This Week at Eyebeam: BENEFIT BENEFIT BENEFIT!

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			Three words: Benefit Benefit Benefit! Ever use craigslist? Here’s your chance to thank the man behind the site! May 6 Eyebeam will honor Craig Newmark and party to raise money for Eyebeam’s public programs, residencies and fellowships . Other good news: Interactivos? deadline has been extended to Friday, May 2; two new intern opportunities to work with resident artist JooYoun Paek; Dirt Party testing for the Futuresonic conference; and Eyebeam’s star appearance at the Chelsea Block Party. Online: videos of Eyebeam artists Friedrich Kirschner, Taeyoon Choi, and Stephanie Rothenburg at the Synthetic Times reception, and an in-depth interview with Eyebeam senior fellow Steve Lambert on National Public Radio. We would also like to welcome, Sarah Cook, our curatorial fellow from acroass the pond. For curators interested in studio visits with Eyebeam artists—stop by during open office hours on Tuesdays between 2PM and 4PM, and Sarah will be happy to facilitate your visit! This Week at Eyebeam: May 3: A guided tour with Charlie The Magical Image-Digesting Robotic Duck May 6: Eyebeam Benefit Celebrating Freedom and Creativity May 17: Teen Mashup Remix: Creative Youth Workshops New from our Labs: May 1: Eyebeam at Futuresonic Conference 2008 May 1: Results of the iraqimemorial.org First Juror’s Review are in! May 4: Friedrich Kirschner presents Eine Kleines Puppenspiel May 9: Call for proposals Artist as Startup: Web Application as Cultural... Anti-Advertising Agency announces “Foundation For Freedom”, feature... Community: May 4: GRL: The Complete First Season at the MoMA May 9: Eyebeam at the Chelsea Block Party! May 3: A guided tour with Charlie The Magical Image-Digesting Robot... A guided tour with Charlie The Magical Image-Digesting Robotic Duck Date: May 3, 2 – 4PM Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC Cost: Free. RSVP taeyoon AT eyebeam DOT org www.camerautomata.org www.tyshow.org This guided tour is the first in a two month series exploring how images are produced and consumed in public spaces. Taeyoon Choi, recipient of Eyebeam’s 2008 Commission for Resident Artists and inventor of Charlie, will lead a walking tour from Eyebeam in Chelsea. After an introductory presentation of the project, participants will accompany Charlie on a photo-taking tour of the neighborhood. Participants are encouraged to bring their own cameras to help in document the experience. top May 6: Eyebeam Benefit Celebrating Freedom and Creativity Freedom and Creativity: Eyebeam 2008 Benefit Date: Tuesday, May 6 6:30PM Cocktails | 7:30PM Dinner/Show | 9:30PM After-Party Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC Tickets: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/528/t/6209/shop/shop.jsp?stor... HONORING: Craig Newmark, craigslist founder and the Internet’s best known customer service representative. Join us in honoring craigslist founder Craig Newmark for his commitment to public service and a free Internet! Support Eyebeam’s residencies, fellowships and public programs! Comedy Central’s John Mulaney will cue the night’s laugh track, NYC’s Misshapes will supply the after-party and much, much more! Featuring: Drawn & Magical A/V Performance: Zach Lieberman, Eyebeam fellow Kinetic Shadow: Addie Wagenknecht, Eyebeam fellow Excerpts from The Nebulous Object-Image Archive: Joe Winter, Eyebeam resident Fame Game—social network re-invents fame The Little Death Hanging Space: Geraldine Juárez, Eyebeam senior fellow Live visuals: Benton-C Bainbridge, Eyebeam alum Plus: Special Guests, DJs, VJs, and more EVENT CHAIRS: John S. Johnson | Jazz J. Merton COMMITTEE CHAIRS: Tatiana Platt | Bryce Wolkowitz BENEFIT COMMITTEE: Jed Alpert | Marc + Caryn Becker | Laura Dawn | Ze Frank | Andrea Harner | Garrett + Maureen Heher | Arianna Huffington | Jaime Johnson | Jonah Peretti | Lily Johnson Whitall | Marc Schiller EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: Amanda McDonald Crowley 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. Tickets and information online: https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/528/t/6209/shop/shop.jsp?stor... top May 17: Teen Mashup Remix: Creative Youth Workshops Public Workshop + Presentations Date: Saturday, May 17, 1–7PM. Presentations: 8PM Location: The Change You Want to See, 84 Havemeyer St. (storefront), Williamsburg, Brooklyn http://www.notanalternative.net/ Workshop for student residents In continuation of Eyebeam resident Andrew Paterson’s Seeders ’N’ Leechers ’R’ Us project, Eyebeam student residents will take part in workshops at Eyebeam May 12 and 16 to remix audio-visual material found online and develop “fair-use” guidelines for fellow students and laymen. Public Workshop + Presentations A dozen participants selected from Eyebeam’s educational partners are invited to bring at least three clips to add to a pool of footage. During the workshop, they will learn to remix clips from the pool into short narrative sequences. The session will close with a screening of the finished pieces. Workshops by: Dan Winckler: http://danwinckler.com/vid/ Not An Alternative: http://thechangeyouwanttosee.org/ Jeff Crouse and David Jimison: http://www.digitalsituations.com/awbh/ top New from our Labs May 1: Eyebeam at Futuresonic Conference 2008 Futuresonic Conference 2008: The Social Technology Summit Date: May 1 – 2 Location: Contact Theatre, Manchester, UK http://www.futuresonic.com/08/2008conf.html May 1, 2–3:30PM: Collective Media Spanning user-generated content, collaborative authoring and collectively owned media, this panel will feature case studies of initiatives from India to Germany. Panelists include: Platoniq (Olivier Schulbaum, Susana Noguero), Ravikant Shama (Sarai), Jennie Savage (STAR Radio), Eyebeam senior fellow Geraldine Juárez, Christine Hanson and Michael Schafae. May 1, 5:30–11PM | May 2, 2 – 6PM: Dirt Party Eyebeam senior fellow Jeff Crouse and