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EcoArtTech @ IDEAS CITY Street Festival

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:46:37 -0400

screenshot of Indeterminate Hikes+

Founded by Leila Christine Nadir and Cary Peppermint, EcoArtTech is a postdisciplinary collaborative whose work spans art, music, performance, theory, criticism, and creative writing. Their projects like bascamp.exe and eclipse “investigate the overlapping terrain between “nature”, built environments, mobility, and electronic spaces.”

EcoArtTech’s research has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as numerous university fellowships. Their performances, exhibitions, and lectures have taken place at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Postmasters Gallery, and 319 Scholes. And their work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Walker Art Center, Rhizome.org at the New Museum.

As part of the New Museum’s IDEAS CITY Street Festival, EcoArtTech will unveil a new version of the participatory performance piece and mobile application Indeterminate Hikes+, in collaboration with #ArtsTech. Through a series of walking tour performances staged for IDEAS CITY, EcoArtTech will renew the public’s connection to our city’s intertwining biological, cultural, and media ecologies by slowing down tour participants and asking them to see Manhattan in a new light. The walking tour will traverse the pristine industrial landscape of the Bowery, transforming its busy sidewalks into sites of ecological exploration.

Join #ArtsTech Indeterminate Hikes+ Walking Tours:

Tour 1: starts at 2PM

Tour 2: starts at 4PM

Participants should meet at the ARTSTECH Booth #19 on the corner of Stanton & Bowery.

#Artstech @ Ideas City: Untapped (Social) Capital Discussion

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:57:42 -0400

(a photo from the GO: a community-curated open studio project exhibition)

Saturday, May 4, 12:00-1:00 @ Sara D. Roosevelt Park

For IDEAS CITY,the New Museum’s biennial festival, #ArtsTech will present a series of short lectures on projects, platforms, and initiatives that have successfully leveraged social networks and the power of the crowd to make big ideas happen, collaboratively solve complex problems, or provide collective brainpower or labor. Projects range from civic to creative initiatives.

Since many of the projects being presented have interactive components such as mobile apps or web apps, we are hoping this session will evolve into something hands-on and participatory. The event organizers will also encourage audience discussion in order to expand the dialogue on this topic.

SPEAKERS:

Casey Pugh is an Emmy-winning technologist immersed in the online video industry. In 2009, Casey created Star Wars Uncut in his spare time, leading a crowdsourced remake of classic Star Wars movies that won a Primetime Emmy in and continues to inspires fans to participate. He led the development of online video experiences for Vimeo and Boxee, and is now co-founder of VHX, a digital video distribution platform that allows artists to sell their work from their own website, directly to their fans.

Shelley Bernstein is the Chief of Technology at the Brooklyn Museum where she works to further the Museum’s community-oriented mission through projects including free public wireless access, web-enabled comment books, projects for mobile devices and putting the Brooklyn Museum collection online. She is the initiator and community manager of the Museum’s initiatives on the social web. She organized Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition, Split Second: Indian Paintings, and GO: a community-curated open studio project.

Yasser Ansari is the co-founder and chief leaf of Networked Organisms, a National Geographic-backed software company focused on helping people reconnect with the natural world. He studied molecular biology and bioinformatics at U.C. San Diego and spent time researching plant genomics at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. After the lab, he moved into the wireless industry where he helped design things like hand-held radiation detectors, gaming accessories, and new mobile software at companies including Kyocera, Qualcomm, and Peek. He earned his Master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program where he is currently adjunct faculty. He holds several technology patents and really likes poison dart frogs.

Amy Robinson is the Creative Director of EyeWire, a game to map the brain from Sebastian Seung‘s Computational Neuroscience lab at MIT. EyeWire’s community of 60,000 players from 100 countries play a game to map the brain. Amy founded and curates the TEDx Global Music Project, a collection of the best live music from TEDx events around the world. She is a partner of HealthSterling, where she developed crowd-sourced population health programs that are now being deployed in Brasil. She previously organized TEDxHuntsville and is currently organizing TEDxMIT. Amy also works with MIT Media Lab building open-source programming tools for computer vision.

