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"It's nerve is undeniable."-The Village Voice"Sara Juli gives of herself."-The New York Times"A gutsier look at self worth..."- Gia Kourlas, The New York Times (on The Money Conversation)"A light of the downtown dance and theatre scene"-The New YorkerDeath is scary, awkward, fearsome and inevitable-we have no choice but to face our ultimate fate. Following the success of her internationally acclaimed show, 'The Money Conversation', Juli asks her audience to address the one thing we all can't escape.With her unique arsenal of movement, spoken word, and song Sara confronts the universal demon. Let's talk about death. No, really. Let's face it, deal with it, think about it, laugh about it and really talk about it. In other words, let's not change the subject. In a society that focuses all its attention on staying young, where graveyards are far removed and called the more innocuous cemeteries and "resting places," the question is not how do we deal with death - but do we deal with death at all?Oct 24-Nov 2Wed-Sun 8:30pmTickets from $20$15 (students/seniors)$10 (P.S. 122 members)www.ps122.org
 | Plug into Eyebeam, our new shows are ONYes, computer love abounds at Eyebeam. Now it‘s spreading to appliances. Next week we present our latest, and dare we say greatest, exhibition: Untethered: A sculpture garden of readymades which opens 6PM Thursday, September 25. We bet you never thought we do a sculpture show, huh? Even sooner: This Thursday in our Commons space we open Other Options the traveling exhibition curated by InCUBATE, which features projects that investigate the ways in which artists are dealing with the current climate of support for cultural production. Be sure to check the calendar of events for more info on this weekend‘s related public programming. If New York‘s Fashion Week left you hungry for something truly out of the ordinary, have a look at our photos of two Eyebeamers‘ interpretations of pret-a-porter: Last week Ayah Bdeir‘s lovely lingerie model braved the rain, and JooYoun Paek‘s guided budding fashion designers through the art of ironing plastic. This Week at Eyebeam:September 18 – October 11: Other Options exhibition opens September 25 – October 25: Untethered exhibition opens New from our Labs: September 17 – October 1: AVLAB September 21 – 27: Eyebeam at Democracy in America September 24: Sonic Antarctica September 25 – 28: openFrameworks at YCAM Japan Marisa Olson Writes her Dissertation: An Endurance Performance in 31 Acts Community: September 27: Radio Lab: Artist/Activism Seminar
September 18 – October 11: Other OptionsDate: September 18 - October 11 Other Options is a series of exhibitions and public programs that investigates the ways in which artists are dealing with the current climate of support for cultural production. By increasingly incorporating new models of resource allocation, community building, funding structures, and forms of exchange as integral to their artistic production, these artists are creating new possibilities for the role of contemporary art in an everyday context. Other Options is a traveling series that began in 2007 and comes to Eyebeam after stops in Chicago; Grand Rapids, MI; Pittsburgh; and Syracuse). The show includes work by: Forays, Josh Greene, Material Exchange, Mikey Merrill, Phil Orr and Ryan Thompson, ReTool, Joanna Spitzner, and Geraldine Juárez. Related events:
This exhibition is possible thanks to the support of the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York: http://www.lavitrina.com Curated by InCUBATE: http://www.incubate-chicago.org/otheroptions
September 25 – October 25: UntetheredUntethered: A sculpture garden of readymades Untethered is a sculpture garden of everyday objects deprogrammed of their original function, embedded with new intelligence, and transformed into surrealist and surprising readymades, including a photocopier that reads the night sky; a PDA turned guitar; and a piano that plays the Internet. The exhibition features pieces by 15 artists working at the intersection of art and technology, including current and former Eyebeam residents and fellows, as well as leading international artists:
Curated by Eyebeam curatorial fellow Sarah Cook, whose fellowship is supported by a partnership with CRUMB. Related events:
» Download press release (PDF) New from our Labs:September 17 – October 1: AVLABFrom Sept. 17 – Oct. 1, Eyebeam resident artist Hans-Christoph Steiner and musician Francisco Lopez will teach AVLAB: an advanced production workshop fusing audio and visual media for performance and installations. The artists have selected nine projects, all of which are open to collaborators. Please come and join us! http://medialab-prado.es/article/avlab_10
