Hosting a Core Conversation as part of South by Southwest Festival – Interactive entitled: Growing Global Movements: Technology and the New Arab Identity with Jon Philips and CelineCelines
Announcing the release of the Open Hardware Definition v1.0 endorsed by hundreds of companies, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts
Participating in Future Outlook Roundtable at TEI Conference with colleagues from Samsung Design, HUGE, Buglabs, Microsoft Research and others
Running a competition and producing a commissioned piece for the first Projection Mapping event in the Middle East: UFA 3D Mapping Event. The show saw over 15,000 attendees in historic Martyrs’ Square over the course of 6 nights and aired on national television.
Giving a talk in India as part of INK Conference in Association with TED as one of 20 named INK fellows for 2011
Mentionned in Bloomberg’s Open Hardware Article
Debuting as a mentor on Stars of Science, the first reality TV show devoted to promoting science, technology and innovation in the Middle East. The show airs on over 15 chanels throughout the Arab World and online, and features inventors from Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, Oman, Kuwait, among others.
Chairing the most highly anticipated event in Open Hardware at the New York Hall of Science
A great day for open hardware!
Ayah Bdeir and Phil Torrone, MAKE
Today, we announce the draft of the definition for open hardware, as initiated from the Opening Hardware Workshop that I hosted at Eyebeam. Early signatories include: Arduino, Adafruit, Make, Sparkfun, Wired, Buglabs, Makerbot, Chumby, Creative Commons, etc.. Let us know your thoughts! More here
Feature in ELLE Magazine
Photo Credits:
Portrait by: Mark Mahaney
Arabiia pictures by: Kate Kunath
The New Museum, NY
“Rhizome is pleased to announce Seven on Seven a new major initiative that reflects our mission to connect art and new technology. The seven teams will present their ideas at a one-day event at the New Museum on April 17th. Seven on Seven Participants include, on the technology side, Ayah Bdeir, Jeff Hammerbacher, David Karp, Andrew Kortina, Hilary Mason, Matt Mullenweg, and Josh Schachter, and on the art side, Tauba Auerbach, Cao Fei, Aaron Koblin, Monica Narula, Marc Andre Robinson, Evan Roth and Ryan Trecartin.”
More info here
Eyebeam Annual Appeal
By making a contribution to Eyebeam, you will be supporting all of our creative practitioners and the educational workshops and performance events we develop at our collaborative art and technology center.
More here
Article about the Cruel Weather Middle Eastern film festival at Aberdeen’s Peacock gallery. The article includes an interview with Jay Murphy and a description of Identities in Motion, my solo show.
The post was originally by the wonderful Regine Debatty. Here
Solo Show Upcoming
Identities in Motion is a series of works by Ayah Bdeir that looks to contemporarise images of Arab identity, reinterpreting often archaic, frozen and homogeneous imagery. The works deal with the obsession of the media to flatten the Arab identity and reduce it to a set of cliche images and iconographies.
Opening October 3nd, 2008. More info here
Ars Electronica
Linz, Austria
Some of my work will be part of IMPETUS: WORKS FROM THE MIT MEDIA LAB at Ars Electronica. This year the Media Lab was the school of choice for the CAMPUS exhibition for the occasion of Ars’s 30 year anniversary.
more information here
OLDER NEWS to come