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Diehard Dorks Welcome! |
| Published: December 6, 2007, 4:00 pm |
| Tags: the city, dorkbot, douglas repetto |
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A little after 7 p.m. last night, in the back room of an empty gallery on a quiet stretch of Wooster Street in SoHo, some 40 people had just removed their coats and taken their seats. A constant din of familiar, anticipatory chit-chat filled the room. In one corner, a small table had been set up with a coffee dispenser and a few bags of Cracker Jacks someone had brought. To outsiders, the gathering probably looked and felt like an A.A. meeting. It wasn't. They had come, as most of them do on every first Wednesday of the month, for dorkbot. Douglas Repetto, an artist and professor at Columbia, started the group, whose motto is People doing strange things with electricity, exactly seven years ago at the university. Since then, the original dorkbot in New York has spawned over 90 chapters all over the world. From Medell n to Helsinki to the latest addition, in Sarnia, Ontario, proud geeks, artists and the curious use dorkbot to show off and talk about zany inventions, [ Full article ] |
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