The Writing’s on the Wall. (The Writing’s Off the Wall.) An article in Sunday Times City section by Joshua Yaffa

A picture of Michelle Kempner's knitted police tape was featured on the cover of Craft Magazine Volume 4 with the pattern and additional pictures inside.

Graffiti Research Lab appears in Wired Play. Graffiti Goes LED

As part of the festivities at Ars Electronica, the GRL went out train bombing with LED throwies.

TIme Out NY included a photo spread of GRL projection bombing on the corner of Howard and Broadway in Soho.

GRL featured in the Time Magazine Innovators section.

Graffiti Reseach Lab is featured in the New York Times. Grafitti by the (Extensively Analyzed) Numbers by Geeta Dayal

Ars Elctronica announced that Graffiti Research Lab won the Award of Distinction in the Interactive Art category at the 2006 Ars Electronica.

LED Throwies appeared on the cover of Make Magazine Volume 6 with a how-to inside on page 116.

The Graffiti Research Lab visited the first Maker Faire in San Mateo. The GRL, with help from Todd Polenberg, Huong Ngo, and Michelle, bought a 1974 bus and painted it with a Geek mural. Maker Faire was April 22-23 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds.

Inside Out Life Story continues with the 2006 Get Your Guts in Gear ride for Crohn's Disease & Colitis. Visit the GYGIG page to learn more about the ride, see pictures of last year's ride and support the cause.

A Village Voice article came out profiling Instructables and LED Throwies. The Village Voice article, DIY.org by Julian Dibbell, can be found here.

James Powderly joined forces with Eyebeam fellow to form Graffiti Research Labs. They release the instructions and video for LED Throwies.

In Issue 05 of Make Magazine, Douglas Repetto wrote an article called "Re-Booting Art" about Artbots the Robot Talent Show. The article included a picture of the Wildflower Meadow Glacier that we presented at Artbots '04.

James and Michelle attended Gadgetoff 2005. Together they presented information about Inside Out Life Story and then James presented footage of the first electro-graf created the night before.

Holiday Hackshop 2006
Dec. 3, 12-6pm

Just in time for holiday gift giving, create your own DIY gifts and learn technology skills with Eyebeam artists as they turn our Chelsea exhibition space into Santa's workshop and laboratory.

Take part in:
- Solar Powered Noisemakers/Instruments with Morgan Barnard - Build a personal audio device with an audio circuit, solar panel, a low power timer chip, a few resistors and capacitors and a speaker.
- Wireless LED Ornaments with Giana Gonzalez - Create holiday ornaments, menorahs and more using LED lights and circuit breadboards.
- Holiday Green Screen Magic! with Antonio Lopez - Use Eyebeam's green screen to create holiday inspired snowglobes, portraits and cards.
- Toy Car Hack and Obstacle Course with Federico Muelas - Learn to rewire and reprogram toy cars using Basic Stamp microcontrollers to navigate through the HolidayLand Obstacle Course.
- Carol Mash-Up with Daniel Perlin - Mix, mash and burn your own holiday tunes.
- Laser Cut Stencils with Robot Clothes - Design and laser cut your own stencils for holiday turf tagging, t-shirts, street art and activism.

Scheduled workshops and drop-in projects are available on a first come, first serve basis and each costs $5-20 including materials.

For a schedule and more information on workshops, participating artists or to view a short movie from the Holiday Hackshop 2005 please visit http://www.eyebeam.org/engage/engage.php?page=unique&id=86

James heads - Brett Klisch & James Powderly James robot skin - Brett Klisch & James Powderly download high res image David Hanson robot Hanson's Einstein with Hubo Walking robot download high res image Harvey Pekar by various artists Paul McCarthy, Mechanical Pig, 2005 - animatronics by David Kindlon download high res image

