If I were to create an interactive digital exhibition I would call it “Slipping Through The Cracks” and it  would be about me, technophonbia and adaptation. Don’t get me wrong. I love technology but somehow I always ended up getting by with a paper and pen instead of a keyboard and code.  As my interest in technology grows, I see what’s out there and I see there is so much possibility.  The number of people working on interesting projects combining art, video, technology and gadgetry continues to grow.

Thanks to the good folks over at EYEBEAM, I can get a look at what some of these artists are working on this weekend. Maybe I can even have them explain things to me really really slowly.

EYEBEAM OPEN STUDIOS

Date: Fri., October 23 + Sat., October 24, 2009 | 3–6PM
Location: Eyebeam, 540 W. 21s

Eyebam is pleased to host Open Studios for its 2009 Senior Fellows, Resident Artists, and Student Residents at Eyebeam’s state-of-the-art design, research, and fabrication studio; showcasing video performance, wearable technologies, code and humor, party technology, and sustainablity design. This two-day presentation at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center will allow a rare, inside look at current research. Guided tours of artists’ work will be given every hour from 3–6PM.

Interested in the role technology is playing in the arts?  If you answer is YES please keep reading. 

Arts, Culture and Technology Meetup group is putting on an event July 23rd 6pm at Roger Smith Hotel (501 Lexington) that is focus on Mobile Technology and the Arts.  The event with cover everything from interactive mobile design theory, to iPhone apps, to Twitter/SMS interactive initiatives, and more.

The list of presenters is as follows:

1. Koven Smith - Senior Analyst for Enterprise Content Management for the Metropolitan Museum of Art 
Koven will be giving a brief talk based on his recent paper, “The Future of Mobile Interpretation.”

2. Peter Nofelt - Co-founder of Perk Mobile, a New York based mobile consulting and development firm that focuses primarily on Blackberry, Android and iPhone development. Peter also organized last year’s MobileCampNYC3 event hosted by Microsoft. He will be speaking about the options available for people/arts orgs/companies entering the mobile space.

3. Jeffrey Inscho - Media and Public Relations Coordinator at the Mattress Factory Art Museum 
Jeffrey will be talking about the museum’s MFSCREENtxt project and how they are using insight from this initiative in designing an iPhone app.

4. Untravel Media - Michael Epstein, founder and creative director of Untravel Media will be talking about documentary storytelling on mobile devices. Some of the concepts can be found in his recent paper “Moving Story.”

5. Sonali Sridhar - Sonali is an artist whose work explores wireless devices in urban spaces. She uses mobile technology and hardware to “create objects that carry a narrative in them.” Some of her previous works have used GPS modules, Bluetooth, and mobile hacking techniques. You can read more about her work here: http://sonalisridhar….

Additional details: 
- Doors open at 7pm, presentations will begin promptly at 7:30pm 
- Each speaker will give an 8 minute presentation followed by 2 minutes for Q&A 
- There will be a networking session after the presentations 
- There will be a CASH bar. Please bring cash.

Watch this video!

or if that doesn’t work copy and paste. 

http://www.livestream.com/nytechmeetup/ondemand/pla_8311655718339990062?initthumburl=http://mogulus-user-files.s3.amazonaws.com/chnytechmeetup/2009/07/07/ca345458-38e7-43ce-b73e-a1910b2ad1ed_380.jpg&playeraspectwidth=4&playeraspectheight=3

Sorry I neglected to include this in my first post.

So I finally made it to one of the NY Tech Meetups (it only took 4 months). Although I missed the first presentation and I have an overall rule that maximum time for any event with speakers should not exceed 90 mins, it was pretty good.  So what were some of the highlights?

Zagat’s new NEAR YOU (NU) APP which is an augmented reality mobile tool that gives you the location and stats of restaurants within a 360 degrees of where you’re standing! Actually, I really need to get in touch with these guys. If they can make an adjustment and add the ability to bookmark restaurants of interest while you are passing by, for use the next time your in that neighborhood, that would just be the best thing since the Internet. 

I also enjoyed the Irainian Technologist  that talked about his first hand account of the Iranian Election and the Irianian Government. His short last minute presentation was awesome. Unfortunately for me, I had no pen and my phone died so I couldn’t write down his information. BUT I will track it down and update!

Lastly, as much as I hate online ads (sorry advertisers) but the folks over at SpongeCell have created a new way to attract online revenue and sales. Straight from their website here’s the info “SpongeCell is a rich media technology that converts engagement to participation. It helps advertisers increase ROI (or RO Engagement) by creating ads that make it easy for messages to flow into calendars, mobile devices, social networks and email inboxes right from the ad unit. By offering more options than just a click through to move past engagement, Spongecell increases the yield from each impression.”