ArtsTech community came out to make our first Unconference an unbelievable success

Wed, 01 May 2013 11:16:00 -0400

Saturday’s First ever ArtsTech UnConference was a huge success with no small thanks to ever impressive featured session presenters and our amazing members who kept the conversations and spontaneous sessions going. The attendees got into the swing of things and added sessions on the spot to the schedule, in addition to our featured sessions that the ArtsTech team profiled on Tumblr leading up to the Conference. At the end, there were 36 sessions that we had on the official schedule! If you missed any of the write-ups on our impressive line-up of speakers, a previously posted breakdown of who was featured is found here. Sylvia Heisel should get a special shout-out for her endurance, hanging out for the entire day, to showcase all the innovations in Wearable Tech materials, and letting Conference goers stop by and try on some of the fabrics for themselves. The Twitter conversations were flowing, and some members even used it as a way to follow the conversation on what they were missing in one session while in another…

Just missed the Visceral/Behavioral/Reflective #ArtsTech panel, @kelaninichole & @sunrarx need to redo for me now now instagram.com/p/YnzzRzyptT/
— Marina Galperina (@mfortki) April 27, 2013

We wanted to offer another sincere thank you to our sponsors food and beverage sponsors, Plated and Dark Horse, to Marius Waltz for designing our totes, and of course to our hosts and supporters Solo Foundation, Wix, and AOL, for which all of this was possible. We’re looking forward to next year, and we’d love to hear feedback that we can use to make 2014 even better.

To relive some of the action, be sure to check out our photos and a storify post highlighting some of Saturday’s most memorable moments.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR OUR UNCONFERENCE! We are happy to...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:39:00 -0400

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR OUR UNCONFERENCE!

We are happy to announce that the first 50 people to register Saturday morning will receive a free copy of the New York Times Bestseller “Contagious: Why Things Catch On” by Jonah Berger. Learn more at JonahBerger.com

VINEPOPS: a Featured Session at the ArtsTech UnConference

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:20:47 -0400

Miriam Simun, a research-based artist investigating the implications of socio-technical and environmental change through the creation of participatory experiences will be at the #ArtsTech UnConference this Saturday conducting a public online/offline/3rdline hacking workshop she calls - VINE-POPS.

Vine - a video sharing mobile app owned by Twitter, where people create 6 second videos and can share them and embed them across different social networks.

POPS - Privately Owned Public Spaces that are legally open and available to public use but owned and maintained by private entities. Created as a zoning concession program by the City of New York, developers design, build, and manage these spaces all over the city in exchange for being allowed to build higher than the zoning laws allow. The result is a space dedicated to the public but monitored by private security, and designed by corporate interests and aesthetics. Example: Zuccotti Park

Miriam’s workshop will seek to mobilize conference goers to establish our public rights to the POPs spaces in Astor place by performing private and playful acts that demonstrate the public access and public utilization of these spaces, for the explicit purpose of capturing these activities using Vine videos. The workshop will include a short presentation on the history of POPS, ‘how-to-tips’ on making compelling VINE videos, and then a 20-minute sojourn into the three POPS in Astor Place, where participants will make their own VINE-POPS. Props will be provided for people to explore and have fun ‘laying claim’ to Privately Owned Public Spaces.

The 6 second summary - Attendees will hack POPS by exploiting developer legal loopholes for the public good, hack VINE to make art, and hack life to make video.

Unconference Sponsor Spotlight: S[edition] For most people, the...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:30:50 -0400

Unconference Sponsor Spotlight: S[edition]

For most people, the cost of an original Damien Hirst piece puts ownership out of reach. S[edition], however, a new London-based art company that is on the forefront of commissioning and selling exclusive digital art, is working to make owning art by leading contemporary artists more attainable. Partnering with renowned artists such as Hirst, Tim Noble & Sue Webster, Jenny Holzer, Isaac Julien, Elmgreen & Dragset, and Yoko Ono, s[edition] has launched a new digital marketplace of original art that is priced within the realm of affordability for most consumers.

S[edition] commissions artists to create a limited edition image or video that is sold through their marketplace. Owners receive a certificate of authenticity, and each piece is digitally watermarked thus ensuring its exclusivity. S[edition]’s slogan is “Enjoy Art Everywhere,” and each digital piece—image or video—can be viewed by owners on a variety of Internet-connected devices, including televisions, phones, and tablets. According to s[edition], collectors also “receive regular information directly from the artist, get priority access to new editions and can connect to other collectors.” S[edition]’s goal is to make art collecting “instant, affordable, social and enjoyable.”

#ArtsTech is excited to have s[edition] as a sponsor for the Unconference this weekend, and all #ArtsTech Unconference attendees will receive a credit towards their first s[edition] purchase.

