[ ESC ] salon + mixer*
Electronic Social Club: a network of NYC graduate students connected by the practice of creating social dialogue through projects in media, art and design.

Friday November 14 | 7-10 pm
Hunter College | 695 Park Avenue
Room HN 543 | Black Box

…..new media projects, video art, web-based projects, experimental, interactive, performance, media art, installations, sound projects and games…..

Like a social club, [ ESC ] is formed around a common interest, activity or location.  We bring together MFA students from across New York City to meet and showcase their graduate art work, and to form a common network around the theme of creating social dialogue through art and media.

Programme of events to follow.   Past participants include:  ShiftSpace (shiftspace.org), the ICED Game:  I Can End Deportation (icedgame.com), and projects from Hunter College, NYU ITP, Parsons MFADT, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn PIMA, and Brooklyn Polytech.

• My friend Drew Cogbill was one of three speakers at this event. Drew spoke about his thesis project called Pigeon which is an experimental phone-based social networking tool that allows people to send mass communications through land-lines and mobile phones.

Drew Cogbill

Video of his presentation is coming soon…

• Some other interesting installations I saw at the event included a piece done by an ITP student that combined sound and sensors.

Just playing with it to see how it work

ESC from Rabia Malik on Vimeo.

ESC from Rabia Malik on Vimeo.

Micmicking a DJ playing a music record to see how the sound changes.

Untitled from Rabia Malik on Vimeo.

One of my favorite projects is called Peek Poke Talk and its done by two ITP NYU students, Meng Li and Elim Cheng.

Its an interactive bench that triggers interventions between strangers in public space. (this project reminded me a lot of a project I did with my classmates in my Studio class last year called “The Awesome Chair”