Interactivos?@Eyebeam: Double Take reception.
Photo: Christine A. Butler
Last blast for the summer …
… well, at least until August 26. So hurry into Eyebeam to catch the last of Double Take, and get your play on in the Interactivos? fun park. Not convinced? Maybe this will help: http://blogs.selfportrait.net/2008/07/double-take-at-eyebeam.html
Digital Day Camp stars will shine on Tuesday, July 29, with student project presentations and a reception.
See you on the beach baby!
This Week at Eyebeam:
July 12 – August 9: Interactivos?@Eyebeam Double Take exhibition
July 29: Digital Day Camp: Presentations + Reception
New from our Labs:
July 26: The Great Wikimarathon
July 28 – 30: Blissful Dialogues: ISEA 2008
July 12: Interactivos?@Eyebeam Double Take exhibition
Interactivos?@Eyebeam: Double Take
Dates: July 12 – August 9
Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC
Cost: Free
http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=exhibitions&id=169
http://interactivos.eyebeam.org
This exhibition showcases the interactive projects resulting from an intensive two week program of workshops and seminars, Interactivos?@Eyebeam: Better than the real thing. All the works play with the idea of reality, disbelief and the illusions we experience in our technologically mediated lives. Double Take is curated in collaboration with Sarah Cook, Eyebeam’s visiting curatorial fellow. Digital Day Camp projects will be added to the show on July 29, following a reception at 7PM.
Interactivos? was initiated two years ago by the Medialab-Prado program of the Madrid City Council. This is the first time it has taken place outside Spain.
The full list of projects can be found here:
http://www.eyebeam.org/learning/learning.php?page=interactivos
and here: http://interactivos.eyebeam.org
July 29: Digital Day Camp: Presentations + Reception
Date: Wednesday, July 29, 7PM
Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC
Cost: Free
http://www.digitaldaycamp2008.blogspot.com/
The DDC 2008 students will present and discuss the projects they made over the course of the three-week program.
The theme of this year’s DDC echoed that of Interactivos?@Eyebeam: interactive art and technology, and the tension between “real” and “fake”. DDC is an annual program for NYC public high school students.
New from our Labs:
July 25: A littleBit of Sketching
Sketching in Hardware 3
Date: July 25 – July 27
Location:Rhode Island School of Design
http://sketching08.com
http://www.ayahbdeir.com/littleBits
Eyebeam R&D OpenLab fellow Ayah Bdeir will present her and Jeff Hoefs’ project littleBits at Sketching in Hardware 3 at the Rhode Island School of Design, July 25 – July 27.
Jeff and Ayah will talk about new ways of approaching sketching with electronics, and brainstorm about new bits, as well as discuss ways to make electronics more accessible to designers and artists.
July 26: The Great Wikimarathon
The third Great Wikimarathon will occur on Saturday, July 26. The Wikimarathon is a one-day event that unites art lovers around the world in an attempt to collectively fill in the gaps of contemporary art knowledge found on Wikipedia. The Wikimarathon is a recurrent and uncentralized happening that takes place on the 26th of a month, since marathons are 26 miles long.
Participants gather locally, at house parties and coffee shops in their neighborhoods, to brainstorm and create content on contemporary and new media artists and programs. These small local groups then gather online in an open chat to streamline productivity and help each other edit their Wikipedia posts.
Organized, in part, by senior fellow Steve Lambert, R&D OpenLab fellow Michael Mandiberg, and Eyebeam alumni.
July 28 – 30: Blissful Dialogues: ISEA 2008
Blissful Dialogues: Common Ground for Curators
Location: ISEA 2008, Singapore
http://www.crumbweb.org
Eyebeam executive director Amanda McDonald Crowley will team up with members of Eyebeam’s research partner, CRUMB—the online resource for curators of new media art—to participate in conversations of collaboration and new media and location, as part of the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Singapore, July 25 – August 3.
For more information on the schedules, participants and times, please visit: http://www.isea2008singapore.org/conference/conf_forums.html#crumb
Founded in 1997, Eyebeam is an art and technology center that provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital experimentation. It is a lively incubator of creativity and thought, where artists and technologists actively engage with the larger culture, addressing the issues and concerns of our time. Eyebeam challenges convention, celebrates the hack, educates the next generation, encourages collaboration, freely offers its output to the community, and invites the public to share in a spirit of openness: open source, open content and open distribution.
Eyebeam’s current programs are made possible through the generous support of The Annenberg Foundation, The Atlantic Foundation, The Pacific Foundation, the Johnson Art and Education Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, Dewar’s, Deep Green Living, ConEdison, Datagram, Electric Artists Inc.; public funds from New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and many generous individuals. For a complete list of Eyebeam supporters, please visit http://www.eyebeam.org/donate.
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