dorkbot london #99.75
We are slowly getting towards Dorkbot 100, shaving 1/2 the distance off between 99 and a full century each time. Come along and listen to people Doing Strange Things With Electricity (isn't everything electric, when you think about it?)
Free entry, no registration required. Talks start at 7:00pm, doors from 6:45pm. Ring the main buzzer to get in.
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When: 19:00-21:00, Fri Nov 21 2025 Where: The Boxing Club, Limehouse Town Hall, 646 Commercial Road, E14 7HA (directions below)
Featuring
Playfool ====
Playfool is an artist duo formed by Daniel Coppen (UK) and Saki Maruyama (JP). Through the medium of play, their practice explores notions of agency in relation to technology. Understanding play as a form of epistemological inquiry, their work invites people for critical engagement and reimagination of technology, often taking the form of spatial installations, interactive devices and digital / analog games.
Playfool’s works have been awarded in both the Dezeen Award (2021) and STARTS Prize (2024), and have been exhibited internationally including at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, 2023), Ars Electronica (Linz, 2024), and MAK - Museum for Applied Arts (Vienna, 2019-2025).
Astryd Park ====
Astryd Park is an artist, creative technologist, and Quantum Application Engineer at Moth - who has been creatingartistic applications of quantum computing since 2020. Astryd's interest is building systems/applications/solutionswhich bring creative side of cutting-edge technologies. For example, she is the creator of the Moth's Quantum Brush application, which bridges quantum computing with visual media, and which is also showcased in Berlin Science Week. During their MSc in Creative Computing at the UAL Creative Computing Institute, they explored the intersection of physical computing and quantum computing, bringing post-humanist ideas to life through the installation 'Wie?: A Question from the Quantum Realm', which is showcased in CCI Winter Festival in Peckham, London.Most recently, they showcased their artwork 'Reality is Not What it Seems' at London Tech Week—the UK's largest tech event, and Quantum After Dark in Science Gallery, greeting more than 700 people. The project uses a custom quantum 2Dimage encoding algorithm (QPIXL) to distort live video recordings, challenging perceptions of digital reality. Their creative practice spans moving image, kinetic sculpture, science fiction, graphic novels, and cinema music.
Katiushka Borges ====
Kat's last project ANCESTRAL HEARTBEAT is a multisensory interactive installation about the oraltradition of Mexican elders to inspire new generations to value the wisdom of Ancestors. (The solution of using an ArduinoTouchboard was through a dorkbot presentation 10 years ago.) Kat was awarded a residency in Mexico to develop this project andhas exhibited it in London and in 2 museums in Mexico. Most recently, in April 2025 she was invited by Harvard Divinity School to presentat Spirituality & the Arts Conference.
Scents of 4 elements
ANCESTRAL HEARTBEAT- BODY BALANCE WITH 4 ELEMENTS by Katiushka Borges
Latido Ancestral ExConvento Tepoztlán
PLUS OPEN DORKS
(short talks or demo's) from or of...
Greenman: a video game
Yoshi's photographs
Saul Albert!
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How to get to Limehouse Town Hall
Unfortunately Limehouse Town Hall is not wheelchair accessible asthere are steps from the street and up to the main hall.
By Tube
Limehouse DLR from Bank or Tower Gateway
By Bus
15 from Trafalgar Sq / 115 from Aldgate /
D6 from Hackney / D3 from Bethnal Green
Beware! Google's location for E14 7HA is a bit off, it's actually opposite where Salmon Lane joins Commercial Road, or in other words... Get onto Commercial Road and travel East from Aldgate or Whitechapel. Stay on Commercial Road, passing Limehouse DLR on your right (and going under a railway bridge) and you'll see a modern red brick church also on the right, then a boarded up library. Just over the canal you'll seethe Town Hall, with the Limehouse Hawksmoor church behind it, on the opposite side of the road from the big metal anchor. At this point you should get off the bus/bicycle and come ring on the "Boxing Club" bell (The top of the 4 main buttons).
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