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Collaborative Futures Book Launch & Talk

March 4, 2010; 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm. 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm.
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

Upgrade! NY presents:
Collaborative Futures Book Launch & Talk
a book about free collaboration written collaboratively in 5 days

Watch the live video stream on March 4 at 7:30PM (EST) and participate in the discussion!

Over 5 days in mid January 2010 the Transmediale festival locked 6 writers and 1 programmer in a Berlin hotel room to collaboratively write a book about the future of free collaboration; the authors started with only the title, and ended the week with a book.

Transmediale Artistic Director Stephen Kovats will be on hand to join Eyebeam Senior Fellow Michael Mandiberg and Eyebeam Honorary Resident Mushon Zer-Aviv, to talk about the process of writing the book, and some of their discoveries in the collaborative process. Stephen Kovatz will also talk about the ‘Futurity Now’ concept of TM10 in general and particularly in the context of the Collaborative Futures book sprint.

This will be your first chance to get your hands on a dead-tree version of the book. Books will be for sale for $15 at the event, but you can pre-order now for $12 and help make the print run possible. Click here to pre-order!

The Collaborative Futures team working on the book

The “Collaborative Futures” book sprint was facilitated by Adam Hyde (FlossManuals.net) and authored by Mushon Zer-Aviv, Michael Mandiberg, Mike Linksvayer, Alan Toner and several additional collaborators using the Booki software (booki.cc) by Aleksandar Erkalovic.

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Free as in what? A debate on open source vs. free software

October 29, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm.
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

What do we mean by ‘freedom’? Should Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) necessarily be powered by radical politics of ownership and collaboration? Or is the latching of “Free Software” ideological baggage limiting the full transformative power of “Open Source”. How are these questions informed by licenses? Are some licenses more open than others? More ethical than others? This emotional debate has been in the heart of FLOSS from its early days and has created camps and animosities within the community.

Upgrade! NY continues its program series on open source as it relates to activism and creative practice. Join us for a discussion and debate on what constitutes freedom within the Open Source and Free Culture movements. We will examine the strong ideological differences through a provocative panel discussion with Gabriella Coleman and Zachary Lieberman.

Biella Coleman

Gabriella Coleman

Gabriella Coleman is an anthropologist who examines ethics and online collaboration as well as the role of the law and new media technologies in extending and critiquing liberal values and sustaining new forms of political activism. Between 2001-2003 she conducted ethnographic research on computer hackers primarily in San Francisco, the Netherlands, as well as those hackers who work on the largest free software project, Debian. She is completing a book manuscript “Coding Freedom: Hacker Pleasure and the Ethics of Free and Open Source Software” (under contract with Princeton University Press) and is starting a new project on peer to peer patient activism on the Internet. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including ones from the National Science Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Social Science Research Council.

Zach Lieberman

Zach Lieberman

Zachary Lieberman’s work uses technology in a playful way to explore the nature of communication and the delicate boundary between the visible and the invisible. He creates performances, installations and on-line works that investigate gestural input, augmentation of the body and kinetic response. Recently, he helped create visuals for the facade of the new Ars Electronica Museum, wrote software for an augmented reality card trick, and helped develop an open source eye tracker to help a paralyzed graffiti artist draw again. In addition to making artistic work, Lieberman is a co-creator of openframeworks, a toolkit for creative coding and teaches at Parsons School of Design.

Upgrade! NY is co-produced by Eyebeam and Not An Alternative.

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How To How To

July 23, 2009; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm.
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray - Window Farm

Britta Riley & Rebecca Bray

Upgrade! NY
July 23, 2009

At the previous Upgrade! New York gathering, writer/theorist Clay Shirky suggested that the most successful open source collaborations are those that use recipe-like methods to share information. In order to explore this idea further, this month’s discussion examined recipes, instructions, and open source collaboration. Participants included Eyebeam residents Rebecca Bray and Britta Riley, artist/writer/activist Marisa Jahn, and Instructables community manager Billy Gordon. Presentations by all participants were followed by a discussion and Q&A.

About the Participants
Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray are artists working to create crowdsourced R&D solutions for environmental issues. Their current project, Window Farms, seeks to create a new Research & Development model which puts the awesome power of discovery and creation into the hands of the masses, and then spread the know-how to every participant. windowfarms.org/

Marisa Jahn is an artist/writer/activist whose work explores, constructs, and intervenes systems. In 2009, she co-founded /REV/-, a non-profit organization that fosters socially-engaged art, design, and pedagogy. Jahn is also the co-editor of ‘Recipes for an Encounter’ (Western Front, 2009). Through an interdisciplinary lens that brings together art, architecture, literature, and political science, “Recipes for an Encounter” explores the anticipatory nature of recipes together with their promise of what will unfold, take place, be consumed.
www.marisajahn.com

As a former community manager and content producer for Instructables.com, Billy Gordon worked on various projects, such as building a giant 8 foot scale replica of a kitchen match and branding himself with an industrial cutting/engraving laser. His projects have been published in Make Magazine and PC Magazine.com, which named his Lego USB charger one of “The 10 Coolest Lego Inspired Gadgets”. www.instructables.com/member/Tetranitrate/

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Upgrade! New York 10th Anniversary

May 21, 2009; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm.
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

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Upgrade! NY
May 21, 2009

 
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Upgrade! New York celebrates its 10th anniversary with a reception, video screening, and presentations by Upgrade alumni.

After a humble beginning in a New York bar in 1999, Upgrade! has blossomed into an international network with over thirty nodes meeting regularly all across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. To celebrate ten years of dialog and debate on issues related to art and technology, Eyebeam and Not An Alternative hosted an evening of presentations by Upgrade! alumni Alexander Galloway, Mushon Zer-Aviv, and Savic Rasovic. The presentations were followed by a reception and screening of video work from members of the Upgrade! International network.

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Winter Camp

March 2, 2009 6:00 pm to March 7, 2009 10:00 pm.
Studio K, Amsterdam, NL

wintercamp

Upgrade! NY
March 2, 2009

Winter Camp was an event, organized by the Institute of Network Cultures and took place 3-7 March ‘09 in Amsterdam. Network Cultures Winter Camp was a mix of presentations and work spaces with an emphasis on getting things done.

It was a four-day program of work spaces and plenary presentations, in which a dozen networks worked on their specific current topics.

Participants from various nodes of the Upgrade network were in attendance, including Mushon Zer-Aviv from Upgrade! NY.

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“Blank Spots on a Map: State Secrecy and the Geography of Nowhere” with Trevor Paglen

October 4, 2007; 7:30 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
Trevor Paglen

Upgrade! NY
October 4, 2007

Trevor Paglen presented his projects and collaborations, which included his current Eyebeam commission. Joined by the Eyebeam Production Fellows, Jeff Crouse, Evan Harper, Geraldine Juárez and Chris Sugrue, his collaborators on his commissioned piece with Eyebeam, Paglen detailed the project and progress to date.

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Artist talk with eteam

August 30, 2007; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
eteam

eteam

Upgrade! NY
August 30, 2007

The eteam (Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger) for Upgrade! New York’s August 2007 event.

eteam discussed the construction of alternate realities via audience participation (intentional or unintentional) within their various projects. In addition, a special guest and a performance/game set the scene for vibrant dialogue.

Related Links – http://www.meineigenheim.org/

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Graham Harwood

July 31, 2007; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm.
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
Graham Harwood

Upgrade! NY
July 31, 2007

 
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Graham Harwood presented his projects and collaborations, including his Eyebeam commission with MediaShed, and work with free media. Joined by the Eyebeam Production Fellows, his collaborators on his commissioned piece with Eyebeam, Harwood presented Gearbox, an open source video editing resource.

A representative from Picture New York made a special appearance to discuss proposed restrictions on photographing rights in public space.

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“Simple TEXT” with Jonah Brucker-Cohen

June 5, 2007; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm.
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
Simple Text

Upgrade! NY
June 5, 2007

Eyebeam R&D OpenLab Fellow Jonah Brucker-Cohen presented his and Tim Redfern’s SimpleTEXT: A Cell Phone Enabled Interactive Performance.

The event was free and open to the public. Guests were invited to bring their cell phone to take part!

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kanarinka

September 14, 2006; 7:00 pm;
The Change You Want To See Gallery - 84 Havemeyer Street, Brooklyn
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Upgrade! NY
September 2006

Mapping impulses, locative media projects and psychogeographic investigations of place and community have proliferated over the past decade.

There is a rich, interdisciplinary field of practice and new strategies.   Tactics and tools are being invented all the time. However, there is also the need for critical evaluation and discussion of the relevance and impact of these cultural projects. Read On »