Here in Manchester @ FutureSonic festival. Just heard the first day of talks + keynote by Sadie Plant which was mostly an overview of mobile phone tec...
Read MoreReport from Futuresonic 2004 Mobile Connections April 30 – May 1, 2004 http://www.futureeverything.com Held in the oblong shaped, glass-surfaced...
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After three days in Bilbao, we are heading to Manchester now for FutureSonic. Kaki will be leading a workshop, and I will be exhibiting and speaking a...
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Just arrived in Bilbao last nite, and got to see Richard Stallman give a talk this morning on the “Free Software” movement – from th...
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Report From Ciber-Art Bilbao Conference 2004 http://www.ciberart-bilbao.net April 25-29, 2004 Bilbao, Spain By Jonah Brucker-Cohen (jonah(at)co...
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So who’s goin to ISEA 2004? With all of the emails about early bird tickets, I’m wondering if lots of people have purchased them or not? T...
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Just checked out the Dublin version (I took the pic above) of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Vectoral Elevation here on the streets of the Irish capital...
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Interesting article by David Pescovitz in The Feature, called “State of the Artists” about how research and art are crossbreeding. He cove...
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Guy Marsden, a British-born artist/engineer based in California, has been creating some interesting art and tech hybrids. His Photogenesis project, in...
Read MoreLights in the Sky!
Wireless Access Points (APs) can take all shapes and sizes. This NoCat Night Light is a cool hack using a lightbulb and a SpeedStream access point wit...
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Here’s an image of me doing a talk over iChat from Dublin for the PAUSE exhibition (I’m the guy with half of his face cut off), that opene...
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In a week, Kaki and I will be heading to the CiberArt Bilbao conference to give talks. My talk is in the “Computational Sociology” tract o...
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It turns out this GPS Rifle (info below) thing is a fake (thank you!) – but the fact that someone dreamed it up is getting close to “Runni...
Read MoreA Fake, What's next?
I really like art projects that don’t take themselves too seriously. Bill Vorn’s robotic artwork is exactly what I mean: with pieces like ...
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NYC-based designer, Marc Lin (who I first met in 2001 at International Browserday at Cooper Union), has been up to interesting video tracking + sound ...
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Usman Haque’s latest project SkyEar is an array of hundreds of helium filled balloons with electromagnetic field (EMF) gaussometers, bright LEDs...
Read MorePut Your Ear to the Sky!
Are cities really shrinking or are suburbs just explanding? Or is technology just making connections between people easier and thus strengthening our ...
Read MoreCities that Shrink
More Geomapping!. GeoWeb is like GeoURL ICBM Address Server, but instead of mapping location of servers, this project is a platform for mapping inform...
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I just upgraded from B2 to WordPress today. My new RSS feed is available here. Sorry bout this but it was a long time coming! I think the old url will...
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I’m co-leading the Communectivity Workshop with Amy Franceschini of Futurefarmers from May 10-14 in Gent, Belgium. The workshop is focused on ha...
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Here’s an interesting one. R-Echos is like the bastard child of Eyebeam’s ReBlog and Cameron Marlowe’s Blogdex. It’s a hack of...
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DEMUR is a cool attempt at combining gaming with location-based audio. Participants wear headphones with a headtracker attached, a backpack with lapto...
Read MoreDemur – location-based gaming
I just checked out Dublin-born, France-based artist Malachi Farrell‘s “Nothing Domestic” installation at Temple Bar Gallery here in ...
Read MoreRobotic Flag Waving
Neighbornode is an ITP student initiated project that attempts to connect up local wireless access points within a neighborhood. From the site: “...
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