Generator is going to have 24 grabbable coupons hung on the Christmas Tree for $5 OFF Gift Certificates. These coupons are only valid for the duration of the Holiday Market at Generator from 10am-4pm. You snooze, you lose. Come grab your free Generator dollars.
Join us on December 12 for our Holiday Market. We will have a wide variety of local talent and Generator members offering up their wares for unique holiday gift shopping. Generator highly values innovation, creativity and experimentation in contemporary craft, fine art objects, and well crafted work. Have the kids in tow? We will have activities for kids so parents can spend their time perusing the goods.
Matt Flego and Erik Cooper of M//E and Aaron Wisniewski and Sam Wisniewski of Alice and the Magician are teaming up to bring you a pop-up bar. This wont be just any ordinary bar; besides having flair, it will be packed with Alice and the Magician edible scents to create unique and flavorful drinks. Keep your ear to the ground for their first bar tending session at Generator coming up soon.
www.generatorvt.com, meetup – Generator’s 3rd Thursday Mixer, facebook – GeneratorVT
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Join us to eat, drink, listen and participate.
Step 1: Fill out the proposal form and put it in the box
Step 2: Ideas get reviewed
Step 3: Ideas get voted on at the members’ meetings
Tech Jam Award Winners Announced
BY CATHY RESMER / OCTOBER 26TH, 2015, 02:55 PM
On Friday, October 23, the Vermont Technology Alliance recognized the winners of the 2015 Tech Jam Awards, sponsored by Merchants Bank. Patricia Moulton, Secretary of the Agency of Commerce and Community Development, presented the awards at the exhibitor mixer at the end of the first day of the 9th Vermont Tech Jam.
There are two awards: The Innovation Award is presented to the individual or business with the most innovative new product, application of technology, or way of doing business. The Ambassador Award is presented to an individual or business whose leadership and actions positively represent Vermont as a home for technology business, and whose efforts help put Vermont “on the map” as a place for technology businesses to start, succeed and grow.
A distinguished panel of judges evaluated the entries: Patricia Moulton, Secretary of Commerce & Community Development; Dr. John Cohn, IBM Fellow; Justin Cutroni, Google Analytics Evangelist; and Seven DaysPublisher/Co-Editor Paula Routly. The group reviewed the entries and determined the top three finalists in each category.
Logic Supply, of South Burlington, won the Innovation Award. Michael Metz, of Burlington’s Generator, was the recipient of this year’s ambassador award. Accepting on his behalf was his wife, Denise Shekerjian.
Michael Metz was the impetus behind the creation of Generator, Burlington’s not-for-profit, member-driven maker space. In just its second year, Generator is already playing a key role in the region’s “entrepreneurial ecosystem.” It helps both new and existing startups, many of them tech-based businesses, and has 180 members. Other Vermont communities creating their own maker spaces see Generator as a model. Metz played a vital role in gathering expertise and raising the money to get the venture off the ground. Generator Inc. and its contributions to business development and job creation in the region would not exist without his vision.
Sean Clute is a professor of media arts at Johnson State College with a deep track record of performance that includes making custom equipment for dance and theater performance that combines animation, electronically generated sound, and image projection. His sound machines are great interactive pieces that bring a new perspective on things that we already experience subconsciously.
Some of my goals during the residency included creating analogue electronic sound instruments that could be used to improvise with music, dance and other performative groups. Additionally, it was my hope to
explore how, on a personal level, electronic art fits into the idea of Vermont being a rural and natural landscape. By researching the relationship of technology and nature through readings of post-humanist scholars (Hayles, Haraway, Ferrando), I hoped to fuse their concepts within the design of the instruments.
Entering into the world of analogue instruments and post-humanism was new to me. I started the residency by reading and trying to copy the musical circuits of composer David Tudor and reading Handmade Electronic Music by Nicolas Collins. I also used the stipend to buy electronic components, materials, and coffee to meet people for potential collaborations. Through readings as well as the highly important insight from Generator resident Leif Hunneman, I started creating instruments that could listen. I would test these instruments in rehearsals with choreographer Polly Motely and even performed with them a couple of times (July, August 2015). As the residency progressed I started to focus on instruments that revealed inaudible electromagnetic and acoustic sounds.
Immediate reflection on things learned through the residency include better understanding analogue electronics and of electronic sound works. However, beyond the technical achievements, I learned how to aesthetically and conceptually integrate my passion for creative technology into the idea of rural Vermont. For example, there is a conflict when I imagining using a shiny Mac laptop to create art in the forest, but allowing the forest to give its sonic essence to me as content for artistic projects was valuable. This approach allows me as an artist to justify the work that I do where I do it (I am a resident of Jericho).
The big thing Generator’s community helped me with was in finding how, as an artist, I fit into Vermont. I just love the community at Generator and would feel lonely without it and its vision. I feel positive that the connections I made with Generator members and community will continue to grow into collaborations and further dialogue into the value and fun of making things.
-Sean Clute
3rd Thursday’s theme is Our Lake!
August 20th
5:30pm-7:30pm
Join us for drinks and riveting information about projects revolving around Vermont Lakes. Our guest speakers would love to hear your input and to have you get involved.
We will see you there!
