Wine, beer, sodas and snacks available for purchase
>
> The events are free and open to the general public. However,  
> playwrights must be members of Austin Script Works to participate  
> in this event by writing a new play. New members can join at  
> www.scriptworks.org.
>
> Makers need to register through Dorkbot at www.dorkbot.org/ 
> dorkbotaustin.
>
> ABOUT AUSTIN SCRIPT WORKS
> Austin Script Works is a playwright-driven organization that seeks  
> to promote the craft of dramatic writing and protect the writer's  
> integrity by encouraging playwright initiative and harnessing  
> collective potential. ASW is funded in part by the City of Austin  
> through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas  
> Commission on the Arts, and individual donors. For more information  
> about Austin Script Works call 512-454-9727 or email:  
> info at scriptworks.org
>
> ABOUT DORKBOT
> dorkbot is a monthly meeting of artists (sound/image/movement/ 
> whatever), hackers, designers, engineers, students and other  
> interested parties who are involved in the creation of electronic  
> art (in the broadest sense of the term). Dorkbot was started in New  
> York in 2000 by douglas irving repetto and has since spread to over  
> 40 cities.   The Austin chapter is one of the largest in the  
> world.  Events are held on the second Thursday of every month at  
> various venues in Austin. For more information visit their website  
> at http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotaustin or email:  
> dorkbotaustin at dorkbot.org