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Earth Day Event to Transform Trash into Fashion!

Green Fashionistas Alert!  The Fuse Factory Electronic & Digital Arts Lab, an emerging not-for-profit arts organization in Columbus, is organizing a Trash Fashion Show as part of Now Get Busy! an Earth Day celebration organized by Green Columbus in Goodale Park on April 26th from 12 noon to 6:00pm.  Children and adults alike are invited to participate in creating, cheering, or judging.

Following an afternoon of transforming trash into fashion, participant designers or their designated models take to the red carpet and showcase their creations for public judging.  Professional fashion designers will be on hand to help turn your imagination into reality on stage, complete with music, emcee and prizes for those who display the most innovative use of materials. 

So, get busy with The Fuse Factory on Earth Day at Goodale Park! For more information, please visit http://www.thefusefactory.org/earthday.  Does this sound like an interesting volunteer opportunity? We'd love to have you get involved with us!  Please email info @ thefusefactory.org or call 614-483-3873.

Art & Play: From New Ideas in Bio-Art to Bio-Tech?

DON'T FORGET!

Presenter: Amy Youngs, associate professor of Art & Technology in the Dept of Art at OSU       

        April 23, 2008, 7pm at TechColumbus, 1275 Kinnear Rd.

What's Next?  Where will the new ideas in biotech, bio-science or bio-art come from?

Technology – especially bio-technology – is a high value proposition for new business opportunities, especially in central Ohio.  Needs are great and research is following many paths today. 

In addition to traditional sources of research and entrepreneurs - ART and PLAYful experimentation may prove to be key to breaking old paradigms.

Amy Youngs, associate professor of Art & Technology in the Dept of Art at OSU, will offer some of her insights - from 20 years of work in assembling exploratory ideas as art around the world, including Europe, Asia, Australia & New Zealand, and all across the United States.

As Einstein once said: "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."  The work of people like Amy Youngs raises our level of consciousness  - and gives us the footing to see new directions and new opportunities from a different vantage point.

Youngs' art demonstrates that playful exploration can be a source for new insights leading - possibly - to new levels of understanding and invention at the forefront of new technology.

This is First Annual Earthweek Seminar of DorkbotColumbus recognizing the importance of unstructured technology pursuits for the interests of the planet during EarthWeek. 

Dorkbot recognizes that not all progress is a purposeful process, with well-defined strategies and pre-ordained goals.  Much progress has been the result of informed and well-practiced play, utilizing the artifacts of technology an to create art and new levels of knowledge from which more serious efforts might take off.

Neat new Arduino board - Boarduino!

Check out the Boarduino

Who would have thought there could be so many puns and so much wordplay around an open-source processor?

See?  Technology always surprises!

Matt Howard has found instructions for an interesting and flexible kit, creating a modular board components based on the Arduino.  This is following on Matt's presentation in January.  Check out the complete Open Source Platform resource page on the DorkbotColumbus site.