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This Week at Eyebeam: FEEDBACK | Reenactment | James Chimpton

Posted by Eyebeam on March 6, 2008 at 7:30am

This Week at Eyebeam: FEEDBACK | Reenactment | James Chimpton … more!

Call for Collaborative Editing for dance-tech.net knowledge base and a mashup!

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on March 18, 2008 at 12:30am

We are creating this opportunity for collaboration and distributed authorship experimenting with on-line collaborative video editing. I propose to the members of this network to experiment with editing digital content collaboratively using the on-line editing platform JumpCut (http://www.jumpcut.com/dancetechnet). How to collaborate/participate: I am proposing two kinds of collaborative editing products: One that will be geared to develop the knowledge base for our network and another geared to create dance-tech mash-ups in a very open creative way using material generated by all the members. Real video dance mash-ups! Distributed authorship! sampling and remixing! 1.-Knowledge base (interviews, coherent documentation, etc) Editing the interviews for the podcasts of this network has been a great experience, specially because it forced me to constructively dissect the words and ideas of very experienced, smart peers and pioneers in the field. The author of the interview will upload raw cuts/clips from the interviews and its relevant performance/installation video material and any member (anybody) of the network will be able to: 1.-Access the raw material of the interviews and just watch (consumer). It is OK! 2.-Edit an interview with or without relevant material illustrating or augmenting ideas. (Prosumer). Super cool! 3.-You can also upload to your own account in Jumpcut raw material for the network and make it available for for other to edit. 4.-We can also re-edit and re-contextualize the already edited material. What to do? 1.-Create you account in Jumpcut and join to a group called "dance-tech.net/knowledge base". In this way we create a circle of collaborators. 2.-Select an specific "set" of clips for an specific interviewee and create your version. (let us know which one you are working on). The sets will have a name and a"ready for edit". That means that the set is complete from my end, tat I have uploaded al the material that I consider relevant. It is ready go for it! You may also use an edit what is there. 3.-Editing in Jumpcut is very easy and intuitive even more if you have experience with Final Cut or other. the interface is like IMovie on-line. IMPORTANT: the only guideline for the interviews is that you use the material that is given and mix it with the relevant topic. I suggest use simple transitions and no effects that alter color and speed. get krazy with the dance-tech mash-ups! 2.-dance-tech mash-up! 1.-We can create video dances on-line with uploaded material from public domain video material, from the network members or your own. So, if you are into it create your account in JumpCut and join (in Jumpcut) to a group called "dance-tech.net/mash-up" (or "dance-tech.net/knowledge"). In this way we create a circle of collaborators with this specific creative goal. 2.-Tag your uploaded videos "dance-tech.net_mash-up" (or dance-tech.net_knowledge) to know that it is available for this purpose. Your material will be public, therefore it will used for any mash-up within the system. Only upload material that you have created and have cleared any copyrights issue. IMPORTANT: join to the our dance-tech.net group in this network to communicate and give each other feedback and distribute the work load if necessary. We can adjust and learn as we go along! NOTE: Jumpcut does not allow you to export the edited video.

Mobile Clubbing

Posted by Karen Bernard on April 2, 2008 at 7:49pm

mobile clubbingMarch April 3 FREEThursdays | Foley Square near City Hall |12:30 pmMobile Clubbing is a spontaneous gathering for dance. The rules are show up at the designated place and time, turn on your personal stereo and dance. Mobile clubbing is a matter of identity: you can dance the way you want, and listen to the music you choose.To RSVP email 29friendsdancing@gmail.comCo-produced by Megan Metcalf

Summerwork@The Farm

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on February 23, 2008 at 7:23pm

