Recent News
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Rhizome’s 7on7 at the New Museum
April 17th, 2010
The New Museum, NY“Rhizome is pleased to announce Seven on Seven a new major initiative that reflects our mission to connect art and new technology. The seven teams will present their ideas at a one-day event at the New Museum on April 17th. Seven on Seven Participants include, on the technology side, Ayah Bdeir, Jeff Hammerbacher, David Karp, Andrew Kortina, Hilary Mason, Matt Mullenweg, and Josh Schachter, and on the art side, Tauba Auerbach, Cao Fei, Aaron Koblin, Monica Narula, Marc Andre Robinson, Evan Roth and Ryan Trecartin.”
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Eyebeam Annual Appeal - Please donate
By making a contribution to Eyebeam, you will be supporting all of our creative practitioners and the educational workshops and performance events we develop at our collaborative art and technology center.
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identities in motion on worldchanging.org
Article about the Cruel Weather Middle Eastern film festival at Aberdeen’s Peacock gallery. The article includes an interview with Jay Murphy and a description of Identities in Motion, my solo show.
The post was originally by the wonderful Regine Debatty. Here -
solo show - identities in motion
Peacock visual arts gallery
Aberdeen, Scotland
03 October - 14 November, 2009Identities in Motion is a series of works by Ayah Bdeir that looks to contemporarise images of Arab identity, reinterpreting often archaic, frozen and homogeneous imagery. The works deal with the obsession of the media to flatten the Arab identity and reduce it to a set of cliche images and iconographies.
Opening October 3nd, 2008. More info here
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beiteddine visuals in the daily star
August 11th, 2009
Daily Star, Lebanon
“Nostalgia tinkling at the ivories”Daniel Hai and my visuals at the Guy Manoukian concert in Beiteddine on August 9th, 2009 moved the audience, and the press. Article here. The concert went great, over 4000 attendees (full house), very high energy in the audience and great feedback! Pictures soon.
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Featured in AAP’s studio visit
Art Asia Pacific Magazine
Issue 64
July 09Featured in the studio visit section of Art Asia Pacific in a nice article by Hanae Ko. Pdf here: and online article here.
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concert at Beiteddine coming up
Guy Manoukian concert
August 9th, 2009
Beiteddine Festival“images of the ‘new middle east’ ” is a commission by international artist and composer Guy Manoukian for an upcoming concert in Beiteddine, Lebanon. Beiteddine Festival is one of the oldest and finest festivals in the Middle East and is held in a 200-year-old palace in Beiteddine, built by emir Bashir Shihab in a little town 45 kilometers south-east of Beirut.
The project is done in collaboration with Daniel Hai, and Cem Adiyaman.
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Recent Work
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New images of the Middle East/ images of the New Middle East
The project is to create visuals, edited footage, and algorithmic animations to respond to the music of Guy Manoukian.
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littleBits
An opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards
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les Annees Lumiere
A bird’s eye view of a little over 3 years of violence, strife, and very bright lights rocking lebanon.
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Teta Haniya’s Secrets
A line of electronic lingerie inspired by the Syrian Souk el Hamidiya
