December 4th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
putting photos from The Robot Parade into a flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hcwiley/sets/72157632162866097/
If you have any photos to add, let it be known
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No, AngryBeatz isn’t getting a ticket, he’s getting his picture taken.
November 24th, 2012 § 1 comment § permalink
Tell your toaster! Tell your smart phone! Tell your VCR player!
The Robot is this Sunday, December 2!
The Robot Parade is starting out of the Old Irons Works at 4 and making a circuit through the area. Look for us passing by locations such as Satsuma Cafe, Mimi’s In The Marigny, The Healing Center, and maybe as far as Cafe Envie. We will be back at The Old Iron Works at 6 for the reception and more kinetic art!
November 1st, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Ok folks, starting November 7th every Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday leading up to the Robot Parade on December 2 there will be a Maker Meetup. Things will get going around 11am and go until everyone is over it… The meetups are taking place at 1201 Mazant. If wednesdays, saturdays, and sundays aren’t good for you email contact@automatanola.org to setup a time… or of course make some stuff at your place!
Here is a link to the google calendar event so you can add it yours: https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ieq583ehphi7jpvug70kkf8ri4%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Chicago
October 19th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Attention Attention!!
October 10th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Another great day for man and machine alike, the Robot Parade has signed 3 new sponsors.
BarNotes, a social application dedicated to the art of the cocktail, is going to lend us their expertise in the realm of all thinks drink related and provide the booze for the after party.
Launchpad, a collaborative workspace and community of entrepreneurs, creative professionals and freelancers – building businesses together, has given sponsorship to support the creation of some robots!
code.art, a website that allows you to share your sketches, links, code, videos, all in a centralized location that ties into your github, youtube, facebook, so that artist/hackers/makers can see their process, has given sponsorship for the creation of a robot!
Github, the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers, is still on board to provide prizes to the winners of the various categories and private repos to all participants.
Thank you sponsors!
We cannot thank our sponsors enough. Without them this event couldn’t happen. Automata is a community of artists, hackers, and makers and we are grateful that others enjoy the fruits of labors as much as we do.
October 9th, 2012 § 0 comments § permalink
Good news everyone!
Automata now has its own url: AutomataNOLA.org
Look for posts coming very soon about the first Robot Parade hacker/maker meetup. It will be within the next 2 weeks. Start collecting you motors, buttons, gears, wheels, sprockets, and anything else you might want to put into a robot.
Also please vote on what the categories for the prizes should be: https://www.voteit.com/v/4JTT8dRv2JmduLR
September 17th, 2012 § 1 comment § permalink
Volatilia is seen in a biblical phrase meaning “the birds of heaven,” though I think it gets translated another boring way, so maybe I’m wrong. It makes sense to think of volatilia as things that fly in gaseous, infinite realms, like Mrs. Whatsit as a centaur in A Wrinkle In Time.
With self-deprecating humour, Coleridge alluded to the impossibility of pinning down anything as elusive as a thought by calling his later notebooks ‘Fly-catchers’: the notebook pages function like fly paper, trapping the living thoughts or ‘winged words’ and preserving them for all time, but at the cost of that very living quality which made them worth preserving. A variation on this title occurs in Notebook 56, which bears the title ‘Volatilia or Day-book for bird-liming Small Thoughts, impounding Stray Thoughts, and holding for trial doubtful Thoughts’
Please click here to view the working list of artists, and visit Barrister’s Gallery for more information in the coming weeks.
THE ROBOT PARADE! Sponsored by Git Hub.
No longer just flying robots, but a slew of as many varieties a krewe can manage.
H. Cole Wiley is coordinating the parade, and hosting workshops in his upper 9th ward studio. The parade is still projected for mid-November, likely in the St. Roch neighborhood, with several great neighborhood partnerships in the works. If you would like to participate or get more information, please add your name and contact to our Robot Parade spreadsheet under the “I am interested” category, or via this blog.
Be sure to add our facebook page, Automata New Orleans, and twitter feed for more frequent news updates!
June 18th, 2012 § 1 comment § permalink
Due to difficulties in fund-raising this year, we will have to postpone the main Automata exhibit at the Ironworks, and our preview at the Ogden’s Library.
Automata remains a sponsor of the Robot Parade on November 18th (including the Krewe of Spy vs. Spy Flying Robots!).
The Models and Miniatures exhibit at Barrister’s Gallery is also transformed! Several Automata artists will participate, but the focus of the exhibit has changed, and so has the name- it is now called Volatilia, and still runs from November 10 through December 3.
We will continue to post updates about all the exciting developments in the Robot Parade and the re-workings of the exhibit at Barrister’s Gallery. If you have been working on a project for Automata 2012, please do contact us, as we are still working out the details. Otherwise, we look forward to this year’s events and re-organizing for next year’s main exhibit!
In the interlude, some Oskar Schlemmer for everyone:
Das Triadische Ballet
Flight of all sorts is a decent theme to ponder.
March 22nd, 2012 § 1 comment § permalink
Everyone interested in drone technology and variations on flying machines are welcome to join us for the inaugural Spy vs. Spy picnic and parade in New Orleans during Automata! The parade and picnic will take place on Sunday, November 18, in New Orleans– location and other info is still to come.
In addition: Automata’s machine show opening night at the Ironworks is Saturday, Nov. 17, and all participants are welcome to bring their flying robots to the exhibit for some flying demonstrations. We will work to provide a map of areas in New Orleans where DIY flyers can roam freely.
Two great items of news:
H. Cole Wiley will head organization of the Flying Robot Parade. Cole is a code-writer, sculptor, and inventor and has already been indispensible to the carrying-on of Automata- he will be one of the great forces behind the show this year.
& thanks to Cole, our first sponsor of Spy vs. Spy is GitHub! A perfect match!
Details to come!
Cole will bring you further updates on the Flying Robot Parade and on activities and developments with Automata, and information on our sponsors and how to sign up or show up for Spy vs. Spy and surrounding activities.
A brief resume- he is about to finish his degree at LSU, Baton Rouge in Sculpture, with a minor in Digital Art and Computer Science, after which he will spend some time in New Orleans working on Automata and his other projects- including Decode72 design solutions. Look for one of his installations at the Ogden Museum later this year.
More news on the near horizon!