To learn more about s[edition], please visit their website at www.seditionart.com/about. You can view the s[edition] art marketplace by going to seditionart.com/browse, and you can follow them on Twitter at twitter.com/seditionart.

ArtsTech UnConference Featured Session-The Top Ten Strategies for Mastering Social Media in Real-Time

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:51:56 -0400

The session will bring together different social media professionals in a roundtable discussion of best practices and strategies for managing time-sensitive art world happenings. From press conferences to live performances to public art to high-profile parties—topics will touch on planning techniques, tools of the trade, managing participation, post-event tips and how to be a live tweeting pro. From the initial discussion, participants will compile a useful guide to planning and executing timely social media campaigns.

With all that happens in an art world calendar year it’s impossible to experience everything without it being shared through social media. Conversely, if something that’s happening isn’t shared on social media, it can easily slip through the cracks. From a strategic standpoint it gets even more specific, because without a plan, the long-term benefits that come from promoting and capturing real-time participation can be lost. This session will give people a chance to talk to, and learn from industry professionals that are setting the standard for social media “in the scene” and “on the screen.”

Susi Kenna, FITZ & CO’s Account Executive for Social Media, is responsible for developing social media strategies and directing new digital initiatives for both the firm and its clients. Prior to FITZ & CO, Susi held positions at Christie’s auction house and interdisciplinary design firm C&G Partners before independently consulting on marketing and social media strategy for contemporary art ventures. Kenna holds a Bachelor’s of Business and Administration in Design Management from Parsons The New School for Design. She is a Co-Chair of the Junior Associates of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and a member of the New Art Dealer’s Alliance (NADA).

Lucy Redoglia (aka @meteveryday) is a former blogger—after visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art more than 150 times in a single year and writing about what she learned, she was hired by the Museum in 2009. In her role in the Online Marketing and Website group, she is responsible for visually representing the Museum across all social media channels and through email and online marketing campaigns. Also the social media manager for Art Privée in a freelance capacity, Lucy manages the fledgling art website’s social media content on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, and Flickr.

Susi and Lucy will host the discussion with Todd Florio, CreativeTimeNYC; Jennette Mullaney, The Highline; and one or two more surprise guests.

ArtsTech UnConference Featured Session: Beautiful Code

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:42:38 -0400

Zeeshan Lakhani will be leading our featured session on Beautiful Code - this workshop is about movies & coding styles, patterns, and kickass abstractions. Finshed products, apps, and prototypes are what we use, read about, and teethe over, but the day-to-day making/building/running/testing of a project is, at times, frustrating, tedious, and vacuous (sometimes all at once). For some, including myself, coding was thought of as a means to an end… an assumption that was wrong.

Zeeshan will also talk about pattern-matching, macros, types, closures, refactoring, and really making code open-source.

Code by itself almost rots and it’s gotta be rewritten. Even when nothing has changed, for some reason it rots.

-Ken Thompson

Zeeshan originally started out as a filmmaker, who became a musician, who became a coder, who then actually began to really love coding. Programming made sense to Zeeshan, who moved from science center to startup to a gig at the New York Public Library Labs, he accrued tons of necessary and needless information, and is a polyglot who will dive into anything related to Python, Javascript, Go, Clojure, Ruby, Processing, Circuits, Machine Learning, and MATH!

Participants in this session will learn how to write better code for collaboration (how to really do open-source) and that even though there may be a vast set of languages and low-level complexities involved in coding (one of my previous fears), there are some elegant abstractions and paradigms that are generalized across the board.

ArtsTech Unconference Featured Session-The Audience as Users

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:20:34 -0400

Artists, creative technologists and their collaborators engage their audiences, not just as recipients or participants, but also as users. With art mediated through digital systems, considering user behavior is no longer a luxury but a necessity. Methods from a user-centered design approach can help test and refine your vision—before you slog through its development—to ensure that it opens the dialogue you want to explore with your audience. This overview will provide a framework to think about your process, and help you identify what techniques will advance your work and when to put them into action. This is not your grandmother’s usability testing.

Highlights of this presentation include:

Understanding your audience as users
How user-centered design works
Planning what methods to use
Developing a test plan
Demonstrations of directed storytelling and bodystorming

Ben Elgart is a strategist and interaction designer at G2. He bring insight from psychology and human behavior to plan, design and evaluate experiences that connect businesses with consumers.

