EdLab Digital Arts Residency Underway

The EdLab Digital Art Residency (EDAR), hosted at the Gottesman Libraries (Teachers College, Columbia University), has invited three digital artists to join EdLab this summer. EDAR explores the ability of creative projects to challenge the Teachers College community to engage in and reflect on the impact of digital culture. EDAR residents work onsite at EdLab and exhibit their work and process to the Teachers College and Columbia University community.

Residents were selected from an open call for proposals. EdLab invited a diverse committee to review proposals, including:

* Doug Beacom - Video Producer, EdLab
* Olga Hubard - Assistant Professor of Art Education, Teachers College
* Michael Mandiberg - Senior Fellow, Eyebeam; Assistant Professor, Dept of Media Culture, College of Staten Island/City University of New York
* Liz Slagus - Innovator in Residence for Art and Technology, State Library of Queensland, Australia
* Lalitha Vasudevan - Assistant Professor of Technology and Education, Teachers College

Dan Torop is a Brooklyn-based visual artist experimenting in photography and programming. His past digital works include a physics-based simulation of ocean movement, and a computer programmed to continuously compose and speak poetry. He earned his MFA from the Yale School of Art, was a resident at Eyebeam in New York City in 2008 and was one of Departures magazine's 'Eight Under 40' photographers to know. He suggests library database searches can be a multisensory experience, and plans to investigate audio and visual representations of connected collections and archives housed at the Gottesman Libraries.
http://dantorop.info/

Jeff Goldenson is an artist, architect, and designer of digital experiences. He received a Masters from the MIT Media Laboratory in 2007, where he was a member of the Speech + Mobility Group, and a BA from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Princeton. His architectural achievements include collaboration on American Apparel's first seven New York-area stores. He is a co-founder of vSpace, a VoIP teleconferencing software currently in its alpha stage. His recent works include Coin-Op, an experimental coin-operated world, and Beat Browser, an audio software program for music browsing. Inspired by Google's Street View, he has proposed an online interface for browsing the contents of the Gottesman Libraries catalog.
http://www.buildingways.com/

Dan Paluska is an artist and engineer focused on robotics, visual media, and open source technology. He has BS, MS and ABD from MIT in Mechanical Engineering, where he co-founded the CollisionCollective, a series of art and technology events. He has collaborated with numerous artists and engineers on large scale robotic installations including a 10,000 pound, 55 ft tall abstract transformer for Citroen in Paris. He plans to interface with the Teachers College community to investigate possibilities for freeing access to library holdings, including physical and virtual depictions of library searches and the flow of information.
http://plainfront.com/

EdLab is a design, research, and development unit located within the Gottesman Libraries. The EdLab Media Design team is proud to host the second annual EDAR program as part of its mission to engage audiences in education research and technology through art and design.