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

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

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.

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

April 30th, 2009
Eyebeam, NY
www.littlebits.cc

Join us for the launch party and exhibit opening of littleBits on Thursday April 30th at Eyebeam.

6pm: littleSneak - press preview
7pm: littleGeek - talk by ayah bdeir (ie: me)
7:30pm: bigLaunch -party

Please rsvp by April 25th at: rsvp@littlebits.cc. More info here

March 29 - April 4th, 2009
Eyebeam Roadshow

A group of us (Jeff, John, Michael, Yael and me) will be heading on the Eyebeam roadshow to give Workshops and talks at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Columbia College. I’m giving two workshops:

Technology As Identity, 3-6pm, Tuesday March 31st, Columbia College
Making Something Super, 9-1pm, Wednesday April 1st, Motorolla Innovation Center, UIC

NYSeF
Sunday March 1st, 2009
City University (CUNY), New York

Will be judging some young savants ‘en herbe’ at the New York Science and Engineering fair as part of SEED Magazine’s team. Nice article here

IDEO, London
February 13th, 2009

Will be giving a talk at 4pm at IDEO london on Friday about some of my work. It’s Friday the 13th, but hopefully it will go well!

Technology as Identity
ITP, TISCH, NYU
Spring 09

Teaching a brand new class this semester at NYU’s ITP department, called ‘Technology as Identity’. The class will look at how our identity, ethnicity, and cultural footprint are reflected through the technology we consume and produce. More info on the class website

Tangible and Embedded Interaction
February 16-18th
Cambridge, UK

Presenting at Tangible Embedded Interaction during an invited talk at the university of cambridge. More details here