ayah bdeir

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.”
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.

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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

Peacock visual arts gallery
Aberdeen, Scotland
03 October - 14 November, 2009

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

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.

Art Asia Pacific Magazine
Issue 64
July 09

Featured in the studio visit section of Art Asia Pacific in a nice article by Hanae Ko. Pdf here: and online article here.

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.

Gossip Magazine
Issue 2
July 09

Gossip is the magazine by Aishti group, Lebanon that focuses on twenty somethings. Article here

At makerFaire last week we won editor’s pick. there were over 180 projects in Engineering and we got a blue ribbon!

May 30 and 31st, 2009,
talk: March 31st, 2pm,
makerFaire,
San Mateo, California

littleBits will have a booth at Maker Faire this year, the largest DIY festival in the world! Come see us in the engineering hall and say hello. Jie and I will also be giving a talk about littleBits Sunday May 31st at 2pm more information at www.makerfaire.com