Screendance@The Farm August 11-16, 2008 With: Douglas Rosenberg, Li Chiao-Ping and guest artist, Dianne Reid, Australian video dance maker, teacher and theorist. Screendance @The Farm is a week-long workshop and retreat in rural Wisconsin focusing on both practice and theory. It is intended for professional and/or advanced practitioners in the field. This is a unique opportunity to combine research and practice along with discussions about the theory of screendance as an art form in a working studio set on 5 acres in the beautiful countryside outside of Madison, Wisconsin. Participants will be mentored in all areas of practice including choreography for the camera, production, applied writing and the practicalities of distribution and exhibition. This is a wholistic approach to the form that includes shared collaborative meals from The Farm’s organic garden and a creative community approach to art-making in general. Each day will begin with a movement session and end with a community dinner. The facilities at The Farm include a large dance studio, art studio with woodshop and video editing work-space. It is set in a landscape of rolling hills and farmland with lakes and forests nearby. The cost for the workshop is $300 per person and includes communal meals. We can only accept a maximum of ten participants. Lodging is your choice: you may camp on the property or sleep in the studio where there is plenty of space and a bathroom and shower. You are also welcome to stay in town in a nearby hotel if you should choose to do so. Please email Douglas Rosenberg at rosend@education.wisc.edu for more info. www.dvpg.net

Sarah Poulson on collaborating on the Surveillance System

Posted by Mark Gould on May 3, 2008 at 10:30am

The Surveillance System says Poulson is a physical network of bodies controlling bodies through movement, video, improvisation and sound. "These works exist somewhere between the realms of performance art and dance. They focus on movement as a language of basic human interaction, whether it is through a subtle gesture, a theatrical spectacle, or the placement of a body within a space." says Poulson.In fact it also represents to many viewers a temporal and iterative dimension to dance with technology capturing proportions of bodies and technologies temporally in dimension and space..Sarah says, " Pre-recorded and live surveillance videos act as signals that trigger the performers’ options within the non-linear dramas. Choreographed and improvisational elements based on spontaneous decisions force us (and/or other performers) to learn how we fit within the system and how we can or cannot manipulate one another. Dynamic systems of communication emerge within these multi-sensory works."Visit Sarah's page

Humans Performing SL Avatars...hilarious!

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on January 31, 2008 at 6:27am

Jonah Bokaer guest curates Kinetic Cinema Monday April 7th

Posted by Anna Brady Nuse on April 2, 2008 at 6:39am

On Monday April 7th, Chez Bushwick founder and dance/media phenom Jonah Bokaer will guest curate a program for Kinetic Cinema, my monthly screening series at Collective:Unconscious.For his program, Jonah will show pivotal works of movement-based video art by Nam June Paik. The theme of the evening will be the thread between between video art and post-modern dance focusing on Paik's significant contributions to both art forms. As a dance artist whose work addresses the human body in relation to contemporary technologies, Jonah will be able to offer rare insights into Paik's multi-disciplinary work that overlapped with dance, visual art, media, and technology.

NUDEDESCENDANCE by Jonah BokaerKinetic CinemaMonday April 7th, 7:30pm (and the first Monday of every month)$5 Admission (buy tix at the door)@ Collective:Unconscious279 Church Street (just south of White Street)New York, NY 10013Trains: 1 to Franklin; A, C, E to Canalhttp://weird.org/films.htm212.254.5277MORE INFO: www.movetheframe.comKinetic Cinema explores the intersection of dance and the moving image both on screen and stage. Each month curator Anna Brady Nuse invites a special guest from the dance community to share the films and videos that have inspired or moved them. These could be films that feature dance, are kinetic-based, or have been influential on their work in some way. The guest curators come from a range of backgrounds as performers, choreographers, critics, and filmmakers. Upcoming guests include Jonah Bokaer (April 7th), Levi Gonzalez (May 5th), and Kriota Willberg (June 2nd).Jonah Bokaer's work has been presented widely throughout venues in the United States and abroad, including Cornell University, Dance Theatre Workshop, Danspace Project, Dixon Place, La Mama ETC, P.S. 122, Symphony Space, The Laban Centre (London), the ISB (Bangkok), Naxos Bobine, Studio Théatre de Vitry, and La Générale (Paris), Les Subsistances (Lyon), La Compagnie (Marseille), and OT301 (Amsterdam). Bokaer was a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 2000 to 2007. In 2002, he formed Chez Bushwick with a group of artists and choreographers, to create an adventurous arts organization that has significantly impacted a new generation of dance artists, choreographers, and performers in the United States, and beyond.For more info on Kinetic Cinema and reviews of past programs, check out my videodance blog, Move the Frame

