This Week at Eyebeam: Sustainability Critique | Call for Interns | Art Wikimarathon



	Michael Mandiberg demonstrating The Real Costs on RiverWired TV this week.		Open Source = Sustainability. Want a taste of the OPEN life? Don’t be shy, get your ideas flowing and share your creativity with the brains at Eyebeam. Get involved in this week’s Open Source Sustainability Critique. Mingle with the Sustainability crew during the closing of the FEEDBACK preview, and maybe spare some thoughts and help wiki something about art while you’re at it. Eyebeam’s community is all about sharing, caring, and getting things done. Are you down? This Week at Eyebeam: January 26: Submit a project for Eyebeam’s Open Source Sustainability Critique Featured Podcast: Eyebeam Artists Present Projects at 2008 Sundance Festival New call for Eyebeam Resident Interns + Staff Interns New from our Labs January 26: ART WIKIMARATHON Featured Interviews: Michael Mandiberg talks Sustainability with RiverWired Community January 17 – March 2: SAUMA [DESIGN AS CULTURAL INTERFACE] Exhibition February 1: Make a "thing-a-day" round 2 February 2: EVOLVER: WAKE UP AND DREAM February 8 + 9: Amanda McDonald Crowley chairs two major international events at FACT, Liverpool January 26: Submit a project for Eyebeam’s Open Source Sustainability Critique Open Source Sustainability Critique + FEEDBACK preview closing Saturday January 26, 4–6PM Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St. (between 10th Ave. and 11th Ave.), NYC This week is your last chance to submit work to the Open Source Sustainability Critique on Saturday January 26, from 4–6PM. Eyebeam invites you to bring in your own projects for review with our artists. Up to ten projects will be selected. What is it: The Open Source Sustainability Critique is a review of projects lead by artists participating in the upcoming exhibition, FEEDBACK, March 13 – April 19. Confirmed artists and critics are Michael Mandiberg, Jennifer Broutin, and Carmen Trudell. The critique will be the closing event for the FEEDBACK preview exhibition, currently on display at Eyebeam. The participating artists/critics will kick off the event by providing insights into their own process of developing sustainablity-focused projects. A reception will follow, during which time the critics will go around to each of the projects to discuss the work with the artists. The public is welcome to sit in on these sessions. Following the individual critique sessions, three artists will be selected to present their projects to the public. Guidelines: Send a brief 2–3 sentence description of the work, plus any URLs that show the project and/or its documentation. The content of your project, or the materials used to make your project, should address issues or concepts related to sustainability To submit a project for consideration, please email Liz Slagus, Director of Education and Public Programming: liz@eyebeam.org Deadline: Extended to Thursday, January 26, 6PM top Featured Podcast: Eyebeam Artists Present Projects at 2008 Sundance Festival Eyebeam’s featured showreel of work produced by artists involved in Eyebeam’s Sustainability Research Group is now online! The reel was showcased at the launch of the Harmony Project during the 2008 Sundance Festival. Invisible Threads, a project by Stephanie Rothenberg and Jeff Crouse along with the Graffiti Research Lab’s L.A.S.E.R. Tag have also been receiving a critical attention at Sundance where they are featured in the New Frontiers program, alongside work by other Eyebeam alumni including Cory Arcangel and Marina Zerkow. For more information on the Eyebeam artists and the schedule at New Frontier on Main, visit Eyebeam reBlog, and view the Sustainability Research Groups showreel. top New calls for Eyebeam Resident Interns + Staff Interns Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St. (between 10th Ave. and 11th Ave.), NYC New residents and commissioned artists joined Eyebeam this month, and a new batch of projects is already underway. Also up for grabs is a new internship with Eyebeam staff. Get in on the action: Apply now! top New from our Labs January 26: ART WIKIMARATHON Location: ANYWHERE, EVERYWHERE! Link: WIKI Saturday, January 26 Approx. 