Unconference Wine Sponsor: Dark Horse Dark Horse Wine is sold...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:01:26 -0400

Unconference Wine Sponsor: Dark Horse

Dark Horse Wine is sold exclusively at Trader Joe’s. The three varietals are Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, and the new Big Red Blend. Winemaker Beth Liston sourced the best agricultural and winemaking resources from around the globe to create a line of wines that are premium in taste, without the premium price.

The 2011 Dark Horse Chardonnay offers a creamy character with fruity flavors. The 2011 Dark Horse Cabernet Sauvignon is bold and rich with a smooth finish. Both wines will be featured at the #ArtsTech Unconference this weekend.

To learn more about Dark Horse Wine, please visit their website, www.darkhorsewine.com, and find them on Twitter at @DarkHorseWine.

How To Be a (Secret) Change Agent in Your Organization

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:30:56 -0400

Unconference Featured Session Spotlight

Photo from flickr.

In this participatory workshop, we hope to engage everyone in thinking about what makes an organizational change successful. Change can happen at any level — from the receptionist to the CEO — and we hope to help participants learn how to be the (secret!) agents of change in your organizations.

We live in a world where technology is ever-changing, and doing so rapidly— from social media and mobile apps, to new database products, and building new relationships with audiences, arts organizations could be at the forefront of this evolution. But how many arts organizations do you know that are really good at embracing change? For an organization to keep up, they needexcited and motivated staffers (like the #ArtsTech audience!) to beable to lead the charge.

Join us as we talk about technology, change, and culture, and even nerd out with a roleplaying game that’ll give you a chance to practice making your case and fighting resistance.

Who we are

In a past life, Jen Leavitt worked in the performing arts doing everything from selling tickets in the box office to operations logistics for international dance companies(and everything in between). In her current life, Jen Leavitt is a non-profit technology consultant for arts & cultural organizations for Blackbaud. She works with museums and other cultural institutions to utilize technology and rethink their processes to spend less time worrying about technology and more time focusing on their mission. Shereceived her Master’s Degree in Organizational Change Management from the New School.

Michelle Paul is the Director of Product Development for Patron Technology, where sheis primarily responsible for guiding the development of PatronManager CRM, Patron Technology’s integrated box office, fundraising, and e-mail system. She is the co-author of Breaking the Fifth Wall: Rethinking Arts Marketing for the 21st Century,a book that’s all about helping arts organizations adapt to (and embrace!) changing technologies. Michelle is also on the board of ELNYA (Emerging Leaders of New York Arts), which lets her meet lots of awesomefuture and current organizational-change agents.

Cesar Kuriyama & 1 Second Every Day Unconference Featured...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:01:00 -0400

Cesar Kuriyama & 1 Second Every Day

Unconference Featured Session

After years working in advertising and frustrated with his memory, Cesar Kuriyama decided to quit his job on his 30th birthday, and take a year off from work. Ever since that day, he has been recording 1 Second Every Day, a project documenting every moment in his life so that he’ll never forget a single day ever again. 1 Second has garnered coverage from major publications: BBC, CNN, Fast Company. The project first year culminated with a TED 2012 talk.

During his featured session, Kuriyama will talk about what he has learned during 1 Second Every Day, and new platforms including an iPhone App. Kuriyama is, as he describes, “an American… born in Lima, Peru… some Japanese added in from my grandfather… raised in NJ… currently living in Brooklyn, NY.”

ArtsTech UnConference Featured Session-Multimedia Storytelling

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:42:24 -0400

(photo from inside Sleep No More, one example of multimedia storytelling, courtesy of Vanity Fair)

Brendan Schlagel is currently writing a book about multimedia storytelling, a broad piece of terminology that refers to using various formats and technologies to communicate via narrative—this can be for all sorts of purposes, from entertainment to marketing to journalism. He will be leading this interactive discussion group because he is very curious to hear ideas from other artists, technologists, and thinkers on everything from specific creative techniques and the pragmatics of telling an engaging story to the fundamental principles that will guide this field forward. He will show a range of examples of multimedia storytelling from performances like Sleep No More to Paul Salopek’s “Out of Eden” project to help spark discussion. He will also give a free copy of his book to all attendees once it has reached completion!

Potential topics for discussion include:

Basic mediums from which stories are crafted (written text, visual design, time, audio, video)

Theoretical concepts surrounding narrative creation (authorship, truth and ethics, evolution, potentiality, nonlinearity, networks and systems)

Metamediums and transmedium spaces (performance and theatrics, the build environment, the Internet, games and storyworlds)

The creative process (practical aspects of creating a multimedia story, from ideation to construction to editing to distribution)

Questions to address:

How does multimedia change our approach to creating for business, marketing, art, entertainment, and other uses? What does this allow us to do that “traditional” storytelling does not?