Dream World of the Organism by Eric Sjodin

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on January 31, 2008 at 6:20am

The Food Chain and Dream World of the Organism is a landscape of bodies that form an organism which visitors can step into and breath life in. Visitors feed the organism by blowing into an umbilical cord that extends out of its main body. The organism responds by shifting in color, emitting sounds and by growing in size until it eventually rewards its nurturer by opening up a window to its dream world. The installation is part of the Man Machine 2 exhibition whose theme is how the human mind and body “have interplayed with the machine historically and how man and machine will interact in the future”.
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From RL to SL via USB__and viceversa

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on January 31, 2008 at 6:04am

Performance Mix Festival: Looking Back

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on March 31, 2008 at 6:08am

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Great compilation of excerpts of performances from the festival with a broad variety of performers, dancers and choreographers. From 1991 to 2006. It is an important documentation of the Downtown New York City scene of the last 15 years. There excepts of performances of Jenifer Monson,Ishmael, Houston-Jones, Kelly Garfield, RoseAnne Spradlin, ChenekiLerner, Guy Yarden, Dennis O'Connor among others... Edited by Charles Denis Cortesy of Karen Bernard from New Dance Alliance http://www.newdancealliance.org/

Nine Inch Nails asking for videos for their Ghosts Film Festival

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on March 14, 2008 at 5:58pm

Dance Parade

Posted by Chris Jordan on March 5, 2008 at 7:09pm

Peter Shapiro has made me regret not going to this last year; so will definetly be going this year:http://www.danceparade.org/Its in great part attempting to shed some light on the racist cabaret laws, as well as keep the ny spirit alive that started such things as well...every major social advancement in U.S. history.cj

kate Weare@Dance New Amsterdam

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on May 3, 2008 at 12:00am

I made this preview for kate Weare Company about three weeks ago and they are performing this week in SPLICE at DNA. sharing the program with Deborah Lohse. She got an edge with duets full of raw elegance. They are technically sensual with calculated violence and layered complicity.

I will attend the show this Sunday, This is taste from that informal showing! Enjoy.

