Research Groups
- NA
- Sustainability Research Group
- www.bsing.net/blog
Brooke Singer is a digital media artist who lives in New York City. She works across media to provide entry into important social issues that are often characterized as specialized or opaque to a general public. She likes to use emerging technologies because they are fun but also because they are contingent and malleable.
She has exhibited and lectured in the U.S. and internationally, including at the Andy Warhol Museum; The Whitney Museum of American Art; The Neuberger Museum of Art; The Banff Centre for the Arts; Biennale de Montreal; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Diverseworks, Houston; Exit Art, New York and Barcelona's Sonar 2006. With her collective Preemptive Media, Brooke was awarded the first Social Sculpture Commission by Eyebeam Art and Technology Center and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2005. She has received numerous other awards including from the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, Franklin Furnace, Turbulence.org/New Radio and Performing Arts and the Experimental Television Center.
She is Assistant Professor of New Media at Purchase College, State University of New York, and co-founder of the art, technology and activist group Preemptive Media.
Projects
- Fellow
- OpenLab
- Urban Research Group
- Sustainability Research Group
- http://Mandiberg.com
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.
- Resident
- OpenLab
- Sustainability Research Group
- http://www.fluxxlab.com
Fluxxlab's work to date has been focused on sustainable energy harvesting, specifically in the form of converting small amounts of human energy into electricity. The design firm consists of two partners, Jennifer Broutin and Carmen Trudell.
Jennifer is a designer with professional experience in architecture and exhibition design as well as architectural publication. She is currently a Project Manager at 212box Architecture PC.
Carmen is a registered architect, and a LEED accredited professional. She currently teaches design and construction technology at the New York City College of Technology. She is also a partner in the design firm BOTH Landscape and Architecture based in Brooklyn, NY.
Projects
- Resident
- OpenLab
- Sustainability Research Group
- www.fddrsn.net
Jeff Feddersen is an artist, musician, and engineer whose work has increasingly focused on sustainable energy and natural systems. One such work, EarthSpeaker, is a set of solar-powered acoustic sculptures for free103point9's Wave Farm in Acra, New York, with support from Eyebeam and NYSCA. His robotic sonic sculptures, invented musical instruments, and software have been exhibited internationally at venues including the Lincoln Center, Wave Hill, the Walker Art Center, the Conservatory of Music in Beijing, and MixedMedia Milan. He has taught electronics, sustainable energy, and digital audio at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (where he was also a resident researcher,) and has also worked for the NASA flight hardware developer Honeybee Robotics, the American Museum of Natural History, and Minnesota Public Radio.
- Senior Fellow
Fellow - OpenLab
- Urban Research Group
- Sustainability Research Group
- http://www.visitsteve.com/
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.
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.
- Commission
- Production
- Sustainability Research Group
- http://www.preemptivemedia.net
Preemptive Media is a group of artists, activists and technologists who are making their own style of beta tests, trial runs and impact assessments based on independent research. PM is most interested in emerging policies and technologies because they are contingent and malleable. The criteria and methods of PM programs are different than those run by businesses and government, and, therefore, PM gets different results. PM hopes that their inquiries create new opportunities for public discussion and alternative outcomes in the usually remote and closed world of technology-based research and development.
Preemptive Media is a group collaboration between Beatriz da Costa, Jamie Schulte and Brooke Singer. The trio has been working together since 2002. We are based on the left coast and right coast of the United States.