How do “mediums” relate to more general narrative concepts; what’s the best way to frame the process of creating multimedia works and discussion/analysis of what results?

Who is doing innovative work in multimedia storytelling, and what makes such work particularly effective?

Going forward, what challenges and possibilities must we keep in mind when crafting the future of storytelling technologies?

Unconference Featured Session Spotlight: How Do You See...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:01:52 -0400

Unconference Featured Session Spotlight:

How Do You See Yourself? A Wearable Tech Workshop

Sylvia Heisel will be leading an experimental workshop where users will play with and photograph themselves wearing new tech materials and non-traditional clothing items such as reflective thread, tyvek, and wearable LEDs.

As an artist Sylvia create interactive environments. In one such project, she created a room in tyvek where people could try on abstract pieces and play.

About Sylvia Heisel:

Sylvia Heisel’s designs embody simplicity, creativity, technology, sustainability and quality. Influenced as much by contemporary art and design as the fashion world, Sylvia eponymous collection of women’s designer clothing is carried in some of America’s best specialty stores.
Obsessed with new technologies, Sylvia is extremely knowledgeable about new materials, manufacturing processes and physical computing. Her recent collections have included LED-lit skirts, reflective clothes and accessories and 3D printed trims. A visual artist as well as designer, Sylvia also creates and consults on sustainable temporary interiors, environments, displays and events. In partnership with her husband, Scott Taylor, they make places, objects and experiences that combine contemporary design, art, fashion, culture, technology and lifestyle.

Beyond the Algorithm: The Content of Tech Art Unconference Featured Session

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:40:39 -0400

Artist Carla Gannis brings together this round table discussion where thought leaders in the #ArtsTech community will discuss the work of art/tech practitioners generating critically and socially engaged content. The panel will analyze and debate the current trends in digital art that may preclude it from analysis for substantive content outside of its own processes.

Gannis is a transmedia artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. Her solo exhibitions include “The Multiversal Hippozoonomadon & Prismenagerie” at Pablo’s Birthday Gallery, New York, NY; “Jezebel” at The Boulder Museum of Art, Boulder, CO; and forthcoming “”<legend> </legend>”” at Transfer Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. At the Unconference, she is looking forward to a day of demonstrations, performances, talks and presentations that remind her of why “it’s really exciting to be alive at this particular moment in history.”

ArtsTech UnConference Featured Session - Digital Sound Manipulation

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:20:42 -0400

Michael Feld is a sound designer and music producer, specializing in live and recorded sound for theater, media, poetry, ethnography and experimental performance. He utilizes live sampling, foley art collage and digital production techniques in his work, composing soundscapes from a wide variety of sources from the organic to the synthetic. His approach to using organic materials as a source for digital media will be of interest to anyone looking for innovative performance techniques. Michael has created sound and music for the Bushwick Starr, the Manhattan Rep, the Metropolitan, Brooklyn Arts Exchange among others.

Michael will be at the UnConference, conducting a workshop on using every day sounds and objects as instruments as a source for digital music and sonic possibilities. This session will introduce the intuitive nature and performance qualities of digital music.

This session will demystify techniques of digital sound manipulation who are new to the form, while giving conference goers hands-on experience working with electronic instruments, and working together as an ensemble. An emphasis will be placed on performance techniques using effects and control surfaces to combine the organic and the synthetic. All attendees will receive materials for using this art form as a teaching tool.

Tactile New Media - Digital Arts meets Traditional Craft:...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:30:47 -0400

Tactile New Media - Digital Arts meets Traditional Craft: Unconference Featured Session

What role can traditional crafting play in creating works that will ultimately be 100% digital?

Does digital arts mean discarding the traditional in favor of a new set of techniques? Is it possible for a new folk tradition to emerge, and if so, will it have any relation to traditional folk crafts?

Part demo, part presentation, part discussion, artist Ken Amarit will begin this session with a short demo of Voyager, his game crafted from felted wool, stop-motion animated, then digitized. Other examples of traditional crafts and processes like paper-making, processing wool, ceramics, etc. will be presented and discussed in relation to photography, what Amarit sees as “the visual bridge between the traditional and the digital.”

