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Director of Production

March 2001 - March 2007

Melanie Crean is an artist and teacher based in Brooklyn, NY. She is an Assistant Professor of Media Design at Parsons the New School for Design in New York City, teaching production and theory based classes in experimental time based work, mobile media and gaming. As the former Director of Production at Eyebeam (eyebeam.org), she founded and managed a cooperative studio that supported the creation of socially based media, working with new forms of moving image, sound, public art and open source software.

Previously, Melanie worked at the MTV Digital Television Lab, managing a team of artists while designing special effects, performance animation, motion capture and speech recognition systems. She produced documentaries in Nepal, India and the United States, on subjects that include women trafficking and the spread of HIV/AIDS along trucking routes in South Asia. Melanie received a BA in semiotics and film production from Brown University, and a MFA in computer art from the School of Visual Arts.

Crean has received fellowships and commissions from Art in General, the Bronx Arts Council, Harvestworks, NYFA, NYSCA, Rhizome and Creative Time.

Operations and Finance Manager

1/31/05 to 8/29/07

Administrative Assistant

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Production Coordinator

3/19/07 to 9/5/08

 

Stephanie Hunt joined Eyebeam in March 2007 to share her knack for supporting emerging artists, technologists, and inventors. As the Production Manager, she facilitates Eyebeam’s residency and fellowship programs. Stephanie previously worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she introduced emerging research to the public through exhibits and programs. She holds a BA in Studio Art and Education from Middlebury College and an EdM in Technology in Education from Harvard University. Stephanie is alternately known for her love of holographic imaging and her proclivity for building electronic musical instruments controlled by pickles and play-doh.

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Becky Heritage, Assistant Bookstore Manager

becky@eyebeam.org


Becky has worked across a spectrum of educational settings: murals workshops with New York graffiti artists; teaching hardware/software courses; to MFA and BFA students at Parsons School of Art, Media, and Technology; offering soft circuitry workshops in New York City public schools; and game design and soft circuit workshops for adolescents with special needs. She is currently pursuing her second Masters, M.S. Ed in Special Education (9-12), and is researching how computational-thinking and systems-thinking, married with technology-based art forms, can serve as a platform for integrated curriculum. Becky explores pathways of data and implications of perception in pedagogy, tactility, and audio/visual experiences.  Conceptual domains of her art work encompass subcultures, drawing machines, and feedback loops. The mediums include hardware/software setups, drawings, and soft circuitry. Some recent work have been illustrations with game collective Local No. 12, Metagame a card game about video games, and soft circuitry consultation and fabrication with fashion designer Norma Kamali.

Click Here to Download the DDC09 Application Packet

DIGITAL DAY CAMP 2009 - PROGRAM INFORMATION

Deadline for Submission: Thursday, June 18, 2009
Notification of acceptance to program: Tuesday, June 25, 2009

Schedule: July 7-28, 2009. Mondays* - Thursdays, 1:30-5:30
•    Week One: Tuesday*, July 7 - Thursday, July 9 (1:30-5:30pm)
•    Week Two: Monday, July 13-Thursday, July 16 (1:30-5:30pm)
•    Week Three: Monday, July 20-Thursday, July 23 (1:30-5:30pm)
•    Wrap-Up: Monday, July 27  (1:30-5:30pm)
•    Public Presentations and Reception: Tuesday, July 28 (6-8pm)
*Please note - DDC will begin on Tuesday, July 7th, due to the holiday weekend.

Stipend: $20 / day - paid out at the program's conclusion.

Location: All events will take place at Eyebeam - 540-548 W. 21st Street (10th & 11th Avenue)

About the program: DDC09 students will engage in lectures and hands-on workshops focusing on art and technology tools, careers in the field, and relevant social and artistic topics. Through their investigations, they will have the opportunity to research current themes in arts and technology, and develop their own project in response to what they discover. Projects will be promoted through Eyebeam's website, and through a final event.

DDC activities will be led by invited technology professionals, contemporary artists, and Eyebeam's current residents and fellows. Participants in past programs have engaged in project-based learning around themes of bio-tech, urban intervention, gaming, and wearable technology.

• Students are PAID a daily stipend of $20/day for their participation.

• Check out our website for examples of past projects here.

Student is eligible to apply if s/he:

  • Is currently enrolled in a public high school;
  • Can recruit a teacher, school staff member, or community group organizer to fill out the Recommendation form;
  • Demonstrates an interest in art, technology, and/or social/political issues;
  • Has an exemplary attendance record and a willingness to learn new things;
  • Is available for the entire duration of each day at the Digital Day Camp!!!

Previous experience with new media tools and technology is not preferred or a prerequisite for the program. Ideal candidates are interested in new learning experiences and environments and opportunities to engage with different students and local artists.

How to Apply:

DDC will accept 16 students from NYC public high schools. Students must have been enrolled during the 2008-2009 school year.

Students wishing to apply should download the Application Packet. Once they have downloaded the packet, they should:

  • Fill out a DDC Student Application Form
  • Ask a faculty or staff member at his/her public school or community program to fill out a DDC Recommendation Form
  • Submit all forms together with a resume (if available) to Stephanie Pereira via fax (212.937.6582) or email: stephanie [at] eyebeam [dot] org

Girls-Eye View (GEV) is a program for NYC middle school girls, developed as a response to research stating that adolescent girls begin to pull back from technology and allow boys to play the dominant roll in group activities and in the middle school classroom.

The participating students work with a female teaching artist to develop individual and group projects investigating female issues and media messages regarding women and girls. Project content is developed via in-depth discussions regarding feminist art and history, trips to local art institutions and shows, female guest speakers who can speak to the career possibilities for women with the skills taught in the GEV program, and weekly critiques.

Final projects are presented during the last day of the program in a professional critique setting to a council of local female artists working in the same vein as the projects produced. Each program concludes with an open house wrap-up event for participants‚ friends and families to view the work generated during the semester.

After-School Atelier (ASA) is a semester-long program that provides NYC public high school and middle school students the opportunity to work in a studio environment and to develop new media art projects under the guidance of Eyebeam’s Teaching Artists.

This outreach program helps students to deconstruct media messages about teens by teaching digital imaging techniques, introducing them to guest-lecturing new media professionals, and engaging them with art and design issues. Each semester Eyebeam holds one class for High School students and one for Middle School students. Each class runs two days per week for 7 weeks, depending on the school schedule. The students are offered opportunities to work on projects cooperatively with the Arists-in Residence, professional mentors, ASA staff, and their peers.

Resident artists Rebecca Bray and Britta Riley are seeking a materials intern for a project related to DIY hydroponic gardening. They are looking for someone with extensive building experience using a variety of materials, including electrical and plumbing, to assist with fabrication, construction, maintenance tasks, and materials acquisition. Training in industrial design, sculpture, or hydroponic gardening is a plus. Approximately 8 hours per week.

Two interns needed to collaborate with and assist Jon Cohrs to work on a pirate tv project/web scrapping site and an oil locative p-comp project. The TV station project will focus on creating code curated content that will go live in june. We’ll be building a media aggregator, where people and submit url’s, feeds, and scripts that will curate content of the station. An example might be a script that gathers all of the most commented videos on YouTube with the tag “mowing the lawn”, for the YouTube show between 7 – 8PM or the Sunday night movie that will be selected based on the most torrented film of the week.

For more information go to http://splnlss.com Interns will be engaged in all phases of production development between March and June 2009 at Eyebeam.