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Data Viz Challenge

We give you the numbers; you make them speak to us.

Every year, Americans fill out income tax forms and make their payments to the IRS. It’s an important civic duty, but do we really know where our tax dollars go? Using data provided byWhatWePayFor.com, Eyebeam challenges you to create data visualizations that make it easier and more interesting for taxpayers to understand just how the government spends our money.

Our expert jury will be awarding $10,000 – including $5,000 for the top interactive web application, graphic, or video submitted by an individual or a team. All winners will be featured on DataVizChallenge.org, the Official Google Blog, Eyebeam.org, and Fast Company’s design blog, Co.Design. You must be a U.S. resident and 18 years of age to be eligble for an award. Entries are due midnight, March 27, 2011; winners are announced on Tax Day, April 18.

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Data Viz Challenge

Projects: Data Visualization, Motion Graphics, Public Art, Software, Web, Writing and Publishing
People: Aaron Koblin, Aaron Meyers, Amanda McDonald Crowley, Brooke Singer, Edward Lee, Mark Shepard, Sia Shin, Stephanie Pereira
Tags: api, challenge, Data Visualization, data viz, datavizchallenge.org, google, SkillShare

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Data Viz Challenge: Skillshare

Designers, developers, journalists, artists: Get a head start on your entry for the Data Viz Challenge! Join Eyebeam to get seasoned advice in a skillshare led by George Michael Brower and Jono Brandel (designers, Google Creative Lab), Aaron Meyers (Eyebeam Fellow and interactive media designer), and Evan You (designer of Internet Censorship). Over the course of the afternoon, we will check out examples of great visualizations, dig into the WhatWePayFor.com data set and API documentation, and discuss ideas for telling compelling visual stories about our taxes. This skillshare is for anyone with a minimum level of data viz experience.

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Data Viz Challenge: Skillshare

Projects: Data Viz Challenge
People: Aaron Meyers, Brooke Singer, Mark Shepard
Research: Education
Tags: api, challenge, Data Visualization, data viz, datavizchallenge.org, google, SkillShare

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Announcing 2011 Fellows and Winter/Spring Residents!

Taeyoon Choi, Object of Desire

Eyebeam congratulates the recipients of its 2011 Fellowships and Winter/Spring Residencies! Twelve media artists and creative technologists will soon begin work at our state-of-the-art design and fabrication labs in urban gaming, activism and technoscience, sound/video installation, technology and the body, sonic ecology, and contemporary network culture. They will join continuing Fellows Aaron Meyers, Brooke Singer, Jacob Ciocci, Jon Cohrs, and Kaho Abe as well as Student Residents.
2011 Fellows: Fran Ilich, Nova Jiang, Taeyoon Choi (starting in March); Mark Shepard, Mary Mattingly (starting in summer)
Winter/Spring 2011 Residents: Amelia Marzec, Andrew Demirjian, Beatriz da Costa, Bundith Phunsombatlert, Maria Michails, Nick Hornby, Toby Heys

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Announcing 2011 Fellows and Winter/Spring Residents!

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MIXER: Past Futures

MIXER, Eyebeam’s quarterly showcase for audiovisual performance and interactive art, goes back to the future – to the dawn of the imagined internet.
MIXER: Past Futures transforms Eyebeam’s vast West Chelsea space into an immersive environment combining video, music, design, and fashion from an era when 16-bit video games, 28k modems, and Roland TB-303s were at the cutting edge of technology and creativity. MIXER: Past Futures evokes the spirit of both early internet theories and its early graphic style, suggesting an alternate version of our own current reality, conjuring what was and what never came to be.

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MIXER: Past Futures

People: Aaron Meyers, David Jimison, Fever Creative, Mark Essen, Mean Red, Ryder Ripps, Thunder Horse Video
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Introduction to Sound Art & Electronic Music

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Eyebeam Fellow Taeyoon Choi, in collaboration with The Public School New York and various artists, presents a multi-week class exploring sound art and electronic music.
Each week will be led by a different artist, and the class will culminate in a performance and interactive presentation. Participating artists - Mike Clemow, Jamie Allen, Travis Houldcroft, Roddy Schrock, Taeyoon Choi, and Jackson Moore - will workshop topics in field recording, circuit bending, diy instrument building, sound walks, performance and composition. Software explored will include Audacity, Max, Pd, SuperCollider, and more.

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Introduction to Sound Art & Electronic Music