Featured Projects

Highlighting projects new and old developed by Eyebeam artists and technologists that have surprised, illuminated, and made us look twice.


		"Flatland; Seminal Events, More Or Less" Flatland; Seminal Events, More Or Less is a found-footage video assembled from clips culled from Rick Prelinger's online archive of ephemeral film. In addition to traditional montage-editing techniques, the piece will be assembled through extensive compositing and rotoscoping work...
		"Music Is A Question With No Answer" In September 2010 artists and musicians Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman (aka Extreme Animals) embarked up0n their 8th tour of the United States, premiering 3 new videos and 2 new performances at venues ranging from Universities to Media Festivals to DIY spaces. Continuing their ongoing...
		1.1 Acre Flat Screen eteam based 1.1 Acre Flat Screen on a piece of Utah desert they bought in September, 2002 on ebay. Their work investigates the difference between real and computer-generated mirages and dreams, possibilities of ownership and ways of improving the land. After a year of actual and virtual activities...
		10 Cameras 10 Cameras is a video documentation of a 10 channel, one hour synchronized video installation. Ten people equipped with dv cameras meet in the woods of Caumsett State Park, Long Island. Each participant, with camera to eye, simultaneously embarks upon the shoot from the center of the forest. The...
		3fram.es 3fram.es is a simple website that allows visitors to create and share animated .gifs using their webcam.
		9 to 5 Paintings Create art while you work! If you find yourself spending more and more time answering email, and less and less time making art then why not do them both at the same time? Turn your emails, internet browsing, and report writing into digital paintings. 9 to 5 paintings are a visual representation of...
		A RE-ENACTMENT OF THE BATTLE OF THE PYRAMIDS A RE-ENACTMENT OF THE BATTLE OF THE PYRAMIDS is a performance installation of reconfigured robotic toys performing seemingly military maneuvers in rigid choreographed formations. This art project explores and uses sensor and wireless communication to create clusters of entities moving in...
		A9 Weekend A9 Weekend In this new piece, Holmberg references the concepts behind his most recent work, Weekend,which was visually rooted in Jean-Luc Godard’s similarly titled film. Holmberg's Weekend re-contextualized Godard’s scene of a post-apocalyptic traffic jam by isolating and splicing together...
		ABSML ABSML is a new markup language that enables the creation of complex sentence formulas for 21st century automatic writing. ABSML tags replace parts of speech and sentence components using sophisticated semantic analysis, regular expressions, and web-based resources. In...
		ACCESS ACCESS lets you track anonymous individuals in public places, by pursuing them with a robotic spotlight and acoustic beam system. The work provokes questions about surveillance technology, contemporary advertising, and the entertainment industry. ACCESS was created by Eyebeam resident Marie Sester...
		Accessible Happiness Accessible Happiness
		Add-Art AddArt is a Firefox extension which replaces advertising images on web pages with art images from a curated database. As of June 2007, there are prototype versions of the plugin, collaborative relationships with the developer of AdBlockPlus, and plans for further development.
		Address A handmade jewelry piece designed and created by Mouna Andraos and Sonali Sridhar. When you first acquire the pendant, you select a place that you consider to be your anchor where you were born, your home, or perhaps the place you long to be. Once the jewelry is initialized, every time you wear...
		After Thought After Thought is a personality test where I interview people using flashcards and brainwave analysis to produce a custom “video mindprint”. From software-response analysis, I generate a unique 5-minute video containing symbolic imagery such as fireworks shooting into the night sky, rain beating...
		Albatross Albatross is a prototype mechanism exploring the interplay of data collection and robotics combining a robotic machine with mapping visualization software. Named after Baudelaire's poem encapsulating the central streams of Romantic thought, Albatross is an autonomous structure that roams a space...
		Alvin Sonic Incubator Alvin Sonic Incubator The Alvin Sonic Incubator is a sound sculpture, composed of Plexiglas, speakers, audio electronics, wire, and metal filings. It is a crude neural network in which 8 sound sources build electrical connections to each other, creating a soundscape that evolves independent of...
		Alviso's Medicinal All-Salt Traditionally, medical conditions are treated through expensive appointments and prescription drugs. Alviso’s Medicinal All-Salt is a unique low-dosage cocktail of our most commonly used drugs, all brought together in one simple salty remedy, naturally. Our process harvests two popular commodities...
		America's Finest America’s Finest (1993-5) utilizes an M-16 rifle and manipulated optics to question the identity of agressor and victim and the role played by images of war in the psyche of the observer. The work enacted the idea of Étienne Jules Marey's camera-gun, already implicit in Room of One's Own, her third...
		American Dreams Increasingly aware of the daily, ever increasing intensity of American identity peddling, I began to reflect on my own child hood and the perpetual contest that made up the seemingly perfect American suburbia I was raised in. Thoughts of my father, always concerned with what the...
		An Eyebeam Nativity For the 2009 Holiday Hackshop, Eyebeam asked the current Student Residents to create an eyebeam-themed installation for their window gallery. In the holiday spirit, they designed An Eyebeam Nativity, which recreated the nativity scene using the founding principals, technologies, and people of...
		Anywhere But Here Which party should you go to tonight? Probably the one with that photographer from Last Night's Party, one of the many party photography sites that have become popular in the last few years. With a little luck, you might end up on the front page, posing like a rock star, or at least a really cool...
		Aperture Aperture focuses on the ways sound and light affect spatial perception. Multi-channel sonic textures, generated from recordings of existing spaces, encircle the space of the installation. A low-hung rear-projected ceiling is used not as a display, but as a light source, describing...
		Aphrodite Project: Platforms Aphrodite Project: Platforms is an interactive artwork that combines the rich mythology of Aphrodite, the priestesses/prostitutes of ancient
		Area's Immediate Reading (AIR) The Project
		Art Cache Machine, WiJacker and Proximity Julian Bleecker explores practical and playful uses of WiFi through a series of projects created with the WiFi Toolkit, a set of software APIs Bleecker developed as Engineer in Residence at Eyebeam. Art Cache Machine, the WiJacker and Proximity are three WiFi-enabled applications developed to...
		AUDiNT AUDiNT, short for “Audio Intelligence” is a collaborative, research team comprised of artists and scholars Steve Goodman, Toby Heys (Eyebeam Resident) and Jon Cohrs (Eyebeam Fellow). The Dead Record Office explores the historical and fictitious relationship between sound and warfare. AUDiNT is...
		Audio Space Audio Apace, 2005 Audio Space is a 3D augmented aural space. A user wearing a headset can leave messages at any point within the room and hear all the sounds left by everyone before them spatialised as if the people were really still there. It has been exhibited at ICHIM 05 in Paris and at the 2006...
		Baltimore Baltimore is a three-channel, DVD video installation that presents blaxploitation cinema as the provocative, controversial, culturally complex, and often humorous phenomena that it was, while critically commenting on it as a genre that continues to influence...
		Baroque.me Baroque.me visualizes the first Prelude from Bach’s Cello Suites. Using the mathematics behind string length and pitch, it came from a simple idea: what if all the notes were drawn as strings? Instead of a stream of classical notation on a page, this interactive project highlights the...
		Based on Actual Event Based on Actual Event (2003) Three-channel video installation Reynold Reynolds's three-channel video installation, Based on an Actual Event, looks at the fictional portrayal of American military forces in 20th century war. While each film simulates an actual event, each new war simulates previous...