Dorkbot SL project started officially. LSL and Gazira Babeli

The dorkbot project has started! It has now a official website of the dorkbot community! There are even mailinglists. But the next steps are still the presentations techniques. I found out a bit more, but I should start scripting.. It is interesting anyway! You could do everything, which can be programmed.. Sounds quite nice! Second Life has its own scripting language called LSL (Linden Scripting Language). Another quite exciting things is that I talked/chatted with Gazira Babeli. She is a SL Code Performer!!! She was very friendly and even visited rhizomatic, we sat at the fireplace and talked about SL and RL. For her code is life. Very interesting! Maybe I can ask her for attending a dorkbotmeeting sometime??

posted by Maximillian Nakamura on Sand using a blogHUD

dorkbot in SL! people doing strange things with electricity.

I (Maximillian Nakamura) am trying to establish dorkbot*** meetings in Second Life.. I mailed the founder of dorkbot Douglas Repetto who is in New York and asked him if he thinks it is a good idea and he was into it! So next steps are find out some appropiate presentations methods.

I founded also a new group in-world, means in Second Life, called: Dorkbot SL:

Dorkbot SL wants to explore the new possibilieties of the metaverse and tries to establish a platform for a glocal way of creating new connections and collaborations. Meetings are held at rhizomatic (link to rhizomatic in SL).

*** WIKIPEDIA says: people doing strange things with electricity – Dorkbot refers to a group of affiliated organizations worldwide that hold meetings of artists, engineers, and designers working in the medium of electronic art. Started by Douglas Repetto in New York (2000), it has spread around the world with over forty chapters holding monthly meetings as of 2007. In addition to the original New York City-based dorkbot (dorkbot-nyc), current and planned groups exist in London, Ghent, San Francisco, Linz, Melbourne, Mumbai, Seattle, Rotterdam, Lisbon, Sofia, Chicago, Southern California, Barcelona, Switzerland, Orlando, Madrid, Detroit, Mexico City, Philadelphia, Bahia, Eindhoven, Toronto, Tokyo, Vienna, Washington, DC, and Atlanta, GA (at Georgia Tech).

The purpose of dorkbot meetings is to nurture a local electronic arts community (in the broadest sense of the term) and to encourage emerging, and established, artists to present new works for informal peer review. While many of the dorkbot groups hold their meetings at universities and students are encouraged to attend, dorkbot meetings are not restricted in any way to the academic community. Dorkbot groups encourage the free exchange of ideas on the electronic arts, and regular attendees of one dorkbot will often visit another when they are travelling, serving as informal ambassadors between groups.

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About Rhizomatic

This is my first post so I write about rhizomatic my SL-Project:

Rhizomatic is a (art-)project by Maximillian Nakamura which is open to everybody who is interested:

1. We want to think philosophically ** about the conditions, backgrounds and consequences of the digital medium. We are trying to see conturs, silhouetts and lines of a Philosophy of the digital itself and this in the Medium of Second Life.

2. We want to build maps and links to several concepts and ideas like a rhizome (As Deleuze said.)

3. As McLuhan said already 40 years ago ,,the medium is the message” We are seeking for the message of the digital medium.

And finally we want to meet and collaborate with script and code artists in SL, who show us that SL in not a copy of the Reality and this in a artistic way.

I (Maximillan Nakamura) have built a center, where it is possible to meet, discuss and make decisions.

Please leave a comment, when interested! You can also leave a note in the dropbox (inside the building) or IM me. There is also a group I founded.. I hope there wil be soon a few avatars participiating!

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** With Background Philosophers like: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, Saussure, Wittgenstein, Alan Turing, von Neumann, N. Wiener, McLuhan, Lacan, Friedrich Kittler and more.
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