Troika Ranch Manifesto: Profile as Vision

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on March 13, 2008 at 3:17am

This is a crucial text for "the field"(from Troika Ranch's profile): Troika Ranch is the collaborative vision of artists Mark Coniglio and Dawn Stoppiello. Established in 1994, and based in New York City, Troika Ranch produces live performances, interactive installations, and digital films, all of which combine traditional aspects of these forms with advanced technologies. The artists’ mission in producing this wide range of art experiences is to create artwork that best reflects and engages contemporary society. The name Troika Ranch refers to Coniglio and Stoppiello’s creative methodology, which involves a hybrid of three artistic disciplines, dance/theater/media (the Troika), in cooperative interaction (the Ranch). This method preceded the organization Troika Ranch, which was formed as a means to support the artists’ engagement in this process. During the 1990’s, Coniglio, Stoppiello and their company Troika Ranch were among the pioneers in the field that came to be known as Dance and Technology. They performed in festivals and venues internationally and were greatly sought after as guest artists, teachers, and lecturers. In response to the desire in the international arts community to understand this emerging genre, Coniglio and Stoppiello began developing educational programs. Among their public outreach activities are workshops, lectures, online and traditional publications, websites, software and hardware. Having conceptualized and invented much of the technology, equipment, and techniques currently in use, their expertise is unprecedented. The educational programs Troika Ranch provides have become a significant part of their contribution to the arts. As the use of technology in the arts has developed and integrated over the last decade, the need for the separate moniker Dance and Technology has dissolved. Troika Ranch’s present concerns correspondingly reflect this broader scope, expanding across genres and pioneering new frontiers. As innovators and visionaries, Coniglio and Stoppiello produce art that values live interaction – between viewer and viewed, performer and image, movement and sound, people and technology. It is time-based but typically includes an element of spontaneity, in that the events and images that unfold lie within a certain range but are not exactly replicable. As authors, they establish images, direct performances, determine time frames, and devise technologies. The works may be presented as performances, installations, or in portable formats. In sum, Troika Ranch engages in creative endeavors using all that contemporary invention has to offer. The company has received major funding from the Jerome Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Arts Council England as well as from the Brooklyn Arts Council, Meet the Composer and Art/NY’s Nancy Quinn Fund. The company tours nationally and internationally with recent performances at the Laban Centre London (UK), the Forum Neues Musictheater (Germany), ISEA/ZeroOne Festival (CA) and 3LD Art & Technology Center (NYC). Where are you based? Brooklyn, New York / Berlin, Germany Area of interest on performance and new media All. How did you learn about dance-tech.net? Marlon Barrios Solano Enviornments and applications that you use the most for your projects Isadora, Eyesweb, mocap, Final Cut ( or any other video editing), camera work, Second Life, Protools (other sound editing software), robotic devices How do you train yourself or your performers. How do you approach your embodied practices? what kind of technique do you use? Interaction is the word that singularly defines the driving force of our artistic practice. Whether it is between audience and performer, performer and image, movement and sound, or human and machine, interaction as an idea fundamentally shapes our work from its inspiration to its presentation. Interaction first comes into play as we collaboratively develop materials for a work with our fellow artists and performers. Recognizing that each human being possesses a vast and unique set of life experiences, we encourage all involved in the creative process to take on a role of authorship. We push our collaborators to locate the intersection of their personal background with the overarching theme of a work, and encourage them to use this connection to deeply inform the manner and method of creating and realizing materials. The second instance of interaction extends this collaborative authorship into the moment of presentation. Our groundbreaking software and hardware senses movement and vocalizations and creates a way for performer’s to directly influence the final presentation of visual and sonic digital materials. In our work the performer on stage or the viewer in an installation becomes the final arbiter of the material’s timing, dynamics and organization, and thus are key collaborators in the penultimate creative moment of composition. The final moment of interaction occurs upon the work’s presentation to an audience. We intend to present a dense and highly physical theater of ideas that echoes the multiplicity and maximum sensory capacity of our time and culture. Visual imagery, dance, music and text implode into a flux point from which we leverage specific properties from each discipline to powerfully communicate on multiple levels. This density often leads to our works being described as experimental; they are, in fact, grounded in traditional theatrical values. This is because our work is content-driven: the materials in a work are present to serve the narrative arc. The relationships – between man and machine, man and woman, action and image – exist to drive expression and present –and translate– the essence of the human condition. In the end, our aim is to examine an ongoing human effort: the desire to integrate the most basic expressions of the soul with the most complex creations of the mind.

Dance/USA Winter Forum - Day 2 Re-blogged from Great Dance Blog

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on February 13, 2008 at 6:00am

Dance/USA Winter Forum - Day 2 This weekend, Kristin Sloan from The Winger, Chris Elam, and myself (Jaki Levy) led a workshop at the annual Dance / USA winter forum in Los Angeles on Recording, Producing, and Sharing Online Video. The workshop was well attended by the dance company executive / managing directors, development and outreach staff, and the attendees had some good questions. One particular participant asked if there was a way to track who is viewing your video, and what age are they are. For performing arts organizations, this data can be very valuable for building your audiences. With a bit of work, you can certainly get a sense of what your viewership is. While you may not have quick access to this information, you can certainly look at who is subscribing to your videos, and leaving comments. YouTube users are fairly open and usually post their age on their profiles. You just have to go and get this data - there is not automatic way to do this - yet. Go to complete article ar Great Dance Blog

This Week at Eyebeam: Interactivos? | MIXER | Add-Art

Posted by Eyebeam on May 30, 2008 at 11:00pm

I Believe In… by Ai-Chen Lin, selected project for Interactivos? Better than the Real Thing

There’s a party in the warehouse: Would you like to come?

