Programs

Project Walkway will teach eight female participants from local high school Bayard Rustin Academy for Art and Music, the fundamentals of electronics and wearable technologies. The program will end with a runway show and book launch of Sabine Seymour's Fashionable Technology: The Intersection of Design, Fashion, Science and Technology, on May 22. Girls Eye-View: Project Walkway begins March 27 and runs Thursdays through May 8.

This program will be taught by former Eyebeam Resident Norene Leddy with current R+D OpenLab Fellows Ayah Bdeir and Jessica Banks.

Date: Saturday, March 15
Time: 4PM
Location: Eyebeam
Cost: Free

 

The clown ride begins at 2:30PM at 73 Morton St. btw. Greenwich St. and Hudson Ave., and will end at Eyebeam at 4PM, where we invite you to join us for a toast to celebrate NYC’s new bike lanes. For more info visit http://times-up.org/index.php?page=bike-lane-liberation.

*All day: Natalie Jeremijenko’s Environmental Health Clinic will hold walk-in hours.

Dates: Wednesday, March 12 – Sunday, April 6 | Rest days: March 17, 24, 31.
Time: 12 – 6PM daily
Location: Eyebeam
Cost: Free

 

Over a period of 26 days, using a treadmill customized for cyberspace, Eyebeam 2008 Commissioned Artist Joseph DeLappe will reenact Mahatma Gandhi’s famous 1930s Salt March, a 240-mile protest in response to the British salt tax, live and in Second Life, the Internet-based virtual world.

DDC 2007 blog online!

DDC is a digital arts education program for New York City high school students who are interested in experimenting, learning and creating with new technology tools. DDC demonstrates how exposure, training, and creating with multi-media tools can help prepare high school students for productive participation in the digital age.

DDC 2007 will focus on taking art and actions to the streets. Students will engage in urban research in the form of public interactions and street art. Participants study the techniques, politics and groups involved in executing such projects, and learn about the practice and theory behind participatory actions, art, and activism. DDC students will develop individual and team projects derived from their communities and lives. At the conclusion of each week of DDC; the projects will be displayed in n evolving 5-week long exhibition alongside the projects installed in Eyebeam’s 10 year exhibition.

Camp Schedule: July 9-28, 2007

– Week One: Monday, July 9-Thursday July 12 (1-5pm)
– Week Two: Monday, July 16-Thursday, July 19 (1-5pm)
– Week Three: Monday, July 23-Thursday, July 26 (1:00-5:00pm)
– Dress Rehearsal: Friday, July 27 (3-5pm)-Dress rehearsal for public presentations.
– Public Presentations and Reception: Saturday, July 28 (12-6pm) Exhibition reception & public presentations.

DDC is a digital arts education program for New York City high school students who are interested in experimenting, learning and creating with new technology tools. DDC demonstrates how exposure, training, and creating with multi-media tools can help prepare high school students for productive participation in the digital age.

DDC06 focused on the relevance of and issues surrounding biotechnology projects by artists and activists. Students studied the fundamentals and ethics behind biological research (ie animal testing, germ warfare, bacteria and vaccines, dna, food growth and nano-technology) and green design, including the politics and groups involved in executing such projects. Participants learned about biotechnology practice and theory and were challenged to develop individual and team projects which were discussed in terms of the relevance to the students' communities and lives. At the conclusion of each week of DDC, the projects from the classes were displayed in a 'growing' 3-week long exhibition alongside work from the artists teaching the DDC workshops.

Camp Schedule: July 10-August 1st
- Week One: Monday, July 10-Friday July 13th (1:00-5:00pm)
- Week Two: Monday, July 17-Thursday, July 20 (1:00-5:00pm)
- Week Three: Monday, July 24-Thursday, July 27 (1:00-5:00pm)
- Week Four: Monday, July 31st (3-5pm)-Dress rehearsal for public presentations. Tuesday, August 1st (6-8pm) Exhibition reception & public presentations.

Teaching Artists:

Franziska Lamprecht's " Stencil and Street Art Class":
“ Positive and Negative Space” will be a forum to test the power and possibilities that can come with a specific shape cut out of a thin sheet of plastic or cardboard – a stencil. In a hands-on atmosphere that stimulates curiosity and encourages experimentation, participants will learn different techniques to create and apply stencils on T-Shirts, bags, their skin, posters, and the street. They will research and learn about the history, influences and current uses of stencils (including street art, fine art, etc.). To extend the experience in the fabrication of stencils, students will have the opportunity to work with our laser cutter.

To view images from the class visit: http://flickr.com/search/?q=Eyebeam+GEV+Spring06

Franziska Lamprecht is a Brooklyn based artist and part of “eteam”, a two artist collaborative that investigates conceptual possibilities and practical improvements in public spaces and private territories.
“eteam” installations and performances have been shown at museums and galleries including PS1(NYC), EYEBEAM (NYC), MUMOK (Vienna), Momenta Art (Brooklyn), New Museum (NYC) and Neues Museum (Weimar). Videos by the eteam have been screened at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Pacific Film Archive, 11th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour l'Image Contemporaine, Geneva , Transmediale Berlin, TIDF Taiwan and at the New York Video Festival. They have been awarded a Henry Moore Foundation Project Grant, an EYEBEAM Production Grant and the Marion Ermer Preis 2004. In 2005 they have been selected for the New Commissions Program at Art in General, NY and the Longwood Arts Project Digital Matrix Commissions Program (NY).


Michelle Nagai
The focus is to generate interest in the urban soundscape by having students help build and participate in an on-line, multi-media sound, ecology and culture mapping project, "City in a Soundwalk" (CIAS). We will use CIAS to teach the basic practice of soundwalking and encourage participants to explore a more involved, responsible relationship with their sonic environment. The course will rely on free or low-cost tools for multi-media content creation and collaborative on-line community development.

Week One: Getting to know the CIAS project and how the GEV class can contribute. Learn about and go out on soundwalks. Explore some of the myriad ways of documenting listening experience (i.e. field recording, journaling, Deep Listening, movement, sound improvisation etc). Field work in the neighborhood surrounding Eyebeam.

Week Two: Refining the soundwalk route. Getting specific about what the class will focus on for their contribution to CIAS. Assignment of roles (map maker, programmer, recordist, interviewer etc) and collection of information in the field.

Week Three: Final information

To listen to student projects visit: http://cityinasoundwalk.org/category/west-21st-street-eyebeam/

Composer and artist Michelle Nagai uses conceptual, physical and sonic elements to create site-specific performances and installations as well as compositions for radio broadcast and CD. These works address listening, perception and the human state in relationship to its setting. Her work has been presented throughout the US, Europe and Canada and has been supported by the American Composers Forum, Harvestworks, the Jerome and McKnight Foundations, Meet the Composer and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is also affiliated with the Brooklyn-based transmission arts collective free103point9.

Active as an educator and sound ecologist, Michelle has facilitated workshops, talks and events for adults, high school and college age students in soundwalking and listening practices, multimedia performance, improvisation and costume design. She is a founding member of the American Society for Acoustic Ecology (ASAE) and holds a teaching certificate in Deep Listening from the Deep Listening Institute. Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1974 and transplanted to New England in the blizzard of 1978, Michelle Nagai currently makes her home in Brooklyn, New York.

Please stayed tuned for for more information on student projects and presentations in May/June 2006.