Today, we announce the draft of the definition for open hardware, as initiated from the Opening Hardware Workshop that I hosted at Eyebeam. Early signatories include: Arduino, Adafruit, Make, Sparkfun, Wired, Buglabs, Makerbot, Chumby, Creative Commons, etc.. Let us know your thoughts! More here
ArtForum - Phreaks and Geeks
Rhizome - Photos of 7on7
PSFK - When Artists Meet Programmers
BoingBoing - Rhizome’s 7on7
ArtFagCity - Rhizome’s Seven on Seven A Success
“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.”
More info here
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.
More here
Identities 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
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.
Featured in the studio visit section of Art Asia Pacific in a nice article by Hanae Ko. Pdf here: and online article here.
