On The Move
Fall/Winter 2014 Eyebeam Residents
Eyebeam On The Move: 5 Month Residency
Fall/Winter 2014 Eyebeam Residents
Eyebeam is pleased to announce the recipients of its Fall/Winter 2014 Eyebeam Residencies. Residents are chosen through a highly competitive twice-yearly call open to artists, creative technologists, designers, curators, urbanists, architects, and policy thinkers. Recipients receive 24/7 access to Eyebeam's design, digital research, and fabrication studios, as well as $5000 each to produce new works.
Chloe Varelidi designs and produces playful experiences. Like games, products and events. Chloe, in collaboration with Atul Varma , will build themed arcades with teens in Brooklyn by developing a browser based tool called Minicade that makes it easy to collaboratively create an arcade of mini games with friends while learning to code along the way.
Atul Varma enjoys building bridges of understanding between humans and machines. He has written software that's been used as the centerpiece of TED Talks, in maker events around the world, and by individuals who are just trying to have a less frustrating time using their computer. But his favorite moments are very personal: understanding where another person is coming from, constructing a metaphor they can relate to, and using it to explain technology in a way that liberates, excites, and empowers.
Joanne McNeill is a writer and researcher interested in the ways technology is shaping art, politics, and society. At Eyebeam, she will develop safe spaces for women in art and technology, on and off the internet, including digital art projects and community organizing that focuses on fighting structural prejudice with structural solutions.
Allison Burtch has worked on projects such as the Dumb Store - a mobile app store for dumbphones™, co-organized the Drones and Aerial Robotics Conference at New York University and was the editor of the “Occupied Wall Street Journal”, a six-edition print publication translated into six languages. At Eyebeam, she will make a sine-wave generator that creates frequencies at 24khz, enough to block iPhones and Androids microphones from audio recording, protecting people from self-censorship in an age of constant surveillance.
Eyebeam On The Move: 5 Month Residency
The Eyebeam on the Move initiative is a chance to engage and learn from New York City in a direct way, particularly the communities around Eyebeam’s new home in Brooklyn, and to develop novel techniques utilizing innovative tools in order to initiate creative dialogue between artists and communities and develop programs that support community-based initiatives around social or environmental issues. Eyebeam's goal is to identify mechanisms to strengthen its relationship to communities and to develop processes to nurture creative technology-based work within them. To help realize these goals, Eyebeam, in collaboration with Fellows and Residents, will partner with appropriate local, neighborhood organizations.
Eyebeam Values
Eyebeam’s core values include a critical questioning of the status quo and a belief in risk-taking as an essential element to achieve progress. This has been demonstrated through over 15 years of experimentation via creative use and misuse of technology. This approach has resulted in the development of creative platforms, tools and exciting works of art.
Eyebeam believes that the best creative work begins with a commitment to sustainability, equality, diversity, and concern for a better future. Across all areas of inquiry and research, Eyebeam primarily supports projects that have real-world impact -- we maintain that cultural progress is possible, and we encourage work that is paradigm shifting within a large spectrum of genres. Eyebeam will continue to support work that involves community interdependence and resourcefulness, learning, curiosity, and creative exploration.
Support
The 5-month residency is a period of concentrated work on a visionary, experimental project. It is a chance to use the time, space, and tools at Eyebeam to reach the next stage of one’s practice.
Eyebeam will work closely with the artists and technologists to see their projects realized, including acting as a facilitator to coordinate organizational partnerships, functioning as a gateway to City agencies and community-based organizations and developing other forms of community trust building, learning and engagement.
Participation
Residents are expected to fully document their progress and their projects and to participate in public events including workshops, weekly Residents/Fellows meetings, monthly "Stop Work" feedback sessions, demonstrations of work in progress, panel discussions, and online releases, in addition to the Eyebeam Annual Showcase (an annual multi-week event presenting the previous year’s work to the public). The ideal Resident will both contribute to and benefit from the shared environment at Eyebeam, and will thrive in the dedication to openness and collaborative process across the organization, including staff, Residents and Fellows.
• Single PDF document containing any visuals (including timeline with milestones, and additional information such as data flow, sketches, schematics) that will help reviewers understand the proposal.