LAB MAG @ Eyebeam
I never went over to Eyebeam before and always meant to – and tonight, I did - though the show launching for LABMAG I saw was not that interesting to me.
This is a photo from outside the entrance to Eyebeam – it’s the best I could take as nothing much came out that I took inside – it was too dark inside – and even if I had been able to take pictures – the show going on was not engaging enough to me to really want to.
As Cezanne said (or someone said … I’m too exhausted to think clearly right now) – Art begins with an emotional response. Well….I did not have one tonight …. better luck next time – Eyebeam.
BTW, here’s the copy for the show I saw tonight.
“..  LAB MAG Launch, December 12, 2006
Eyebeam is please to host the launch of LAB MAG, a fluid Portable Document Format publication, which collects the work of artists, designers and writers.The launch format will include a series of presentations (beginning at 6:30PM) by architect Vito Acconci of Acconci Studio, experimental-poet Jena Osman, artist Adam Pendleton and design firm O-R-G. “
That’s about as much as I can tell you about tonight’s show at Eyebeam as I did not really spend much time at the gallery.
Hi Marshall,
I’m sorry you were disappointed with your experience at Eyebeam, but we hope you’ll come again. And while I can appreciate your comments, I’d like to clarify that the LAB MAG launch wasn’t an exhibition and it wasn’t Eyebeam programming.
Many people get confused walking into Eyebeam when they don’t always see a big, glossy, white-box, Chelsea-style exhibition. But Eyebeam is more than a gallery. We’re a non-profit art & technology center that supports artists and the creation of new work. Eyebeam conducts artists’ residencies, fellowships and commissions in our three lab environments: Production, Research & Development and Education. We do have exhibitions (largely of work produced by artists here) but we’re very interested in the production that goes on here and inviting the public to join in on that process through classes, workshops, talks, performances, online projects, public interventions and much more. And this occasionally includes hosting outside events from like-minded organizations such as the group who founded LAB MAG and the upcoming party celebrating Creative Commons 4th birthday.
While we understand if you didn’t have an immediate emotional response to the LAB MAG launch, it wasn’t intended to be a big, pretty exhibition that would immediately tug at your heartstrings. It was a reception to celebrate the launch of this new project, a PDF publication collecting the work of artists, designers and writers, with a number of innovative artists discussing their work and contributions to LAB MAG. While it might not have made for great pictures, it was pretty interesting event.
We hope next time you come by Eyebeam we have something more visually engaging for you to enjoy and that you have the chance to spend a little time and hopefully participate in the dialogue and process that goes on here.
Thanks,
Perry Lowe
Director of Communications
Eyebeam
By Perry on December 14th, 2006 at 9:25 pm