Eyebeam is pleased to announce its Open Call for Winter/Spring Residencies and 2011 Fellowships. Up to four Fellows and six Residents will begin working in the first quarter of 2011 at Eyebeam's state-of-the-art new media design, research, and fabrication studios. Eyebeam Fellows are selected from an annual open call and receive an 11-month fellowship with stipend in support of their ongoing practice and research. Eyebeam Residents are selected from a biannual open call of artists, technologists and engineers for a five-month residency, with stipend, in support of specific projects. See the "get involved" section of our website for the full calls and application instructions for each.
With the great NYC Cool Roofs program, a team of volunteers has just painted the roof of Eyebeam white to reflect off summer sun. The improvement should reduce our summer electricity usage by 15,000 kilowatt-hours per year- this is the equivalent of turning off 350 light-bulbs for 8 hours a day, everyday of the year. Thanks to Lawrence Harris, Kenta Darley-Usmar and all the Cool Roofs volunteers.
The Eyebeam Roadshow will be participating in the 2010 01SJ Biennial in San Jose, September 4-19, 2010. Under this year's theme, Build Your Own World, the biennial will present hundreds of artworks, performances, events, and artist talks, which not only imagine the future of the world, but begin to build it.
The Eyebeam Roadshow is what you get when you mix a rock & roll tour with the talented fellows and resident artists of Eyebeam. It is an event organized by the artists as a way to bring their work to places where it would not otherwise be seen. The Roadshow consists of talks and workshops that are designed specifically to blow minds. So far, the Roadshow has traveled to over 20 locations in the U.S. and UK, spreading open source art and technology wherever it goes.
Research: Open Culture
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Eyebeam will be closed to the public from August 9 - September 19, though we'll all be working on plans for the fall. We're also getting documentation of all the artists and workshops online, so there will be plenty to keep you entertained while our doors are closed.
MIXER, Eyebeam's audiovisual art party, returns with a night of mind-bending high energy video, performance, and live music on Saturday, September 25, 2010. The latest MIXER highlights new work by Extreme Animals, featuring Eyebeam Fellow Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman. Exciting additional music acts will be announced shortly. Stay tuned!
MIXER is curated and produced by Eyebeam in conjunction with MeanRed Productions.
Eyebeam is pleased to present Patrons, Muses and Professionals, a series of sculptures by London-based artist Nick Hornby installed in the Eyebeam Window Gallery. Please join us for an opening reception on Thursday, September 23, 6-8PM. The work will be on view September 23 – October 16, 2010.
In Patrons, Muses, and Professionals, Hornby presents three busts derived from eighteenth century portraits on view at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Each work hybridizes three distinct portraits, one individual representing each of the titular archetypes. Hornby models his chosen subjects digitally, overlapping them to create composite virtual objects that reveal shifting aspects of their source material. The results are carved via CNC. The artists casts the final objects by hand with plaster and clay from these industrially-generated positives.
LINZ, AUSTRIA
There's quite a posse of Eyebeamers and alum heading out to Linz this year for the Ars Electronica Festival. Several alum will be taking home awards: Former Eyebeam Fellows Zachary Lieberman, James Powderly, Evan Roth, Chris Sugrue and Theo Watson as well as graffiti writer Tony Quan were awarded the Golden Nica in Interactive Art for the Eyewriter. Alum Paul Vanouse's Ocular Revision was given an Award of Distinction in the Hybrid Art Category, and Eyebeam alums The Living received an Honorary Mention for their project Living Light. Britta Riley and the Windowfarms.org team will be presenting the Windowfarms project in the "Repair the environment" program thread; Jon Cohrs' Urban Prospecting is part of
the "Raise Your Voice" exhibition; and Fall 2010 Resident Artist Aram Bartholl has curated the Digital Communities 2010 program, TELE-INTERNET - The 2010 Ars Electronica Internet Shop!
