Three Open(Art) Fellows were selected from an open call for proposals, and awarded a $15,000 production budget and resources to develop their projects, including desk space and access to design, research, and fabrication studios at Eyebeam’s New York location. The Fellows' work is presented through an exhibition and workshops taking place at Eyebeam, July 12 – August 11, 2013.

For more information, please visit: openart.eyebeam.org or the Open(Art) blog.

About Open(Art) Fellows
Forrest Oliphant - Meemoo
Meemoo brings the power of app development to everyone. It's an HTML5 data flow programming environment with an emphasis on realtime audio-visual manipulation. Using an intuitive visual interface that lets users connect modules together using colorful "wires," Meemoo lets anyone remix and build their own creative apps right in the browser.

"I often see kids playing with touch screen apps that only do what the developer designs it to do," Forrest says. "I want to blur that line between developer and user, and allow more people to create different kinds of media." Video: http://youtu.be/w11iqblTkbo

Toby Schachman - Pixel Shaders
Pixel Shaders is an interactive book, platform and community centered  around harnessing the graphics processor (GPU) for artistic purposes. It aims to make GPU programming accessible to artists in the same way that tools like Processing made CPU programming more accessible to digital creators.

Toby's project aims to get people thinking about programming in a different way. "This is one of the key areas where the artistic community can contribute to the computer science communities," he says. Video: http://youtu.be/RLNpYHlAHhQ

Nortd Labs (Addie Wagenknecht and Stefan Hechenberger) - Bomfu
Bomfu is a collaborative web repository for open hardware projects. It aims to increase the ease of use and quality for the "bill of materials" or "BOM," a list of the raw materials required to build a finished product. The goal: open up new and more complex forms of open hardware creation.

"Making all of the tools better pushes up what can be built," says Addie and Stefan. "The better the tools are, the more complex the projects." Video: http://youtu.be/tfXmZYKHXvw

Open(Art) is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

KinectToPin lets you record motion capture data with a Kinect camera and import it into After Effects. New 3D data import means your characters are no longer stuck facing the camera, audio playback during recording means multiple characters can stay in sync, and the the After Effects UI panel with automatic setup and rigging means you can be up and running in minutes.  Created by Nick Fox-Gieg and Victoria Nece.

The Rhythmanalysis Lab is concerned with the observation, representation, and interpretation of rhythms in everyday life. Inspired by the work of Henri Lefebvre, it is a framework for projects, workshops, and investigations at the intersection of urban research, sound, and data science.

Will the (future) rhythmanalyst ... set up and direct a lab where one compares documents: graphs, frequencies and various curves? ... Just as he borrows and receives from his whole body and all his senses, so he receives data from all the sciences: psychology, sociology, ethnology, biology; and even physics and mathematics ... He will come to 'listen' to a house, a street, a town, as an audience listens to a symphony.

- Henri Lefebvre, "The Rhythmanalyst: A Previsionary Portrait" in Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday life. New York City: Continuum, 2004. Pg. 22.

Drowning NYC is a transmedia storytelling; an experimental pilot of a story that is told by actors and narrative devices staged over the Internet and in public spaces of a few selected New York City neighborhoods. The story informs the audiences about rising sea levels due to global warming and how urban populations will cope with it. The genre is theorized by the artist as Recombinant Fiction, a political and pervasive form of transmedia fiction.
This project proposes new pedagogical instruments, innovative activist strategies, elaborate media experiments, cutting-edge forms of theatre and cinema, questions about reality perception/construction.