September 21 – 27: Eyebeam at Democracy in AmericaDemocracy in America: The National Campaign Eyebeam senior fellow Steve Lambert has created a new participatory installation for the Democracy in America exhibition. The project, Of the people, by the people, for the people includes plans for a new Pentagon and Department of Defense in which each visitor can propose to reallocate the country‘s $440 billion defense budget, and redesign the Pentagon‘s iconic building. Steve will also be hosting the Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation for Freedom 2008 Award Ceremony at Eyebeam on Friday, Sept. 19. Material Exchange and senior fellow Geraldine Juárez, collaborate with inCUBATE in the creation of a satellite storefront of their Chicago space in the Convergence Center of Democracy in America (in New York). The space will be customized for the presentation of Sunday Soup—a communal meal sold to benefit a grant for creative projects. Food Not Bombs New York (Ethan Shoshan, Leah Blanchard, Jason Black) will team up with Forays (Geraldine Juárez and Adam Bobbette) to host the exquisite Edible Excess Soup: From the dumpster to your table. Also, Tanda Foundation, Andi Sutton, Gina Badger and Anne Elizabeth Moore besides others will be hosting soups throughout the week. Check calendar for schedule: www.incubate-chicago.org/sundaysoup Also participating are Eyebeam alumni: Maria Ghani with Chitra Ganesh, Angel Nevarez and Vlerie Tevere, Trevor Paglen and Critical Art Ensemble. September 24: Sonic AntarcticaGround Truth: L‘Art Interpolaire @rt outsiders 2008 Eyebeam resident artist Andrea Polli will present Sonic Antarctica at Ground Truth: L‘Art Interpolaire this week. Sonic Antarctica is a radio broadcast, live performance, and sound and visual installation featuring recordings of the Antarctic soundscape. Sonic Antarctica features natural and industrial field recordings, scientific sonifications and interviews with scientists. A full-length audio CD of this work will be released on the Grunrecorder label in November 2008. September 25 – 28: openFrameworks at YCAM JapanR&D OpenLab fellow Zachary Lieberman and alum Theo Watson will present their openFrameworks toolkit in an advanced, four day workshop at Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media, Yamaguchi Japan. OF will be featured in the first YCAM InterLab Camp program, a new annual intensive course organized by YCAM‘s production team. This series of lectures, workshops, and summary reports for intermediate- and advanced-level participants, will be presented by invited engineers and researchers active at the front lines of media art today, who will discuss the latest technologies, tools, environments, and their applications. http://www.ycam.jp/en/interlab/ Marisa Olson Writes her Dissertation: An Endurance Performance in 31 ActsDirected by Eyebeam R&D OpenLab fellow Michael Mandiberg. Performed by Marisa Olson. Veterans of web-based autobiographical performance, Olson and “Coach Mandiberg” have teamed up to get Marisa through her dissertation by framing it as an act of endurance. Every day for the month of September, Olson will spend all day writing while webcam shots and screencaps of her desktop are automatically uploaded to the net every 60 seconds. This gesture of transparency is a continuation of Olson‘s research into the role of sousveillance in “The Art of Protest in Network Culture.” http://www.marisaolson.com/31acts/ Community:September 19: PARK(ing) DayFriday, September 19 PARK(ing) Day is a one-day, global event centered in San Francisco with events in New York, on which artists, activists, and citizens collaborate to temporarily transform metered parking spots into “PARK(ing)” spaces: temporary public parks. Together with New York‘s Transportation Alternatives, Eyebeam will host a follow-up to the event on October 18, 12 – 8PM: The PARK(ing) Day Redux block party. Stay tuned for more info: http://www.parkingday.org/ PARK(ing) Day is an open-source REBAR invention: http://www.parkingday.org/ September 27: Radio Lab: Artist/Activism SeminarDate: September 27, 12 – 6PM The Change You Want To See Gallery is please to host free103point9 Radio Lab: Artist/Activism Seminar. Please join us for a daylong seminar including presentation, hands-on workshop and film screening. free103point9 Radio Labs provide students with the technical skills and contextual