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Upgrade! Anniversary Brunch w/Jennifer & Kevin McCoy

May 1, 2004; 12:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

Soft Rains

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May 2004

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy are Brooklyn-based artists who make projects about how our thoughts, experiences and memories are structured through genre and repetition. In order to focus attention on these structures, they often reexamine classic works of science fiction or television narrative, creating sculptural objects, video projections, or live events from what they find. The McCoys discussed their new projects Eternal Return, Soft Rains, and Second Date, the latter two of which opened at Postmasters Gallery on May 8. These were part of a new cycle of work that made narrative video projections with miniature cameras, motors, and fragments of tiny film sets.

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Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga

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

NEXUM ATM documentation

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January 2004

From ice-cream cart to grocery cart to ATM, Ricardo transforms elements of urban life into vehicles for interaction and discussion.

Melding new media, sculpture, public display and performance, Ricardo Miranda Zuñiga investigates current and historical issues by framing his research into works that mediate temporary public commons. At this month’s meeting, Ricardo discussed Vagamundo, NEXUM ATM, the Public Broadcast Cart, and works in progress. Read On »

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Michael Joaquin Grey

March 27, 2003; 7:00 pm;
bitforms gallery - 529 West 20th Street, New York
Michael Joaquin Grey at bitforms

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March 2003

Michael Joaquin Grey gave a methodical review of his work and ideas from the past twenty years, supporting his talk with approximately 400 slides.

Michael Joaquin Grey started in the center of the art world in 1990 and rapidly developed a new type of creative practice, which is a prototype of today’s new media artist. His work has extended in this last decade from the gallery into biotechnology, information technology, product design, social sculpture and mass media. Most recently he has explored computational cinema and choreography with sound, motion and video primitives. His collaborations and practice have been a model and precursor to how artists would adapt their practice and escape postmodern limits. Read On »

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MTAA

October 3, 2002; 8:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York

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September 2002

 
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An evening spent catching up with MTAA.

T. Whid and M. River took the opportunity to consider recent past projects and updated the group regarding their current work and process.  T. Whid and M. River reviewed the Website Unseen and Updates series, discussed the installation work at PS1 and SmackMellon, perused new works in progress at Tinjail.com, and provided highlights of the new features at MT Enterprises WorldWide.  MTAA used the meeting to contextualize a body of work via a presentation based on reflection.

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Michael Rees

July 24, 2002; 6:00 pm;
Eyebeam - 540 W21st Street, New York
Sculptural User Interface

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July 2002

 
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Discussing his work against ideas about artificial intelligence, artificial sculpture, and art history with special emphasis on his hybrid virtual/physical practice.

Michael Rees began his fantastic talk with a review of his early work as a post-minimalist sculptor and his studies with Joseph Beuys as a Fulbright scholar.

He went on to describe work done in the early 90′ that crossed an interest between Pygmalion, in the context of the discourse of male construction of the feminine and dog shows. That eventually led to the engagement with rapid prototyping machines and the integration of digital media into his sculptural work.

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