Programs

DATE: Tuesday, May 6, 2008, at 7PM

6:30PM COCKTAILS | 7:30PM DINNER/SHOW | 9:30PM AFTER-PARTY

LOCATION: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC

HONORING: Craig Newmark, Craigslist founder and the Internet’s best known customer service representative.

EVENT CHAIRS: John S. Johnson and Jazz J. Merton

COMMITTEE CHAIRS: Tatiana Platt and Bryce Wolkowitz

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Amanda McDonald Crowley

PLUS: Jed Alpert, Laura Dawn, Arianna Huffington, Jaime Johnson, Jonah Peretti, Lily Johnson Whitall

Featuring:
Drawn and Magical, an A/V performance by Eyebeam R&D OpenLab fellow Zach Leiberman
Kinetic Shadow, by Eyebeam Production Lab fellow Addie Wagenecht
Consellational Models from the Nebulous Object Archive, by Eyebeam resident Joe Winter
Fame Game, a social network that re-invents fame
Little Death, featuring Laura Dawn, Daron Murphy, and Aaron Brooks
The Hanging Out Station, by Eyebeam senior fellow Geraldine Juárez
Plus: Special Guests, DJs, VJs, and more!

MEDIA SPONSOR: Good Magazine

Proceeds from the evening will help underwrite Eyebeam’s international fellowship and residency programs for artists and creative technologists, more than 300 of whom have benefited since 1997.

 

Ticket information:

You can fulfill your pledge by sending your name, full address, phone number and email with a check made payable to EYEBEAM ATELIER, to this address:

Eyebeam's Benefit Office
c/o Innovative Pilanthropy
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New York, NY 10004

Please print your name as you wish it to appear on the invitation and printed materials.

You can also purchase tickets online here. Click the categories below to see details on each pledge.

For more information, please contact Jayme Rubright at 212.867.1117, jrubright AT innovativephilanthropy DOT net.

Please note: $175 per ticket is not tax deductible. The remainder is deductible to the extent allowed by law.
Eyebeam Atelier's Tax ID Number: 13-3952075.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY

 

 

 

Date: April 26 – June 21
Location: Artists Space, 38 Greene St. 3rd Fl., NYC
Cost: Free
http://www.artistsspace.org/exhibitions/future.html

Curated by Michael Connor, co-organized with Independent Curators International, with works by Eyebeam alums Jonah Peretti, Michael Frumin, Jill Magid, Trevor Paglen and Jennifer and Kevin McCoy; along with Sophie Calle, Mohamed Camara, Hasan Elahi, Kota Ezawa, Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher, Guthrie Lonergan, Corinna Schnitt, Thomson and Craighead and Sharif Waked.

Interactivos? @ Eyebeam
Call for Participation online
April 25: Application deadline | May 15: Notification of acceptance
May 26: Call for Collaborators | May 29: Notification of acceptance

This summer, Eyebeam will produce Interactivos?—the Medialab-Prado and Madrid City Council program initiated in 2006—as part of our workshop-based programming. Invited projects will creatively explore the theme of “real versus fake” in an intensely collaborative and interdisciplinary two-week project development cycle, resulting in a public exhibition in our Chelsea gallery. In May, Eyebeam will open a second call for individuals interested in collaborating on the selected projects.

Submit you project proposal now to be a part of this two-week workshop, exhibit, and seminar.

The program will be produced by Eyebeam staff, fellows and residents. Please see the Call for Participation for details: http://eyebeam.org/production/onlineapp/join_detail.php?program_id=472096

Date: April 24, 7:30PM
Location: Happy Ending Lounge, 302 Broome St., NYC
Cost: Free

Culture jammers and pranksters are the topic of this month’s Non-Motivational Speaker Series organized by Gelf Magazine. The evening’s featured speakers will be Alan Abel founder of The Society for the Indecency to Naked Animals and Citizens Against Breastfeeding and subject of the recent award-winning documentary Abel Raises Cain; Eyebeam senior fellow Steve Lambert, guerrilla artist, founder of The Anti-Advertising Agency; and Ron English, patriarch of the agit-pop art movement, corporate branding vigilante, and subject of the documentary POPaganda: The Art and Crimes of Ron English.

Ars Electonica Futurelab
Date: April 21
Location: Vienna
http://www.msf.org/
http://www.aec.at/en/futurelab/

Eyebeam fellows Jessica Banks, Ayah Bdeir, Friedrich Kirschner, Zach Lieberman, and Addie Wagenknecht have teamed up with MSF and the Ars Electonica Futurelab to craft an interactive visualization for a live concert and fundraiser in Vienna on April 21. The visualization will track and display in real-time the the SMS donations of audience members.

See Conference
Date: April 19
Location: Wiesbaden, Germany
http://see-conference.com/

Flash In The Can Festival
Date: April 22
Location: Toronto
http://fitc.ca/

Eyebeam fellow Zach Lieberman will be presenting and perfoming his work at See Conference in Wiesbaden, Germany on April 19, and at Flash In The Can Festival in Toronto, Canada on April 22. Zach will show recent projects and talk about the work underway at the Eyebeam R&D OpenLab, including the upcoming Interactivos? workshop.

