New York
Upgrade! NY
May 29, 2008
Art in the Age of Terrorism
Dr. Steven Kurtz, the artist accused by the US Department of Justice of “bioterrorism” stemming from his use of scientific materials in his award-winning art practice, and science writer Carl Zimmer for a panel discussion on the ethics of scientific and creative research and freedom of speech. Read On
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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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May 10, 2007
Eyebeam Resident Michael Mandiberg presented a talk and workshop about his new project Real Costs. Attendees were encouraged to bring a laptop to play along. Programming knowledge was useful.
This hybrid talk/workshop included a 30 minute presentation of the project, and how it related to Michael’s previous work, followed by guided modding of the script. Michael provided a focused walk through of the code, and then set everyone free to make some modifications and provided feedback for the project.
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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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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
Eyebeam was pleased to host the first gathering of the Upgrade! International.
This event/exhibition was an opportunity to learn from organizers and see work presented in each location, while gaining a sense of the range of manifestations of the Upgrade! model. Participating groups were from: New York, Vancouver, Montreal, Boston, Seoul, Tel Aviv, Munich, Oklahoma City, Istanbul and Chicago. Read On
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October 2000
This month, painter/programmer/net-artist Mark Napier presented Potatoland.org, his online studio of artwork created for the web.
Conceptually formalist, yet often visually abstract, much of Napier’s work encourages the user to play with the existing parameters of Web content and context via entirely new parameters. Napier’s online tools and environments create participatory, visually stunning, and ultimately fun collages and visual fields laced with commentary on the political and conceptual nature of Web content and architecture. Read On
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