Ken Amarit is an artist, crafter, programmer, and independent video game maker based out of Brooklyn, NY. He has been featured on IGN, Wired! Geek Mom, and more, and has been a speaker at Maker Faire. He has two cats who both shed a lot, and he enjoys felting with their fur.

Food meets Tech meets Creative Good Eats - Get to know Plated one of the sponsors of the ArtsTech UnConference

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:40:53 -0400

We are fortunate to have several incredible sponsors that will be joining us at the upcoming ArtsTech Conference, and Plated is one of them. We reached out to speak with Jared Levan, a Customer Experiences Manager at Plated, to learn more about their site and why they love being a part of the ArtsTech Community.

ArtsTech: What are you most looking to take away from this conference?

Plated: Tech is a powerful thing, so that definitely is part of what draws us in, but it’s much more than that. We’re nerds, foodies, creative machines and we love sharing that with people. We think the UnConference will be a great place to talk to other people interested in how technology can improve our lives and help us with the things in life we’re passionate about.

ArtsTech: What are some of your favorite things about the ArtsTech community?

Jared: I definitely stay up to date on what you’ve got on the blog. Love your Tumblr… it’s an awesome mix of nerdy tech-ness with an artful twist. Two of my favorite things. (Editors: Thanks Jared!)

ArtsTech: In your words, what’s unique about Plated?

Plated: We want every single one of our customers to use our meals as a learning experience. We strive to be as customer-centric as we possibly can to support that experience. If that means reaching out to a customer having an issue at 11:00PM on a Saturday night or dropping everything to hand delivering a package that was sent to the wrong address, we’ll do it. Our customers the most important part of our business and we are trying to empower them to bring cooking back home.

Definitely stop by to say hello to Plated on Saturday, April 27 to meet some of the brains behind the concept and the service. They will be doing quick, simple cooking demos to show how being passionate in the kitchen is not as tough as people think! There will also be some free samples involved, and who doesn’t love that?

Unlearning without Deskilling - a case study of Art Historians and Engineers on an impossible mission

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:52:00 -0400

Unconference Featured Session!

Presented by Art.sy’s own Daniel Doubrovkine and Jessica Backus

What can you achieve when you give Engineers and Art Historians an impossible mission – to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an internet connection? These two professions have rarely crossed paths. How will they collaborate? Will the former speak incomprehensible futuristic code, while the latter obsesses about obscure details from ancient literature?

For the past two years at Art.sy has been working on precisely this mission. In building “The Art Genome Project,” they have had to overcome the many challenges of working together, and in the process have learned new ways of thinking that have allowed them to invent a completely new experience for browsing art. (They’ve also built a business with a successful online marketplace and hundreds of partnerships by bridging the commercial and the not-for-profit art worlds.)

This talk will focus on un-teaching art historians the mindset of valuing comprehensiveness over accessibility. They’ll look into un-learning the obsessive focus of building technology for it’s own sake by engineers. They’ll also provide several examples of where and how these two worlds intersect, including our taxonomy, design and collaborative development processes.

Finally, they’ll ask themselves: are Engineers and Art Historians actually that different from each other?

Spacebrew - creating Interactive Spaces Workshop at the UnConference

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:20:31 -0400

One of the hands-on workshops at the ArtsTech UnConference will be a led by Julio Terra, an Interactive Designer with the LAB at the Rockefellar Group. Julio will be giving attendees an overview of Spacebrew, an open, dynamically re-routable software toolkit for choreographing interactive spaces, that is one of the LAB’s projects.

Following the demonstration, there will be a 45-minute hands-on workshop where Julio will talk through one of the tutorials on the Spacebrew website.

Spacebrew is essentially a simple way to connect interactive things to one another, and it gives you the tools to do so. The software was originally created to support the LAB’s projects, but by keeping it open, it can support the growing community of artists, hackers, designers, architects, students and anyone else who is interested in playing with, prototyping and creating interactive spaces. Spacebrew uses a flexible routing system between anything that can speak over Websockets; Spacebrew’s dynamic interface allows changes and provides feedback in real-time and can be accessed both locally and online. The Spacebrew team has set up Jam Sessions through Meetup to have creative minds learn how to use the software for their own personal projects.

Spacebrew makes it easy to make things talk. Come learn how you can use Spacebrew to do that as well - this workshop you will use Arduino, Processing,and Spacebrew to dynamically connect a light sensor to various apps and objects. Bring your computer and we’ll bring a handful or Arduino boards and sensors that you can share with other participants. No previous experience with Arduino and Processing are required.