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Out of the Lab. Interview by Melinda Sipos and Angela Plohman

September 10, 2012

Plohman, A. and Sipos, M. 2012 “Out of the Lab: An interview with Amanda McDonald Crowley” Beyond Data, Kitchen Budapest & Baltan Labs joint publication.

The interview with me is on Page 90.

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Transcending Borders

June 4, 2012

Transcending Borders: The Intersection of Arts, Science, Technology, and Society on a Global Stage

The National Endowment for the Arts and Salzburg Global co-host an art-science-technology discussion on Monday, June 4 at the Embassy of Austria.

Transcending Borders: The Intersection of Arts, Science, Technology, and Society on a Global Stage will feature noted experts such as Joel Slayton, executive director with Zero 1, and Manuela Naveau, director of Ars Electronica Export in Linz, Austria.

I was invited to moderate the discussion, held at the Austrian Embassy, Washington DC. The event will was live webcast at arts.gov and discussion on Twitter used the hashtag #neaartsci.

Webcast of the evening’s discussion is available on the NEA website.

 

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Join us in Washington, DC!
Symposium and Reception at the Embassy of Austria

Dr. Hans Peter Manz, Ambassador of Austria to the United States,
Rocco Landesman, Chairman at National Endowment for the Arts, and
Stephen Salyer, President and CEO at the Salzburg Global Seminarinvite you to join them on

Monday, June 4, 2012, from
5 to 7 p.m. at the Embassy of Austria in Washington, D.C.
(3524 International Court, NW)

for a discussion of

TRANSCENDING BORDERS:
The Intersections of Arts, Science, Technology, and Society on a Global Stage.

A reception will follow the discussion.

To register for the event, please visit
SalzburgGlobal.org/go/DC2012

Speakers

Dr. Andrew Baden, Physics Department Chair and Professor, University of Maryland
Amanda McDonald Crowley, Independent Cultural Worker; Former Executive Director, Eyebeam; Former Director of the Australian Network for Art and Technology; currently Curator for Our Haus, Austrian Cultural Forum
Liz Lerman, Choreographer, MacArthur Fellow
Dr. Cora Marrett, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation (to be confirmed)
Joan Shigekawa, Senior Deputy Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
Clare Shine, Vice President and Chief Program Officer, Salzburg Global Seminar
Joel Slayton, Executive Director, Zero1
Gerfried Stocker, Artistic Director, Ars Electronica

We look forward to seeing you on June 4th and encourage you to forward this invitation to friends or colleagues who would benefit from the experience.

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Internet Economies: Porn, Labor, and Banking

October 7, 2011

Panel Discussion at Eyebeam art + technology center, 7 Oct 2011

Panelists: Fran Ilich, Stephanie Rothenberg & Jeff Crouse, and Susanna Paasonen. Moderated by Amanda McDonald Crowley

Jeff Crouse and Stephanie Rotheberg, Laborers of Love


Jeff Crouse and Stephanie Rothenberg, Laborers of Love

What might be strategies to explore and build alternate economies?

Artists Fran Ilich, Stephanie Rothenberg & Jeff Crouse, and Finnish researcher Susanna Paasonen led discussion on the worlds of online porn, digital labor, and alternative finance models.

In their projects “Laborers of Love”, an adult web site that leverages Mechanical Turk labor, and “Invisible Threads” a just-in-time telematic factory, Rothenberg and Crouse have been researching new models of outsourced, distributed global labor. They are interested to explore not only how this affects production but in how these new technologies impact behaviors, value systems and ideologies as workers move between worlds.

During his Eyebeam Fellowship, Ilich investigated creative practices in virtual community investment banking. Globalized capitalist markets use finance as a means to extract surplus and value from localized world production – relying on networks of power to do so. But finance can also be reversed engineered so that it becomes the seed for new forms of cooperation, collaboration and socialization, drawing on and building networks through virtual communities. Used creatively, finance can actually further the prosperity and efficacy of minority reports, marginal narratives, alternate commodity markets, social currencies, hacktivism and other activist practices, as well as strengthen the hope of sustainability in creative digital labor and internet production practices.

Paasonen’s research is in online porn – with a primary focus on how the genre has been transformed with digital production and distribution tools. She explores how we might better account for the affective dynamics of porn consumption. This links to affective economies, amateur porn as “labors of love” (or not), and cans of worms around labor and ethics.

