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Live from New York this Saturday: The Great Avatar Challenge. This mixed-realities performance is a collaboration with Stephanie Rothenberg for Eyebeam’s Mixer: Olympiad in New York. Get your tickets now, as it will be certain to sell out.

My online collaborators Mushon-Zer Aviv and Jonah Bossewitch and I are leading off a day of workshops on online collaboration. I love that Jonah and I will be meeting in person for the first time, and that Mushon will be joining us via Skype. How online-collaborative is that!

ElectroSmog SkillShare: Tools and Models for Online Collaboration

Saturday, March 20, 2010 | 10AM – 5PM

Free with RSVP

Limit of 30 participants (in New York).

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I’ve been selected to be a resident artist at Eyebeam Atelier. Today I visited my studio & had a walk through of the facilities and what’s on offer. I need to make a daily plan for the next 5 months - maybe even a backcasting exercise for 5 months from now (obv. a strategic planner). This is gonna be good.

Thursday wrapped up a month of NES graphic and music hacking here at
Eyebeam. Students immersed themselves into the music program
FamiTracker (seen here), allowing them to create NES music tracks.
With graphic hacking and music creation, I think we'll have a handful
of new video game creators out there.

Remember, Eyebeam's drop-in program runs EVERY Thursday from 3-6 and
the workshops begin at 4PM. This March, Georg Pedersen will introduce
students to web design using Wordpress -- don't miss it!

-Brian

New documentation! During my 6-month residency at Eyebeam, I worked on about 6 different projects. Two of them: Hatch and After Thought are now documented on my site.

Hatch is the first of a series of acrylic plexiglass installations. This one depicts a mass of sperm (up to 200!) which swarm around a doorway. This was cut with the Eyebeam’s lasercutter, can be site-specific in its installation, and is cheap to ship.

We have just uploaded the video documentation for one of the most interesting Upgrade events we had in the past year with Biella Coleman and Zach Lieberman discussing the tensions within the Free Software / Open Source world(s?) on the meaning of “free”. It explores the tensions between ethics and pragmatics, between “to free” and “to open”, between means and ends. If you’re interested in these issues I really recommend you check it out: