Eyebeam Alumni Education Fellows

In addition to developing their own work, the Eyebeam Education Fellows will work closely with Eyebeam teaching artists to develop and implement new models for workshops, learning opportunities and audience engagement.
The Fellowship is geared towards artists whose own practice is to work directly with audiences and who have an interest in developing collaborative projects with - and a body of educational opportunities for - public schools, community groups and the general public.
The Fellows will have 11 months to research and develop their own work and to facilitate programs and events with Eyebeam's Education Lab and artists. Fellows will also have access to the R&D and Production Labs to explore new technologies and ideas around public programming and education at Eyebeam, and within the larger community.

Facilities
In addition to their own workspaces in the Education Lab, Fellows will have access to a number of tools including:
* Classroom with 5 Mac Pro Towers, 3 Dual Core G5 Towers
* Latest versions of Adobe Photoshop, AfterEffects, Premiere, Illustrator
* Macromedia Studio MX (Studio MX includes Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Freehand and ColdFusion Developer)
* Sound Editing Software
* iMovie 3
* Protools (free version)
* Digital video cameras, digital still cameras, mini-disk recorders, etc.
* A workbench with soldering irons, breadboards, programmable chips, etc. for basic circuitry projects
* The acquisition of additional supplies, media, hardware and software can be discussed.

Previous Work

VJ-U
VJ-U is the research project of Eyebeam's 2006-07 Education Fellow, Benton-C Bainbridge, designed to be a hands-on course to learn the tools and techniques of the Video Jockey. Participants in his research and workshops help to develop custom tools including "Vidymis", a digital interface for analog video synthesis Benton-C is creating with Stephan Moore. Guest artists include VJs, musicians and programmers. Weekly live performances and broadcasts showcase the students' work and accelerate the studies.

Urban Attractors, Private Distractors
UAPD is directed by Angie Eng in collaboration with New York artist Jessica Higgins and Vietnamese artist Rich Streitmatter-Tran and a collective of student interns in New York and Ho Chi Minh City. The two groups conduct actions in public centers highlighting private behavior in public space and the invisible boundaries/filters prompted by mobile technologies and urban invasions of public space.

OpenFrameworks; Zachary Lieberman, Theodore Watson and Evan Roth
Hardware and Software Tools for Interactive Installations and Performance; Mark Coniglia from Troika Ranch and Limor Fried
These are two examples of workshops which have been conducted by Eyebeam Fellows. The workshops focused on research being conducted and tools being developed in the Open Lab and Production Studio.

Digital Day Camp
A summer institute for high school students that embodies the spirit and model for many of the youth programs at Eyebeam.