Upcoming events: It all depends on who you ask. Some of us are getting ready for the latest MIXER party on June 14, others are preparing for the end of the world. Good news: You can do both!

This Week at Eyebeam:

May 31: Interactivos? Call for Collaborators

June 14: MIXER: with Kudu | BiLLLL$ | The Collection Agency

New from our Labs:

Steve Lambert launches Add-Art

Teta Haniya and the Secrets of Syrian Seduction

Pocket Lightcoder

Community:

May 31: Graffiti Research Lab at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

June 1: How Soon is Now?

June 4: 01SJ Adobe Global Youth Voices Exhibition

June 14: Windows Brooklyn

May 31: Interactivos? Call for Collaborators

Interactivos? at Eyebeam: Better Than the Real Thing
Date: June 26 – August 9
May 30: Call for Collaborators deadline | June 3: Notification of acceptance

We’re pleased to announce that we (Eyebeam fellows, residents and staff) have selected ten projects—from the 60-plus submitted applications—to be realized during a two-week workshop in late June.

But we need help, and that’s where you come in. We are now recruiting collaborators—artists, engineers, musicians, programmers, designers, and hackers—to help bring these projects to life. This is an opportunity to work with international artists including current Eyebeamers Zachary Lieberman, Taeyoon Choi, Jeff Crouse, Friedrich Kirschner, and others. Collaborators will participate in skill-based workshops, attend public lectures and associated events, and be an integral part of the production of exciting new interactive projects. The completed projects will be included in Eyebeam’s Summer 2008 exhibition.

To be considered, send us a letter outlining your skill set and what you think you could contribute to the workshops, with a CV (in word or pdf format; no image attachments please) to interactivosinfo AT eyebeam DOT org by May 31. Selected collaborators will be notified June 3.

Interactivos? was initiated two years ago by the Medialab–Prado program and the Madrid City Council. This is the first time it has taken place outside Spain.

The full list of projects, with details on the kind of collaborative help we are looking for can be found online. See: http://www.eyebeam.org/learning/learning.php?page=interactivos

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June 14: MIXER: with Kudu | BiLLLL$ | The Collection Agency

Kudu

Date: Saturday, June 14, 9PM – Midnight
Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC
Cost: $15. PURCHASE TICKETS HERE: MIXER JUNE 14

Open bar! Sponsored by Dewar’s, Newcastle Brown Ale, and The Onion.

Kudu | BiLLLL$ featuring Guillermo E. Brown | The Collection Agency

Plus interactive art by Eyebeam artists: Addie Wagenknecht | Friedrich Kirschner | Digital Solutions | Geraldine Juárez

MIXER is Eyebeam’s new series dedicated to showcasing leading performing artists in the fields of live video and audio. In addition to live performances by video artists, musicians, VJs and DJs, each MIXER presents new interactive work by Eyebeam artists that encourages audience participation and creative play. Hybrid in format, and Eyebeam in spirit—collaborative, spontaneous and a little off-the-wall—MIXER electrifies Eyebeam’s Chelsea warehouse for a Saturday night quite unlike any other.

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New from our Labs

Steve Lambert launches Add-Art

Ad-Art

Add-Art is a free Firefox add-on that replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. Created as a open source project in Eyebeam’s R&D OpenLab, developers are encouraged to contribute to the project though Eyebeam’s development site (which includes a wiki, ticket system, and code repository). For more info: http://add-art.org.

For a video introducing Add-Art, with installation directions, see: http://vimeo.com/1075987

Steve is also hosting a remix contest: http://fffff.at/intro-to-add-art-f-remix-contest/

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Teta Haniya and the Secrets of Syrian Seduction

Syrian Lingerie by Ayah Bdeir

After decades of running her kinky Syrian lingerie store in the Hamidiya souk of Damascus, Teta Haniya has arrived in America bearing gifts. Drawing on more than 60 years of Islamic teachings on seduction, and updating it using her arsenal of kitschy technology, Teta Haniya hijacks the Western panty, triggering the sexual liberation of American women. http://www.haniyassecrets.com

