LA SIGGRAPH presents "Maker Night" -- June 10th

XRay says:

Sometimes it seems like the members of ACM SIGGRAPH (Get ready for a long acronym: Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics) don't know about the local Maker culture in Los Angeles and I'm not sure how much the local Makers around Los Angeles know about SIGGRAPH. As the Chair of the local Los Angeles chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH I'd like to bridge the gap and extend and invitation to interested folks to come on down to Santa Monica and participate in a sort of science fair social hour and maker night that I'm hosting at Bergamot Station on Tuesday, June 10th. If you've got a home brew electronics/robotics/whirring/buzzing/blinking/tactile art project/plaything you'd like to share then get in touch with me via [e-mail] to reserve a space. Participants get free admission and we'll feed you.

We've got an exciting evening planned. Boing Boing's own Mark Frauenfelder is giving a talk on "The Rise and Fall and Ride of Modern Making" and we're featuring a circuit bending performance by Jeff Boyton who's going to create an immersive audio environment honed from his hand crafted electronic instruments built from leftover consumer electronic detritus.

Space-Time Coordinates to follow:

LA SIGGRAPH presents "Maker Night"

When:
Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
5:30 pm - Makers Load In and Set up
6:30-7:30pm - Social Hour Science Fair
7:30-10:30pm - Presentation

Where:
The Writers Boot Camp at Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave., Bldg I (the letter I, not the numeral 1)
Santa Monica, CA, 90404

Contact: [e-mail]

Related Links:

LA SIGGRAPH (Yea, I know. We're working on it...)

ACM SIGGRAPH

Jeff Boynton Circuit Bending

• [DefMech]

  Siggraph showcases lots of experimental electronic art that has a huge crossover into areas that would be of interest to Makers/Hackers, not just CG artists. I’m glad they’re doing this, it’ll open their showcase to a much larger audience.

• [xray]

  I was just informed that’s it’s Bldg. I not bldg 1… that’s the letter “I” not the numeral “1″…

  Cheers,
  -Xray

• [noen]

  Well, computer graphics doesn’t traditionally have a lot in common with the areas makers are typically interested in. There is some overlap but not much, I would think.

• [Kieran O’Neill]

  Hmmm … Well, the SIGGRAPH guys seem to encompass broader HCI, and a lot of the hot topics in HCI are in new interfaces, especially in home-brew versions of these. (e.g. this guy’s wiimote multi-touch whiteboard. Interactive art projects would be of mutual interest, too.

  The link is a little tenuous, but it’s there.

  (And anyway, the links that *could* be made have the potential for serious “wonderful”-ness.)

• [viveka]

  Not such a very tenuous link – Xray may have thought that was a long acronym, but it’s actually longer: The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and *Interactive Techniques*. Google “siggraph emerging technologies” to see what I mean.