I spent the weekend in the editing room making some new videos for an application.  See them after the cut.

The final lineup is (from left to right):

1. David Jimison - mobile technologies expert
2. Steve Lambert - culture hacker, activist
3. Andrea Polli - sound artist, environmentalist
4. Michael Mandiberg - browser artist, environmental activist
5. Jeff Crouse - me. you’re already on my site.
6. Friedrich Kirschner - machinima storyteller, tool-maker
7. Christina Kral - videographer

The dates are:

1. Saturday, November 15th: Mills College - Studio Art Department
2. Sunday, November 16th: Berkeley College - Berkeley Center for New Media and Berkeley Art Museum
3. Wednesday, November 17th: UC Santa Cruz - Computer Science Department
4. Tuesday, November 18th: UCLA - Design | Media Arts
5. Monday, November 19th: UC Santa Barbara -  Department of Art
6. Thursday, November 20th: Integrated Media Program
7. (tentative) Friday, November 21st: UC Irvine - Arts Computation Engineering [ACE] Program

2008 Eyebeam Roadshow Catalog (PDF)** - This catalog contains all of the workshops that we are offering at each stop of the show.  The specifics haven’t been nailed down yet, but we will be doing some combination of artist talks and workshops at each of the venues.

If you live near one of these schools and would like to lend your couch to a traveling artist, please contact me.  We’re doing this thing on the cheap.

** Here is a new version of the catalog!  2008 Eyebeam Roadshow Catalog (PDF)

Link to full proposal

The rest is history.

• Wired - September 19, 2008 | 9:09:55 AM
• Digg - September 19, 2008 | 11:00 AM
• BoingBoing - September 19, 2008 | 12:54 PM

I saved the BoingBoing and Wired for posterity.

paid-placement-for-brands-in-pop-lyrics-boingboing

products-placed_-how-companies-pay-artists-to-include-brands-in-lyrics-listening-post-from-wiredcom

Others

• Which Rappers And Divas Get Paid For Product Placement?
• Yes, Ludacris will sing about your jeans
• Selling out: Product Placement in Songs.
• The First Rule Of Product Placement In Songs: You Don’t Talk About Product Placement In Songs and here | September 19th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
• And The Brand Plays On Pt. 12
• Ad or Art? Why Not Both? | Sep 19 2008 2:32PM EDT
• Products Placed: How Companies Pay Artists to Include Brands in Lyrics
• Ad Supported Music: inside the ’secretive market for song lyric product placement’
• Product Placement in Songs
• Anti smart | 5:59 PM on Fri Sep 19 2008

The Finger Olympics started out asn an idea tossed around at Eyebeam between Friedrich Kirschner and Zach Lieberman, and eventually turned into a playable computer vision project.

For more information, go to fingerolympics.com

ABSML is a markup language that is used in a variety of problems incluing Inside the Artists Studio, Befriend a Recruiter and MadLibs Karaoke, and the winner of a 2008 Turbulence grant.

Here is an example of what some ABSML code looks like:

		<sentence id="q-art-14" >Have you considered <pickone>creating, making</pickone> <pickone>more, less</pickone> <library>modifier</library> <library plural="true"><get>medium</get>_outcome</library>?</sentence>

		<sentence id="q-art-15">You had an exhibition at <organization><source><get>website</get></source></organization>. Some say this was a turning point in your career. <pickone>Do you agree?, but I have my doubts, I'm curious what you think.</pickone></sentence>

		<sentence id="q-art-16">Do you ever <pickone>wonder if this is all, wonder if this could be considered </pickone> all just a big shaam?  and - why do you think so?</sentence>

		<sentence id="q-art-17">Tell <pickone>me, our listeners</pickone> about your exhibition last year at <organization><source><get>website</get></source></organization>.</sentence>

		<sentence id="q-art-17"><pickone>I will let Alfred know., Alfred sometimes makes mistakes., I will speak to Alfred about this.</pickone></sentence>

		<sentence id="q-art-18"><pickone>My youngest son - Alfred, Alfred- my youngest son</pickone> <pickone>is a fan of, enjoys </pickone> <pickone>your earlier work, early work, the work from the beginning of your career </pickone> in <city><source><get>website</get></source></city> <pickone>personally I am not a fan - however, but he is young and has childish tastes </pickone> - <pickone>for the benefit of our listeners, for the radio audience</pickone> <pickone>please tell us, do tell us</pickone> <pickone>about, of </pickone> your early career.</sentence>

		<sentence id="q-art-19"><pickone>Tell me more about, Let us discuss, Let us return to </pickone> your relationship to <city><source><get>website</get></source></city>, <pickone>which, which I must say </pickone> <pickone>is one of my favorite cities, holds a special place in my heart, is near and dear to me.</pickone>.  How do you feel about it?</sentence>

		<sentence id="q-art-20">What about your <pickone>most recent, latest</pickone> <library plural="false"><get>medium</get>_outcome</library>?</sentence>

		<sentence id="q-art-21" >But is that really art?<pickone> or something else entirely?, or a <library>modifier</library> fantasy?</pickone></sentence>

		<sentence id="q-art-22" >Tell me about your teaching practice at <organization with="University, College, Academy, Institute, school"><source striptags="true"><get>wesbite</get></source></organization>.</sentence>

Download the 2008 catalog to see what we are offering on the Roadshow this year.

2008 Eyebeam Roadshow Catalog

I ended helping Andrew Mahon with his project, “Digitally Fit”.  You can read more about it on Andrew’s site.

While I was a production fellow at Eyebeam, we worked with the artist and geographer, Trevor Paglen, on an exhibit called “The Other Night Sky.” I took part in the initial planning and worked on some of the data parsing.

Download the exhibition brochure (PDF).