12–8PM EST (9AM–5PM PST) There’s a lack of art/artist information on Wikipedia, and we’re often too busy to find the time to contribute. In response, we’re setting aside one day for a crew of people to collectively drop serious knowledge into Wikipedia about art: from your favorite notable artwork, artist or exhibition, to our soon-to-be-famous peers. We’ll also add structural links to alumni, schools and categories such as collective art groups, non profit orgs, etc. Participants include: Eyebeam Senior Fellows Steve Lambert and Michael Mandiberg; Marisa Olson, Bennett Williamson, Joe DelPesco aka Mr. Collective Foundation, and Jamie Wilkinson. EVERYONE IS WELCOME! IRC: irc.gimp.org #artwikimarathon ([irc://irc.gimp.org/#artwikimarathon link]) AIM: join chat: artwikimarathon For more information: ART WIKIMARATHON top Featured Interviews: Michael Mandiberg talks Sustainability with RiverWired Brace yourselves, sustainability fans for a 3.5 minute Eyebeam Sustainability Research Group video to be featured on RiverWired.com this week. R&D OpenLab Fellow Michael Mandiberg and Eyebeam Executive Director Amanda McDonald Crowley introduce works by Sustainability Research Group artists Brooke Singer, Jenny Broutin, Carmen Trudell and Ben Engebreth. top Community January 17 – March 2: SAUMA [DESIGN AS CULTURAL INTERFACE] exhibition January 18 – March 2 Design Museum Korkeavuorenkatu 23, 00130 Helsinki www.designmuseum.fi If you happen to be in Helsinki this month, go and check out the new exhibition SAUMA co-curated and installed by Eyebeam’s Senior Technology Manager Marko Tandefelt, and Finnish industrial designer Hannu Kähönen. Marko also collaborated on the Finnish Cultural Institute’s exhibition Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, currently showing in Cranbrook Art Museum, which will be touring to National Building Museum in Washington DC on May 3. top February 1: Make a “thing-a-day” round 2 February 1 Registration ends: January 31 http://www.thing-a-day.com/ Kick the February blues with Eyebeam Alum Mouna Andraos, as she invites everyone to participate in the second thing-a-day.com marathon. For 29 days starting February 1, register online to “knit, cook, draw, paint, tape, solder, write, install, destroy, invent, [and] document.” top February 2: EVOLVER: WAKE UP AND DREAM Saturday, February 2, 8PM–4AM Jivamukti Yoga School 841 Broadway, 2nd Fl. (between 13th St. & 14th St. at Union Square) $15 advance tickets, $20 door Tickets: http://www.jivamuktiyoga.com/fms/event_fm.html http://www.realitysandwich.com http://www.jivamuktiyoga.com Reality Sandwich (Eyebeam’s very own Jonny Phillips) & Jivamukti Yoga School Present … EVOLVER: WAKE UP AND DREAM What happens when America’s most visionary city builds a new world by living out its dreams? Take an overnight journey into a realm of possibility with otherworldly music, performance, ideas, art and alchemy. Drift through a labyrinth of rooms full of enchanted activities, glowing and pulsing artwork, exotic performers, magical chill caves, futuristic playgrounds, and endless spontaneity. Featuring: Globesonic’s (Fabian Alsultany & Derek Beres) electrifying melting pot of Afro-beat, tabla, drum ’n bass, global trance, dub, hip-hop, and house. Haj (Resident DJ of Sub Swara & Freek Factory) and his “low-end monkey business that’s more about journey than genre.” Hercules’ (Safetycan) Hobo Tech/Freshstep of deep electrofunk … and more! For more information and tickets visit: http://www.jivamuktiyoga.com/fms/event_fm.html top February 8 + 9: Amanda McDonald Crowley chairs two major international events at FACT, Liverpool February 8 + 9 Human Futures: What is the Future of the Body? Artist research seminar and sk-interfaces conferences http://www.fact.co.uk/ http://humanfutures.fact.co.uk/ FACT the UK’s leading center for media art launches a groundbreaking exhibition on the uncertain limits between art and science. sk-interfaces explores, materially and metaphorically, the concept of skin as a technological interface. This multi-disciplinary exhibition launches FACT’s Human Futures programme which will bring artists, sociologists, architects, planners, scientists and thinkers together throughout 2008 to consider the future of the body, the mind and the world. Speakers include: ORLAN, Stelarc, Oran Catts and Ionat Zur, Sian Ede, Richard Cavell, Claudia Benthien, Neal White, Nicole Karafyllis, Jens Hauser, Atau Tanaka. Chaired by Eyebeam Executive Director, Amanda McDonald Crowley. top
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