dorkbot-cleveland

I think Pittsburgh City Paper's recent State of Art article was my introduction exposure to Dorkbots; I must've missed Tech Futures covering Dorkbots coming to Cleveland nearly a year ago.

(Wikipedia:Dorkbot): Dorkbot refers to a group of affiliated organizations worldwide that sponsor meetings of artists, engineers, and designers working in the medium of electronic art.

So, yes, CLE has one, now:
dorkbot-cleveland presents a free, informal gathering of artists, engineers and programmers in the greater-Cleveland area, to show their work. There's a mailing list (but no blog,) and there's been one gathering at the defunct HealthSpace Cleveland (apparently with Rich Weiss of Ingenuity, Case Weatherhead's Fred Collopy, and video artist Kasumi on the bill.)