Pittsburgh Art + Technology

TOY STORY MANIA is a plug and play released last month and developed by Schell Games in the South Side, a company riding the wave of some of the coolest gaming technology in the world.

Toy Story Mania! is the home version of the latest ride to open in the Disney theme parks, making it the most sought after FastPass this summer. Better than Buzz Lightyear, the ride zips you into a midway where Woody and gang greet you. Riders rack up points using a spring-action shooter that points virtual projectiles–like paintballs–at targets to score points. The 4-D effect gives players a new dimension of experience, a puff of air, spritz of water, the splat of the paintball.

The home version may prepare you for the park ride, notes Schell, but offers a greater variety of targets. 

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Dorkbot Pittsburgh will be hosting an event

• September 16th
• October 21
• November 18
• December 9 

What is Dorkbot?
dorkbot is an international movement centered around people who like to do strange things with electricity. It’s all volunteer and non-profit — meetings are held in donated space and no admission fee is charged.

What is Dorkbot Pittsburgh?

dorkbotpgh is the pittsburgh chapter of dorkbot. Our meetings reflect what people in this area are interested in. Maybe it’s military robot prototypes reborn as art projects. Maybe it’s el-wire costumes, neon art, and backlit stained glass by local arists. Or perhaps it’s cutting edge animation from local students and hackers or a local pneumatics expert showing off technology that artists might use in an installation.

We don’t know exactly what dorkbotpgh is.

You do.

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Will take place in Pittsburgh PA May 6-15, 2011

 This will be our 6th year of presenting a great selection of films and events in support of our mission – Celebrating diversity and multi-cultural appreciation of the Asian and Asian American experience through cultural art events.

 We invite you to submit feature length, narrative films that fit that bill.

The deadline is February 1, 2011.

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Paper Politics is a major exhibition of politically and socially engaged printmaking. The exhibit showcases print art which uses themes of social justice and global equity to engage community members in political con-versation. The show has now been hung in several venues in the United States and Canada.

    The exhibition features work by over 180 artists from the US and around the world; an eclectic collection of work by artists who are primarily activists, as well as artists whose work may not always be politically moti-vated, but who wanted to respond to the monumental trends and events of our times.When: August 13 – October 24, 2010

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