eyebeam

[ahy-beem]

noun

1. a beam or glance of the eye.

Word History and Origins

Origin of eyebeam¹

First recorded in 1580–90; eye + beam

Example Sentences

In 2016, in her first solo New York City show at the nonprofit Eyebeam, she counted the lynchings listed in Ida B. Wells-Barnett’s pathbreaking 1895 tabulation, “The Red Record,” and represented them as fields of small circles, borrowing landscape architecture’s symbol for a tree.

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“She was clearly at a pivot point,” Roderick Schrock, Eyebeam’s executive director, recalled.

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Studios, workshops, tools and specialized equipment; a staff to provide skilled assistance; sometimes three square meals and housekeeping: this form of arts funding has been a breeding ground for prominent artists, including the monologuist Spalding Gray at the McDowell in New Hampshire; the composer Lea Bertucci at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Nebraska; and the artists Rashaad Newsome at Eyebeam in Brooklyn, and Danai Anesiadou at Fogo Island Arts off Canada’s eastern coast.

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This work was supported with a grant from the Eyebeam Center for the Future of Journalism.

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His endeavor is being funded by the Brooklyn-based art and technology center, Eyebeam through its new initiative, Rapid Response for a Better Digital Future, which supports 30 artists incubating creative solutions to a world torn asunder by digital surveillance, racial violence and a pandemic.

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