Teta Haniya’s Secrets is a line of electronic lingerie made by Eyebeam R&D OpenLab fellow Ayah Bdeir and graphic designer Luma Shihabeldine. See pictures and videos of Teta Haniya’s Secrets (including the flying panty, ponpon panty, fiberoptic panty, talking panty, magnet panty), from last week’s event on wearable technology at Eyebeam: http://www.flickr.com/photos/26390070@N03/sets/72157605278503947/

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Pocket Lightcoder

Lightcoder by Jerry Juarez

Digital communication relies on the performance of networks of infrastructure that enable the transmission of messages. In the event of a massive breakdown of these networks in a natural disaster or social crisis, how will we transmit information?

Have no fear: Eyebeam senior fellow Jerry Juárez has designed a new tool for the end of the world: The Pocket Lightcoder, a rebozo-style bag and communication device to explore the possibilities of survival in an urban environment. There are only a few Pocket Lightcoders left, so if you need one for your survival kit or want to find out more about her upcoming “light-mobs”, shoot her an email at: .---- . .-. .-. -.--@eyebeam.org
http://www.chocolaterobot.com/lightcoder.html

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Community

May 31: Graffiti Research Lab at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

The Graffiti Research Lab will be tagging the side of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Peter J. Sharp Building on May 31 to coincide with the midnight screening of the documentary Graffiti Research Lab: The First Season. The GRL events are part of the Sundance Series at BAM from May 29 to June 8.

For a complete schedule of events: http://bam.org/sundance/frontier_2008_LASER.aspx.

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June 1: How Soon is Now?

How Soon is Now?
Date: June 1 – August 18
Open House: 2 – 6PM, Sunday, June 1
Location: The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1040 Grand Concourse, Bronx

Eyebeam alum Luke Lamborn will show three new videos made during his residency at Eyebeam at this year’s Artist in the Marketplace exhibit at The Bronx Museum of the Arts. How Soon Is Now? features an array of work by 36 artists from Artist in the Marketplace (AIM), one of the most celebrated and competitive programs for emerging artists in the country.

For more information, visit: http://www.bronxmuseum.org

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June 4: 01SJ Adobe Global Youth Voices Exhibition

01SJ
Date: June 4 – 8, 2008
http://www.01SJ.org
http://01sj.org/?page_id=63

Liz Slagus, Eyebeam’s Director of Education and Public Programs, is heading out to the 2008 01SJ “global festival of art on the edge”, June 4 – 8 to produce the Adobe Global Youth Voices Exhibition.

Designed to enable youth worldwide to examine critical community issues, share their views, and take action, this project has funded 18 different international artists, art collectives, and established non-profit arts organizations and institutions to support the creation of new work by young digital artists. The project culminates in an exhibition of their work during the 01SJ Festival; selected works from the Adobe Youth Voices global network will also be on display.

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June 14: Windows Brooklyn

Opening Reception: June 14, 3 – 5PM, cash bar
Location: Sam’s Restaurant, 238 Court St., Brooklyn

Art Walk
Date: June 22, 3 – 5PM
Location: Various

Closing Reception: June 22, 6PM
Location: Carroll Park (entrance on President between Smith and Court St., Brooklyn), closing performance by Maya Pyndick and Fletcher Boote

Windows Brooklyn is an art exhibition that will be installed in numerous storefronts along Court and Smith Streets in Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill, Brooklyn from June 14 – 22, 2008.

Participating artists include: Eyebeam alum Leah Gauthier, and many more! Windows Brooklyn is curated by Leah Gauthier, Sara Jones and Andrea Wenglowskyj. All three curators are graduates of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and are long-time collaborators.

Visit www.windowsbrooklyn.com for a full list of participating storefronts and artists, schedule of events, printable map of the area and more.

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Dark Matter at Montage

Posted by Susan Elena on February 23, 2008 at 6:59pm

I'm very pleased to announce that Dark Matter has been selected to be screened as part of the Montage Video Dance Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa this weekend. Unfortunately I can't be there so if you're in the area, pop in and let me know how it goes.

