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.

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