Dorkbot:19 TESLA NIGHT!!

When:

June 5, 2005 - 6:00pm

Where:

Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
6413 Seaview Ave NW
Seattle, WA, 98107
See map: Google Maps

What:
DORKBOTSEA 2nd ANNIVERSARY
MEETING AND CELEBRATION
IT’S…

TESLA NIGHT!!!

at 6:00 PM at CoCA on SUNDAY, JUNE 5TH

Join dorkbot-sea regulars and irregulars, teslaphiles, technophiles, artists and aesthetes for an arc and spark-filled night as we celebrate the work and influence of the most visionary of so-called mad scientists -

NIKOLA TESLA

Find out more about...
BEST TESLA COIL and BEST TESLA-INSPIRED DEVICE
OR ARTWORK prizewinners MATT STIGER
and LAWRENCE MACCARY!

See
Images from chasBlog!
and
VIDEO of Tesla-inspired devices in AWE-INSPIRING
ACTION – from SRL’s Seattle show and beyond!

Hear…
FOUR FANTASTIC SPEAKERS talk about their work
with Tesla-inspired technologies!!

Bring…
out your Jacob’s Ladders, your Tesla Coils, your plasma balls, your bladeless turbines, your old radios, your strange medical instruments: anything and everything Tesla-inspired more than welcome (Vandergraaff generators and the like equally encouraged)! Click for show and tell guidelines.

Win…
Prizes for anyone bringing a Tesla Coil, the best Tesla Coil
and the coolest of the Tesla-inspired devices!!!

Experience…
Visuals by VJ Scotbot!
The smell of ozone in the evening!

Dance…
to music by CARLOS MIGUEL, DjMB
and TECHNOISYOURFRIEND

Drink…
Glow-In-The-Dark cocktails!

SPEAKERS Include...

FROM LOS ANGELES: BILL WYSOCK, professional creator of Tesla Coils for Hollywood, museums and scientific institutions worldwide, looks back at 30 YEARS of shock and awe


FROM SAN FRANCISCO: GREG LEYH, builder of the WORLD’S LARGEST TESLA COIL and instigator of The NEVADA LIGHTNING LABORATORY, talks about his past, present and future work


 

 

FROM PORTLAND: artist ERIC FRANKLIN, creator of amazing NEON and ARGON glass sculptures exhibited across the West, talking about the hows, whys and why nots of making these compelling sculptures

  

 

FROM SEATTLE: the instigator of the Weird Sciences Salon, folk scientist and artist WILLIAM J. BEATY explores NIKOLA TESLA and MIND CONTROL

SHOW AND TELL…

FROM SPOKANE: engineer and artist LAWRENCE ‘MAC’ MACCARY gives a TOUR of his STRANGE EQUIPMENT!

TOM INGRAM, LMP and his WEIRD INSTRUMENTS!

MATT STIGER and his MEDIUM-SIZED coil with the 7 FOOT SPARKS!!!

TESLA COILS! JACOB’S LADDERS! PLASMA GLOBES! A BLADELESS TURBINE! OLD RADIOS and more, more, MORE –
plus PRIZES for the strangest and the best: YOU VOTE!!!

Click for SHOW AND TELL GUIDELINES

PERFORMERS…

visuals by VJ SCOBOT

music from CARLOS MIGUEL, DjMB and TECHNOISYOURFRIEND

VIDEO…

   

Survival Research
Laboratories’
THE PLEASURES OF
UNINHIBITED EXCESS
Including SRL’s 1990
Seattle performance

  

Krsto Papic’s
THE SECRET OF NIKOLA TESLA

 

Eduard Galic’s
NIKOLA TESLA: THE GENIUS
WHO LIT THE WORLD

SHOW AND TELL GUIDELINES

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SAFETY: YOU are 100% responsible for the safe operation of your device inside or outside the CoCA space. DON’T HURT US OR YOURSELF!!!

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POWER: if you have an unusual power requirement, please BRING YOUR OWN GENERATOR.

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EQUIPMENT: please bring your own tools, extension cables etc. – everything you need to display your devices. We will have SOME large tables and about 8 pedestals; if you have a particularly large object or collection, please bring your own table.

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SETUP: We will be at CoCA from ~4.00 pm on the 5th setting up tables and chairs. Setup for show and tell officially starts at 6 pm along with the Tesla documentary and SRL videos, but if you want to a) bring equipment or b) set up earlier, let us know (see below).

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VOLUNTEERS: if you need assistance showing your device or keeping the audience at a safe distance, please arrange for people to help you before you come along to dorkbot. We’ll have some of our own volunteers around, but it would help us if you brought your own, too. Thank you!!!

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QUESTIONS? dorkbotsea [@] dorkbot [.] org

 

… don’t forget the PRIZES!!!!