Conference in Spain via dance-tech list from Jaime del Val

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on November 27, 2007 at 6:20am

4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP OF THE TECHNOLOGIES OF THE BODY FRONTIER BODIES: AESTHETICS AND POLITICS IN POST-POSTMODERNISM _________Applications deadline: 2nd december APPLY NOW >info in www.reverso.org/reverso-engl.htm >>>and in - http://www.lacasaencendida.es ---->programacion ----------->Artes Escénicas------------>
TALLER INTERNACIONAL DE LAS TECNOLOGÍAS DEL CUERPO ______Directed by Jaime del Val__REVERSO _with seminars, presentations and performances by: _____Stelarc ______ Allucquére Rosanne (Sandy) Stone ______ Daniel Schorno_STEIM ______ Donald Glowinski_InfoMus Lab ______ Rudolfo Quintas (Swap Project) & André Gonçalves ______ Roberta Bosco ______ Laura Cañete ______ Juan Carlos Olmos & Universitat Pompeu Fabra ______ Jaime del Val & Olinto_REVERSO _17th-23rd December 2007____Spain__Madrid___La Casa Encendida ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ 4º TALLER INTERNACIONAL DE LAS TECNOLOGÍAS DEL CUERPO CUERPOS FRONTERA: ESTÉTICAS Y POLÍTICAS EN EL POST-POSTMODERNISMO _____Plazo de inscripciones: hasta el 2 de diciembre >>>>>>>> INSCRÍBETE AHORA DESCARGA PROGRAMA OFICIAL: tecnologias_cuerpo_pdf.pdf >información en www.reverso.org >>> y en - http://www.lacasaencendida.es ---->programacion ----------->Artes Escénicas ______dirigido por Jaime del Val__REVERSO _con seminarios, presentaciones y performances de: ______ Stelarc ______ Allucquére Rosanne (Sandy) Stone ______ Daniel Schorno_STEIM ______ Donald Glowinski_InfoMus Lab ______ Rudolfo Quintas (Swap Project) & André Gonçalves ______ Roberta Bosco ______ Laura Cañete ______ Juan Carlos Olmos & Universitat Pompeu Fabra ______ Jaime del Val & Olinto_REVERSO _17-23 Diciembre 2007_____Madrid__La Casa Encendida __________________________________ _____________________________ www.reverso.org

