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Now showing in the Window Gallery: Weight of Fall (Waltz)

Mar 04, 2010 - Mar 27, 2010

Eyebeam is pleased to present Weight of Fall (Waltz), a site-specific video installation created by Zerek Kempf for the Eyebeam window gallery. Please join us for an opening reception on Thursday, March 4, 6 – 8PM.  The work will be on view March 4 – 27. Installed in a street-level window, Kempf’s Weight of Fall (Waltz) erects obscuring materials that directly abut the glass: plywood, curtains, and styrofoam refuse viewing access to the space beyond the window. Kempf addresses the window’s four panels as individual units, splicing them together with a sculptural syntax that extends the logic, tricks, and techniques of film editing into the physical space of the installation.

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Youth Drop-In Program: March

NYC public school students between the ages of 13–18 are invited to spend their Thursday afternoons, from 3–6PM, at Eyebeam. Each month will feature a series of free hands-on workshops, starting at 4PM, where students will have the opportunity to work with different open-source software programs as used by artists and technologists.

Thursdays in March: Make your own Wordpress website with Eyebeam Intern, Georg Pedersen. Graphic artist and designer Georg Pedersen will introduce the versatile and free blogging platform, Wordpress to students. Students will learn what makes a good website in terms of content, visual layout, and functionality, and then get to create their own webiste over the course of the month.

NOTE: This is a free program and students are welcome to drop in without RSVP'ing. Computer access is first come first serve. In the case of too many students, students will be invited to team-up and collaborate on shared projects. Students who drop-in cannot be guaranteed a computer and are strongly encouraged to RSVP.

To RSVP, contact Stephanie Pereira via the email listed below, or phone at 212-937-6580 x247

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ElectroSmog Festival at Eyebeam

Eyebeam will be participating in ElectroSmog, a new festival that revolves around the concept of Sustainable Immobility. The festival, which takes place simultaneously at many locations around the world, will introduce and explore the concept of sustainable immobility in both theory and practice, with discussions, workshops, and performances taking place at each of the festival partners' home bases.

Eyebeam will run two events on Saturday, March 20:

Eyebeam will also video stream live events from the other participating festival locations on Thursday, March 18 - Saturday, March 20 in Eyebeam's main exhibition space. Check back here for a detailed schedule of live streaming events.

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EYEBEAM ANNUAL APPEAL 2009
EYEBEAM ANNUAL APPEAL 2009

KEEP EYEBEAM AN INTEGRAL NEW YORK CITY CULTURAL INSTITUTION

Each year, 500 established and emerging media artists and creative technologists apply to Eyebeam. In 2009, Eyebeam supported 24 creative practitioners through our fellowship, residency, and honorary programs; 50 interns; 8 public high school students through our student residency program; and 55 additional artists presented or exhibited work at Eyebeam. Our public programming included a Summer Education series for curators, socially engaged artists, and youth; a Holiday Hackshop event for families and the DIY-inclined, and many youth programs. They have fostered creativity, technical innovation, and in-depth knowledge of issues as far-reaching as open source technologies and practice, sustainability, and democratization of content and distribution.

THIS IS OUR WAY OF SUPPORTING THE COMMUNITY.

Now, we are asking you, as a member of the Eyebeam community, to support Eyebeam.

EYEBEAM.ORG/SUPPORT

“I want people to be able to apply the technology that I use for their own ideas.”
Ayah at Open Studios

» Engineer and artist Eyebeam senior fellow Ayah Bdeir. Interview with Hanae Ko, ArtAsiaPacific, July/August 2009. Photo: Christine A. Butler.

Read more testimonials HERE
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