Tag: Eyebeam
ANIMAL’s feature Artist’s Notebook asks artists to show us their original “idea sketch” next to a finished artwork or project. This week Birch Cooper discusses his modular sound modules built while he was a resident at Eyebeam. I’d like to try to use this notebook about my recent modular synth work to illustrate the interconnected, fractal nature of all […]
MSHR’s stage is one giant musical instrument, a sculpture made of mirrors and fluorescent plastic. It’s laser-cut into latices of glyphs connected by wires, with plates curving into square, kaleidoscope shapes and lasers cutting through the fog. Their other instruments are custom-built from analog synthesizers, optical sensors, oscillators, light bulbs, microphones and seashells. As they perform, moving […]
Video art is a fairly overlooked medium. Collectors don’t collect it very much and museums hide it in their archives. These days getting people to recognize net art and animated GIFs as legit seems like a bigger challenge, but it was video art that helped lay the groundwork for those platforms and it has never really […]
The city’s leading not-for-profit art and technology center Eyebeam have just announced plans to relocate from their current location in Chelsea’ to the BAM Cultural District in Brooklyn, an area that’s already become home to over forty arts organizations. Founded by filmmaker and entrepreneur John S. Johnson in 1997, the space has since evolved into a valuable resource for new […]
By now, you’re surely aware that your privacy is being eroded upon (and if you weren’t before, yesterday’s XKeyscore leaks were a helpful reminder). Perhaps you’ve vaguely aware of things like Tor and DuckDuckGo, but don’t have a clear, fully-formed idea of how to keep your private things private. Yes, the extent of surveillance by […]
The sign warning about Eyebeam’s “offensive” Venus Webcam installation has been updated at last night’s Internet Week New York opening party. (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Venus Webcam was a stand-out new media piece at the F.A.T. Gold 5-Year Retrospective at Eyebeam Art+Technology Center. It also got ANIMAL kicked off Facebook for two days, after we posted the project documentation — “art boobs,” sort of. Today, Eyebeam’s booth for Internet Week New York (#IWNY) at the Metropolitan Pavilion got censored. In physical space. With a curtain. Yes, […]
Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza’s interactive Transposition (2013) at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center’s “video_dumbo” moving image festival warbles, waves and makes alluring sounds, like this… Transposition, Cuppetelli & Mendoza, video_dumbo vine.co/v/bEXnuMEdeOp — Marina Galperina (@mfortki) May 16, 2013 (Photo: Marina Galperina/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Next week, Eyebeam Art+Technology Center — shout out Eyebeam! — will present video_dumbo’s eight annual moving image art festival. The ongoing exhibition will feature work from 106 international contemporary artists, including fourteen video screenings and eight works that make up the concurrent installation — Re-Return to Sender. The collection explores the history and metamorphosis of moving image as an artform, from […]
Opening tonight, in conjunction with their five-year anniversary, Free Art & Technology Lab is having an exhibition at Eyebeam. Lindsay Howard has curated F.A.T. Lab’s first retrospective, a group of twenty-five artists, hackers, engineers, musicians, and graffiti writers, each who have in some way been involved with Eyebeam. The Free Art and Technology Lab is an organization dedicated to enriching the public domain through the research […]
