In my other life, I am a teacher at Hunter College. For the past 2 semesters I have been teaching a class called Tools & Techniques in the IMA program in the Film & Media department. This semester, as my students’ final project, they have made a series of videos that we will be showing [...]
Events
Church Music
For Praying@Home, we needed some ambience in the prayer booth, so I grabbed a bunch of MIDI organ music, imported it into GarageBand, and brought that clunky old music into the FUTURE AGE. Now you can have the album, SWITCHED ON JESUS, by the Institute for Faith-Based Technology, for your own prayer-time listening. All Hail [...]
Open Studios
On May 15th and 16th, I will be showing a few of my projects at the Eyebeam Open Studios. If you missed Praying@Home at the Mixer, you can see a simplified version of it. I will also be revealing a new project.
Crowded Rhizome Proposal
Project Description Crowded is an montage audio program similar to radio shows like This American Life, The Moth, or the productions of Joe Frank. What makes it unique is that all of the material is is made up of segments of audio requested from and submitted by workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk site in return [...]
Mixer: Expo
The Institute for Faith-Based Technology will be presenting their amazing new technology, Praying@Home, at the upcoming Eyebeam Mixer on March 6th and 7th. That’s right! It’s 2 days long! Everyone should come by. Get tickets now (by clicking here) before they sell out. And they will definitely sell out. Eyebeam presents an alternate “World’s Fair” [...]
Upgrade! Boston
Calling all Boston people! DATE: February 24, 2009 TIME: 7:00-9:00 pm VENUE: North 181 – entrance on Evans Way [map], Massachusetts College of Art + Design 621 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts. Follow the signs posted on the outside of the Tower Building (black glass) [Green Line "E"] :: Jeff Crouse :: Jeff Crouse creates software [...]
Social Media Week
I am going to be on a panel about art and social media on Monday, noon-2pm. Date: February 9th, 2009, 12pm – 2pm Location: Brand Experience Lab Address: 520 Broadway, 5th Floor New York, NY 10012 (map)
2008 Road Trip a success
From November 14th to 22nd,a bunch of Eyebeam fellows went to California for a roadshow. I’ve been talking about this quite a bit lately. The trip went very well overall, and I hope to do it again soon. The wonderful Christina Kral is currently working on a video about the trip, and here is a [...]
Triptych Party with You3b
ArtistMeeting is a New York City art collective that is doing a show at Postmasters on Jan 10th, 7-9PM. The artists are using YouThreebe to present triptychs. And there are complimentary drinks! Sounds like great fun to me! Here is the press release. Video triptychs involve three simultaneous video loops projected side by side on [...]
Iowa State Roadshow
We kicked off the Eyebeam Roadshow two weeks ago in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at University of Iowa, in the Studio Arts department. We started a Flickr group for the photos. We had a great time in Iowa. Everyone was super nice, and we built an awesome fort in the Studio Arts Building, which was, awesomely, [...]
June: The Month for Talks
I’ll be speaking at the Figment Lecture Series on Governors Island on the 14th from 4:00 – 4:30, and with Kenseth Armstead and Jon Cohrs at the Open Video Conference at Vanderbilt Hall, NYU, on the 19th. If you come and yell obscenities at me from the audience, I will buy you a beer afterwords.