ayah bdeir

July 13th, 2010
Open Hardware
Ayah Bdeir and Phil Torrone, MAKE

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

Trailer

Seven on Seven: Trailer from Rhizome on Vimeo.

Thoughts about Art and Technology

Full talk

New York Times -  Art Made at the Speed of the Internet: Don’t Say ‘Geek’; Say ‘Collaborator’

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

Photo Credits:

Portrait by: Mark Mahaney
Arabiia pictures by: Kate Kunath

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

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.

Gossip Magazine
Issue 2
July 09

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

September 1st, 2008

littleBits is on engadget, gizmodo, boingboing, core77, make, geek and others!

August 23rd, 2008

SEED magazine published Jessica and I’s talk, Open Source for Snobs, from the MoMA symposium