Performances

Eyebeam showcases leading artists, designers, musicians, engineers, and hackers working in the fields of live media performance, interactive and participatory art.

Rec. Play.

Rec. Play. is Eyebeam’s exciting series exploring the shifting landscape of sound art and sound itself. Rec. Play. grew out of the Eyebeam Sound Research Group, initiated by Roddy Schrock, and longstanding collaboration and discussion amongst staff, residents, and fellows working in the areas of sound art and sound science. Rec. Play. aims to identify current trends in the realm of sound art, how it has changed with the times, and what histories remain to be traced. These events coalesce as a series of rotating, curated micro-festivals of symposia, installation, performance, and cross-pollinated presentations. On Twitter: #recplay

Roadshow

Eyebeam Roadshow is what you get when you mix a rock & roll tour with the talented fellows and resident artists of Eyebeam. It is an event organized by the artists as a way to bring their work to places where it would not otherwise be seen. The Roadshow consists of talks and workshops that are designed specifically to blow minds. The Roadshow has traveled to locations in the U.S., UK, and Asia, spreading open source art and technology wherever it goes.

MIXER

MIXER is Eyebeam's event series showcasing audiovisual performance and interactive art.Each MIXER event features live performances by video artists, musicians, VJs and DJs, as well as innovative new interactive artwork by Eyebeam artists and the NYC community that require audience participation and ancourage creative play. Each MIXER is organized around a theme – from the mythical NYC underground to the World's Fair to the Olympics. Hybrid in format, and Eyebeam in spirit – collaborative, spontaneous and a little off-the-wall – MIXER electrifies Eyebeam’s vast West Chelsea space for an art party quite unlike any other.

Performance: ARNO GIL MÜLLER NEUMANN SCHUMACHER

ARNO GIL MÜLLER NEUMANN SCHUMACHER: a modular collaboration for Eyebeam's Main Space initiated by Eyebeam Resident Daniel Neumann. Exhibition open to the public May 11-12, 12PM-6PM Opening reception: May 10, 2012 6PM in tandem with reception for Wired Frames.

Music After Hours: CT-SWaM

CT-SWaM (Contemporary Temporary Sound Works And Music) is Eyebeam's late night concert series curated by Eyebeam Resident Daniel Neumann, happening intermittently in Eyebeam's Main Space this spring and summer. In addition to Neumann's work as a sound artist and sound engineer, he is also an active curator. His first curated event at Eyebeam presents the work of three experimental musicians, all playing electronic instrumentation, and working at the cross sections of drone-musicality and improvisation-composition. Updated schedule and details: http://www.facebook.com/events/131697876964903/

Performance: Unmanned

Jordan Crandall's Unmanned is a piece of "philosophical theater": a blend of performance art, political allegory, philosophical speculation, and intimate reverie that explores the changing nature of masculinity in the face of automated technologies of war. Jordan conducts a series of monologues in the guise of seven different characters, supplemented with stage action, video, and sound. Each character is an archetype of masculine identity struggling with its own agency and role in the field of deployment -- historically, the most complex issue in the field of military endeavor.

Book Launch: See Yourself Sensing

Renowned art and technology author Madeline Schwartzman launches her new book See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception (Black Dog Publishing) - the first book to survey the fascinating relationship between design, the body, science and the senses.

Invisible Crowd

Presenters: Eyebeam Fellow Taeyoon Choi and Red Channels collective. In Spring of 2011, Taeyoon Choi collaborated with Red Channels, an open collective that organizes screenings and produces films, to present ideas about 'Crowds in cinema' at a social studies symposium in Chicago. Another manifestation of this collaboration was to produce a single channel video As a Crowd Gathers which was presented at the Whitney ISP exhibition in May 2011.

MIXER: Past Futures

Featuring live music performance by SUN RA ARKESTRA!ONLINE TICKET SALES ARE NOW CLOSED. PLEASE PURCHASE AT THE DOOR STARTING AT 9PM. MIXER, Eyebeam’s quarterly showcase for audiovisual performance and interactive art, goes back to the future – to the dawn of the imagined internet.On Saturday, April 9, MIXER: Past Futures transforms Eyebeam’s vast West Chelsea space into an immersive environment combining video, music, design, and fashion to evoke visions of the future – both utopian and dystopian – as depicted through literature, movies, and video games of the recent past. MIXER: Past Futures conjures the spirit of both early internet theories and visual style, suggesting an alternate version of our own current reality, reflecting what was and what could be.

Holiday MIXER

Seasons greetings from Eyebeam! Join us on Saturday, December 11, 3-9PM for Holiday MIXER, our all-ages, year-end party with hands-on workshops, demonstrations, interactive art, performances, DIY gifts, raffle, and competitive cocktail mixology featuring Eyebeam's fellows and residents!DJs Michna and Aarnio spinning 3-9PM.Rickshaw Dumpling Truck serving 4-8PM!Online admission ticket sales are now closed. Please purchase at the door. ---SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES--- RAFFLE:

MIXER: DâM-FunK & Extreme Animals

MIXER, Eyebeam's audiovisual art party, returns with a night of mind-bending high energy video, performance, and live music on Saturday, September 25, 9PM. Presenting new performance work by Extreme Animals (Eyebeam Fellow and former Paper Rad member Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman) and DâM-FunK performing a hot live set of electro and boogie funk. Live visuals by Ghostdad and Bennett4Senate. DJ sets by Rev. Shines (Lifesavas).

Cross(x)Species Adventure Club

Eyebeam hosts the Cross Species (xSpecies) Adventure Club, a supper club for humans and non-humans to explore a tasty bio-diverse future. Each event is an experience of the depth and complexity of our interconnections with nonhumans, exploring the web that traces our gastronomic, economic and material interdependency with butterflies, snails, geese, bats and other intelligent and delicious creatures. This supper club will present 5 courses of foods delicious and nutritious to both humans and nonhumans, with wine, beer and edible cocktail pairing and a take-home. This on-going lifestyle experiment is created by Natalie Jeremijenko, Mihir Desai (gastronomist superstar), Emilie Baltz of Fork & Design (design oversight), and other intelligent creatures. Dinner preceded by 3PM Workshop. Seating is strictly limited.

Corporate Commands: Walking Expedition & Performance Lab

Join The Institute for Infinitely Small Things in a walking expedition and performance lab for Corporate Commands in the Eyebeam neighborhood. As a group, we will collect and discuss corporate commands in public space and choose one for a collaborative performance. Corporate Commands are instructions from corporations in the imperative - they tell YOU to DO SOMETHING in public space (e.g. "Just Do It", "Have It Your Way"). The Institute for Infinitely Small Things, a performance research troupe, performs corporate commands in public space as literally as possible, carefully logging the results as a research endeavor. Light and tasty supper provided by Eyebeam.RSVP here: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/528/p/salsa/event/common/public/?e...

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