MICHAEL MANDIBERG

Michael was a Resident in Eyebeam's R+D OpenLab in 2007. This year, as a Fellow, he has continued his work on Firefox plug-ins and web applications that highlight the real environmental costs of a global economy. His current projects include the groundbreaking textbook Digital Foundations: an Intro to Media Design that teaches formal principles through design software, HowMuchItCosts.us, a car direction site that incorporates the financial and carbon cost of driving, and Real Costs, a browser plug-in that inserts carbon footprints into airplane travel & car directions websites. He is an assistant professor at the College of Staten Island/CUNY and lives in, and rides his bicycle around, Brooklyn. http://Mandiberg.com

JON COHRS

Jon Cohrs is a recording engineer and visual/sound artist who lives in Brooklyn. He is the recipient of the 2009 Futuresonic Art Award for his Oil Prospecting project, which harnesses old metal detectors and hydrocarbon cells to search urban environments for potential wealth. Through residencies, installations, and performances at I-Park, Banff New Media Institute, Futuresonic, and Eyebeam, his work has focused on exploring technology and it's connection with wilderness through his documentary The Door to Red Hook: Backpacking through Brooklyn, his website ANewF*ckingWilderness.com, and the Oil Prospector. Using a TV transmitter at Eyebeam this spring, Jon will attempt to invert traditional television programming and replace it with user generated and pirated content which will address the evolution of media, fan based culture, copyrights, and discussions on bandwidth allocation. http://splnlss.com | http://spleenlessmastering.com

YAEL KANAREK

Yael is an honorary fellow at Eyebeam. She has worked with Eyebeam over the years on multiple projects as a teaching artist and R&D fellow. She developed several programs including Circuit and founded Upgrade! - an international network that fosters dialog and collaboration in the culture and technology field. www.theupgrade.net Since 1995, She has been developing World of Awe with a growing body of works and collaborations in net art, photography, sculpture, literature, music and dance. All works share the narrative of a traveler who searches for a lost treasure in a parallel world called Sunset/Sunrise. Yael showed her work in museums and galleries around the world including Whitney Biennial, SFMOMA and the Jewish Musuem. World of Awe was written about in the New York Times, among many other publications. Yael is represented by bitforms gallery in New York and Nelly Aman in Tel Aviv. www.treasurecrumbs.com | www.worldofawe.net

AYAH BDEIR

Ayah Bdeir is an artist, engineer and interaction designer. She graduated from the MIT Media Lab with a Masters of Media Arts and Sciences after studying Computer & Communication Engineering and Sociology in the American University of Beirut. With an upbringing between Lebanon, Canada and the United States, Bdeir’s work uses technology to look at cross cultural dialogue and media representation of the Middle East and its identities. Her work spans a range of mediums including interactive installations, electronic fashion, gadgets, reactive furniture, and has been published and exhibited in conferences, festivals and galleries in Amsterdam, Paris, New York, Rhode Island, Boston, Sao Paolo and others. http://www.ayahbdeir.com

STEVE LAMBERT

Eyebeam senior fellow Steve Lambert has built an arcade game from scratch, temporarily renamed Bush Street in San Francisco, closed every McDonald's in Manhattan, and founded the Anti-Advertising Agency. His most recent project replaces advertising online with art images. Steve's projects and artworks have won awards from Rhizome/The New Museum, the Creative Work Fund, Adbusters Media Foundation, and others. His work has appeared in publications including the New York Times, Punk Planet, and Newsweek. Steve currently teaches at Parsons/The New School and Hunter College. http://www.visitsteve.com

JEFF CROUSE

Eyebeam Senior Fellow Jeff Crouse creates software and installations that are equal parts humor, absurdity and technology. Jeff's previous work includes YouThreebe, a YouTube triptych creator; Invisible Threads, a virtual jeans factory in Second Life; and James Chimpton, a robotic monkey that interviewed the artists of the 2008 Whitney Biennial. He is currently developing BoozBot, a bar tending robot/puppet; and DeleteCity, a Wordpress plug-in that finds and republishes content that has been taken down from sites such as Flickr and YouTube. His work has been shown at the Sundance Film Festival, the Futuresonic festival in Manchester, UK, the DC FilmFest, and the Come Out and Play Festival in Amsterdam. http://www.jeffcrouse.info

CHRISTINA KRAL

Christina Kral joined Eyebeam as a summer resident. She is an artist and designer based in Amsterdam and is excited to tell video based narratives, capture the instant on video, in sound and written form and blending reality with fiction. http://christinakral.net and christinakral.wordpress.com

DAVID JIMISON

As a fellow in the Production Lab, David focuses on diversions to urban living and infrastructures. Projects include a robot bartender, a police monitoring social network, madlib karaoke, and many parties and games. David is a Digital Media PhD candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology where he founded, and for 3 years, led research in the Mobile Technologies Group. David has exhibited his art work internationally and has been published in several IEEE and ACM publications. http://davidjimison.com

FRIEDRICH KIRSCHNER

Friedrich joined Eyebeam as a fellow in the Production Lab. He is a filmmaker, visual artist, and board member of the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences. Friedrich has mainly focused on creating open-source digital puppetry and animation software and occasionally spreads out into the physical realm, where he uses milk, ink or Pepsi to 3D-scan model robots in his kitchen or people's bodies in Eyebeam's commons space. http://www.zeitbrand.de

ANDREA POLLI

Andrea Polli's electronic media works explore global systems and human experience. She often collaborates with atmospheric and climate scientists. Recent works include: a series of sonifications of projected climate change in Central Park and real-time, multi-channel sonifications and visualizations of Arctic weather changes and urban air quality. Polli recently spent seven weeks in Antarctica on a National Science Foundation funded project. http://andreapolli.com/

JAMIE O'SHEA

Eyebeam alum Jamie O'Shea's work is about the boundary between language and technology. Ideas of utility conceal the fact that what a machine means is more important than what it does. O'Shea plays various hapless characters, from inventor to nationalist, in relationship to sculptural non technologies. Flightless but flammable rockets, inert medications, bottled water and smells, mechanical beds and others are experiments in covert mythology. His goals are often nearly impossible, but failure is a fertile circumstance. Language will always be the most powerful technology. Since graduating from Bard College in 2003, his work has have been shown work at Exit Art, Eyebeam, Galapagos, the Capital Center for the Arts in Troy, New York, the Bemis Underground in Omaha Nebraska, and the Museum of Ephemerata in Austin, Texas. He has participated in the Bemis center residency and the LMCC's swing space. His work has appeared in the Conflux festival, Rhizome, Rocketboom, Art in America, We make money not art, the FutureLab, Sputnik, Stephen Shore's Witness, NPR's Studio 360, Neural IT, Turbulence, Dorkbot, Microsoft's channel 10, Engadget, Tech Digest, the Berkeley film festival, the Bent Festival, and Versionfest.