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Marek Walczak

October 28, 2003; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

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October 2003

Marek’s talk was a follow up to the talk Martin Wattenberg and him gave in January 2002.

Continuing to link architecture and new media, Marek Walczak reviewed several collaborative projects. These included the 6 new media works on show at the ICA, London, with Martin Wattenberg; the Dialogtable, a permanent gesture-based installation at the Walker Art Center (2005), with Jakub Segen, Peter Kennard and Michael McAllister; the huge permanent interactive wall at 7 World Trade Center (2005) with Jakub Segen for James Carpenter Design and an upcoming piece called Requiem for 50 computers, with Hal Eager. 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 »