New Artists and Creative Technologists at Eyebeam
Eyebeam is ramping up for an extremely exciting and productive year in 2006-7, following its selection of six Fall Residency projects, six year-long Fellows and two annual Production Lab Commissions, in addition to four inaugural Senior Fellows.
Both the Residents and Fellows have been invited to Eyebeam to research and create work around themes of urban interventions and media in public space; and energy, technology and sustainability through a range of interdisciplinary technology projects across all three of Eyebeam’s labs.
Fall 2006 Residents
Continuing Eyebeam’s tradition of hosting artists and creative technologists to undertake residencies in our Chelsea facility, six creative projects were selected from an open call to provide artists, technologists, engineers and, for the first time, architects with a six-month residency to work on projects or research of artistic endeavor or creative technical expression. Residents are given 24/7 access to Eyebeam’s studios and labs, equipment and technical expertise from Eyebeam staff and Fellows and a $5000 honorarium.
Angie Eng is a media artist who works in video, installation and time-based performance. Influenced by theories of psychogeographics, Eng’s "Urban Attractors and Private Distractors" will explore custom and behavior in relation to culturally determined understandings and distinctions between concepts of public/private and inside/outside in physical space/cyberspace. Eng’s project will include local workshops and online collaborations with groups of young people in NYC and Hanoi. http://www.angieeng.com/
Jill Magid is a performer and director interested in engaging the systems of discipline in society, such as police, CCTV and forensic artists, by exploiting the dormant possibilities of their services. During her residency, Jill will develop a series of projects based on experiences working the night-shift with a police officer who she has been shadowing, off the record. http://www.jillmagid.net/
Michael Mandiberg is an artist, computer programmer and rogue economist who uses the Internet, video and performance to explore subjectivity, labor and commerce. Michael’s most recent project, “Oil Standard,” created a browser plug-in that converts all prices on any web page to their equivalent value in barrels of oil. He will continue this vein of work at Eyebeam, employing devices such as Firefox plug-ins and open API platforms to highlight real environmental costs in a global economy. http://www.mandiberg.com/
Jamie O'Shea will use his residency to manufacture celebrity by developing a performance and Internet project centering on the creation of a human-sized chamber with giant suspended antenna whose function will be to make its occupant famous. http://www.livenudemachines.com/
Robert Ransick, a NYC-based artist and cultural producer, will research and plan a sustainable and Internet-enabled shelter to be deployed in the Sonoran desert. This prototype is intended to explore the possibility of creating life-saving beacons in an otherwise hostile landscape, enabling private property owners to help foster a humane border and creating a platform for understanding the motivations and stories of the thousands of migrants who make this dangerous trek through the desert. For this project Robert will collaborate with architects Paola Sanguinetti and Blake Goble, as well as emerging artist Ryan Moran. http://www.robertransick.com/
Carmen Trudell and Jennifer Broutin, NYC-based architects, have designed a DIY device that can be attached to any swinging door as a closure assembly to locally capture and redistribute energy. At Eyebeam they will continue this research to harness human energy by creating a prototype that intervenes with people and architecture at an urban scale. The project’s goals are to increase the quantity of energy obtainable, engage in the larger discussion of sustainability and communicate the potential of human and technological participation in energy production and consumption.
2006-7 Production Commissions
These two artists' projects have been selected from a group of exceptional, panel-nominated artists exploring socially or environmentally based moving image work. Both projects will receive a year's worth of technical support, systems design, programming and media post-production support developing their projects in collaboration with Eyebeam Senior Fellows and Fellows, primarily in Eyebeam's Production Lab.
MediaShed/Mongrel - Graham Harwood of UK-based artist collective Mongrel and David Valentine of UK-based MediaShed, a grass roots media initiative (established by Harwood, among others), will collaborate with Eyebeam and two groups of disadvantaged youth (one in Southend-on-Sea, one in New York City) to create and test a suite of easy-to-use, freely available video recording, producing and editing tools (The Free Media Video Toolkit or FMVTK) for eventual widespread online dissemination. http://mediashed.org/ http://www.scotoma.org
Trevor Paglen is a Berkeley-based artist, writer and experimental geographer. His work, Negative Space, will make visible – and audible – the covert infrastructures of hidden military installations. Paglen has begun to develop a technique of “televideography” based on astrophotography specifically for this project; with Eyebeam’s help he will extend two-dimensional, long-distance imaging into the temporal realm to create a three-channel video installation about the ghostly existence of a secret military base near Groom Lake, Nevada. http://www.paglen.com/
2006-7 Fellows
The following Fellows were selected from an open call and come to Eyebeam for a year to undertake new research and develop new work, both individually and collaboratively in our Education and Production Labs and R&D OpenLab. Fellows receive a wage and health benefits as well as access to our facilities and equipment in order to work on their own independent projects, projects initiated by Residents or Fellows and projects conceived collaboratively during the Fellowship period.
