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"Eyebeam is an art and technology center that provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital research and experimentation. It is a lively incubator of creativity and thought, where artists and technologists actively engage with culture, addressing the issues and concerns of our time. Eyebeam challenges convention, celebrates the hack, educates the next generation, encourages collaboration, freely offers its contributions to the community, and invites the public to share in a spirit of openness: open source, open content and open distribution.

The atelier model is fundamental to the concept of Eyebeam. The studio/workspace environment, in which the energies of artistic production, education and curatorial practice fuse, provides a unique, stimulating and vital working context for creating art. This tremendous energy, along with the dialogue exchanged between curators, artists and students of various practices and stages of development, can inform and inspire the creation of artworks that may not previously been imagined or produced."

UpcomingWorkshops and Events: This Fall's To-Do list
New from our Labs
Inside Outside: Eyebeam fellows strut their stuff in the Jersey City artist tour
Hip-Hop Pop-Up: Rap visuals in real time
Bocce Drift: Come Out and Play turns the city into a bocce course
Closed due to evaluation: Steve Lambert closes McDonald's for a dayApply now! Eyebeam's Winter 2008 Call for Residents extended
Eyebeam Community
Stephanie Rothenberg up North: The School of Perpetual Training and Mobile City
McKenzie Wark: 50 Years of Recuperation at The Buell Evening Lecture
LoVid features: Per Square Foot, Electric Lab

Caspar Stracke, urban particle supercollider, 2007
Interference: Exhibition opening party and performance this Thursday! Artist operatives tackle collective intelligence
September 27 – November 10, 2007Opening 6PM Thursday, September 27: 8PM VJ Performance by Caspar Stracke, Benton-C Bainbridge, and Angie Eng.

Artists: Forays, Angie Eng, Jill Magid, Carrie Dashow, Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg, Trevor Paglen, IAA, neuroTransmitter, Robert Ransick, Yury Gitman, Carlos J. Gómez de Llarena, Graffiti Research Lab, Caspar Stracke, Eyebeam R&D Lab, Michael Frumin, Jonah Peretti

Interference is the second of three exhibitions celebrating 10 years of Eyebeam support for artists experimenting with new technologies. Employing a diverse array of media and strategies, which includes data visualization, performance, community engagement and public intervention, the artists and collectives featured in Interference probe ideas of access and autonomy.
From the very public, but deliberately obscured, satellite surveillance data recorded in Paglen and IAA’s work tracking CIA aircraft, to the intimacy of Magid’s collaboration with a local NYC police officer; from Forays’ engagement with local community gardeners, to GRL, Gómez de Llarena and Gitman’s tools for communication, the projects in Interference ask us to seriously consider concepts of communal space in an increasingly privatized public sphere. – Amanda McDonald Crowley, Executive Director