Workshops

Eyebeam's workshops are an important way for the fellows and residents to share ideas in a hands-on environment that engages a wide range of ages and skill levels. With a focus on project-based or theme-based activities (rather than skill-based training), Eyebeam offers both short-term and on-going workshop opportunities.

Holiday Hackshop

If you haven’t yet experienced everyone’s favorite holiday gift-making event, here’s the scoop: For one day and one day only during December before the holidays, Eyebeam becomes an all-ages, multi-workshop electronic craft-making fair, with entertainment, decorations and plenty of holiday spirit. The majority of the workshops are artist-led, free (save for minimal material costs), and you’ll leave with gifts that will far surpass lopsided clay mugs of years past … All in all: A fun, thrifty, edutainment alternative to the trance-and occasionally rage-inducing department-store crawl.

Skillshare

Eyebeam's SkillShares are peer-to-peer working/learning sessions that provide an informal context to develop new skills alongside leading developers, technologists, and artists. They are for all levels and start with an introduction and overview of the topic, after which participants will work on specific technical topics in small groups while getting feedback and additional instruction and ideas from their group. It's a great way to level-up your skills and meet like minded people.

Workshop: Popcorn Maker with Ben Moskowitz

Join Ben Moskowitz of the Mozilla Foundation for a workshop in Popcorn Maker, a creative, easy to use tool for authoring interactive media content. Popcorn is free, open source, and built from standard HTML, allowing users to utilize templates or customize their work. This workshop is especially geared towards video artists, net artists, documentarians, web designers, and media literacy educators. RSVP here

Activist Technology Demo Day

From Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street, technology has played an important role in shaping contemporary resistance and the representation of these events in the media. What new tools of protest and occupation have emerged over the past year? How does their use help to shape tomorrow’s democracies? The Urban Research Group @ Eyebeam and The Public School New York have invited activists, technologists, artists, designers, and community organizers who have a working prototype of an activist technology to occupy a worktable at Eyebeam and share their work with the public. Drawn from proposals submitted through an open call, we have selected a group of projects and communities that extend the creative use of technology and its social implications. Our interest is in creating a platform for encounter, conversation and collaboration. Visit http://demo-day.org/projects for participating project information.

Workshop: Processing in Eclipse with Proclipsing

Join Eyebeam Resident Matt Parker for a workshop in Proclipsing. Proclipsing allows you to easily create a Processing project in Eclipse and easily export it to an application or applet. Eclipse is a more advanced Java editor that allows you to do code completetion, refactoring, debugging, and tracking of changes. It's the most widely used Java editor and makes it much easier to create large applications, rather than simple sketches. Processing is a free, open source programming language & development environment that was created to teach the fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context with artist-users in mind. Proclipsing was created by Brian Ballantine, Daniel C. Howe, and Matt Parker.

Visualizing Marathon 2011

Visualizing.org presents the 2011 NYC Visualizing Marathon: a 24-hour student data visualization competition. Inspired by robotics competitions and science fairs, the Marathon was created to give design students an opportunity to collaborate and use design to help tackle real-world issues. This fun and intense weekend will be full of speakers, performances, and of course, the actual competition. The Marathon will be held over the November 4-6 weekend at Eyebeam in New York. Schedule: Friday, November 4th-- UN Global Pulse kick-off event for registered participants Saturday, November 5th-- Visualizing Marathon Commences Sunday, November 6th-- End of Marathon

Collaborative Media Workshop in Multi-Channel Audiovisuals using Max/MSP Jitter

Join artist Andrew Demirjian for a collaborative media workshop. Participants will learn technical methods and consider aesthetic strategies for producing audiovisuals for spatialized art installations. Workshop attendees shall receive guidance in a Max/MSP Jitter coding environment, will learn to network and sync multiple computers, and will gain familiarity with Leprecon midi dimmers. Participants will use their new skills and Eyebeam's resources to produce a collaberative piece that will be exhibited to the public. Participants can join the 6 workshops for $225. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS WORKSHOP! Workshop Schedule >>

Beyond the Joystick: Introduction to Alternative Physical Interfaces

This workshop series led by Eyebeam Fellow Kaho Abe is for artists, designers and hobbyists interested in starting to think about and explore alternative physical interfaces that can be used in games, toys or interactive art projects.

Meetup: Game Testing for Game Makers

This is a monthly game testing event for independent game developers and enthusiasts run by former fellow Kaho Abe and Come Out and Play. The focus will be on play-testing, open dialogue and discussion around games in development. This monthly meeting is a great opportunity for game developers to get valuable feedback for projects in progress. For game enthusiasts, these events are a place to learn more about the game development process, techniques and systems behind games. The goal of these monthly meetings is not only to encourage and nurture the development of high quality games through testing and discussion, but also to create opportunities for game testers, players and enthusiasts to become more engaged and active in the game development community.

Project Space: Invisible ____

Fellow Taeyoon Choi's Project Space exhibition Invisible _____ is an open platform for experimental workshops and performance, and is also an archive of his recent research and performance work. The space is constructed in the shape of a dodecagon, where each wall is a movable billboard that can be arranged according to the events taking place in the space. The billboards function as both screens and set pieces, and are made up of Choi's drawings and photographs. A platform in the shape of a dodecagon at the center of the installation is used as a stage during performances and workshops, and to display artworks when not activated. Fellow Taeyoon Choi's Project Space exhibition Invisible _____ is an open platform for experimental workshops and performance, and is also an archive of his recent research and performance work.

Project Space: The Counter Kitchen

In the Counter Kitchen (TCK) we will be turning things upside down from the inside-out. Science and marketing have made product labels nearly impossible to decode. Learn how to reverse engineer your favorite food, personal care and household products using TCK tools and measurement systems. We will simultaneously turn you into a translator, detective, chemist and cook. Stop by to take a whiff, stay a while to help us in the kitchen or bring a product for us to explore. Related program: Re-school Your Senses: Two Demos with The Counter Kitchen The Counter Kitchen is presented by Eyebeam in our summer Project Space. The Project Space at Eyebeam is an informal venue for our Residents and Fellows to exhibit and workshop their work.

Corporate Commands: Walking Expedition & Performance Lab

Join The Institute for Infinitely Small Things in a walking expedition and performance lab for Corporate Commands in the Eyebeam neighborhood. As a group, we will collect and discuss corporate commands in public space and choose one for a collaborative performance. Corporate Commands are instructions from corporations in the imperative - they tell YOU to DO SOMETHING in public space (e.g. "Just Do It", "Have It Your Way"). The Institute for Infinitely Small Things, a performance research troupe, performs corporate commands in public space as literally as possible, carefully logging the results as a research endeavor. Light and tasty supper provided by Eyebeam.RSVP here: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/528/p/salsa/event/common/public/?e...

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