This Week at Eyebeam: Feedback Closing | Interactivos? | Eyebeam Benefit

Posted by Eyebeam on April 17, 2008 at 10:20pm



			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 April 26: Art Wiki Marathon 2 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 Date: April 19, 3 – 6PM FEEDBACK Closing Reception: 6PM Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC Cost: Free 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. top April 25: Interactivos? Application Deadline Entramado, Plaza de Luz, installation and photo by Pablo Valbuena. Interactivos? @ Eyebeam Call for Participation online April 25: Application deadline \| May 15: Notification of acceptance May 26: Call for Collaborators \| May 29: Notification of acceptance 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 top May 6: Eyebeam Benefit Celebrating Freedom and Creativity Eyebeam 2008 Freedom and Creativity Benefit Date: May 6 \| 6:30PM Cocktails \| 7:30PM Dinner/Show \| 9:30PM After-Party Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC 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: Drawn and Magical, an A/V performance by Eyebeam R&D OpenLab fellow Zach Leiberman Kinetic Shadow, by Eyebeam Production Lab fellow Addie Wagenecht Consellational Models from the Nebulous Object Archive, by Eyebeam resident Joe Winter Fame Game, a social network that re-invents fame Little Death, featuring Laura Dawn, Daron Murphy, and Aaron Brooks The Hanging Out Station, by Eyebeam senior fellow Geraldine Juárez Plus: Special Guests, DJs, VJs, and more! Tickets and information online: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/528/t/6209/shop/shop.jsp?storefront_KEY=497 top New from our Labs April 19 + 22: Zach Lieberman at See Conference + FITC See Conference Date: April 19 Location: Wiesbaden, Germany http://see-conference.com/ Flash In The Can Festival Date: April 22 Location: Toronto http://fitc.ca/ 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. top April 21: Médecins Sans Frontières Visualization (MSF) Ars Electonica Futurelab Date: April 21 Location: Vienna http://www.msf.org/ http://www.aec.at/en/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. top April 24: Non-Motivational Speaker Series Gelf Magazine’s Non-Motivational Speaker Series Date: April 24, 7:30PM Location: Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome St., NYC Cost: Free 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. top April 26: Art Wiki Marathon 2 Art Wiki Marathon 2 Date: April 26, 12 – 8PM EST (9AM – 5PM PST) Location: Wherever you want to gather. At the library (for books you can reference), at mini house parties, a local art center, or at home online at: IRC: irc://irc.gimp.org/#artwikimarathon \| AIM: join chat artwikimarathon 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/ top May 1 – 2: Futuresonic Conference 2008 Futuresonic Conference 2008: The Social Technology Summit Date: May 1 – 2 Location: Contact Theatre, Manchester, UK http://www.futuresonic.com/08/2008conf.html May 1, 2PM – 3:30PM: Collective Media Spanning user-generated content, collaborative authoring and collectively owned media, this panel will feature case studies of initiatives from India to Germany. Featuring: Platoniq (Olivier Schulbaum, Susana Noguero), Ravikant Shama (Sarai), Jennie Savage (STAR Radio), Eyebeam senior fellow Geraldine Juárez, Christine Hanson and Michael Schafae. May 2, 10AM – 11:30AM: Musical Interfaces Featuring: Florian Hollerweger, Gauti Sigthorsson, Steve Daniels, and Eyebeam resident Jamie Allen. This panel will consider the mobile phone user as micro-DJ, a Toronto-wide open source musical interface and more. Additional Events: Freeware: The Manchester Collection May 3, time TBD (check website schedule) \| Fashion show: May 4 Zion Art Center \| Free 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. top Community April 12 – May 30: 1800 Frames \| Take 4 1800 Frames \| Take 4: The Video State of the Global Union Date: April 12 – May 30 Location: cWOW Gallery, 6 Crawford St., Newark, NJ Cost: Free http://www.cwow.org 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. top April 25: Opening Reception: Main Space: The New Normal Main Space: The New Normal Date: April 26 – June 21 Location: Artists Space, 38 Greene St. 3rd Fl., NYC Cost: Free http://www.artistsspace.org/exhibitions/future.html 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. top 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 top Coworking at The Change You Want To See The Change You Want To See Location: 84 Havemeyer St. (storefront), Williamsburg, Brooklyn http://www.notanalternative.net/ 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 top

Vive la Difference: Interview with Robert Wechsler (Nürnberg /New York)

Posted by Marlon Barrios Solano on March 3, 2008 at 10:00am

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dance-tech.net interviewed via Skype dance and technology pioneer Robert Wechsler, director of Palindrome. He is a choreographer, dancer and developer of interactive ways of performing using new technology. His interest in sensors and electronic devices dates back to the 1970's when he used hand-held electronic devices to generate sounds through his movement on stage. This was in Ames, Iowa, in the United States where he was studying genetics. A move to New York City and a ten-year dance training (SUNY Purchase, Merce Cunningham, Maggie Black, ...) did little to lessen his interest in science and technology. For his choreography and dancing he has been honored with a Fulbright Fellowship, a Nürnberg Innovation Award (2000), CynetArt (first prize for multi-media achievement, 2001), first prize for best interactive art at the Berlin Transmediale (2002) and was second place for the Jury Prize of the Monaco Dance Forum in 2006. In 2004, Wechsler designed England's first masters degree program in digital performance at Doncaster College which he head for two years. He is the author of articles concerned with dance and new media for Leonardo Magazine, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Ballet International, Dance Magazine, Dance Research Journal, Nouvelle de Danse, Der Tanz der Dinge and others. His first book, "Motion Tracking -- a practical guide for performing artists" is scheduled for publication later this year. Video Editing courtesy of Ashley A. Friend