background to consider and utilize the transmission spectrum for creative expression. Workshops address four main topics: the history of broadcasting; how transmitters work; online transmission tools; and transmission arts as a creative medium. On September 27, join Tianna Kennedy (free103point9), Maka Kotto (Prometheus Radio Project), and Kaya Weisman (Germantown Community Farm) for a transmitter building workshop, discussion, and screening of “Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad” (Corrugated Films). A 90-minute documentary, “A Little Bit of So Much Truth” captures the unprecedented media phenomenon that emerged when tens of thousands of school teachers, housewives, indigenous communities, health workers, farmers, and students took 14 radio stations and one TV station into their own hands, using them to organize, mobilize, and ultimately defend their grassroots struggle for social, cultural, and economic justice. |
| No rest for the wickedIt looks like Mayor Bloomberg is endorsing current Eyebeam resident Andrea Polli's proposal to create wind turbines for the spires of the Queensboro Bridge, and Eyebeam fellows have been working all summer to release new projects that are a real steal: Bright Idea Shades, littlebits, and TouchKit; and are currently recruiting for a Morse code workshop, the AAAFFF competition, and the Machinima FilmFest 08. We've also got Eyebeamer's heading off to Ars Electronica, The Upgrade! International, not to mention igniting Conflux Festival happening in and around NYC this year. And if you haven't heard yet: GRL's James Powderly, an Eyebeam alum, is now safely back in NYC after being detained in Beijing, where he was collaborating with the group Students for a Free Tibet. You can find photos and updates are online at Free Art and Technology Lab site: http://fffff.at/the-eagle-has-landed/ So come and don your kinky Syrian lingerie on Saturday, September 6 at Eyebeam as we kick-off Fall! This Week at Eyebeam:September 6: Fashion Week with Ayah Bdeir September 6 + 7: Light-Mobs Morse Code workshops September 12: Machinima FilmFest 2008 deadline September 13: Fashion Week with JooYoun Paek Position available: Eyebeam seeking Production Manager New from our Labs: August 16 – September 21: Vagamundo—A Migrant's Tale August 18 – Sept 1: Jeff Crouse's Finger Olympics August 29 – 31: David Jimison's Urban Bingo at IndieCade September 1: Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation For Freedom deadline September 7: Eyebeam stars at Ars September 10: Fauxcialite at WadKlub Fashion Week Party Download the source: touchkit online now Steal this idea: Bright Idea Shade online now Ayah Bdeir's littleBits gain a little fame Climate Research: The city gets some help from Eyebeam Community: September 11 – 13: Eyebeam Conflux Events September 11 – 14: Upgrade! International's Chain Reaction
September 6: Fashion Week with Ayah BdeirDate: Sat., Sept. 6, 4PM Join us at 4pm on Saturday when R&D OpenLab fellow Ayah Bdeir will hold a runway show of her and Luma Shihab-Eldin's Syrian-style technologically hacked lingerie on the street in front of Eyebeam. For more information, visit: http://www.haniyassecrets.com
September 6 + 7: Light-mobs Morse Code workshopsDate: Sat., Sept. 6, and Sun., Sept. 7, 1 – 4PM Eyebeam senior fellow Geraldine Juárez is recruiting a team for her Light-mobs, during Conflux Festival 2008. The Light-mobs are flash-mob style actions where communication between participants happens in morse code, using the Pocket Lightcoder and sunlight to transmit information. The workshops are at Eyebeam (Sept. 6 + Sept. 7), and the action will be at the Conflux Festival weekend (Sept. 13 + 14). For more information, visit: http://www.didididahdahdahdididi.com. September 12: Machinima FilmFest 2008 deadlineDate: Submission deadline: Fri., Sept. 12 The Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences (AMAS) is calling for submissions for the much anticipated Machinima FilmFest 08 (the “Sundance of the Video Game Set”) which will be held Sat., Nov. 1 at Eyebeam! Filmmakers interested in submitting their work for the awards (“The Mackies”) have till Fri., Sept. 12. As in years past, Machinima FilmFest 08 will feature panel discussions with prominent machinima filmmakers from around the world discussing this new form of cinema which often uses popular video games like Halo 3, World of Warcraft and The Sims as source material for entirely new, and often subversive works. September 13: Fashion Week workshop with JooYoun PaekDate: Sat., Sept. 13, 4PM In conjunction with