Eyebeam Atelier

infobox Museum
name= Eyebeam Art and Technology Center


established= 1997
location= 540 W. 21st Street, Manhattan, New York, USA
website= [http://www.eyebeam.org/ www.eyebeam.org]

Eyebeam, an Atelier, is a not-for-profit arts and technology center based in New York City. Their stated purpose is to promote the creative use of new technologies by funding artwork, education and exhibitions. Founders: John S. Johnson, David S. Johnson (unrelated) and Roderic R. Richardson.

According 2002 New York Times coverage of Eyebeam: "A handful of institutions -- among them the Ars Electronic Center in Linz, Austria; the Institute of Unstable Media in Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany -- explore aspects of new-media development. But one devoted to teaching, exhibiting and producing the newest of the new in media art does not exist in the United States. 'It's an historical opportunity,' said John S. Johnson, 35, co-founder of Eyebeam and an heir of the Johnson & Johnson family."cite news | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806EEDE1038F932A15750C0A9649C8B63 | title=An Avant-Garde Design For a New-Media Center | author=Julie V. Iovine | publisher=New York Times | date=2002-03-12]

History

According to a profile of Eyebeam in New York Magazine, John S. Johnson, a filmmaker and philanthropist who also founded the non-profit organizations the Filmmakers Collaborative, May68, and Screenwriters Colony, Eyebeam was inspired by his father, sculptor John Seward Johnson’s sculpture atelier: “The lightbulb went off when I was thinking about digital issues in film during the summer of ’96 and I realized that digital artists just don’t have the resources that traditional sculptors do.” [cite news
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While Eyebeam’s physical space has had many incarnations, including satellite offices in Soho and Dumbo, 540 W. 21st St. in Chelsea – its current location – was where the organization’s most successful ongoing educational program, “Digital Day Camp”, began in 1998. The program, the first of its kind, is free to the approximately 15-20 students accepted each year. The students, which include many from inner-city areas, go through a highly developed course of study focused on new media art training in classes taught and influenced by the residents and fellows in the building. [cite news
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Other early programming included the online conference RE:PLAY in 1999, co-sponsored by Parsons The New School for Design and Eyebeam.

In 2000, Eyebeam announced an architectural competition to construct a space in Chelsea devoted to the dialog between art and technology. In January, 2001, 13 architectural firms were invited to submit proposals, which led to the exhibition “Open Source Architecture: Building Eyebeam. [cite news
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In 2005, Eyebeam renovated its convert|18000|sqft|m2|sing=on facility in Chelsea, New York, having ultimately shelved plans to build a new museumcite news | url=http://www.res.com/magazine/lifestyle/article-futuristseyebeam.html | title=The Futurists - Tomorrow's Atelier | author=David Alm | publisher=RES Magazine | date=Jan/Feb 2003] in favor of focusing on supporting research & development, production, education and public programs for artists, hackers, designers, engineers, graffiti artists, creative technologists and the general public. Among its most popular recent projects are reBlog, a RSS feed aggregator and publisher, and the Graffiti Research Lab (or GRL). The GRL is a program devoted to equipping graffiti artists and activists with modern technology to continue their work. GRL is responsible for projects in a handful of cities around the world and are the creators of L.A.S.E.R. Tag, A projection graffiti system, and "LED Throwies" - magnetic light-emitting diodes which can adhere to metallic surfaces when thrown.

Artists and Researchers

Current Fellows

* Jessica Banks
* Ayah Bdeir
* Jeff Crouse
* David Jimison
* Geraldine Juarez
* Friedrich Kirschner
* Steve Lambert
* Zachary Lieberman
* Michael Mandiberg
* Addie Wagenknecht

Current Residents

* Adrienne Wortzel
* Andrea Polli
* Christina Kral
* Hans-Christoph Steiner
* Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga

Past Fellows

* Evan Roth (2005-2007) who founded Graffiti Research Lab
* James Powderly (2005-2007) who founded Graffiti Research Lab
* Jonah Brucker-Cohen (2006-2007)
* Limor Fried (2005-2006)
* Ben Engebreth (2005-2006)
* Theo Watson (2005-2006)

Past Residents

* Cory Arcangel
* Julian Bleecker (Spring 2003)
* Jennifer Broutin
* Jem Cohen
* Yury Gitman
* G. H. Hovagimyan
* Golan Levin (2002)
* Zach Lieberman (2002)
* Tony Martin
* Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
* MTAA
* Dan O'Sullivan
* Randy Sarafan
* Carolee Schneemann
* Zack Booth Simpson
* Peter Sinclair (sound artist)
* Michelle Kempner and James Powderly as Robot Clothes
* Bill Dolson (2005)
* Joseph DeLappe (2008)
* Taeyoon Choi (2008)
* Joe Winter (2008)
* Dan Torop (2008)
* Andrew Gryf Paterson
* Jamie Allen (2008)
* Joo Youn Paek

Past Commissioned Artists

* Isaac Julien
* Christian Marclay
* Fred Wilson
* Trevor Paglen
* Fred Wilson
* Mariko Mori
* Shirin Neshat
* Christian Jankowski
* Preemptive Media
* Liisa Roberts
* Media Shed Mongrel

Co-op Artists

* Anthony McCall
* Piero Golia
* Pierre Huyghe
* Brian Alfred
* d-fuse

The following people have also worked with or at Eyebeam in New York:

* Jason Kottke
* The Yes Men
* Rob O'Neill
* Tom Igoe

References

External links

* [http://www.eyebeam.org/ Eyebeam dot org]
* [http://mteww.com/ MTAA]
* [http://nujus.net/ G.H. Hovagimyan & Peter Sinclair]