Benton-C Bainbridge, Brother Islands, screen shot, 2007.
Tickets available online now.
Greetings Earthlings!
Not only is Eyebeam packing your Winter with a list of events and activities for the season, but we’re also excited to announce the new round of Eyebeam Fellows. For your chance to meet these amazing and talented people in person, or even just to catch a glimpse, come down to Eyebeam this Thursday for the Upgrade! Eco-Vis Challenge critique, or our Interference exhibition closing on Saturday night. We also have a classic MIXER happening on November 17, with a special performance and party—a great chance to mingle, drink and gawk at the stunning line-up of audio/visual performances.
See you in Chelsea this week!
This Week at Eyebeam:
November 8, 7PM: The Upgrade! Eco-Vis Challenge Critique
November 10, 4–7PM: Interference Closing Reception
November 17, 8PM: MIXER performance and party
New from our Labs
November 7, November 10: CBC Radio interview featuring Robert Ransick
November 9 – 17: Chris Sugrue at amber Festival
November 8, 6–8PM: Leah Gauthier’s Tomatoes at The Revolving Museum
November 12, November 15: Steve Lambert: Wish You Were Here! and Unmarketable
November 16: Seth Weiner installs myOpticon at Bowling Green Park
Eyebeam Community
November 9 – 19: LoVid: Topographies Tour
November 10, 3:45PM: Stranger Comes to Town at the American Natural History Museum
November 22, 9:30AM–12PM: Amanda McDonald Crowley talks in Copenhagen
November 8, 7PM: The Upgrade! Eco-Vis Challenge Critique
Eyebeam, 540 W 21st St (between 10th Ave & 11th Ave), New York
Eyebeam will be hosting a public critique for the Eco-Vis Challenge submissions this Thursday, as part of this month’s Upgrade! series of public programming.
A distinguished panel of New York-based artists and designers will discuss what role an art and technology center can play in raising public awareness on environmental issues, and how visualizing environmental data can address the crisis. The guest critics will not only dicuss their criteria for a useful, engaging, and successful visualization project, but will be available to give in-depth feedback to the Eco-Vis Challenge participants. Panelists include: Michael Mandiberg, Natalie Jeremijemko, Zachary Lieberman, and Upgrade! founder Mushon Zer-Aviv. To keep in the loop on the Eco-Vis Challenge, register here: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/528/t/4135/event/index.jsp?event_KEY=32119.
To reserve a critique slot for your Eco-Vis Challenge submission on Thursday night, email paul AT eyebeam DOT org.
We’ve also extended the deadline for Eco-Vis Challenge 1: Eco Icons to November 12. So if you’re still thinking of submitting to Eco Icons, Thursday night will be a great opportunity to get feedback on any ideas you may have.
Additionally for more inspiration and information, the Sustainability Research Group at Eyebeam have taken over our reBlog and are currently posting eco-based topics furiously to it. Check it out: http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/
November 10, 4–7 PM: Interference Closing Reception
Eyebeam, 540 W 21st St (between 10th Ave and 11th Ave), New York
4–5PM: Techno Dumpster Dive Techniques and Demonstration
A discussion and demonstration of dumpster diving techniques by a representative from freegans.org, with an assignment for those present to go out into the streets to collect “abandoned technology” over the upcoming weeks for future Eyebeam workshops such as the Holiday Hackshop (December 1) and the Free Media workshop (February 16). This will be followed by performance/demonstration of the Edible Excess Machine.
5–7PM: Demo, Discussion and Drinks
Join us for drinks and demonstrations of Yuri Gitman’s Magicbike, and the Grafitti Research Lab’s Mobile Broadcast Unit with L.A.S.E.R. Tag, which we will take out onto West 21st Street.
Benton-C Bainbridge, Brother Islands, screen shot, 2007
November 17, 8–11PM: MIXER performance and party
Eyebeam, 540 W 21st St (between 10th Ave and 11th Ave), New York
Brother Islands (Places to Lose People)
Cost: $10
After 9PM: $5
Limited tickets now available online at: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/528/t/4366/shop/shop.jsp?storefront_KEY=353
MIXER, Eyebeam’s new quarterly series showcasing live audio and video performance, launches with Brother Islands, a haunting tableau integrating audio and video recordings, stereographic photos and live theater. Eyebeam Education Fellow Benton-C Bainbridge creates an expanded documentary of North Brother Island half a century since its abandonment, as it fades from New York City’s map and its bleak buildings succumb to nature.
This tiny South Bronx Island was once notorious as a harsh quarantine and locus of misfortunate legends like Typhoid Mary and the General Slocum ferry disaster.
Stick around at 9PM for drinks and an exclusive A/V performance by The Jesse Stiles 3000, Bill Etra and Vade.
Brother Islands performance ensemble: Benton-C Bainbridge, Minou Maguna, Ross Goldstein, Ryder Cooley, Dan Winckler, Matthew Schlanger, Jesse Stiles.November 7, November 10: CBC Radio interview featuring Robert Ransick
Recently Robert Ransick, former Eyebeam resident whose highly discussed work Casa Segura is installed at Eyebeam’s current exhibition, Interference, was interviewed by Nora Young of the CBC, host of Spark: Tech, Trends and Fresh Ideas for Canadian Radio, last week. The program will air on November 7 and 10, and will be available online this Wednesday, November 7.
