Summer School @ Night
A series of free evening lectures open to the public led by hosts from Eyebeam’s Summer School program and friends of Eyebeam. No registration necessary.
All events will be on Thursdays, from 6–8PM at Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC.
SCHEDULE:
Thurs., July 2, 6–8PM
A mind shredding evening with the College of Tactical Culture, hosted by Eyebeam senior fellow Steve Lambert and Eyebeam research associate Stephen Duncombe. Lambert and Duncombe will discuss tools and techniques in creative activism and the work happening at their new College.
Thurs., July 9, 6–8PM
Copyright and the Creator: Who Cares What’s Fair?
A discussion on fair use and appropriation within activist and creative practice moderated by Creative Commons product manager and Eyebeam research associate Fred Benenson; with Eyebeam resident Jon Cohrs, artist/curator Mark Tribe, audio-visual remix artist Jonny Wilson (Eclectic Method), and Postmasters gallery director Magdalena Sawon.
Thurs., July 16, 6–8PM
Public Practice: Activists and Vanguards
A rousing debate (with declaimed manifestos) from artists Hans Bernhard (Ubermorgen.com), Patrick Lichty, Steve Lambert, Stephen Duncombe, plus other participants from the College of Tactical Culture. Moderated by Eyebeam curatorial partner Sarah Cook (CRUMB).
Thurs., July 23, 6–8PM
How To How To
A discussion on recipes, instructions, and open source collaboration presented by Upgrade! New York. Participants include Eyebeam residents Rebecca Bray and Britta Riley, artist/writer Marisa Jahn, and others TBA.
People: Fred Benenson, Jon Cohrs, Not an Alternative, Paul Amitai, Sarah Cook, Stephanie Pereira, Stephen Duncombe, Steve Lambert, Winnie Fung
Research: Education, Open Cultures
Tags: College of Tactical Culture, open source, SS09, summer school, Tactical Culture
Date: Five sessions | Tuesdays + Thursdays, 3–5PM | July 7 – July 21
Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC
Cost: Advance: $10/session | At door: $15/session
Limited advance registration:
https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/528/t/9265/shop/shop.jsp?storefront_KEY=664
An initiative of Eyebeam’s Summer School program, the Curatorial Masterclass will be led by Eyebeam research partner Sarah Cook from CRUMB, the online resource for curators working with media art. The series will be an opportunity for emerging and established curators of art to get together within a focused period of time to learn from each other’s practice, and to develop a greater understanding of curating, open source methods, and working in the public domain.
The first hour of each day will be a formal conversation modeled on CRUMB’s tea-time chats, and will feature established curators and artists. The second hour will be a rigorous participant driven discussion, building upon the first hours of themes and insights. Following each presentation and workshop, participants will have the opportunity to stick around for beer o’clock and conversation with presenters and fellow masterclass participants, as well as participants from other Eyebeam Summer School programs.
Eyebeam’s Summer School will also be offering Summer School @ Night a series of related public events, on Thursday evenings during the month of July. Please visit the event web page for details and speakers: http://eyebeam.org/events/eyebeam-summer-school-night
SCHEDULE:
Day 1: Tues., July 7, 3–5PM
What open source is and what it means for art
How do practices prevalent in the open source community match up against curatorial paradigms in the visual arts? What is the difference between curatorial openness, working in the public domain or releasing work under a public license? How can we learn about curating and commissioning via platforms which engage audiences or encourage participation? Defining useful metaphors and discarding hyperbolic buzzwords will be encouraged.
Guests: Curator, Scott Burnham (Creative Director, Montreal Biennial 2009); Dominic Smith (co-founder, Polytechnic, UK).
Eyebeam respondant: Fred Beneson (Research Associate, Eyebeam; Product Manager, Creative Commons).
Day 2: Thur., July 9, 3–5PM
Publication and Documentation
As part of Fair Use Day, we will consider some of the practical and legal issues concerning reproduction, particularly as it applies to issues of curating time-based art forms such as performance or work which takes place in the public domain. Can publishing be a documentation strategy for curating ephemeral work such as music or software? Release strategies used by curators working with emergent new media forms will be rigorously compared.
Guests: TBA
Eyebeam respondant: Rebecca Cittadini (Communications and Marketing Manager, Eyebeam).