Production Lab fellow David Jimison will present Dirt Party. Dirt Party is a performance in which salacious information about party attendees is gathered from sources including the web and presented to the entire audience. Help dig up “Dirt” on the Futuresonic participants by logging on to http://futuresonic.dirtparty.org/, and view some examples here: http://futuresonic.dirtparty.org/thumbs. May 2, 10–11:30AM: Musical Interfaces This panel will consider the mobile phone user as micro-DJ, a Toronto-wide open source musical interface and more. Panelists include: Florian Hollerweger, Gauti Sigthorsson, Steve Daniels, and Eyebeam resident Jamie Allen. Additional Events: Freeware: The Manchester Collection May 3, time TBD (check the Futuresonic website for schedule) | Fashion show: May 4 Zion Art Center | Free A workshop about Manchester, its people and the stuff they give away. This session will be dedicated to creating fashion items from freecycled materials collected around the city. The clothes will be presented in a community fashion show at the end of the workshop. Finally, members of CRUMB (Curatorial Resource for Upstart Media Bliss) will be curating couples and setting up blind dates for gun-shy curators and artists. Find your soulmate—stop by the mezzanine at the Contact Theatre on Friday, May 2, 2–5PM. top May 1: The results of the iraqimemorial.org First Juror’s Review ar... A recipient of Eyebeam’s 2008 commission for Resident Artists, Joseph DeLappe’s, iraqimemorial.org has garnered 125 proposals from 30 nations. On May 1, the results of the First Juror’s Review of memorial proposals will be posted to the site. Jurors for the project were invited to create individual rankings of their top ten proposals. The jurors for the project are: Yaelle Amir, curator and writer, New York City Dr Bernadette Buckley, Goldsmiths University of London Monica Narula & Shuddhabrata Sengupta, The Raqs Media Collective, New Delhi, India Dr. David Simpson, University of California, Davis John David Spiak, curator, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe Dr. Marjorie Vecchio, Director, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno top May 4: Friedrich Kirschner presents Eine Kleines Puppenspiel Ein Kleines Puppenspiel Date: May 4 – 6 Location: Trickfilm Festival, Stuttgart, Germany Friedrich Kirschner, a fellow in the Eyebeam Production Lab, will perform his piece Ein Kleines Puppenspiel on May 4 as part of the International Trickfilm Festival in Stuttgart, Germany. Kirschner will also lead workshops on machinima and moviesandbox on May 5 and 6. top May 9: Call for proposals: Artist as Startup: Web Application as Cu... Deadline for proposals: May 9 Date: February 25 – 28, 2009 Location: College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles Submission Details: http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/CallforParticipation2009.pdf. Senior fellow Michael Mandiberg will chair a panel at the 2009 College Art Association Conference in LA, and is accepting proposals for papers on the topic of web artists making cultural interventions through “life- like” functioning tools and applications. Artists, theorists and historians are all welcome to submit an abstract. Send applications to Michael Mandiberg, Michael AT Mandiberg DOT com (email applications preferred), or at College of Staten Island, City University of New York, Dept. of Media Culture, 2800 Victory Blvd., Staten Island, NY 10314. top Anti-Advertising Agency announces “Foundation For Freedom”, feature... The most creative and forward-thinking professionals of our time work in marketing. The Anti-Advertising Agency Foundation For Freedom wants them to quit. And they’re offering cash. Read about Eyebeam senior fellow Steve Lambert and Anne Elizabeth Moore’s new project on the Anti-Advertising Agency site: http://antiadvertisingagency.com/projects/foundation-for-freedom or on Gawker: http://gawker.com/381161/get-paid-to-quit-the-advertising-industry Plus: Check out recent interviews with Steve Lambert on National Public Radio , and in Gelf Magazine. top Community May 4: GRL: The Complete First Season at the MoMA GRL: The First Season Date: May 4, 8–11PM Location MoMa Titus Theatre, 11 W 53rd St., NYC Tickets: http://www.moma.org/calendar/ev_tickets.php?id=8571&tid=VS00001... Info about the screening: http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?p=140 PopRally invites you to a screening of Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season, a film documenting the adventures of an architect and an engineer who quit their day jobs to develop high-tech tools for the art underground. Featuring insightful and humorous commentary by GRL founders James Powderly and Evan Roth, The Complete First Season argues for free speech in public, open source in pop culture, the hacker spirit in graffiti, and not asking permission in general. The film premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Graffiti Research Lab members and surprise guests. Stay for the party afterwards, featuring music by Javelin and a final chance to see MoMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition, which includes the work of the GRL. Watch the trailer for GRL: The Complete First Season: http://graffitiresearchlab.com/?page_id=142#video top May 9: Eyebeam at the Chelsea Block Party! Citizens Committee for New York City Block Party Date: May 9, 4–8PM Location: Hudson Guild Place, 26th St., NYC (btw. 9th and 10th Aves.) Eyebeam artist Taeyoon Choi’s infamous picture-taking duck will be making an appearance at the local block party organized by the Citizens Committee for New York City. Learn about other Eyebeam projects, meet your neighbors or just come by and hang out! Other groups at the block party include: Pantomonium Productions Theater Group; Chelsea Community Supported Agriculture; Transportation Alternatives; Just Food; Chelsea Tenant Action Committee; Hudson Guild. top
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