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EcoArtTech @ IDEAS CITY Street Festival

screenshot of Indeterminate Hikes+

  Founded by Leila Christine Nadir and Cary Peppermint, EcoArtTech is a postdisciplinary collaborative whose work spans art, music, performance, theory, criticism, and creative writing. Their projects like bascamp.exe and eclipse "investigate the overlapping terrain between "nature", built environments, mobility, and electronic spaces."

EcoArtTech's research has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, as well as numerous university fellowships. Their performances, exhibitions, and lectures have taken place at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Postmasters Gallery, and 319 Scholes. And their work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Walker Art Center, Rhizome.org at the New Museum.

As part of the New Museum's IDEAS CITY Street Festival, EcoArtTech will unveil a new version of the participatory performance piece and mobile application Indeterminate Hikes+, in collaboration with #ArtsTech. Through a series of walking tour performances staged for IDEAS CITY, EcoArtTech will renew the public's connection to our city's intertwining biological, cultural, and media ecologies by slowing down tour participants and asking them to see Manhattan in a new light. The walking tour will traverse the pristine industrial landscape of the Bowery, transforming its busy sidewalks into sites of ecological exploration.

Join #ArtsTech Indeterminate Hikes+ Walking Tours:

Tour 1: starts at 2PM

Tour 2: starts at 4PM

Participants should meet at the ARTSTECH Booth #19 on the corner of Stanton & Bowery.

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#Artstech @ Ideas City: Untapped (Social) Capital Discussion

(a photo from the GO: a community-curated open studio project exhibition)

Saturday, May 4, 12:00-1:00 @ Sara D. Roosevelt Park

For IDEAS CITY, the New Museum's biennial festival, #ArtsTech will present a series of short lectures on projects, platforms, and initiatives that have successfully leveraged social networks and the power of the crowd to make big ideas happen, collaboratively solve complex problems, or provide collective brainpower or labor. Projects range from civic to creative initiatives.

Since many of the projects being presented have interactive components such as mobile apps or web apps, we are hoping this session will evolve into something hands-on and participatory. The event organizers will also encourage audience discussion in order to expand the dialogue on this topic.

SPEAKERS:

Casey Pugh is an Emmy-winning technologist immersed in the online video industry. In 2009, Casey created Star Wars Uncut in his spare time, leading a crowdsourced remake of classic Star Wars movies that won a Primetime Emmy in and continues to inspires fans to participate. He led the development of online video experiences for Vimeo and Boxee, and is now co-founder of VHX, a digital video distribution platform that allows artists to sell their work from their own website, directly to their fans.

Shelley Bernstein is the Chief of Technology at the Brooklyn Museum where she works to further the Museum's community-oriented mission through projects including free public wireless access, web-enabled comment books, projects for mobile devices and putting the Brooklyn Museum collection online. She is the initiator and community manager of the Museum's initiatives on the social web. She organized Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition, Split Second: Indian Paintings, and GO: a community-curated open studio project.

Yasser Ansari is the co-founder and chief leaf of Networked Organisms, a National Geographic-backed software company focused on helping people reconnect with the natural world. He studied molecular biology and bioinformatics at U.C. San Diego and spent time researching plant genomics at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. After the lab, he moved into the wireless industry where he helped design things like hand-held radiation detectors, gaming accessories, and new mobile software at companies including Kyocera, Qualcomm, and Peek. He earned his Master’s degree from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program where he is currently adjunct faculty. He holds several technology patents and really likes poison dart frogs.

Amy Robinson is the Creative Director of EyeWire, a game to map the brain from Sebastian Seung‘s Computational Neuroscience lab at MIT. EyeWire’s community of 60,000 players from 100 countries play a game to map the brain. Amy founded and curates the TEDx Global Music Project, a collection of the best live music from TEDx events around the world. She is a partner of HealthSterling, where she developed crowd-sourced population health programs that are now being deployed in Brasil. She previously organized TEDxHuntsville and is currently organizing TEDxMIT. Amy also works with MIT Media Lab building open-source programming tools for computer vision.