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KEEP EYEBEAM AN INTEGRAL NEW YORK CITY CULTURAL INSTITUTION!
Every year, nearly 500 established and emerging media artists and creative technologists apply to spend time at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center, a collaborative, resource-rich arts and technology organization located in the heart of Chelsea, New York City’s gallery district. In 2009 alone, we have supported 24 creative practitioners through our fellowship, residency, and honorary programs; 50 interns have had opportunities to work with us; and 8 teenagers have participated in our student residency program.
But, we don’t simply foster unbridled creativity in a select group of artists at Eyebeam: our annual calendar is filled with dozens of public programs. In 2009, 55 additional artists presented or exhibited work at Eyebeam. Our Summer Education series for curators, socially engaged artists, and youth, our winter Holiday Hackshop event for families and the DIY-inclined, and our youth programs for public high school students 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 serving the community.
Now, we are asking you, as a member of the Eyebeam community, to support Eyebeam, and this year your donation matters more than ever: a very generous donor has agreed to a 1:1 match of each donation from now until December 31. For all of your donations to our 2009 Annual Appeal before that date, Eyebeam will receive matching funds in that amount. It’s an exciting challenge! Please make a tax-deductible donation today; every dollar counts! Thank you.
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Support Eyebeam’s Collaborative Residency Programs and Ongoing Public Programs!
By making a contribution to Eyebeam, you will be supporting all of our creative practitioners and the educational workshops and performance events we develop at our collaborative art and technology center.
Eyebeam Community Giving Levels
Student Resident: $50
The Student Residency Program is a digital arts education program for New York City high school students who are interested in experimenting, learning, and creating with new technologies. During the academic year, Eyebeam's fellows and Residents mentor the students residents through while training them in the creation of new media tools, and individual project to be presented at Eyebeam.
Resident: $100
Eyebeam residencies support the creative research, production and presentation of initiatives querying art, technology and culture. The residency is a period of concentration and immersion in artistic investigation, daring research or production of visionary, experimental applications and projects. Past initiatives have ranged from moving image, sound and physical computing works to technical prototypes, installations and public interventions.
Fellow: $500
Eyebeam fellows are selected in recognition of their exceptional talent. Fellows are artists, designers, hackers, and engineers who spearhead new research and develop exciting new work at the point where art and technology meet. Eyebeam fellows regularly develop innovative and creative open source technology within an environment that fosters collaborative development. Fellows mentor Resident Artists, lead public seminars, exhibitions, and educational programming, and help direct Eyebeam's Research Groups. Help us enrich and critique the cultural landscape of both the local and global community by supporting this unique fellowship.
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"We wanted to do it.”
Andy Bichlbaum, describing how he and Eyebeam senior fellow Steve Lambert created a “Special Edition” New York Times, during their 2008 CNN interview.Steve Lambert accepted a Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction in the Hybrid Arts category at this year’s Ars Electronica.
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“I want people to be able to apply the technology that I use for their own ideas.” Engineer and artist Eyebeam senior fellow Ayah Bdeir. Interview with Hanae Ko, ArtAsiaPacific, July/August 2009. |
 “These projects meet at a complex intersection. The artists embrace both hands-on farming and electronic media, grassroots interaction and private and public funding … Their work is in flux, but they share a sense of purpose and urgency that fuels their practices.”
Cathy Lebowitz, Propaganda in the Garden, Art in America, October 2009, on Eyebeam residents Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray.
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“Digital Day Camp has taught me so much, not only about technology and activism, but it has also taught me more about my ability to interact in a social setting with new people and how to express myself in group discussions, presentations and through my art.” Brittany, 2009 Eyebeam Digital Day Camp student.
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