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Eco-Vis Challenge Critique

November 8, 2007; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

eco-vis

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November 8, 2007

Eyebeam hosted a public critique for the Eco-Vis Challenge submissions as part of the Upgrade! series of public programming.

A distinguished panel of New York-based artists and designers discussed what role an art and technology center can play in raising public awareness on environmental issues, and how visualizing environmental data can address the crisis. The guest critics not only dicussed their criteria for a useful, engaging, and successful visualization project, but were available to give in-depth feedback to the Eco-Vis Challenge participants. Read On »

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Grafitti Research Lab & Josh Macphee

April 27, 2006; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
GRL

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April 2006

Upgrade! Anniversary Brunch marked the seventh year in graffiti style,

with Evan Roth and James Powderly of the Graffiti Research Lab, and stencil artist Josh MacPhee. Read On »

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Mark Napier

October 27, 2005; 6:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
Shredder

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October 2005

Demonstrated new work, and talked about the pleasures and perils of showing interactive work in a gallery space.

In front of a full house, Mark Napier discussed his exploration in the past two years including 3D graphics and hardware level rendering techniques, the value of standards like OpenGL, the use of virtual spaces in artwork and some of the pitfalls he found in interfaces and interactivity.

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Camille Utterback

January 27, 2005; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
External Measures

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January 2005

During the studio visit Camille demonstrated three interactive video installations:

Liquid Time (2001), External Measures (2003), and Untitled 5 (2004). In all of these pieces, a large projected image changes in response to human presence, position and movement in the installation space. People’s movements are tracked by an overhead video camera, and the imagery is generated by custom software. Read On »

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SWIPE

April 29, 2004; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
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April 2004

Brooke Singer, Beatriz da Costa,and Jamie Schulte discussed their ongoing collaboration.

SWIPE began as a performance and installation that focused on data gathered from driver’s licenses—a form of data-mining that businesses are starting to practice in the United States. Bars and convenience stores were the first to utilize license scanners in the name of age and ID verification. These businesses, however, admit they reap huge benefits from this practice beyond catching underage drinkers and smokers and fake IDs. With one swipe—that often occurs without notification or consent by the cardholder—a business acquires data that can be used to build a valuable consumer database free of charge.

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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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Mary Flanagan

September 30, 2003; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

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September 2003

Mary Flanagan discussed her recent work with search engines, viruses, and networked art and presented a work-in-progress game engine hack, [domestic].

Mary Flanagan had been occupied with the social implications of ubiquitous computing and computer culture as it relates to the personal and the everyday. Paramount to this interest is the concept of data visualization and how the intimate or the private becomes public and vice versa.

Mary Flanagan holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and studied film studies and experimental filmmaking. Flanagan’s creative work focuses on networked/computer based art, installation, and game design. Read On »

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Jonah Brucker-Cohen

August 26, 2003; 7:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
Mouse Miles

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August 2003

Dublin based artist Jonah Brucker-Cohen reviewed his work revolving around the theme of “Deconstructing Network” both physical and online.

Jonah Brucker-Cohen discussed some of his projects that attempt to challenge accepted notions of network interaction from networked software hacks and rule-based systems to translating virtual processes and conventions into the physical world.

Finally he talked about the Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA Group), an informal group he co-founded in Ireland that has had over 12 monthly events in Dublin, a large symposium earlier this year, electronics for artists workshops, and aims to showcase art and technology projects from local and international artists, musicians, designers, students, academics, and more. Read On »

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Mark Napier

April 3, 2002; 6:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
Waiting Room

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March 2002

 
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Mark Napier made a second engaging appearance at this month’s Upgrade!

He discussed works from his virtual studio—potatoland.org, including RIOT, FEED, net.flag, and The Waiting Room.

Napier explained RIOT as an alternative browser with two goals in mind. One goal is for the browser to be a public domain; the other is to break down the notion of individual web territories. RIOT seeks to expose the myth of separate non-intrusive realms on the Internet by dismantling the software that separates them. The program is based on physical riots that similarly break down boundaries of privacy and ownership such as the Lower East side squatters’ riots in 1999. The piece is currently showing at the 2002 Whitney Biennial.

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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 »