EYEBEAM Visit Nov. 29

We will be leaving from school at 2pm, or you can meet us at Eyebeam at 2:45pm: 540 W. 21st Street, (between 10th and 11th Avenues)

Video Games Are Their Major, So Don't Call Them Slackers

NY Times / SETH SCHIESEL
MAKING ARTISTS: Joystick U.
Articles in this series are examining the professional training of artists across a range of disciplines.

Visiting Artist Terrence Masson

Since founding his own consulting company Digital Fauxtography Inc. in
1994 Terrence has built and led teams ranging in size from six to sixty.
Major studio collaborations have included founding positions at The
Trumbull Company (1992), Digital Domain (1993) and Warner Brothers
(1994), consulting to Sony Pictures Imageworks (1995) and Dreamworks
(2003) and two tours at Industrial Light + Magic (1991 and 1996-2000).
Terrence also created the original CG animation and rendering techniques
to launch South Park the television series in 1996. As an independent VFX
Supervisor and Senior Technical Director he has contributed to over 20
major film projects including Fantastic Four, Hook, True Lies, The
Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition, Spawn, Batman Forever, Small Soldiers
and Star Wars Episode I: Phantom Menace.

UN Debut for $100 Laptop for Poor

A prototype of a cheap and robust laptop for pupils has been welcomed as an "expression of global solidarity" by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

Videodrome

When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation. Starring James Woods and Deborah Harry in one of her first film roles, Videodrome is one of writer/director David Cronenberg’s most original and provocative works, fusing social commentary with shocking elements of sex and violence. With groundbreaking special effects makeup by Academy Award®-winner Rick Baker, Videodrome has come to be regarded as one of the most influential and mind-bending science fiction films of the 1980s.

Visiting Artist Michael Joaquin Grey

Michael Joaquin Grey is an artist, designer, inventor and entrepreneur. His popular educational toy ZOOB has won honors from ID Magazine, Consumer Reports, Dr. Toy, Family Life Magazine, Astra and the American Toy Institute. Designed by Grey, ZOOB merges genetic engineering with Tinker Toys. As an artist, Grey has exhibited internationally and won Ars Electronica's Golden Nica Award. He is in the collections of museums including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Walker Art Center, MOCA, Los Angeles, and The Art Institute of Chicago. Grey has served on the boards of Zero One, ATC and Eyebeam Atelier, among others. His current work investigates synesthetic cinema and computational filmmaking.

Pixar at MOMA

Pixar: 20 Years of Animation
December 14, 2005–February 6, 2006
Film and Media Gallery, Titus 1 Lobby Gallery, Titus 2 Lobby Gallery, and throughout the first floor

In keeping with the Museum’s long tradition of presenting animation, this is the most extensive gallery exhibition that MoMA has ever devoted to the genre. Featuring over 500 works of original art on loan for the first time from Pixar Animation Studios, the show includes paintings, concept art, sculptures, and an array of digital installations. These works reveal the intricate, hands-on processes behind Pixar’s computer-generated films—including Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars, and numerous shorts. The exhibition also includes a complete retrospective of Pixar films. Demonstrating the symbiotic relationship between traditional and digital media pioneered by the studio over its twenty-year history, Pixar: 20 Years of Animation is a tribute to the artists whose work has reinvented the genre


I think the really exciting part about this show will be the inclusion of concept art and physical character models as well as shorts by John Lasseter.