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 | What do tadpoles and toilets have in common?Hint: Feedback. That’s right, Feedback, our show on sustainability closes this Saturday, so you only have a few days left to see the “mind-blowing” work on display. Added incentive: a day of workshops followed by a closing reception—perhaps this preview will pique your interest? There’s a wealth of new material online: podcasts, guest reBlogger Andrew Price from GOOD Magazine, and, of course, information on how to get tickets for our May 6 benefit celebrating freedom and creativity. The fun’s just around the corner … . This Week at Eyebeam:April 19: FEEDBACK Closing: Sustainability Action Day: Toxic Tours + Urban Gardening April 25: Interactivos? Application Deadline May 6: Eyebeam Benefit Celebrating Freedom and Creativity New from our Labs:April 19 + 22: Zach Lieberman at See Conference + FITC April 21: Médecins Sans Frontières Visualization April 24: Non-Motivational Speaker Series May 1 – 2: Futuresonic Conference 2008 Community:April 12 – May 30: 1800 Frames | Take 4 April 25: Opening Reception: Main Space: The New Normal Colbert Discovers the Darkside Coworking at The Change You Want To See April 19: FEEDBACK Closing: Sustainability Action Day: Toxic Tours + Urban Gardening
Sustainability Action Day: Toxic Tours + Urban Gardening Join Feedback artists Natalie Jeremijenko, Leah Gauthier, and Brooke Singer for a day of workshops. Natalie Jeremijenko will lead a surface-level noPARK action on a plot of pavement in Chelsea (within a short walk of Eyebeam, exact location TBA the day of the event). noPARK is a public art project to create “no parking zones" of micro-engineered green spaces to prevent storm water runoff, use foliage to stabilize the soil, and provide a durable low maintenance surface cover. In order to help raise funds for the noPARK project that the artist plans to implement throughout the city, limited-edition potted plants will be sold as "shares" of the project (complete with certificates) at Eyebeam for $10. (A single noPARK zone is estimated to cost approximately $6000 to implement.) Shareholders will be encouraged to take their plants to the site of the April 19 noPARK for the 3-6PM action. Leah Gauthier will lead Sow-In, in which participants will distribute hundreds of seed pots to community gardeners across the city for transplant, care, harvest, and seed saving. Brooke Singer with Michael Heimbinder and Emily Gallagher will conduct a virtual toxic tour followed by a hands-on workshop. The virtual tour will focus on a site in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that is currently undergoing contamination evaluation by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of Health. Together they will explore the region’s historic and current industries, detail the contaminants of concern and discuss potential remedies. In the second part of the workshop, the artists will provide resources for participants to identify toxic exposures in their own neighborhoods. The workshop will end with a group discussion of effective organizing strategies and ways to develop activist networks . Brooke Singer is a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) 2007 Artist Fellowship recipient. This presentation is co-sponsored by Artists & Audiences Exchange, a NYFA public program. April 25: Interactivos? Application Deadline
Entramado, Plaza de Luz, installation and photo by Pablo Valbuena. Interactivos? @ Eyebeam This summer, Eyebeam will produce Interactivos?—the Medialab-Prado and Madrid City Council program initiated in 2006—as part of our workshop-based programming. Invited projects will creatively explore the theme of “real versus fake” in an intensely collaborative and interdisciplinary two-week project development cycle, resulting in a public exhibition in our Chelsea gallery. In May, Eyebeam will open a second call for individuals interested in collaborating on the selected projects. Submit you project proposal now to be a part of this two-week workshop, exhibit, and seminar. The program will be produced by Eyebeam staff, fellows and residents. Please see the Call for Participation for details: http://eyebeam.org/production/onlineapp/join_detail.php?program_id=472096 May 6: Eyebeam Benefit Celebrating Freedom and Creativity
