Eyebeam Summer School is an annual adult workshop series designed to encourage the creative use of technologies for personal expression, activism, communication and community involvement. For more information and to register, email: bookstore AT eyebeam DOT org.
This year we join the Eyebeam fellows in offering a hands-on ShiftSpace workshop as a part of the program.
What Can you expect to learn if I participate?
- What is ShiftSpace? What is the Metaweb? Why bother? [a short presentation]
- How to develop your own User Generated Interface in 50 minutes? [the hands on workshop part]
- What are people doing with ShiftSpace? [a show&tell with artist Joe Moore, author of the Cutups space, winner of the ShiftSpace commission program]
- Where is it going? [an open QA and discussion going through the whole thing]
Bring.Your.Own.Laptop
Basic web skills are good to have (and a basic curiosity and willingness to get your hands dirty in code). If you have a preferred text editor installed along with a local development system, that can’t be bad. We encourage you to preinstall the ShiftSpace development environment, you can do that here.
The workshop will take place on Tuesday July 8th, 2008, from 6pm (arrive earlier) at Eyebeam, 540 W. 21st St., NYC.
Please pre-register at: bookstore AT eyebeam DOT org. Participation is limited.
As mentioned, we would give a § presentation and announce the winners of our commission program at Dorkbot NYC on Wednesday, April 2nd @ Location One - 26 Greene Street (Soho, between Canal and Grand). There are more details on the Dorkbot site, and there’s also a Facebook event for those of you who are into that. 
We hope to see you there.
The commissions program has reached it’s deadline and our jury members are now busy going through the applications and picking their favorite ones. We will be announcing the winners in a § presentation we will be giving at the Dorkbot NYC event on April 2nd. Come meet us there.
Hi there,
we have decided to give you guys (and ourselves) two extra weeks until the commissions program deadline.
The New Deadline: March 10th
We hope this gets the last submitters to conclude their application to their (and hopefully also the jury’s) satisfaction.
Anyway, if you’re ready with your application, do not hesitate to send it.
looking forward to your submissions,
the § team
§ is presented in the Transmediale festival in Berlin, but we could not make it there in person. We hope our friends there are enjoying their time and we’re happy to invite the Transmediale audience to try ShiftSpace in the festival and and stay with us as users. More news soon…
* In the picture: Ela from the Public Art Lab with the ShiftSpace display at Transmediale
We are glad to announce the first ShiftSpace Commissions program in collaboration with Turbulence.org in which 10 grants of up to $2000 will be awarded to ShiftSpace users developing new Spaces (meta-web applications) and Trails (information maps of Shifts). We will release the details of the new ShiftSpace API and the documentation in the coming week, until then check out the new commissions program site on Turbulence.org
or watch the video:
We’re in Montreal, where we’ll be presenting ShiftSpace on Friday Oct 19th, and giving a workshop on Saturday the 20th. (more details) HTMLles is a ‘Media Art and Networked Practices’ festival with a Feminist agenda, and we’re the only boy-band in the program (haha).
We would love to see you at the presentation and even more in the workshop which will be using ShiftSpace release 0.10 - featuring Trails (!) (which is still waiting for its own screencast for us to actually “officially” announce its release, though many of you already noticed and updated by now).
See you soon in Montreal!
cheers,
Dan & Mushon
This is kind of last minute, but I’m going to be speaking tomorrow (Saturday) at OneWebDay New York. OneWebDay is kind of like Earth Day for the Internet. I’ll be giving the first in a series of presentations at ITP (721 Broadway, 4th floor). The talks go from 12pm until 2:30 or so, and then there’s a festival happening at Washginton Square Park. Hope to see you there!
Also, here is my slide deck, in Keynote 2008 and QuickTime formats.
Conflux is a psychogeography festival based in Brooklyn. Last year we presented ShiftSpace in the 2006 festival. This year we’re actually making a case for online psychogeography by offering a § workshop based on our new release candidate for § 0.10 featuring Trails (!). That shift mapping feature we’ve been talking about in presentation for a long time is almost ready for release… Come check us out on Sunday from 11am-12:30pm at:
Luna Lounge
361 Metropolitan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718.384.7112
http://lunalounge.com
The workshop will attempt to lay out how information architecture manipulates our perception of reality and to question that through an online derive - drift through information, challenged through shifts and mapped through trails. we will go from paper-mode to online-mode and just enjoy a new critical approach to browsing the web. And in the spirit of Conflux hopefully have it reflect back on the way we’re browsing the city.
Make sure to check out the fascinating Conflux schedule, it’s going to be an amazing festival and it seems to just get better every year. See you all there.