Conflux Festival 2008, Eyebeam alum JooYoun Paek leads a workshop on how to make your own Self-Sustaining Dress, a dress made out of polyethylene, connected to shoes that pump air into an inflatable bubble attached to its rear part on each step. The dress slowly transforms into a chair with each step and holds the person to sit on it naturally. Position available: Eyebeam seeking Production ManagerEyebeam is currently seeking a full-time Production Manager to support the development, coordination, and production needs of Eyebeam's Fellowship and Residents programs. Details of the position and application requirements will be posted on the Eyebeam website on September 2. New from our Labs:August 16 – September 21: Vagamundo—A Migrant's TaleVagamundo—A Migrant's Tale is a solo exhibition of work by Eyebeam resident Ricardo Miranda Zuniga, curated by Aniko Erdosi and Veronica on view from Aug. 16 – Sept. 21. Closing reception: Sept. 21, 6–8PM at 0.00156 acres, 119 Smith St. Brooklyn, NY  August 18 – Sept 1: Jeff Crouse's Finger OlympicsR&D OpenLab fellow Jeff Crouse presents the Finger Olympics! A game where contestants print and cutout special accessories, and then use their fingers to compete in a 100 decimeter dash. The game uses computer vision to track your fingers as you race for the finish line. After an initial training period, the best runners will compete in a final race for the Finger Olympics gold medal. To take the tour vist: http://vimeo.com/1510617, and for a tutorial: http://vimeo.com/1536174 August 29 – 31: David Jimison's Urban Bingo at IndieCadeUrban Bingo will be appearing at IndieCade Independent Games Festival, in Seattle Washington August 29 – 31. Developed by Eyebeam production fellow David Jimison, Urban Bingo is a variant of the popular Bingo game, that turns city elements into game pieces. September 1: Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation For Freedom deadlineAre you in marketing or advertising and want to quit your job? We want to pay you with a giant novelty check! Applications are due Mon., Sept. 1. To learn more visit: http://antiadvertisingagency.com/projects/foundation-for-freedom Listen to Eyebeam senior fellow Steve Lambert and Anne Elizabeth Moore on Chicago Public Radio talking about the AAAFFF here: Eyebeam stars at ArsDate: Sun., Sept. 7, 3 – 6PM Eyebeam executive director Amanda McDonald Crowley, R&D OpenLab fellow Zach Lieberman and Production Lab fellow Friedrich Kirchner will be presenting at Pixel-Spaces, the latest installment in the Ars Electronica Futurelab’s annual conference series, featuring selected international R&D facilities and labs that are teaching and/or working at the interface of artistic-creative media production and technological research. Date: Sept. 4 – 9 R&D OpenLab fellow Zach Lieberman and alum Theo Watson, creators of openFrameworks—an open source, C++ toolkit for artists and creative technologists (Ars Electronica Prix honorary mention, 2008)—will be transforming the first floor of the Brucknerhaus into an experimental OF laboratory. The OF lab will focus on creating new works that derive from suggestions from festival audience members. Over the course of this event, a feedback loop will be created between suggestions, experimentation, making projects, exhibiting the results and exposing the creative process. They will be joined by over a dozen other lab mates, including Eyebeam alumni Chris Sugrue, Taeyoon Choi, Golan Levin and Interactivos@Eyebeam participant Tine Papendick. September 10: Fauxcialite at WadKlub Fashion Week PartyDate: Thurs., Sept. 11, 10PM WADKLUB is a party concept created in 2002 by the French fashion publication, WAD magazine. WADKLUB launches various Fashion Weeks around the world including Paris Fashion Week, Barcelona's Bread & Butter, and since this last February the NYC Mercedes Benz Fashion week. Production Lab fellow David Jimison will be installing the Fauxcialite photo system allowing guests to create time lapse poses of themselves, that are then projected in real time at the party.  