Free. Feedback artists Natalie Jeremijenko, Leah Gauthier, Brooke Singer, and The Lower East Side Ecology Center presenting workshops during the day.

Natalie Jeremijenko will present noPark.

Natalie Jeremijenko will lead a surface-level noPARK action on a plot of pavement in Chelsea (within a short walk of Eyebeam, exact location TBA the day of the event).

noPARK is a public art project to create “no parking zones" of micro engineered green spaces to prevent storm water run off, use foliage to stabilize the soil, and to provide a durable low maintenance surface cover.

In order to help raise funds for the noPARK project, which the artist hopes to implement throughout the city, limited-edition potted plants will be sold as "shares" of the project (complete with certificates) at Eyebeam for $10. Shareholders will be encouraged to take their plants to the site of the April 19 noPARK for the 3-6PM action. (A single noPARK zone is estimated to cost approximately $6000 to implement.)

For images: http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/projects/nopark/

Leah Gauthier will lead a Sow-In, during which participants will distribute hundreds of seed pots to community gardeners across New York City for transplant, care, harvest, and seed saving.

The Lower East Side Ecology Center will demonstrate how the public can repurpose and use waste via worm bins.

Brooke Singer ( http://www.superfund365.org) with Michael Heimbinder ( http://www.habitatmap.org ) and Emily Gallagher will conduct a virtual toxic tour followed by a hands-on workshop. The virtual tour will focus on a site in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, that is currently undergoing contamination evaluation by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Department of Health. Together they will explore the region's historic and present day industries, detail the contaminants of concern and discuss potential remedies. This will serve as a case in point for participants to learn more about toxic legacy and the challenges of cleanup in New York City. In the second part of the workshop, they will provide resources for participants to identify toxic exposures in their own neighborhoods. Lastly, the group will brainstorm effective organizing strategies and ways to develop a network of activist peers .

Brooke Singer is a 2007 Artist Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). This presentation is co-sponsored by Artists & Audiences Exchange, a NYFA public program.

Sustainability Action Day: Toxic Tours + Urban Gardening
Date: April 19, 3 – 6PM
FEEDBACK Closing Reception: 6PM
Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC
Cost: Free

Join Feedback artists Natalie Jeremijenko, Leah Gauthier, and Brooke Singer for a day of workshops.

Natalie Jeremijenko will lead a surface-level noPARK action on a plot of pavement in Chelsea (within a short walk of Eyebeam, exact location TBA the day of the event).

noPARK is a public art project to create “no parking zones" of micro-engineered green spaces to prevent storm water runoff, use foliage to stabilize the soil, and provide a durable low maintenance surface cover.

In order to help raise funds for the noPARK project that the artist plans to implement throughout the city, limited-edition potted plants will be sold as "shares" of the project (complete with certificates) at Eyebeam for $10. (A single noPARK zone is estimated to cost approximately $6000 to implement.) Shareholders will be encouraged to take their plants to the site of the April 19 noPARK for the 3-6PM action.

Leah Gauthier will lead Sow-In, in which participants will distribute hundreds of seed pots to community gardeners across the city for transplant, care, harvest, and seed saving.

Brooke Singer with Michael Heimbinder and Emily Gallagher will conduct a virtual toxic tour followed by a hands-on workshop. The virtual tour will focus on a site in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that is currently undergoing contamination evaluation by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Department of Health. Together they will explore the region’s historic and current industries, detail the contaminants of concern and discuss potential remedies. In the second part of the workshop, the artists will provide resources for participants to identify toxic exposures in their own neighborhoods. The workshop will end with a group discussion of effective organizing strategies and ways to develop activist networks .

Brooke Singer is a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) 2007 Artist Fellowship recipient. This presentation is co-sponsored by Artists & Audiences Exchange, a NYFA public program.

Symposium: Parsons | Closing Reception: Eyebeam. April 15, 2008. 6:30PM. Free. Image: OP_ERA by Daniela Kutschat Hanns + Rejane Cantoni.

Synthetic Times: Media Art China 2008, a Cultural Olympics project that will open at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing in June 2008, launches in NYC with programming co-organized by the exhibition’s curator, Zhang Ga, the MoMA, Parsons School of Design and Eyebeam. For more information visit: http://www.mediartchina.org/organization.

On April 15, following a day-long symposium at Parsons, Eyebeam will feature performances by Eyebeam artists Jeff Crouse, Stephanie Rothenberg, Taeyoon Choi, and Friedrich Kirchner at 8 – 10PM.

http://www.mediartchina.org/organization

Date: April 12 – May 30
Location: cWOW Gallery, 6 Crawford St., Newark, NJ
Cost: Free
http://www.cwow.org

1800FRAMES | Take 4: The Video State of the Global Union, curated by Eyebeam alum Norene Leddy and Eyebeam’s director of education and public programs Liz Slagus, City Without Walls’ fourth annual one-minute video exhibition. The exhibition continues through May 30. The show is free and open to the public, Wednesday through Friday 12 – 6PM and Saturday 1 – 6PM. Artists on display include Eyebeam program coordinator Paul Amital, and alum Benton-C Bainbridge.

The video show is online at http://www.cwow.org, and DVDs are on sale at Eyebeam’s bookstore.