Benton-C Bainbridge will be Eyebeam’s inaugural Fellow in the Education Lab. A Bronx-based artist who has worked with video as a painterly and performable medium for nearly 25 years, Benton will research new media in educational practices, and together with Director of Education and Public Programming Liz Slagus, develop youth, adult and artists' professional development programs. http://www.benton-c.com/
Chris Sugrue, a Production Lab Fellow, is an interaction designer (working on the relationship between people and technology), artist, teacher, and programmer. Her work at Eyebeam will be a continuation of her research into computer vision, eye-tracking and mobile phone technologies. http://rustedforrest.com/
Jeff Crouse, a Production Lab Fellow, is an artist and programmer focused on the expressive potential of Internet technologies, specifically art generated in real-time from live data sources. http://www.jeffcrouse.info/
Mouna Andraos, an R&D OpenLab Fellow, is an interaction designer in various media including web, mobile, electronics and wearables, while applying ideas of softness, intimacy and uniqueness to the electronic spaces and objects that are increasingly inhabiting our personal environments. Her work for a Montreal-based interactive production studio has won recognition ranging from a Best of Show & Best of Art at the South by South West web awards to a cyberLion in Cannes. She recently completed her master's degree at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. http://www.missmoun.com/
Jonah Brucker-Cohen, an R&D OpenLab Fellow, is a researcher, artist, Ph.D. candidate, and HEA MMRP (Multimedia Research Programme) fellow in the Disruptive Design Team of the Networking and Telecommunications Research Group (NTRG), Trinity College, Dublin. Jonah’s work focuses on subverting accepted perceptions of network interaction and experience. http://www.coin-operated.com/
Steve Lambert will join Jonah and Mouna as a Fellow in the R&D OpenLab, where he will continue to create art that’s relevant to those outside the gallery, ideally prompting viewers to question the various power structures at work in their lives. Recent projects include “WhyTheyHate.Us,” a participatory web photo project using images submitted to Flickr, the popular photo hosting site, and “Simmer Down Sprinter,” a two player, sit-down, arcade style video game controlled by player’s bio-feedback. http://www.visitsteve.com/
2006-7 Senior Fellows
Eyebeam is implementing its new Senior Fellowship program with four individuals well known to the organization. Senior Fellows will continue their own research begun at Eyebeam over the last year and also serve as mentors and supporters for incoming Fellows. These individuals have been invited to continue their work at Eyebeam in recognition of their exceptional talent and also in recognition of the fact that a sustained research period is critical for the development of innovative research and new ideas – goals central to Eyebeam’s mission.
Geraldine Juarez is a vfx artist from Mexico City. She studied Communication and Graphic Design in the Universidad Iberoamericana and worked in advertising for several years in post houses like Rushes Mexico, The Filter FX and Heroina, in Mexico City, New York and Los Angeles. She was a Fellow at the Eyebeam Production Lab during 2002. Since then she has combined her commercial and independent work, through different projects such as the production house Peliculas del 77 and the visual collective WeMakeLove. Geraldine also writes for different magazines in Mexico City about digital culture and electronic music. She is currently finishing her work as a senior effects designer and compositor at Eyebeam, completing an independent film called The Sleep Dealer directed by Alex Rivera. Jerry will be an inaugural Senior Fellow in Eyebeam's Production Lab for 2006-7. http://chocolaterobot.com/
Evan Harper produces solo and collaborative work in the field of creative digital re-appropriation. He has developed video game modifications and tools since 1995; and his games have been featured in Game Informer and The New York Times. Previous projects inlude Postal Chairs for Privately Owned Public Spaces, Wolfengitmo and the Genomic Psalm of the Day. Evan worked on programming to assist Bill Dolson to realize his 2005-6 Eyebeam residency project and was brought on board as Technical Director in Eyebeam's Production Studio in 2006. He will join Geraldine as a Senior Fellow in Eyebeam's Production Lab for 2006-7. http://a.parsons.edu/~evan/school/
James Powderly is a maverick hobbyist dabbling at the fringes of robotics, chemistry, writing, pyrotechnics, graffiti and art. As a Fellow in the Eyebeam R&D OpenLab for the last year James has developed experimental creative technologies and media for the public domain. Prior to coming to Eyebeam, he was an engineer and the Director of Technology Development at Honeybee Robotics, a Manhattan-based NASA contractor. He worked on developing the Mars Exploration Rover's Rock Abrasion Tool and built a wall drilling robot for Diller + Scofidio's retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. James has been awarded numerous grants, fellowships and awards, including an Award of Distinction in 2006 from Ars Electronica for his work with the Graffiti Research Lab. His work can be found on the surface of Mars and other people's walls throughout the U.S. and Europe. In the Spring, he will begin teaching a class at Parsons Communication Design and Technology program called, "Disruptive Home Economics". I am James Powderly and I approved of this message. http://research.eyebeam.org/people/james-powderly
Evan Roth is a media maker interested in
uses of technology in popular culture and the urban environment. Evan
received an MFA from Parsons,
where he now teaches courses on visual programming and Geek Graffiti.
He has worked for the last year as a Fellow at the Eyebeam OpenLab,
an open source creative technology research and development lab for the
public domain. Evan lives in Brooklyn with his girlfriend and cat and
enjoys spending his free time violating laws related to copyright and
vandalism. Evan, along with James is an inaugural Senior Fellow
in Eyebeam’s
R&D OpenLab. With the newly appointed R&D OpenLab Fellows, Evan
and James will continue their quest begun as inaugural Fellows of
Eyebeam’s R&D OpenLab in 2005/06, to enrich the public domain. http://ni9e.com/
Cory Arcangel, former Eyebeam Teaching Artist and inaugural
Senior Fellow in the OpenLab, Cory continues as an advisor and an
Honorary Senior Fellow at Eyebeam . http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/
Images credits from top: Jill Magid, Trevor Paglen, Benton-C Bainbridge, Graffiti Research Lab.
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