Pictures of the event are here.

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MTV Brazil – Art and Technology in New York

May 16, 2011

Direto de Nova York, Ronaldo Lemos trata de tecnologia e suas relações com a vida: cultura, economia, política, sociedade e assim por diante.

An expose that includes an interview with me, as well as ever brilliant Aaron Myers and Fran Illich.

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Eyebeam Holiday MIXER 2010

December 13, 2010
MIXER December 2010

[NBC] Take a Tour of a Chelsea-Based Art Group’s Eclectic Holiday Mixer from Oresti Tsonopoulos on Vimeo.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/niteside/Eyebeam_Holiday_Mixer_All__National_-111776494.html

Oresti Tsonopoulos/NITESIDE

Amanda McDonald Crowley, executive director of non-profit Eyebeam, walks us through the group’s unconventional holiday mixer over the weekend at the art and technology center’s Chelsea digs. The merry mixer — thrown by trendy event group Mean Red — was host to interactive art, DIY gifts, a book launch and even several seven-deadly-sins-themed snowglobes.

NBC: http://nbcnewyork.com/​blogs/​niteside/​
Video: www.orestimusic.com
Eyebeam: http://eyebeam.org/
MeanRed: http://www.meanredproductions.com/​

Canon T2i / 24-70mm f2.8 / Rode VideoMic / FCP

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Food in the City

April 1, 2010

Amanda McDonald Crowley at the Food and Emerging Media speaker series:
Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY
Thursday, April 1, 2010

Food and Emerging Media Speaker Series, organized by Stefani Bardin, examined the role of emerging media and new technology on the exploration of the many facets of food.

FEM Speaker Series Poster

The series was organized by Bardin in conjunction with her class, Food and Emerging Media, Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo. She hosted artists, farmers, architects, curators and historians whose work and research focus on how technology has mediated our relationship to food.

“Food in the City” presented a range of my inspirations: artists who have been working on projects as diverse as urban farming, food mapping, and eating in an art context. Food in the City also represented the research I began with Eyebeam’s Sustainability Research Group which has led to my Art/Tech/Food research initiatives where my intent is to bring together media artists, cooks, environmentalists and food activists to embrace technological innovation and environmental, sustainable and regenerative concerns consistent with green and open source ventures and sustainability.

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Untethered

September 25, 2008
Michel de Broin, Dead Star, 2008A sculpture garden of readymades

September 25 – October 25, 2008
Eyebeam art + technology center
Curated by Eyebeam curatorial fellow Sarah Cook, whose fellowship was supported by a partnership with CRUMB

Untethered was a sculpture garden of everyday objects deprogrammed of their original function, embedded with new intelligence, and transformed into surrealist and surprising readymades, including a photocopier that reads the night sky; a PDA turned guitar; and a piano that plays the Internet. The exhibition featured pieces by 15 artists working at the intersection of art and technology, including current and former Eyebeam residents and fellows, as well as leading international artists.

Participating artists: Jessica Banks, Ayah Bdeir, Michel de Broin, Max Dean, Paul DeMarinis, Kelly Dobson, Germaine Koh, JooYoun Paek, Sascha Pohflepp, Hans-Christoph Steiner, Thomson & Craighead, Nor_/d, Nor_d (Addie Wagenknecht + Stefan Hechenberger), Joe Winter

http://eyebeam.org/events/untethered

http://we-make-money-not-art.com/untethered_at_eyebeam/

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2008/sep/25/interview-with-sarah-cook/

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Tour of Eyebeam, August 2008

April 13, 2008

CAMERAHUG visits EYEBEAM in Manhattan and gets a tour by Executive Director Amanda McDonald Crowley.

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CAMERAHUG visits Eyebeam

April 13, 2008

 

13 Apr 2008

“CAMERAHUG visits the EYEBEAM GALLERY in Manhattan and gets a tour by Executive Director Armanda McDonald Crowley. Eyebeam is the birthplace of many great inventions like the Laser Tag (Graffitti Research Lab).”

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ISEA2004 Program Catalogue

August 15, 2004

 

 

ISEA2004 catalogue cover. publisher: m-cult design: Tuomo Tammenpää

ISEA2004 catalogue cover.
publisher: m-cult
design: Tuomo Tammenpää

 

 

 

Please see  my project page, giving a brief overview of ISEA2004 as well as links to the ISEA2004 Magazine and ISEA2004 Brochure.

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