With the motto: “people doing strange things with electricity”, Dorkbot is an international project initiated by Douglas Repetto, Assistant Professor of the Department of Music, Columbia University. Dorkbot provides a physical platform for diverse people to have friendly conversations about interesting ideas.

 

Dorkbot-HK was founded in 2009 as a hotbed for ‘people who do strange things with electricity’ to share and exchange creative ideas in Hong Kong. In the past, Dorkbot-hk hosted a variety of energetic creative people including Johannes Grenzfurthner (co-founder of Austrian avant garde collective monochrom), Karen Marcelo (founder of Dorkbot San Francisco, also a member of Survival Research Lab), Heather Kelley (Canadian game designer whose latest work is an intuitive vibrator interface for an iPhone app), Keith Lam (Hong Kong media artist who led a group of participants to make their own CO1 data collecting device to address our air pollution problem).

 

Videotage, as the initiator and organizer of Dorkbot-HK, aims to bridge between local and international artists, inventors, scientists and engineers to push the boundaries of creating using electricity.