Eyebeam Bounces Back After Hurricane Sandy
by Kelleigh Welch
"Superstorm Sandy, with its nearly 14-foot storm surges crashing into the New York and New Jersey coastlines, brought major flooding and destruction this past October, leaving residents and businesses with billions of dollars in damages In the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea, the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center—an art space and organization that promotes use of media technologies for art—sustained more than three feet of floodwater, and was left with over $250,000 worth of damage to equipment, computers, furniture, books and much of the center's collection of digital and analog media storage devices ‘While staff had made preparations for the hurricane by placing valuables a few feet off the ground, the water reached a meter [high] inside the space, inundating equipment, books and archival materials,” said curator Lindsay Howard. “Most of the media stored in bins was soaked by toxic water—a mixture of salt water, sewage and other contaminants. If the material had marinated in that soup for any longer, it would have corroded the material irrecoverably.’" More » |
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