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DORKBOT-SYD : NOVEMBER DETAILS

POSTPONED TILL TUESDAY 28th November 2006!!! commencing 19:30
This will be the last Dorkbot of 2006!!!

Talkers of the month:

Leigh Russell is a 3d computer animator. He will be talking about a current project: to send a camera into the stratosphere on a helium balloon and has built a computer controlled machine that fabricates his 3d models from materials like wood and foam.

Gordon Monro will talk about his use of a Lego robotics kit to make an abstract art video. He will play the video and describe the processes used to make it.
http://www.gommog.com/pieces/redgrains.html

Tim Boykett, who is part of a group based in Linz called Time’s Up, will speak about SPIN and about sensors; the big ball and about the tools they have used to get data into and out of the machines to know what is happening with it and with other stuff.

http://www.timesup.org/spin

Tim's attendance is sponsored by the Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT), as part of the the Creativity and Cognition
Studios /ACID symposium, ENGAGE: Interaction, Art, and Audience Experience. (http://www.creativityandcognition.com/engage06/)

LOCATION: Lanfranchis
Level 2, 144 Cleveland St Chippendale

OPEN CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!
Dorkbot is all about participation. It is what YOU make of it! We would love to see your work!

If you would like to present something please email dorkbotsyd@dorkbot.org.

All presentations should aim to be 20 minutes in duration. You are welcome to bring along whatever, the project itself or visual and audio documentation or both. Please bring as much as you can including resources e.g. Laptop, cables etc. Tell us what you are bringing beforehand so that we can accommodate you. If you are unsure as to wether your presentation is appropriate take a browse through dorkbot.org at what other people are showing around the world. Presentations are not supposed to be formal. We don't want your CV we want to know what you are making and how you did it. It is a great opportunity to get some quality peer review!

Sincerely,
Your fellow dorks: Pia van Gelder + Boris Gordon

TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT DORKBOT-SYD OR SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MAILING LIST GO TO http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotsyd/

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THE WOMBATS ARE BACK!

Controversial hip-hop punks Combat Wombat return home after evading the cold Melbourne winter. MC Izzy and Monkey Marc have been working with indigenous communities up north in the desert whilst Elf Transporter has been touring the USA with San Francisco hip-hop/dub experimentalists Heavyweight Dub Champions.

Come welcome the Wombats home when they reunite with DJ Wasabi to play one last show for 2006 at the Tote Hotel in Collingwood on Thursday December 14 with special guest Roots Manuva collaborator and Big-Dada label-mate Wayne Lotek(UK).

This is your only chance to see the band before MC Izzy leaves for Africa in January to get creative with Kenyan hip-hop group Sinpare. GM Grumble Pipes on the ones and twos, doors open at 9pm and entry is only $10!

Wombats on stage at 11pm.

COMBAT WOMBAT
Lotek (Big Dada Records - UK)
GM Grumble Pipes

Thursday December 14
Tote Hotel, Cnr Wellington & Johnston Streets, Collingwood
$10 Entry, doors at 9pm til Midnight.

http://www.combatwombat.org
http://www.myspace.com/lotekdownunder

DUB DAY AFTERNOON 06 @ THE JUBILEE HOTEL SATURDAY 18TH NOVEMBER!

Join together in a major fundraiser for Radio station 4ZzZFM in this years Dub Day Afternoon 06 event. It will be a chilled out and fun time for all attending!

Dub Day Afternoon 06 @ The Jubilee Hotel, Saturday 18th November!

$15 / $10 Zed subs / Free Passionate subs. Subscribe at the show and get in FREE!

Showcasing the very best of Brisbane's reggae bands, soundsystems and selectas in an afternoon and evening of blunted basslines, skanking roots, blazing conscious dancehall and big tunes.

Heavyweight Champion

Raz Bin Sam and Lion I Band

Rhythm Collision Sound System

Ruby Blue

Samedi Sound System

Suspect Seven

Selecta Bing

Barrington Rankmore III vs Deaf Toll

Lao Mirador

The Jubilee Hotel, 470 St Pauls Terrace, The Valley. 3pm til 1am - 10 hours of reggae, dancehall, dub and ska

$15 / $10 Zed subs / Free Passionate subs. Subscribe at the show and get in FREE

4ZzZFM and artist merchandise/CDs available at on site stall

http://www.4zzzfm.org.au

view the myspace event listing for more details

Sunday arvo-evenings at the Abercrombie Hotel

LAUNCHING NOVEMBER 19

As of Sunday December 19th, Uber Lingua is back with a weekly thing at the Abercrombie Hotel in Ultimo... arvos from 4pm in the Beer Garden thru summer, nice n close to our core mob...

and this time it's different... two house bands are melding with the crew of DJs to form a Sound System of Systems... Does that make sense? Well yes it does... coz the acts are the funked latin Dub-Hop crew SOCIAL PROGRESSION SYSTEM and Trevor Brown's electronics meets skankin' brass and strings ensemble the GYPSY DUB SOUND SYSTEM...

Both acts have impro woven within their genetic makeup and week by week they'll loosely form alongside the selectors and provide continuous Jazz-esque spontaneity across multi-hour sonic brackets... Wild card MCs, percussionists, instrumentalists and even whole other acts will be brought into this equation to add to each week's uniqueness... People like Black Symbol, Wire MC, Wei Zen Ho and Morganics... just to name a few.

Joining Mashy P, Sheerien and interstate interloper bP as a resident DJ is another leading figure of trans-lingual musical happenings in Sydney, Stu Buchanan... presenter of the legendary Fat Planet Radio show on FBi.

Alongside these are a league of culturally active DJs who will be rotated thru the place like there's no tomorrow. Individuals such as Prince V, Ollo DJs, James Locksmith, Spex, Man About Town, sakamoiz, Hezekiah and the like...

There'll be food to be had with once again a rotated list of international food caterers booked for the event so that each week a different culinary delight awaits... with the occasional Roo & veggies BBQ (when bP's in town)...

It all starts on Sunday December 19th with all residents bar Sheerien (who's overseas) playing... Both house bands will be in affect with Social Progression System appearing in their more cut back form SPS Crew.

It's free to get in before 7pm and $5 after that so mosey on down and join in on the opening night...

visit http://www.zonar.net/uberlingua/syd/ for details

Up the road at Sydney University at Hermann's is the Astronomy Class launch. Ass Class is one of Sir Robbo's children and sees him collaborating with Chasm and Ozi Batla to deliver summery reggae influenced hip hop. Exit Strategy is a top album and it will be good to check it done live. $15+bf - http://www.astronomyclass.com.au/ for more details
(via Cryo/Cyclic maillist)

The screening of the documentary film, The Last Valley will take place at the Capitol Theatre Melbourne, 113 Swanston St (Opposite Melbourne Town Hall) on Tuesday 14th November 2006 from 8pm. This is the only opportunity to see the film prior to the Victorian state election. ABC have yet to announce a screening date.

The film is about the collapse of the East Gippsland logging industry after 50 years of unsustainable logging and the consequences of that for the local communities and environment. The film includes the controversial attempt by the Victorian government to log the iconic Goolengook valley.

http://www.waitawhilefilms.com.au