Michael Ang - Light, Attraction and Emotion: Projects with Photons, Biology and Electrons Video of this talk on ustream.tv Inverse Parasol is an illuminated parasol that becomes a portable space for personal interaction on dark nights. Strange Attractor seeks the intersection of human and insect aesthetics as an intended object of desire for both humans and butterflies. Mang's recent work with the GigaPan robotic camera system explores how the tool can be used to capture story, emotion, and discrete moments of time. Together these projects represent the use of technology to explore and interact with the physical, biological, and social world around us. Michael Ang is an artistic, hacker and engineer working at the intersection of art, technology and human experience. He is a graduate of NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and currently works at the Internet Archive in support of its goal of Universal Access to All Knowledge. dorkbot-sf is a spinoff of dorkbot-nyc which is "a monthly meeting of artists (sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers, students and other interested parties from the new york area who are involved in the creation of electronic art (in the broadest sense of the term.)"