Eyebeam 2008 Freedom and Creativity Benefit Honoring Craig Newmark, Craigslist founder and the Internet’s best known customer service representative. Proceeds from the evening will help underwrite Eyebeam’s international fellowship and residency programs for artists and creative technologists, more than 300 of whom have benefited since 1997. Featuring: Tickets and information online: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/528/t/6209/shop/shop.jsp?storefront_KEY=497 New from our LabsApril 19 + 22: Zach Lieberman at See Conference + FITCSee Conference Flash In The Can Festival Eyebeam fellow Zach Lieberman will be presenting and perfoming his work at See Conference in Wiesbaden, Germany on April 19, and at Flash In The Can Festival in Toronto, Canada on April 22. Zach will show recent projects and talk about the work underway at the Eyebeam R&D OpenLab, including the upcoming Interactivos? workshop. April 21: Médecins Sans Frontières Visualization (MSF)Ars Electonica Futurelab Eyebeam fellows Jessica Banks, Ayah Bdeir, Friedrich Kirschner, Zach Lieberman, and Addie Wagenknecht have teamed up with MSF and the Ars Electonica Futurelab to craft an interactive visualization for a live concert and fundraiser in Vienna on April 21. The visualization will track and display in real-time the the SMS donations of audience members. April 24: Non-Motivational Speaker SeriesGelf Magazine’s Non-Motivational Speaker Series Culture jammers and pranksters are the topic of this month’s Non-Motivational Speaker Series organized by Gelf Magazine. The evening’s featured speakers will be Alan Abel founder of The Society for the Indecency to Naked Animals and Citizens Against Breastfeeding and subject of the recent award-winning documentary Abel Raises Cain; Eyebeam senior fellow Steve Lambert, guerrilla artist, founder of The Anti-Advertising Agency; and Ron English, patriarch of the agit-pop art movement, corporate branding vigilante, and subject of the documentary POPaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English. April 26: Art Wiki Marathon 2Art Wiki Marathon 2 Following on the success of the last wikimarathon, we present the Great Wikimarthon 2. Participating artists will include: Eyebeam senior fellow Steve Lambert, R&D OpenLab fellow Michael Mandiberg, and alums Bennett Williamson, Jamie Wilkinson, Marisa Olson, and Joe DelPesco aka Mr. Collective Foundation. For more information on how to participate, visit: http://thegreatinter.net/wikimarathon/ May 1 – 2: Futuresonic Conference 2008
Futuresonic Conference 2008: The Social Technology Summit May 1, 2PM – 3:30PM: Collective Media May 2, 10AM – 11:30AM: Musical Interfaces Additional Events: A workshop about Manchester, its people and the stuff they give away. This session will be dedicated to creating fashion items out of freecycled materials collected around the city. The clothes will be presented in a community fashion show at the end of the workshop. Also presenting (TBA) is Eyebeam senior fellow Jeff Crouse and Production Lab fellow David Jimison’s Dirt Party project. Dirt Party is a performance where salacious information about each party attendee is gathered from the web and other means and presented to the entire audience. CommunityApril 12 – May 30: 1800 Frames | Take 4
1800 Frames | Take 4: The Video State of the Global Union 1800FRAMES | Take 4: The Video State of the Global Union, curated by Eyebeam alum Norene Leddy and Eyebeam’s director of education and public programs Liz Slagus, City Without Walls’ fourth annual one-minute video exhibition. The exhibition continues through May 30. The show is free and open to the public, Wednesday through Friday 12 – 6PM and Saturday 1 – 6PM. Artists on display include Eyebeam program coordinator Paul Amital, and alum Benton-C Bainbridge. The video show is online at http://www.cwow.org, and DVDs are on sale at Eyebeam’s bookstore. April 25: Opening Reception: Main Space: The New NormalMain Space: The New Normal Curated by Michael Connor, co-organized with Independent Curators International, with works by Eyebeam alums Jonah Peretti, Michael Frumin, Jill Magid, Trevor Paglen and Jennifer and Kevin McCoy; along with Sophie Calle, Mohamed Camara, Hasan Elahi, Kota Ezawa, Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher, Guthrie Lonergan, Corinna Schnitt, Thomson and Craighead and Sharif Waked. Colbert Discovers the Darkside
Eyebeam alum Trevor Paglen promoted his new book, I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World, on the April 7 broadcast of The Colbert Report. For a taste of the black humor visit: http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/videos.jhtml?episodeId=164897 Coworking at The Change You Want To SeeThe Change You Want To See Tired of complaining to your cat about broken code or a bad client? Wondering what the next wave of social software will be? Looking for an invigorating environment to call your office? Join Williamsburg Coworking! Break free from hourly coffee runs and grab a slice of Williamsburg’s alternative working community by coworking at The Change You Want to See—a café-like community and collaboration space for developers, writers and freelancers. Bring a laptop, snack, manuscript, screenplay, or killer app and leave the cats behind! For more information on coworking opportunities at The Change You Want to See, visit: http://thechangeyouwanttosee.org/coworking, or email: info@thechangeyouwanttosee.org | |||
