Eyebeam

"At the end of June, I’ll be moving on from Eyebeam after 10 years as executive director. It has been glorious, captivating, consuming, and profound. And I am so proud of the work that we accomplished.” Read Roddy Shrock’s message: eyebeam.org/message-from-r…

📚Read Eyebeam oral historian Cassie Packard's interview with Mashinka Firunts Hakopian, a member of the 2024 #TheDemocracyMachine cohort here: eyebeam.org/with-mashinka-…

“This practice focuses on embodied and practice-based forms of research, particularly those that emerge in community contexts. The project I’m doing as part of my Eyebeam Fellowship is working within that model, as well.” - Mashinka Firunts Hakopian

“They were shutting down art spaces and transforming them into spaces of knowledge-making in the service of collective resistance.” - Mashinka Firunts Hakopian

💾 Catch our oral historian, Cassie Packard’s interview featuring Chinese Eyebeam alum artist and 5th VH Award finalist, HE Zike, who relays her interest in finding how “personal and collective memory reside in technological infrastructures." 🖇️ link in bio 🖇️

Catch our oral historian’s interview featuring Taiwanese artist Su Hui-Yu, who describes his practice as boundary-crossing explorations adapting martial-law era national media into Queer-feminist cinematic reinterpretations. 🖇️ link in bio 🖇️

Catch Eyebeam’s interview with Alum Artist Torkwase Dyson who “abandoned painting, and…went to Eyebeam,” in 2014 where she worked in residence for two consecutive years, ultimately returning to drawing and painting. 🖇️link in bio 🖇️

Caption slide 3: Caitlin Cherry, ‘Miasma,’ 2019. Oil on Canvas. Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio. Courtesy of Luis De Jesus Los Angeles. Caption slide 4: Chris Dorland, ‘untitled (passive empire),’ 2024. Courtesy of the artist, @bladerenoir and Lyles & King, NY, @lylesandking.

✍️Check out the new drop on Feed, our content channel, written by art critic @briandroitcour. In this adventurous, lyrical essay, Droitcour surveys artists' use of painting’s historical foundation to examine emerging technologies. 🖇️Link in bio 🖇️

🖼️Caption slide 1: Andrew Woolbright, ‘Polymer Epoche (An Internet of Minor Aesthetics) Gets a William Blake Tattoo From Jamiroquai,’ 2024. Courtesy of the Artist.

Artists mentioned in Essay: Caitlin Cherry, Andrew Woolbright, Pieter Schoolwerth, Chris Dorland @bladerenoir, Amy Sillman, and Simon Denny @dennnnnnnnny.

@SVAcuratorial (Day 2) Participating artists and moderators include: @sahejrahal, members of the Cripping_CG collective, Nat Decker, Cielo Saucedo, and Olivia Dreisinger, @findingneema, Xiaowei Wang, Mashinka FIrunts Hakopian, and Tiara Roxanne.

🌷This spring, we present Eyebeam Exchange, a time-honored program series we are relaunching both on and offline to NYC in partnership with CP Projects Space at the MA Curatorial Practice Program at SVA (@SVAcuratorial)! RSVP at the links in the bio and comments!

@SVAcuratorial ✨TO JOIN US online on May 29: bit.ly/MAY29xchange. ASL & Captioning will be provided.

@SVAcuratorial Participating artists and moderators include: @kengchakaj & @nitchafame of elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ, Raul Enriquez of @commtechny, @miss__sammie, @samrabiyah, Begoo Collective, Benedetta Piantella, and Ariana Faye Allensworth.

@SVAcuratorial ✨TO JOIN US in person at CP Projects Space in NYC on May 22: bit.ly/MAY22sva. ASL & Captioning will be provided. Masking for the in-person event is strongly encouraged to protect community members and will be provided at the door. Thx to @SVAcuratorial!

Catch Cassie Packard’s interview featuring Eyebeam alum, artist, and community manager of openFrameworks (@openframeworks) Kyle Mcdonald (@kcimc) 🖇️bit.ly/kmdinterview🖇️

CATALYST invites us to question the role and responsibilities of our cultural institutions, as well as whom these spaces represent and serve. The original 2023 virtual exhibition feat. on @epoch_gallery has been updated specifically for the pop-up exhibition LEDGIBLE currently live at MOMA PS1 @MoMAPS1. 🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE. CATALYST is a virtual exhibition by seven internationally celebrated artists with their works embedded in a speculative 3D model of LACMA’s forthcoming building. ✊🏽

Catch Cassie Packard's interview featuring the worldbuilding, art & research practice duo, Zzyw @compute_obj at bit.ly/zzyw. You can also watch the full length of the short film at bit.ly/OtherSpring-zz….

@Dannysonfire @epoch_gallery honestly same <3

Catch our oral historian’s interview featuring LA-based artist Peter Wu+ of @epoch_gallery @ bit.ly/peterwu! Also, check out ‘Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement: A COSMIC MOVIE CAMERA’ currently featured on epoch.gallery. 💫