People at Eyebeam

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Ayah, who will work in Eyebeam's R&D OpenLab, is an engineer, designer and activist. With an upbringing in Lebanon, Canada and the United States, Ayah's work looks at the role technology plays in cross cultural communication. In her work, Ayah attempts to create technologies to promote human rights and redress power discrepancies between citizens and authority structures. Among her work is Arabiia, a convertible, motorized outfit that makes a caricature of two stereotypical representations typically attributed to arab women; and <random> search, a subtle, reactive undergarment that records, shares and analyses the experience of invasive airport searches. She recently earned her master's degree from the MIT Media Lab as part of the Computing Culture Group, which creates unique technologies for cultural, political and media applications.
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A fellow in the R&D OpenLab, Michael is currently working on Firefox plug-ins that highlight the real environmental costs of a global economy. Recent projects include Real Costs http://TheRealCosts.com, a browser plug-in that inserts carbon footprints into airplane travel and car directions websites, and Oil Standard http://transition.turbulence.org/Works/oilstandard, a browser plug-in that converts all prices on any web page in their equivalent value in barrels of oil. He is an Assistant Professor at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. He lives in, and rides his bicycle around, Brooklyn.

 

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As a fellow in the Production Lab, David will focus his work on the intersections of wireless technologies and public spaces, and their affect on communities and activism. David is a Digital Media Ph.D. candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology, where, prior to coming to Eyebeam, he led research in the Mobile Technologies Group.

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Friedrich joins Eyebeam as a fellow in the Production Lab.
He is also a filmmaker, visual artist and board member of the Academy
of Machinima Arts and Sciences, and re-purposes computer games to
create animated narratives and interactive performances. Friedrich’s
work has been shown and performed at various international animation
festivals and it occasionally spreads into the physical realm as well,
where he investigates the impact of milk and other liquids on computer
graphics.

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Addie Wagenknecht‘s interests vary from site specific installations, algorithimic art to sustainability and exploring remote regions of the world. Her work prior to Eyebeam focused on computational form and computer vision. Wagenknecht has worked with everyone from Apple Computers to the Surfrider Foundation. Her work as been internationally reviewed and exhibited.

Through her work and as a Fellow at Eyebeam, she hopes to challenge the status quo and create a sense of bittersweet irony (preferably both at once). Addie is also the other-half of studio NOR_/D.
http://www.nortd.com

image of Jessica Banks
  • Fellow
  • OpenLab

Jessica recently left the 24th grade at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab where she tried to (unsuccessfully) omni-task a robotics Ph.D. into her teaching, writing, art exhibition and nap schedule. Before attending graduate school, Jessica spent 4 years in the entertainment industry working for Comedy Central, managing comedians and assisting political pundit and comedian Al Franken. She now joins Eyebeam as an R&D OpenLab fellow to make robotic furniture, lighting, architecture and wearables with particular emphasis on reactive work/live environments and alternative energy sources.

Jessica wants to make new connections in your brain (non-invasively).

Projects

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Zachary has a simple goal: he wants you surprised. He creates artwork that uses technology in a playful and seamless way to explore the nature of communication and the delicate boundary between the visible and the invisible. He makes performances, installations, and on-line works that investigate gestural input, augmentation of the body, kinetic response and magic. Zachary’s projects and talks have delighted audiences world-wide and garnered multiple awards and recognition. Currently he is developing a suite of software for disabled students that transforms their movement into an audio-visual response as a means for performance and self-expression and, together with collaborator Theo Watson, openFrameworks, an open source toolkit for creative coding in c++.

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Jeff is an artist and technologist who uses Web technologies to create software, generative works, happenings, and installations. Past projects include YouThreebe, a YouTube triptych maker, Dirt Party, an installation and performance where salacious information about each attendee is gathered from the web and presented back to the audience, and Switchboard, a Processing (Java) library that allows artists and designers to easily use a variety of live data sources for digital art. He received his M.S. in Information Design and Technology from Georgia Tech in 2005.

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  • Senior Fellow
    Fellow
  • Production

 

Jerry is a self-taught designer from Mexico City based in Brooklyn. She creates low-tech crafts, artifacts and interventions that deal with waste, survival and alternative exchange as frameworks to spot dominant systems of production consumption and interaction. Jerry is half of Forays, a group interested in create and research open source minor architectures and create low-tech modifications of everyday infrastructure. Currently, she specially interested in investigate the exciting possibilities of the end of the world.
Chocolate Robot 

 

 

 

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Despite never graduating from high school, Steve Lambert went on to study sociology, film, and music before receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000 and a Master of Fine Arts degree at UC Davis in 2006. He founded the outdoor, guerilla art gallery, the Budget Gallery, in 1999 and the Anti-Advertising Agency in 2004. His projects have won awards from the Creative Work Fund, Adbusters Media Foundation, the California Arts Council, the Belle Foundation, and others. His work has been shown in nationally in cities like Detroit, New York, throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as internationally in Havana and Rotterdam. Writings about his work have appeared in multiple publications such as Punk Planet, Artweek, and Newsweek. Recent projects include WhyTheyHate.Us a participatory web photo project using images submitted to Flickr, the popular photo hosting site, and Simmer Down Sprinter, a two player, sit-down, arcade style video game controlled by player's bio-feedback.

  • Fellow
  • OpenLab
  • Sustainability Research Group

Mouna Andraos is a designer and artist working on interactive objects and installations as well as in web, electronics and video. She was recently a R&D fellow at Eyebeam's OpenLab where she researched the possibilities of open source and sustainable design. In recent years, she has been fascinated by the intersection of established crafts and emerging technologies as a means to generate innovation. Her previous web work has won numerous recognitions including Best of Show at the South by South West festival and a CyberLion in Cannes. Mouna holds a masters degree from New York University and a Bachelors degree from Concordia University in Montreal.