labor around second life: on-the-fly augmented reality, movement improvisation in relation to images; 'accompaniment' with oud : http://www.alansondheim.org/ieye.mp4 : performances by Azure Carter, Mark Skwarek, Alan Sondheim at Open Studios, Eyebeam
paint/Support-Surface in second life, day and night :
beam or submarine, this object provides the interior foil for the platform dance "Eyebeam" done for all the "swells" in the West Chelsea area and their "digs"
The State Department brought 10 Asian journalists to Eyebeam today,and some of us showed what we have been working on. The images beloware from Second Life, with Wadih Sader in relation to the projections.
- From Monika Weiss; we're collaborating in a few months. I respect her work incredibly; she works with uncomfortable issues of history, memory, mourning, lamentation... - please check out.
Are you interested in being an emissary from the future?
For my upcoming “2049″ show at the Dump in San Francisco, one of the artworks that will be featured will be a phone booth where you can talk to someone from the year 2049. People can pick up the phone (it will be set up as a live line) and talk to an ambassador-from-the-future, who will answer questions about what life is like in the year 2049.
Last week, I began a 4-month residency at Recology San Francisco (a.k.a. The Dump) where I make art solely from the refuse that people drop off in their cars and trucks. I am treating this residency as a performance.
I am playing the role of a prospector from the future who mines the garbage heaps of a past civilization to build technologies to survive. Trawling through construction debris, discarded electronics and the scraps of people’s lives, I am making blueprints and building imaginary devices such as a food synthesizer and an infinite battery.
Contemporary Art Students from the University of Huddersfield in the UK participate in a half-day interactive mask workshop led by Eyebeam X-Lab resident David Jimison, where students develop their own interactive masks that explore issues of online identity. During the workshop, students design and decorate their masks, and then wire them with LEDs and el wire. Through the maskmaking process and then interacting online while wearing them, students explore methods of augmenting online personas. At the workshop’s conclusion, students create a series of photographs for posting on various social networks, and engaging with people via video chat.
This was a private workshop, designed specifically for this visiting group. If you would like a workshop like this, email stephanie at eyebeam.org to inquire about costs and program structure.
