Cardiff Design Festival

The dorkbot global network is made of groups of people "doing strange things with electricity". There are more than 100 groups worldwide, who meet at various intervals and present work in progress, experiments, hacks and other unexpected uses of technology. Members of dorkbot groups include artists, engineers, designers, musicians, hackers, curious types, no robots yet.

It was time to start a Cardiff dorkbot group, so here we go!

The first meeting of dorkbot Cardiff will take place on the evening of March 17th in the first floor space of Milgi Lounge 213 City Road Cardiff , CF24 3JD. Doors open 19:00, free.

Line-up:
• Genetic Moo, an artists duo who make interactive video installations that aim to bring mutated life forms to life.
• Mike Murray, Cardiff, visual artist interested in objects that move.
• Peter Hathaway, Cardiff, product designer will talk about his jelly phone and the Word Play project.
• Julia Thomas and Clare Potter, visual artist and poet expressing ‘the unseen and the unspoken’ with words and gizmos.
• Olivia Kotsifa, architect and dreamer researching interactive and responsive environments.
• Ben Havell, engineer, hacker and researcher in Animatronics at Cardiff School of Engineering.

And open dork session in the end, 5 minutes slots for whoever wants to present work in progress or other topic.

More info and updates on dorkbot Cardiff's website http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotcardiff/