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Cynthia Beth Rubin & Bob Gluck

February 23, 2006; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
Layered Histories

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February 2006

Cynthia and Paul conversed about the joys and pains of collaboration between a visual artist and a composer in a work that required a complex meshing of skills and concepts. 

Cynthia Beth Rubin and Bob Gluck discussed their conception and construction of Layered Histories.  They also described their respective previous works incorporating themes of Jewish cultural heritage, and explored how their ideas about the underpinnings of culture informed this collaboration, as well as the 1998 animation Inherited Memories, by Rubin, with music by Gluck (to be shown at the upcoming LA Jewish Film Festival). Read On »

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The Sala-manca Group

September 23, 2005; 7:30 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

Elephants in the Nights of Metula

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September 2005

A team of multidisciplinary artists based in Jerusalem.

The Sala-manca Group is Lea Mauas and Diego Rotman, Argentine-Israeli artists who have been creating work in performance, video, installation and new media since 2000. Sala-manca’s works deal with the poetics of translation, the tensions between low tech and high tech aesthetics, as well as social and political issues. 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 »