Schedule: 12-2pm Exhibition of work by Robot Clothes and panel participants 2- 3:30pm Public design review of Robot Clothes’ Inside Out Life Story 4-6pm Panel hosted by Robot Clothes Panelists: David Hanson, David Kindlon, Harvey Pekar & Joyce Brabner, Sal Restivo & Robot Clothes (Michelle Kempner and James Powderly) Collaborators/Artists: Dustyn Roberts, Seth Frader-Thompson, Tom Kennedy, Sameer Kapoor, Todd Polenberg, Jessica Findley, Jim Kempner, Brett Klisch, Mike DeFeo The concepts and tools of AI, human-computer interaction and situationally-aware machines and mechanisms continue to move further from the realm of science-fiction and government labs and into the hands of artists, musicians, writers, scientists and DIY enthusiasts. As this happens robots and new media are being used to redefine artistic mediums and create highly-personal expressions. Automated Biography is a creative technology symposium exploring the role of technology in the conception of autobiographical and biographical artworks. Selected robotic artworks and works in progress will be exhibited and discussed. The panel and group discussion will introduce several examples of alternative uses of technology and media to explore illness, identity, politics and life in the margins of culture. The panel at 540 West 21st Street is open to the public with a suggested don! ation of $5. Robot Clothes is an art and commercial research and development partnership, Their commercial clients, include fortune 100 companies, NASA and internationally renowned artists, such as Diller + Scofidio and Miranda July. Their artworks and collaborations with artist have been exhibited at the Whitney, PS1, The Sculpture Center, Artbots and MOMA Queens. James Powderly helped develop the Rock Abrasion Tool currently on Mars. Since graduating from RISD, David Hanson has worked as a designer, sculptor and robotics developer in the entertainment industry for clients including Walt Disney Imagineering, Universal Studios and MTV. His robotics have won numerous awards and his technical papers have been published internationally. To see high resolution images of Hanson’s robots, please turn to Human-Robot.org. http://www.portfolios.com/DavidHanson Cleveland, Ohio native Harvey Pekar is best known for his autobiographical slice-of-life comic book series "American Splendor", a first-person account of Pekar’s downtrodden life. The series has been published since 1976. In 1987, Pekar was honored with the American Book Award and in 2001 the series 25th anniversary was celebrated with a special issue. Pekar also collaborated with his wife, Joyce Brabner, on a book-length autobio comic "Our Cancer Year." http://www.harveypekar.com/ Starting his career as a mechanical designer of puppets, David Kindlon has since moved onto animatronics. Working in the film industry Kindlon has worked on such major features as Predator, A.I, I, Robot, Godzilla and Day of the Dead. For the last two years he has been working with artist Paul McCarthy, building robust robotic mechanisms to animate McCarthy’s work. Dr. Sal Restivo is Professor of Sociology and Science Studies in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Trained and educated in sociology, anthropology, social psychology, and history, he is a "social theorist" and specializes in social studies of science, mathematics, and mind. He has won numerous awards and fellowships for his research. http://www.rpi.edu/dept/sts/faculty/biosketches/restivo.html

James Powderly begins a year as an Eyebeam Open Lab Fellow.

2005-06 R&D Fellows
We're please to welcome the inaugural group of R&D Fellows into the Open Lab, Eyebeam's new space dedicated to public domain R&D with code released under GPL, content distributed under Creative Commons and hardware released with DIY instructions.

Ben Engebreth comes to Eyebeam from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Cal Tech where he worked on trajectory optimization for spacecraft. Before JPL, Ben received a masters of science in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Colorado. Ben has recently begun applying his programming and data analysis skills to the development of socially beneficial web projects including the carpool site Pooln and Housing Tracker.

Limor Fried is a recent graduate of the MIT Media Lab where she earned a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. For her thesis, Limor developed and built subversive electronic devices, including a pair of glasses that darken whenever television is in view and a jamming device that disables other people's annoying cell phone conversations at the press of a button. She releases much of her work in the form of DIY kits or instruction sets, including persistence of vision displays for bikes, a home brew synthesizer and a game Grrl portable Nintendo.

James Powderly has a master degree from NYU's ITP program and comes to Eyebeam from Honeybee Robotics, where he has worked as a director of technology development, applications engineer and lab foreman since 2002. At Honeybee, James developed technology for NASA's mars rover that is currently on the surface of the red planet and engineered an installation for the Architects Diller + Scofidio that was shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art. James has previously worked at Eyebeam as an artist-in-resident, he is a partner in RobotClothes and the co-founder of the Robotics Society of America New York City Chapter.

Evan Roth is a recent MFA graduate from the Design Technology department at Parsons where he was his class valedictorian. He is the creator of Graffitti Analysis video, a project that uses motion tracking, computer vision technology, and a custom C++ application to record and analyze a graffiti writer's pen movement over time. Evan's media experiments also include Explicit Content Only, Postal Lables Against Bush video, and Graffiti Taxonomy.

