New York
Upgrade! NY
August 2006
This time the Upgrade event attempted to take on the dark desires beyond the basic art/privacy/surveillance discourse.
Through three projects exercising different modes of surveillance we discussed artists jealousy of authoritative powers and the desire to posses these powers themselves. Read On
Upgrade! NY
January 2006
We kicked-off the year to a full house with an evening of performance and dialog with esteemed composer Pauline Oliveros, joined by two ensembles from RPI and Brown University.
The evening started with a 3-part, audio-visual, improvisation performance. The ensembles and the audience were surrounded by twelve speakers. Read On
Upgrade! NY
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.
Upgrade! NY
April 2005
April marks the Ugrade! anniversary. We entered the sixth year with our annual brunch at Eyebeam. The Upgrade! opened a day of events to mark the completion of renovations at Eyebeam’s Chelsea facility.
Our guest speaker was Cat Mazza, the founder of microRevolt. Cat talked about the microRevolt projects that use knitting, machines, and networks to draw attention to issues of sweatshop labor. Among the web projects are knitPro, Knitoscope and the Nike Petition Project. Cat talked about logo subversion, craft hobbyist culture and the anti-sweatshop movement. Read On
Upgrade! NY
March 2005
Demonstrate was timed to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement and with campus political activity in the weeks before the 2004 Presidential Election.
Ken Goldberg discussed his latest project Demonstrate, an installation of state-of-the-art robotic webcamera placed over UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza, birthplace of the Free Speech Movement. For six weeks, the camera was made accessible to anyone on the Internet. Online participants shared remote control of the robot camera, allowing them to zoom in to and photograph activity on the Plaza at any time of day or night. Photos, textual captions, and dialogue were archived in a public database. Read On
Upgrade! NY
September 2004
The evening took place at Postmasters Gallery wrapping up five days of activities.
The gallery operated as a physical node of an ad-hock public broadcasting system of online, real-time protest performances, alternative news actions, a transatlatic, multimedia protest jam during the Republican National Convention, from August 29 to September 2. Read On
Upgrade! NY
July 2004
Julian Bleecker focused his talk on two projects that are currently in development. Both projects explore the viability of mobile WiFi networks that are off the public Internet.
WiFi.Bedouin, currently in development as part of a Fellowship at the Annenberg Center’s Institute for Media Literacy, is a mobile, portable WiFi-based service that is deliberately not on the public internet. This project is designed to investigate the possibilities for new kinds of social software that takes advantage of the proliferation of WiFi-enabled technology. Read On
Upgrade! NY
June 2004
A wireless and emerging-media artist. He engages WiFi, readymade objects, and the culture around wireless to create expressive pieces and art interventions.
Yury Gitman has exhibited work with Eyebeam and The New Museum among many others. Noderunner, a wireless game he co-created about chasing down open WiFi nodes, was awarded the Ars Electronica Golden Nica for Net Vision in 2003. He remains one of the first people to ever use the Internet in the New York subway, by employing a network of Magicbike (“wireless bicycle hotspots”). Read On
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May 2004
T U R N S is a word filtering, self-generating, fully collaborative database project based on both sharing and collecting one’s turning point story through both online writing and drawing.
The site addresses the significance of one’s personal “turn” as an experience so significant that decisions resulted which changed life’s direction. Seen through relational filters such as relationships, trauma, family, immigration, war — one’s submitted story or lifemap becomes part of the narrative pool and is understood as part of social memory. Such community based systems are built on the premise that meaning in a work of art is dependent on exchange and communication. T U R N S was created by Margot Lovejoy with Hal Eagar, Marek Walczak, and Jon Legere. It was selected to be featured as part of the 2002 Whitney Biennial and has been shown in Taipei at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 2001; as a multiuser installation at ZKM and the Madrid Media Lab in 2003 and the Bilbao, Spain Ciberarts Festival 2004. Read On
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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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