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| caption       = a '''dorkbot''' logo
| region_served = Global
| website       = {{url|http://dorkbot.org/}}
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| founder       = Douglas Repetto
| formation     = {{start-date|2000}}
| purpose        = Artistic, Educational
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'''Dorkbot''' is a group of affiliated organizations worldwide that sponsor [[grassroots]] meetings of artists, engineers, designers, scientists, inventors, and anyone else working under the very broad umbrella of [[electronic art]].<ref>{{Cite magazine| issn = 0028-792X| last = Wilkinson| first = Alec| title = Incomprehensible| magazine = The New Yorker| accessdate = 2014-05-30| date = 2004-06-07| url = http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/06/07/040607ta_talk_wilkinson}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| last = Chillag| first = Ian| title = Dorks Try to Mingle in New York| work = NPR.org| accessdate = 2014-05-30| date = 2008-02-07| url = https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18764927}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| issn = 0362-4331| last = Braiker| first = Brian| title = When Art and Science Collide, a Dorkbot Meeting Begins| work = The New York Times| accessdate = 2014-05-30| date = 2006-01-17| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/17/science/17dork.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news| issn = 0190-8286| last = Beckman| first = Rachel| title = Hearts of Dorkness| newspaper = The Washington Post| accessdate = 2014-05-30| date = 2006-12-21| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/20/AR2006122001723.html}}</ref> The dorkbot [[motto]] is "people doing strange things with electricity".

Started by Douglas Repetto<ref>{{Cite magazine| last = Metz| first = Rachel| title = The Geek Mind Behind Dorkbot| magazine = WIRED| accessdate = 2014-05-30| date = 2006-04-24| url = http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/04/70697?currentPage=all}}</ref> at the [[Columbia University]] [[Computer Music Center]] in 2000, dorkbot spread around the world, with over 100 chapters either planning or actively holding meetings as of 2010.<ref>The current list of chapters, with map, can be seen at [http://dorkbot.org dorkbot.org].</ref> In 2012, [[Dorkbot (malware)|a series of viruses]] with the same name appeared and it caused many of the chapters to disband.

The purpose of dorkbot meetings is to nurture a local electronic arts community and to encourage emerging, and established, artists to present new works for informal peer review.  While many of the dorkbot groups hold their meetings at universities and students are encouraged to attend, dorkbot meetings are not restricted in any way to the academic community.  Dorkbot groups encourage the free exchange of ideas on the electronic arts, and regular attendees of one dorkbot will often visit another when they are travelling, serving as informal ambassadors between groups.

==See also==
* [[ArtBots]]
* [[Café Scientifique]]
* [[Hackspace]]
* [[Maker Faire]]
* [[Nerd Nite]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://dorkbot.org Dorkbot Main Page]
* [http://vimeo.com/groups/dorkbotnyc Footage of NYC Dorkbot events]
* [https://archive.today/20130414150835/http://dorkbot.org/startadorkbot/pixelache2008.html "Questions about self-organisation: Dorkbot"] interview with Repetto for Pixelache 2008 Helsinki festival
* [http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/davis/davis1-24-06.asp "Technical Knock-Outs"] by Ben Davis, Artnet Magazine
* [https://dorkbotpdx.org/ Dorkbot PDX]

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