Personal Kyoto - This Week at Eyebeam
This Week at Eyebeam:
- Personal Kyoto from Ben Engebreth
- Sept. 29 - Oct. 1 - Aphrodite Project: Platforms at
Next Fest
- Sept. 29 - Cory Arcangel at Team Gallery
- Reentry: New York City from Bill Dolson - on view
Upcoming:
- Oct. 5 - World of Awe - CD Release Party and Performance
540 W. 21st Street (between 10th & 11th Aves) NYC
Personal Kyoto
from Ben Engebreth
Eyebeam R&D Fellow Ben Engebreth has launched Personal
Kyoto,
a web-based tool designed to automatically measure, track and share progress
toward reduction of your residential or commercial electric consumption
in order to achieve your own Personal
Kyoto
Protocol.
By analyzing
your ConEd electric usage information, the site can calculate a Personal
Kyoto Goal for you that represents the amount you need to
reduce your electric use to to achieve something like what would be required
of you by the Kyoto
Protocol. This calculation is based on how residential
electric use has grown in the US since 1990 — the year upon which
the Kyoto Protocol is based. Assuming that your electric use has increased
at the same rate as the average American, the site calculates a target
usage goal that would effectively make you Kyoto Protocol compliant (at
least
for electric usage — a big component of New Yorkers’ energy consumption).
There are many ways to reduce your electric use, but there’s not
a good way to monitor and share your progress and that’s what Personal
Kyoto provides.
To register with
Personal Kyoto, all you need is your ConEd account number. This is used
to retrieve your historical energy usage from the
ConEd web site (try it here yourself).
The energy usage data is the only thing stored and your account
number is encrypted. Eyebeam is
a non-profit organization and will not sell or exploit your personal
information in any way. Personal Kyoto was developed by Ben during
his year-long R&D
Fellowship in Eyebeam’s
OpenLab. If
you are a software developer interested in bringing Personal Kyoto
to your town, please get in touch with Ben through the Personal Kyoto web
site.
To learn more and sign up for Personal Kyoto visit http://personal-kyoto.org/
The Aphrodite Project: Platforms
at WIRED’s Next Fest
Sept. 29 - Oct. 1, 2006
The Aphrodite
Project: Platforms, from Eyebeam Residents Norene Leddy and Andrew
Milmoe, will be exhibited in the Future of Design Pavilion at WIRED’s Next
Fest. The Platforms, designed for the safety and communication
needs of sex workers, are 6-inch, silver leather sandals with built-in
video
and GPS technology that link the wearer to emergency services and an
online community network. This project includes the shoe prototypes
as well as two web sites, http://theaphroditeproject.tv and http://sexygpsshoes.com,
and a P.S.A. designed to stimulate discussion about sex work and
sex workers rights.
Next Fest is WIRED Magazine’s vision of a new world’s fair including
more than 130 exciting exhibits from scientists, researchers and inventors
around
the globe. Next Fest features
innovations in communication, design, entertainment, exploration, health,
transportation, security and green living. Next Fest takes place at the
Javits Center in NYC from Sept 29 - Oct. 1 and Eyebeam is proud to be
an affiliate
sponsor of this
event.
For more information on Next Fest and a complete schedule of events
visit http://www.nextfest.net/
Cory Arcangel at Team Gallery
Sept. 29, 2006
6-8pm
Cory Arcangel, Eyebeam senior R&D Fellow, has an exhibition
opening Friday Sept. 29 at Team Gallery in Soho. If you aren’t able to make
it Friday to help Cory celebrate, subtractions,
modifications, addenda, and other recent contributions to participatory culture is
on view through Nov. 2 at Team’s new space, 83 Grand Street.
For more information visit http://teamgallery.com/
Reentry: New York City
Studies for Synthetic Meteors
Now on view thru Oct. 21, 2006
Bill Dolson’s Reentry: New York City merges iconic night cityscapes
with HD computer simulations in a series of studies for a daring new public
art project: synthetic meteor showers in the Manhattan sky. Evoking the
spectacle of the Apocalyptic Sublime painting movement and the audacity
of Land Art, these new simulations created by Bill during his Eyebeam
residency are on view through Oct. 21. The exhibition is open
to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 12-6pm and is free of charge
with a suggested donation.
Bill is simultaneously exhibiting digital C-prints of frames from these
video studies at Photographic Gallery, 252 Front Street (South Street
Seaport Historic District) in New York City. The exhibition, Trajectories:
Carter Hodgkin & Bill Dolson opens September 28 with an artists’
reception 6-9 pm.
For more information on Reentry visit http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=exhibitions&id=103
Bit by Bit, Cell by Cell - World of Awe
CD Release Party and Performance
Oct. 5, 2006
7pm
Join us to celebrate the release of Bit by Bit, Cell by Cell
(Innova), the latest World of Awe project. The music CD is a collaboration
between media artist Yael Kanarek, composer Yoav Gal and dancefilmmaker
Evann Siebens. World of Awe band (Gal with sopranos Heather Green
and Sarah Rivkin) will play songs from the CD and Siebens will
perform choreographed elements from her dancefilm Portal.
For more information on this event visit http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=unique&id=106