Read more about the Open Lab at reblog.

Starting July 24th and lasting two weeks, Robot Clothes will be the reBloggers at http://www.eyebeam.org/reblog/.

July 19th and 20th, Robot Clothes will be teaching Pocket Workshops to high school students as part of Eyebeam's Digital Day Camp program. This year's theme is wearables. On the 20th, Robot Clothes will lead a more advanced workshop for adults as part of the Summer School at Eyebeam program.

Eyebeam's calendar of events

Robot Clothes will be presenting work in progress at Eyebeam Artist in Residence Open Studios on Saturday July 16th from 1:00 to 5:00PM. At 4PM, we will have a Q&A session and present about our work.

Eyebeam is located at 540 W. 21st Street, (between 10th and 11th Avenues)

Robot Clothes has been selected for Eyebeam Atelier's Spring Artist in Residence program for the project Inside Out Life Story. During the residency, we will keep a laboratory blog tracking our developments and sharing source code.

Learn more about Eyebeam

An article about the RAT and our mission operations in Manhattan made it on the cover of the New York Times.

These days, when one of NASA's rovers drills a hole in a rock on Mars, the commands come from Lower Manhattan, from a second-floor office on Elizabeth Street, surrounded by dusted-off tenements.

This is a street where pushcarts once fed and dressed Italians just off the boat. Now its old storefronts are of-the-moment restaurants and stores, and the only trace of the neighborhood's immigrant past is in its name - NoLIta, North of Little Italy.

Above an Erica Tanov designer clothing shop, engineers at Honeybee Robotics built the drilling tools aboard the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, which landed some 200 million miles away on Mars in January. And it is from here that they tell the rovers where to drill.

Download the article

Robot Clothes played a role in developing this software, designed to track and map the distribution of email-based petitions.

ForwardTrack

As part of the Artbots: Robot Talent Show, Robot Clothes is exhibiting the Wildflower Meadow Glacier Robot. The Robot is designed to inchworm itself slowly like a glacier, track climate changes like temperature and CO2 levels, and represent this data in floral patterns planted in its wake.

The rest of the show should be very interesting, including our friends Jonah, Katherine, Daniel, Jeff, and the LEMUR team.

Wildflower Meadow Glacier Robot on Artbots site

Robot Clothes designed and built the elevator tracking and audio playback software/hardware for Miranda July's and Harold Fletcher's Whitney Installation in the 2004 Biennial.

http://www.usatoday.com/life/columnist/popcandy/2004-04-13-pop-candy_x.htm
http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/displays/whitney.php

It is easy to forget that the search for evidence of water in some form in the Martian past was the primary mission for the MER rovers, the Athena Instrument suite and the RAT. This news supports the possibility that Mars might have once been able to habor life.

http://mars.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?
op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=322&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

A big day in exploration history! A big day for Honeybee Robotics and Robot Clothes!

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4216413/

http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/opportunity_lands_040125.html

Working with Sabine Seymour of Moondial Inc, Robot Clothes designed and built the network technology embedded in a high-fashion snowboarding jacket.

http://mazine.ws/mazine/archive/000112.php

Paul Bartlett and Myself built this robot for Diller + Scofidio. It will be exhibited at the Whitney for the next three months.

http://www.whitney.org/information/press/96.html
http://www.arcspace.com/architects/DillerScofidio/aberrant_architectures/
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_10_91/ai_109667930
http://www.honeybeerobotics.com/wall_walker.html

Some smart conversation on one of Honeybee's most advanced concepts from slashdot.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/11/1214221

Robot Clothes designed and built three MP3 playing car alarms conceived by the artist Nina Katchadourian for her a series of exhibition entitled Natural Car Alarms. The first exhibition is at the opening of the MoMA Queens.

http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2002/july/car_alarm/
http://www.rhizome.org/print.rhiz?4815
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_2_41/ai_93213725

Robot Clothes will be building test hardware, creating operational software and working on the Mars Exploration Rover's (MER) Rock Abrasion Tool (RAT) Science Team for Honeybee Robotics. Here is an article on the RAT and the MER mission.

Sending RATs to Mars
NASA's RATs Go Roving on Mars