EdLab Digital Artists in Residence Fall Exhibition

Oct. 20, 2009

Type: event
Location: New York
Starts: Dec 18 2009 at 12:00AM
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EdLab, the design and research arm of the Gottesman Libraries (Teachers College, Columbia University), hosted four artists during the summer of 2009 as part of the EdLab Digital Arts Residency program (EDAR). EDAR explores the ability of creative projects to challenge the Teachers College community and engage and reflect on the impact of digital culture. EDAR artists worked onsite and in the community developing digital projects that use the library as a source of inspiration. Three artists' interactive exhibits have been installed in the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College and will be on display through the end of the Fall 2009 semester. A fourth will continue to stage events on campus and throughout New York throughout that time.

Dan Torop
Ashley is Dan Torop's screen-based installation which speaks knowledge from the Gottesman Libraries. Programmed to read the least popular "popular" searches from the libraries' online card catalogue as well as excerpts from selected library holdings, Ashley reveals the collective subconscious of library users.

Jeff Goldenson
Stack View takes inspiration from Google Street View to allow users to browse the library stacks virtually. Goldenson contends that libraries are designed for browsing; Stack View migrates this experience online by enabling serendipitous digital discoveries of physical materials.

Dan Paluska
Broadcaster is Dan Paluska's is a video booth that encourages communal documentation. Designed with the library in mind, the one-button booth allows library patrons to record their feedback, commentary, or thoughts in a fixed physical space for immediate, public, and virtual publication on YouTube.

Christina Kral
Fabulous Agitation is Christina Kral's "portable platform of art, liberation, food and exchange." Hosting mini-residencies and pop-up events at Teachers College and beyond, Kral promotes creative education through dynamic, ad-hoc exchanges.

For more information about the artists, links to their work, and installation photographs, visit the EdLab website at http://www.edlab.tc.columbia.edu.

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The second annual EDAR residency was funded in part by the Eugene E. Myers Charitable Trust.