NEXT MEETING
6 pm Tuesday 29 November
CCAS Galleries Gorman House Art Centre
free admission / all welcome

Hello DORKS ! As promised its back to back dorkbots in Novemeber and after Tracey and Dave's incredible ISEA Odyssey that pilled a hige crowd we have the fabulous Pia van Gelder who just happens to be the dorkbot overlord Sydney as well as a talented media artist.

Pia van Gelder is a Sydney based electronic media artist / facilitator / teacher / student. Pia teaches Media Art at the College of Fine Arts, she is an MFA candidate at University of Sydney. She is a director at the Hybrid ARI Serial Space and the Overlord of Dorkbot (Sydney).

Van Gelder's practice balances between two focuses for live performance and interactive installations - analogue audio/video synthesis and the modification or circuit-bending of pre-existing media-machines to facilitate their creation of unexpected and idiosyncratic outputs. She is interested in the idea of the “performing machine”, exploring the strange partnership or collaboration between artist and machine.
Van Gelder's research is a form of media archaeology - discussing contemporary approaches to 'composition inside electronics' and new possibilities of 'haunted media' and 'machine vision'. Van Gelder will be presenting some recent machines she has been working with and some ideas they are conjuring together.

http://piavangelder.com/
www.serialspace.org
http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotsyd/