Dorkbot #5

When:

18:00-22:00, Wed Feb 28 2024

Where:

SODA (School of Digital Arts), 14 Higher Chatham St, Manchester M15 6ED (directions below)

We’re very happy to announce Dorkbot Manchester #5! Featuring talks and demos from…

Alex Russel

Alex Russell (@alexrussell_art) is an artist and creative coder. He works with code and digital/analogue media, using generative systems that assemble libraries of his images into one-off artworks. His code combines algorithms that model compositional methods from art and design with complex systems theory, creating unique outputs each time they run.

Babs Smith

Babs Smith (@babssmithart) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Manchester. Her practice explores our visceral relationship with climate change using traditional mediums and new technologies.

John-Robin Bold

John-Robin Bold (@johnrobinbold) is an immaterial artist working with electronic music, internet and installation art. His practice explores the aesthetic mutations of digital media and their unforeseeable impact on music, art, subjectivity and society at large.

Demos

Andee Collard

Andee Collard (@andeecollard) is a Bolton-based artist who integrates machine-assisted techniques into his painting and drawing practice with a portable custom French box easel plein art machine. Andee fosters a symbiotic relationship with his machines, influencing and enhancing his artistic process.

Graft Games

Graft Games (@gemmamaypotter & @james_medd) combine classic gaming mechanics with craft equipment, creating unique experiences that blur the boundaries between playfulness and productivity.

Prateek Kumar Gupta

Prateek Kumar Gupta is a Future Media Production Student at SODA. He will demonstrate “Fluxora”, a virtual YouTuber created using a motion capture smart suit.

Installation

John-Robin Bold, Audio Library of a Viewable World

Information

Doors open and demos start at 6pm, talks start at 6.30pm. We’ll be in room 1.01 on the first floor in SODA. Masks welcome.

5 minute Open Dork speaking slots are available to anyone, and there’s space for more demos! If you’d like to talk or show a project, let us know by DM or email: dorkbotmcr@gmail.com

How to get to SODA

By Train

SODA is a 12 minute walk from Manchester Oxford Road Station

By Tram

SODA is a 17 minute walk from St Peters Square Tram Stop