Day 3: Tues., July 14, 3–5PM
Networking and Collaboration
New media tools seem to make remote working and networking easier, but do they facilitate curating? How is the time-frame of collaboration—between artists and curators or producers, or between the art and its audience—different when adopting open source methodologies (such as iterative or modular methods, sometimes called bootstrapping)? Discussions of the different shapes of collaboration and the tried and tested “rules” of good collaboration will be ascertained.
Guests: Amanda McDonald Crowley (Executive Director, Eyebeam) ; Patrick Lichty (Curator, Artist).
Eyebeam respondent: Jeff Crouse (Senior Fellow, Eyebeam).
Day 4: Thur., July 16, 3–5PM
Curating in the public domain
Curating is often a private activity with a very public outcome, but recent hype about the term in relation to “filtering” online content (from videos and photos to tweets and urls) have made “curating” something people now think of as a very public process. What can we learn from public art models of curatorial practice? How do we cater for passerby audiences? What are the lessons to be learned from open submission projects online and offline? The ideal conditions for creating a platform for participation will be dreamt up.
Guest: Steve Dietz (Curator).
Eyebeam respondent: TBA.
Day 5: Tues., July 21, 3–5PM
Evaluation and Audience Engagement
The last session of the curatorial masterclass series will ask, who is participating in open curatorial projects? Why? How do we know what they’re getting out of it? What can be learned from the revisions/lifelines used in open source software generation and how can that way of thinking be applied to consideration of the “lifeline” of a curatorial project? What are other evaluation strategies that can be applied to curating, such as comment boxes or feedback forms? Obvious and proposed benchmarks of success will be interrogated.
Guests: Anne Barlow (Executive Director, Art in General); Hans Bernhard (Artist, Ubermorgen.com).
Eyebeam respondent: Stephen Duncombe (Research Associate, Eyebeam)
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CRUMB: Building on research into curating new media art since 1993 at the University of Sunderland, CRUMB was founded by Beryl Graham and Sarah Cook in 2000. CRUMB's activities cover a range of practices, but are predominantly based around research, networking, and professional development for curators of new media art.
Research: Education, Open Cultures
Date: June 20 – July 31, June 26 – July 31, 2009
Location: Sean Kelly Gallery, NYC
Cost: Free
http://www.skny.com
Sean Kelly Gallery and i8 Gallery are delighted to announce two exhibitions, featuring Eyebeam alum Anthony McCall and Finnbogi Pétursson, being held concurrently in New York and Reykjavík, Iceland.
In New York, Anthony McCall will present three vertical “solid-light” works: Breath 2004, Breath III 2005, and Meeting You Halfway 2009—each of which are being shown in the United States for the first time. The works will be exhibited quarterscale, in maquette form, projected from the ceiling onto pedestals. As a group, the vertical projected works continue McCall’s exploration of sculptural form, durational structure, and the possibility of representing the corporeal, which began in 1973 with his seminal film, Line Describing a Cone, and which Eyebeam facilitated as digital works when he worked with the Eyebeam Production Lab in 2005.
Date: Reception: Fri., June 26, 6PM | 26 June – 30 July 2009
Location: Harris Lieberman Gallery, 89 Vandam Street, NYC
http://www.harrislieberman.com/current.html
In the midst of an economic moment that increasingly draws focus to the top-down frailty of the art world, No Bees, No Blueberries investigates the artist, her resilience, her capacity for self-organization and the flexibility of her communities. Many of the exhibiting artists pair formal pursuits with meditations on social structures. Eyebeam staff member Douglas Boatwright will be exhibiting a floor piece that “samples” the color of the works installed while filling in cracks in the concrete floor with charcoal dust, pigment, etc. to in a way tie together the disparate parts of the installation.
Artists include:
John Baldessari, Andrea Blum, Douglas Boatwright, Kim Seob Boninsegni, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Heman Chong, Martha Colburn, Ann Craven, Das Institut, Nikolas Gambaroff, Nicolás Guagnini, Guyton/Walker, Karl Haendel, Gareth James, i-cabin, Haley Mellin, Olivier Mosset, Steven Parrino, Luciano Perna, Allen Ruppersberg, SALOON, Karin Schneider, Peter Simensky.
Photo: Scott Haefner
Eyebeam project Add-Art, the browser plugin that replaces ads with art, is featuring the work of photographer Scott Haefner. Haefner often employs kites to suspend a camera 50–300 feet in the air enabling him to take photographs from a perspective only birds enjoy. Scott's work has been featured in numerous magazines, newspapers, and books, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, BBC News, Photo District News and Photo Techniques, as well as specials on the Discovery and History Channels.
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