November 9 – 17: Chris Sugrue at amber 07 Festival
Former Eyebeam Production Fellow, Chris Sugrue, will be exhibiting her recent work and participating in a symposium at the amber 07 body-process arts festival in Istanbul, Turkey, from November 9 to 17. As the only new technologies and arts festival in Turkey, amber 07 will be an international event exhibiting the works of 30 artists.
November 8, 6–8PM: Leah Gauthier’s Tomatoes at The Revolving Museum
Revolving Museum, 22 Shattuck Street, Lowell, MA
http://www.revolvingmuseum.org/
Attention all art fans: next thursday Eyebeam resident Leah Gauthier will give an artist talk at the revolving museum in Lowell, MA, recapping Tomatoes, her project for art ventures, with a follow-up discussion about artist gardens, food, and public art.
November 12, November 15: Steve Lambert: Wish You Were Here! and Unmarketable
Eyebeam R&D OpenLab Senior Fellow Steve Lambert and Packard Jennings asked architects, city planners, and transportation engineers in San Francisco: What would you do if you didn’t have to worry about budgets, beauracracy, politics, or physics? Ideas from these conversations were then merged, developed, and perhaps mildly exaggerated by Steve and Packard to create a series of six posters for the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Art on Market Street Program. The Wish You Were Here! edition of 24 posters can be seen between November 12, 2007 to March 14, 2008 on nearly every block of Market Street from the Embarcadero to the Castro.
Confused about which big business best correlates with your lifestyle? Want to sell out, but not quite sure where to turn? Steve and his buddies can help. Show up for the New York book launch, slide talk and performance of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity by Anne Elizabeth Moore, with Josh MacPhee and Steve Lambert at Ad Hoc Arts, 49 Bogart Street Unit 1G, Buzzer 22, near the Morgan Ave stop on the L train.
This event is free of charge and will start at 7PM unless otherwise indicated.
Steve has also released a commentary track to his online video Ronald’s Crisis where you can listen to Artists Space Curator Joseph del Pesco in conversation with Steve Lambert. Ronald’s Crisis was Steve’s organized effort to close every McDonald’s in Manhattan a few weeks ago.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FaQ-KmrheI
November 16: Seth Weiner installs myOpticon at Bowling Green Park
myOpticon, a thermal imaging system in the guise of coin-operated binoculars developed by Eyebeam Summer resident Seth Weiner, has been installed in Lower Manhattan’s Bowling Green Park and is now directed toward the United States Custom House. myOpticon constructs an image consisting only of the infrared radiation emitted by all objects as a function of surface temperature. The viewing device sees just as well in pitch darkness and fog as in broad daylight, rendering camouflage and the cover of night obsolete. In addition to constructing a thermal image, myOpticon provides surface temperature readings of any surface placed in its crosshairs.
myOpticon is open to the public through the end of the year. An informal reception will gather at dusk on November 16, 2007. Exhibited as part of NYC Park’s exhibition: Art in the Parks: Celebrating 40 Years of Art, myOpticon was made possible in part by a grant from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the September 11 Fund. Additional support was provided by Eyebeam’s residency program and a Fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts.
www.myopticon.com
November 9 – 19: LoVid: Topographies Tour
Topographies Tour is a series of lectures, performances, workshops and screenings by LoVid, former Eyebeam residents, traveling across country from November 9 to 19. The complete list of LoVid’s tour schedule with venues is online now: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dfx22q49_88c3cnc9
November 10, 3:45PM: Stranger Comes to Town at the American Natural History Museum
American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York
www.amnh.org
This Saturday, Eyebeam is proud to co-present the screening of Stranger Comes to Town, at the 2007 Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, November 9 to 11. All screenings are held at the American Museum of Natural History. Friends of Eyebeam receive tickets at the Member price of $9!
Stranger Comes to Town is a video that re-purposes animations from the Department of Homeland Security, combining them with stories from the border, images from the online game World of Warcraft, and journeys via Google Earth, to tell a tale of bodies moving through lands familiar and strange. The director, former Eyebeam resident Jacqueline Goss, focuses on the questions and examinations used to establish identity at the border, and how these processes in turn affect one’s own sense of self and view of the world.
To Order Tickets:
By Phone: 212-769-5200 (service charge applies)
Online: www.amnh.org/mead (service charge applies)
On-site: During Museum hours at the Advance Group Sales desk in the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda (Central Park West at 79th Street entrance), and at the Rose Center for Earth and Space (81st Street entrance—no service charge)
Mention Eyebeam to receive Member price of $9!
To view the festival’s full schedule please visit www.amnh.org/mead.
November 22, 9:30AM–12PM: Amanda McDonald Crowley talks in Copenhagen
Amanda McDonald Crowley, Eyebeam’s Executive Director, will be sharing her knowledge of working in production facilities in new media at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, with co-speaker Mike Stubbs, Director of FACT, Liverpool. The event is organized by Andreas Brøegger on behalf of the Danish organisation New Media Forum.
www.newmediaforum.dk
Eyebeam’s current programs are made possible through the generous support of the Atlantic Foundation, Jerome Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and with public funds from New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council of the Arts, a state agency. For a complete list of supporters, please visit http://www.eyebeam.org/about/about.php?page=support.
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