Invisible
Threads/Double Happiness Jeans Visit our virtual sweatshop in Second Life
and purchase a sassy pair of Double Happiness Jeans you can wear
in the real world.
Usernomics
1.0 Don't know what to do with all those old
computers? Try our hacktivist
workshop employing models of waste reclamation, recycling and reuse
to create unique game controllers!
School
of Perpetual Training Are working or playing? Learn how to earn
while you play as we investigate invisible labor and ewaste in
the global game industry.
The
Zero Hour Not sure about the buzzing in your backyard?
Neither was the city of Buffalo, New York.
Collective
Simulated Synaesthesia Are you vibrating at an "A" sharp or a "D"
flat? Learn how to sing your own tune through a new procedure that
uses the body's own frequencies to recalibrate its internal rhythm.
sub/merg/ency As globalization creates a more homogenous
and corporatized landscape, is it possible to carve out a space
of one's own? In conjunction with the Radiator Festival in Nottingham,
England.
Rethinking
Locative Media Suddenly find yourself lost and no GPS? Find
your way home with "Divine Cartography". All you need
is your faithful camera phone and some wire hangers.
Taylorism
and You: Personal Efficiency Strategies Wasting precious minutes thinking about how
to streamline your day? Fret no more. PAN-O-MATIC hits the streets
to find out how Americans maximize their time!
New
Spring Line: Rorschach goes to Walmart It dices and slices and fits conveniently
in your pocket. Still can't find exactly what you want
at the Sharper Image or the Personal Care aisle at Walmart? Our
latest market research puts a new twist on focus group studies.
Collective
Simulated Synaesthesia was part of "Mobile City" at Interaccess
Media Arts Centre in Toronto Sept 29-Dec 1, 2007. Images below of the opening
night at Toronto's "Nuit Blanche". www.interaccess.org
Dr.
Meal consults with participant on her frequency.
Dr. Currie instructs participant on how to sing his own
tune.
Dr. Meal compiles participant's final divine data mine report.
Double
Happiness Jeans premiered at the
2008 Sundance Film Festival
in Park City, Utah www.doublehappinessjeans.com
PAN-O-MATIC'S
latest collaboration with Eyebeam R&D Fellow Jeff
Crouse explores telematic manufacturing in Second Life with
the project "Invisible Threads". Working with a
team of highly trained technologists, real world customers
can order custom designed jeans that are virtually manufactured
in the Double Happiness factory on Eyebeam Island in Second
Life. After completing the production cycle the jeans are
output back into the real world via a large format printer.
After simple assembly the jeans are ready to be worn.
"Invisible Threads" at Sundance New Frontier, www.sundance.org
The First International Symposium on Smart Living Technologies,
Cross-Disciplinary Education,
and Sustainable Culture, Taipei, Taiwan
August 15-17, 2008 http://nightmarket.org/2008/group.htm
2008 Finger Lakes Environmental Film
Festival (FLEFF)
Visiting artist Stephanie Rothenberg ,Ithaca College, NY
March 31-April 6, 2008 http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff
Society
for Cinema & Media Studies Conference
Digital Games & Labor Panel
Sunday, March 9, 2008,12:00pm, Philadelphia
The School of Perpetual Training -a new project at Hallwalls, Buffalo,
NY as part of Beyond/In Western New York Regional Exhibition. On view in the
Hallwalls Cinema Sept 14-Oct 20, 2007 www.hallwalls.org
PAN-O-MATIC member Stephanie Rothenberg joined Eyebeam Atelier in NYC as a 2007
Artist-in-Residence. www.eyebeam.org
Usernomics 1.0 at 2007 CONFLUX, NYC. Saturday, Sept
15th from 11:00am-1:00pm at The Change You Want to See,
84 Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg. www.conflux.org
Usernomics 1.0 at 2007 Bent Festival, NYC. Saturday, April 28 at 12pm at Eyebeam. www.bentfestival.org
Tickets are $10 bucks donation but you can participate for FREE!