Download the source: touchkit online nowEyebeam Production Lab fellow Addie Wagenknecht and collaborator Stefan Hechenberger of NOR_/D have released their open source multitouch API, touchkit, online at http://touchkit.nortd.com. This project relies on the help of the community to get the code/schematics out there. Your task is simple: test it, break it and make awesomeness with it! It also comes with a hardware reference design (TouchKit) so you can “build your own.” Through this open source process, we hope to be able to eliminate some of the complexities and provide a solid common starting point. For the project description, setup guides, code, more examples, and to access the live forum, visit: http://touchkit.nortd.com Steal this idea: Bright Idea Shade online nowAs we convert our burnt out silver-tip incandescent bulbs into CFL bulbs, we are faced with the problem of a bare harsh light. Eyebeam's R&D OpenLab and Sustainability Action Group designed a versitile lampshade to soften this light. They took several existing designs and customized one to fit a CFL bulb, made out of heat resistant photo diffuser material, and laser cut diffuser template which is now online, free to download, with an instructable for the templates and other goodness. The DIY kits are also available at Eyebeam. The Bright Idea Shade is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution license, and is a project of the Eyebeam R&D OpenLab/Sustainability Action Group members R&D OpenLab fellow Michael Mandiberg, senior fellow Steve Lambert, with Eyebeam interns Simon Jolly, Peter Duyan, and Oscar Torres. For more information:  Ayah Bdeir's littleBits gain a little fameIn the past week, R&D OpenLab fellow Ayah Bdeir's littleBits has been seen on Engadget, Gizmodo, Make, Core77, BoingBoing, Geek, and many more! The littleBits videos: http://www.vimeo.com/tag:littlebits have been viewed over 25,000 times, and have received tonnes of great comments, emails and encouragements. Keep 'em coming! For more information visit: http://www.ayahbdeir.com/littleBits Climate Research: The city gets some help from EyebeamHas Mayor Bloomberg been hanging out at Eyebeam? Earlier this year, as part of the Feedback exhibition, we featured artist (who is now also an Eyebeam resident) Andrea Polli's proposal to create wind turbines for the spires of the Queensboro Bridge (a project she began four years ago). Working with the NASA Goddard Climate Research Group, technical designer Markus Maurette and videographer Morgan Barnard, Polli produced a short video promoting the installation of working turbines as an art project on the bridge that would provide enough power to light the necklace lights, which were turned off by Bloomberg a few months after 9/11 in order to save money. Polli's project was inspired by the darkening of the necklace lights and by the Northeast blackout of 2003. Polli's project has been presented widely througout New York City, nationally and internationally. Looks like the inspiration is mutual—during the 2003 blackout, Polli remembers listening to the mayor speak of the need for innovative solutions to the energy issue on the radio, and began work on the project the very next day. For more information visit: http://www.andreapolli.com/queensbridge Community:September 11 – 13: Eyebeam Conflux EventsConflux Festival 2008 Conflux curators panel Serendipitous Anthems Light-mobs Teta Haniya's Secrets The Federation of Students and Nominally or Unemployed Artists The Vertical Bed Wildernets Other Eyebeam alumni participating in Conflux include: Ken Wark, Joo Youn Paek, Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Leon Reid IV, and Bennett Williamson (with Jeff Sisson). September 11 – 14: Upgrade! International's Chain Reaction3rd Upgrade! International gathering: Chain Reaction Chain Reaction is a four day festival curated by the Upgrade! International community bringing together artists, curators and art producers from more than 20 cities worldwide (Asia, Canada, Europe, North America, South America, South Africa, New Zealand). The thematic approach for this city-wide digital art and networked culture festival, explores cultural development and growth in the local region as well as within digital networks. The festival will be a catalyst for dialog, future collaborations and new cultural understanding. Representing Eyebeam will be honorary fellow Yael Kanarek, who initiated the Upgrade! network, and will be facilitating the organizers sessions; director of education and public programs Liz Slagus moderating a discussion about Upgrade! New York; program and events coordinator Paul Amitai performing his perform his audio/video work, InBetween States; Production Lab fellow Friedrich Kirschner presenting Realtime Animation for Everyone, including demos and a workshop of realtime full-body scanning using open source software to animate captured scans; Mushon Zer-Aviv hosting a workshop about KRIEGSPIEL, Guy Debord’s 1978 “Game of War” produced in collaboration with alum Alexander Galloway and RSG. |
Andrea Polli, Bridge Wind Farm, Queensboro Bridge
