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Andreas Angelidakis

January 29, 2003; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

Chelsea

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January 2003

Andreas is an architect whose work addresses you and your avatar.  He makes buildings and places for real people and their machines

Andreas Angelidakis showed some of his work that engages a 3-D Internet such as Neen World, Mirrorsite series, Invisible Home, and My Anchorage.  He also showed physical spaces that have been or are about to be constructed, such as Tetris Mountain for Lev Manovich’s Soft Cinema, Electronic Orphanage, Teleport Diner and Pause.

The first project reviewed was Chelsea, which was a collaboration with Miltos Manetas. Chelsea was a 3-D world of art and architecture created in Active Worlds. It was the first experiment in building an online community. Chelsea suffered a digital demolition when the host forgot to pay for the yearly service and all fifty buildings were erased from the server. Read On »

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Yael Kanarek

December 19, 2002; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

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December 2002

 
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Yael Kanarek took the stage for her second Upgrade! presentation after nearly two years since the first in April 2000.

She had much to report regarding the status of the changes, updates and new collaborations, which have transpired in her on-going project, World of Awe.

By request from a fellow colleague she took a few steps back to review the World of Awe schema since its inception: An original non-linear narrative written in fantastical realism that uses the ancient genre of the traveler’s tale to explore the connections between storytelling, memory and technology. The group likened the work to a modern day Canterbury Tales.

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Michael Rees

July 24, 2002; 6:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
Sculptural User Interface

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July 2002

 
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Discussing his work against ideas about artificial intelligence, artificial sculpture, and art history with special emphasis on his hybrid virtual/physical practice.

Michael Rees began his fantastic talk with a review of his early work as a post-minimalist sculptor and his studies with Joseph Beuys as a Fulbright scholar.

He went on to describe work done in the early 90′ that crossed an interest between Pygmalion, in the context of the discourse of male construction of the feminine and dog shows. That eventually led to the engagement with rapid prototyping machines and the integration of digital media into his sculptural work.

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John Klima

February 28, 2002; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
Glasbead

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February 2002

Artist John Klima presented The Upgrade! audience with a lively and candid display of his work.

John Klima discussed three of his major works beginning with Glasbead, a web-based “musical toy” that allows up to twenty users to interact with the piece at once. Glasbead centers on the notion of linking people together for a multi-user experience, an idea he found to be extremely powerful at the time of its conception.

Klima emphasized that his work favors an artistic look and feel over function, so that it is always art rather than a tool. As a result, he explained his translation of real-world data into art. Read On »

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Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg

January 24, 2002; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

 

 

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January 2002

Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg discussed their collaboration, which began in 1997 via email correspondence.

The presentation served to demonstrate the artistic possibilities of an intersection between math, science, architecture, and technology. The duo launched the evening with an introduction to the their backgrounds in architecture (Marek) and mathematics (Martin), with examples of past projects, threories and practice.

The collaborative presentation began with The Apartment, Martin and Marek’s most successful and well-known piece to date. Marek described the concept behind the work as stemming from the 80’s end to Form and Functionalism in architecture, which left room for spaces to be developed from ideas and words. Read On »

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Robbin Murphy

August 24, 2000; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

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August 2000

For this presentation for The Upgrade! Robbin Murphy discussed his experience in Chinon.

Murphy also discussed the Fontevraud Abbey (an abandoned 11th Century religious compound-turned-prison where he focused his creative efforts), cultural policy in France, the use of new technologies in historical documentation and continued efforts towards preservation of cultural heritage.

Robbin Murphy recently traveled to Chinon, a city in France’s Loire Valley, as a participant in the “Fourth International Workshop on Cities, Design and the Internet – Heritage and Sustainable Development: Le Val de Loire”. Murphy and twenty other invited artists, architects, programmers, academics, and government officials collaborated on a web-based guide to, and management tool of, Chinon and its environs in the Loire Valley between Maine and Sully-sur-Maine. The Workshop was organized by The Center for Design Visualization, UC Berkeley; UNESCO World Heritage Centre; and Agence de Developpement et d’Urbanisme du Chinonais. Read On »