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Nothing In It Created August 2008 Nothing In It (2008), a handbag that sounds its contents when opened.
Electronics
Hacking
Installation
Sound
Wearables
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Les Annees Lumiere Created June 2008 A bird’s eye view of a little over 3 years of violence, strife, and very bright lights rocking Lebanon, remembered and replayed in 45 minutes of proportionally timed light display.
22 x 30 inches Electronics on Canvas produced June 2008
in collaboration with Rouba Khalil... Activism
Middle East
Open Lab
Data Visualization
Electronics
Hardware
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teta haniya's secret... Created June 2008 Ayah Bdeir
luma shihab eldin
After decades of running her kinky Syrian lingerie store in the Hamidiya souk of Damascus, Teta Haniya comes to America bearing gifts. With over 60 years of Islamic teachings on seduction, and an arsenal of kitschy electronics, Teta Haniya hijacks the western panty, triggering the sexual liberation of the... Middle East
Electronics
Hacking
Wearables
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Inside the Artists Studio... Created May 2008 Jeff Crouse
Steve Lambert
Inside the Artist's Studio is a radio program hosted by a robotic Chimpanzee named James Chimpton. Chimpton's brain is powered by a markup language I created called ABSML, or A BullShit Markup Language. The result is rather absurd - a clothed robotic monkey, interviewing artists in the Biennial about... |
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Kriegspiel Created May 2008 Adam Parrish
Alexander Galloway
Carolyn Kane
Daniel Perlin
DJ /rupture and Matt Shadetek
Mushon Zer-Aviv
In 1978 the French Situationist Guy Debord designed and fabricated a board game called “The Game of War.” Thirty years later RSG resurrects this largely forgotten work, translating the game rules from French to Java and releasing it as a free online computer game.
Kriegspiel is produced by... Activism
Game
Open Source
Software
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Speaker Sketch Created May 2008 Jamie Allen explores peoples’ relationships to art, technology and resources attempting to give them new, subversive and comic interactions with these. Speaker sketch is a drawing machine that uses very loud music to move a drawing implement. This project was presented at... |
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Bowery Birds Created May 2008 In 1999, Dan Torop dreamt that he was drifting over the Bowery at sunset. The street was covered by a red fog laced with yellow-orange fumes. Cars wove heedlessly between lanes yet never collided. He spun and circled through the air above, watching the silent passage below. When he awoke on the couch in his... |
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The Salt Satyagraha Created May 2008 Joseph DeLappe reenacted Mahatma Gandhi's famous 1930 Salt March over the course of 26 days, using a treadmill customized for cyberspace. The original 240-mile walk was made in protest of the British salt tax; his update of this seminal protest march took place at Eyebeam and in Second... Game
Immersive
Virtual Reality
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Ten Thousand Cents Created May 2008 Aaron Koblin
Takashi Kawashima
Ten Thousand Cents is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via... |
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Crisis Map of Haiti Created May 2008 Crisis Map of Haiti represents the most comprehensive and up-to-date crisis map available to the humanitarian community. The information here is mapped in near real time and gathered from reports coming from inside Haiti via: SMS, Web, Email, Radio, Phone, Twitter, Facebook, Television, List-... Activism
Data Visualization
Exhibited Project
Web
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The Queensbridge Wind Pow... Created April 2008 "The Queensboro Bridge is a beautiful artifact of the industrial age and this project represents the transition that can and must be made from the industrial age, dependent on fossil fuels, to an industrial era that lives off of solar income...wind is solar energy too, and all sustainability is about... Sustainability
Documentary
Green
Solar
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Wish You Were Here Created April 2008 Wish You Were Here was a site-specific installation by Addie Wagenknecht, Production Lab Fellow, installed on April 3, 2008, in the Northwest corner of Clement Clarke Moore Park, located at 22nd and 10th Aves.
A flock of stark, white, static two-dimensional birds inhabited a tree. The... Urban Research
Production Lab
Installation
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Anywhere But Here Created February 2008 David Jimison
Jeff Crouse
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... Open Lab
Production Lab
Performance Art
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Turn Me Off Created January 2008
Far too often, in our own lab as in labs we visit, we leave computers on for hours if not days. We made screen savers attractive and interesting so that we would want to keep watching them. "Turn me off" is a screen saver that reminds you that the best thing to do with an unused... Sustainability
Open Lab
Green
Software
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meem Created January 2008 An interactive multitouch blackboard aiming to make the specificities of the arabic language a fun activity for kids.
Middle East
Learning
Physical Computing
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WikiMarathon Created January 2008
The Great 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 is a recurrent and uncentralized, happening everytime a weekend lands on the 26th... Open Lab
Open Source
Performance Art
Web
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inkscanner Created January 2008 This project started out as the Milkscanner (as described on instructables). The basic idea behind this process is that you can capture the silhouette of an object easily when it is surrounded by a high contrast fluid, such as milk or ink.... Bio-Feedback
Production Lab
Data Visualization
Performance Art
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Bright Idea Shade Created January 2008 Michael Mandiberg
Steve Lambert
Bare CFL bulbs give off harsh light. Soften it with the Bright Idea Shade.
The Bright Idea Shade is a project of the Eyebeam OpenLab, by Sustainability Action Group members Michael Mandiberg and Steve Lambert, with Simon Jolly, Peter Duyan, and Oscar Torres. We are converting all of our silver... Sustainability
Open Lab
Green
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