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Arthur Ganson has organized what are my favorite performance events.    
One was called March Machine Madness but the name is less important  
than what the event was.  It's a call to the community for anyone and  
everyone to make a machine that is started by a string being pulled and  
ends pulling a string strong enough to lift a golf ball six inches.    
On the event day everyone brings their machines and ties them all  
together and the first string is pulled and all watch the continuous  
chain of events.   It's the best- six year old kids doing stuff with  
legos connected to college engineering students projects, connected to  
who knows what.   The only other rules are no fire and no harmful  
chemicals.

Clifford Wagner


On Jan 17, 2005, at 4:30 PM, Blair Clarkson wrote:

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> Hi all,
> We are looking at putting together a Robot Fun-Performance Event with  
> a local Art College.
>
> Our joint goal is create a wacky-creative-arts-robo event to open  
> folks minds to the creative use of all this technology.
>
> For the event we would invite a couple hundred past robot event  
> participants to attend with a few students and use their Robots in a  
> brief "Robot performance art piece" in our Aud.
>
> -They could easily "dress-decorate-modify-program" their robots & have  
> them preform !
>
> -We are trying to finalize 0-12 categories ...Comedy, Drama, Satire,  
> Impersonation, Dancer, Painter  etc......
>
> -They'll all probably be 1 min long to take place in a 4x8' area  
> centre stage of our Aud to a pre-recorded 1? minute music&or voiceover  
> piece.
>
> I would appreciate if anyone else has any ideas on categories or tips  
> on getting something like this off the ground ?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Blair Clarkson
> Coordinator Special Events & Attractions
> Visitor Experience Branch, Ontario Science Centre
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> "Imagination  is  more  important  than  knowledge."  Albert  Einstein.
> "The  man  who  has  no  imagination  has  no  wings."  Muhammad  Ali.
> "You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."  
> Mark Twain
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