In May, James Powderly (of the GRL) and I went to NYC’s JFK to fly to SFO where we took BART to OAK. We then went to UCB to to be on a panel organized by myself and Laurel Beckman (of UCSB) called “DIY=>DIT: New Social Practices and Digital Distribution” at BAM/PFA for the UCIRA.
The folks at the PFA video taped the panel and it’s now available for download from their site as a .MP4 file.
PeopleProducts123, an Anti-Advertising Agency project with Amanda Eicher was written up in the May/June 2007 issue of Print Magazine.
The Co-op Bar at the Eyebeam: Source Code exhibition is coming to end, but before it concludes I’ve organized a Comedy Night with Charles Star and Eyebeam. There will be six comedians with Charles Star hosting.
* [Becky Donohue](http://beckydonohue.com/) | Comedy Central’s Premium Blend and Tough Crowd
* [Moody McCarthy](http://www.moodymccarthy.com/) | Last Comic Standing and Jimmy Kimmel Show
* [Mike Dobbins](http://mikedobbinscomedy.com) | Magnet Theater
* [Adam Wade](http://adamwade.com) | Comedy Central’s Tough Crowd, ESPN Classic, 2006 Grand Slam Champion at The Moth
* [Rachael Parenta](http://rparenta.blogspot.com) | justforlaughs.com
* [Charles Star](http://myspace.com/charles_star) | [Stay Free Daily](http://blog.stayfreemagazine.org/), Onion Network News
* and one more.
You should come. It’ll be fun.
Co-op Bar Comedy Night
Thursday August 9th at 8pm
at Eyebeam and free.
My friend Michelle Kempner created 10 feet of knitted police tape a few months back. We went out with Jamie O’Shea and I got to work photographing the knitted tape out in the mean streets of NYC. Now Michelle’s project turned into the cover feature for Craft Magazine this summer.
Eyebeam, where I have been fortunate enough to be doing a fellowship since November, is accepting applications for it’s 2007/2008 Fellowship Program. It’s a very collaborative environment where fellows and residents brainstorm and work together on projects on an almost daily basis. If you’re thinking about applying do it soon. From the call:
For all of the Fellowships we are seeking applications from artists, hackers, designers, engineers and creative technologists to come to Eyebeam for a year to undertake new research and develop new work. The ideal Fellow has experience working with and making innovative technological art and/or creative technology projects and has a passion for collaborative development. Fellows will bring this experience and working approach to their own independent projects, projects initiated by other Residents or Fellows and projects conceived collaboratively during the Fellowship period.
WhyTheyHate: The Source Code is free software which loads random flickr images designated by a tag into a webpage. Steve Calderon and I wrote the code to create “WhyTheyHate.Us” and our code is released in the public domain. The other code we used is all licensed under the LGPL or PHP license.
You are invited to use the code to create other sites as technically simple, or far more more complex than WhyTheyHate.us, or adapt the code to fit your application.
More at github.
The Co-op Bar is a public domain project developed at Eyebeam’s OpenLab. Anyone is welcome to use, alter, or build on the work and create their own Co-op Bar. In order to make this work a bit easier, I have collected some of the Co-op Bar resources onto a page that include our franchise manual, our drink cost calculator, the spreadsheets we use for accounting, drink labels, fonts, and more. See the Co-op Bar Resource Page for more.
PeopleProducts123, an Anti-Advertising Agency project with Amanda Eicher, was adapted by a group in Estonia and collectively featured in some local newspapers.
The Anti-Advertising Agency’s Portable Sound Units, a project done in collaboration with Sara Dierck and Michael Dodge, will be shown in Rotterdam at ROODKAPJE art space. “GIMMEGIMME!” opens July 20th and includes a variety of artists who give their work away for free. There is a free catalog available for download.
AddArt was one of 11 projects selected for Rhizome’s 2007-2008 Commissions. It was one of three chosen as a member selection through Rhizome’s member voting.
