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September 2006
Mapping impulses, locative media projects and psychogeographic investigations of place and community have proliferated over the past decade.
There is a rich, interdisciplinary field of practice and new strategies. Tactics and tools are being invented all the time. However, there is also the need for critical evaluation and discussion of the relevance and impact of these cultural projects. Read On
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March 2006
Surajit Sarkar discussed his work with the A Deep Fried Jam trio and the community art initiative in India the Catapult Arts Caravan in relation to the media consumption in India.
Surajit Sarkar lives in New Delhi, India. He has held positions as varied as photocopier salesman, bank officer, primary school teacher and developer of curriculum for primary school children and teachers alike. Since 1991, he has worked with video, at first in mainstream television writing and directing a highly successful weekly science & tech program on Indian national TV network. He moved to documentary film making, and has worked on subjects ranging from agriculture, education and the uneven costs of ‘development’. A number of these have been recognized nationally and internationally and have won prizes in film festivals in India and abroad. 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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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
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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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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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February 2004
Marie Sester presented three recent works based on the notions of transparency, visibility, and access. Her work explores ways that societies implement forms.
Marie Sester’s work questions the perspective of the West, and the meta-state of a New World Order. She employs archetypes and referents as starting points. For several years, Marie has been committed to working with already-existing data or phenomena, including airport and large scale x-ray imagery, architectural ground plans, elevations and sections, vehicle plans, city maps, aerial views, and historic, archeological and art documents. Marie has also been creating immersive installations using technologies from both the Hollywood and surveillance industries. Together these propose a connection between individuals and wider forces, or larger scales, or longer time-bases. And thus reconsider what a society or a community is engaged in, and therefore the individuals, in their everyday life. Read On
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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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December 2003
Matthias Groebel is one of the very few artists who has gone as far as designing and building his own digital painting devices that perfectly meet his artistic requirements. This gives his work a unique texture and sets him aside from other process-oriented painters.
Matthias Groebel’s newest exhibition called Collective Memories opened on Saturday, November 15 at Universal Concepts Unlimited gallery in New York. All of the paintings originated in the tradition of the danse macabre, where skeletons awake to a grim liveliness. Visually, the paintings demonstrated the quality that can emerge from collaborations between man and machine. Conceptually, they intersected layer after layer theories of memory, social history and social identity. Read On
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