Last year at this time I was in Newcastle, Australia at the ElectroFringe festival! This year’s event, titled “Replicate, Automate, Infilt...
Read MoreNICEBOTS are small wooden robots that drive around and learn based on situations and obstacles they encounter. They are part of an open atelier worksh...
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The Virus Mapping Tool (pictured) is one of several projects in the newly touring “virus-art” show, “The Aesthetics of Computer Viru...
Read MoreViruses Are Your Friends
PCworld reports (PCWorld??? what the heck) that Ireland is cracking down on Internet scams! Umm, Ireland (where I am currently living) is the worst ...
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I just uploaded some pictures I took at ArtBots this weekend! Overall it was a great show with lots of cool projects! My pics kind bias my own piece s...
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The Villette Numerique media arts festival opens tonite in Paris! Featured in this huge show includes “Listening Post” by Ben Rubin and Ma...
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New York 2050 is a project for the collective vision and future scenarios of how NYC will be in 50 years. “NewYork2050 seeks to facilitate a pub...
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Back to Dubs today to setup and test out UMBRELLA.net which makes its debut in NYC for Spectropolis, a 3 day wireless in the park event at City Hall P...
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Today ArtBots opened in NYC. I’m here running a workshop where 100 people can build my DrawBot robots (made from markers, plastic cups, and old ...
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Sign up to ride through San Francisco on your bike in inflatable suits at Aeolian Ride, a public performance and bike event by NYC artist, Jessica Fin...
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Czech media artist Michael Bielicky has been doing some really great work over his long career. I first discovered Bielicky when I was researching my ...
Read MoreFrom GPS to Constellations
Made it to NYC yesterday and had some time to check out the “Passage of Mirage” show at the Chelsea Art Museum (which I hadn’t been ...
Read MoreThe Mirage of it All
I just posted my Report from ISEA 2004 today! Read up here and Rhizome! We are off to NYC today to run a DrawBot modding competition at ArtBots: The R...
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Published on Rhizome.org – 9/13/04 Baltic Sea, Helsinki (Finland), Tallinn (Estonia) August 14-22, 2004 by Jonah Brucker-Cohen Held over a week ...
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Looks like Mobile Bristol’s Jukola is a direct rip-off (with one or two changes) to Mark Argo and Ahmi Wolfe’s Bass Station project. I can...
Read MoreRip Off or Complimentary? You Decide!
Ever wanted to listen to the hurricanes pummeling the western hemisphere? Well thanks to NY-based artist Andrea Polli’s project, “Atmosphe...
Read MoreWeather the Storm
Just wanted to give a moment of silence for Sept 11 anniversary....
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Next time you get lost, you can “feel” your way home. The ActiveBelt, tracks your position with GPS, and directs you to your destination w...
Read MoreFeel Your Way Home
Yesterday’s keynote by Janet Abrams of the Design Institute was a smack in the face to many UBICOMP attendees when she started asking questions ...
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We finally escaped Ars Electronica (just kidding – it was great!) and are now at UBICOMP in Nottingham, UK where we are participating in a works...
Read MoreON THE UBI-TIP
Demoscene is a new book about the computer hacker revolution of the 1980s. “The demoscene spawned a group of people that have worked in or start...
Read MoreHackers Unite
Yes, even projects at Ars Electronica crash! (see picture) This is Sur La Table by Khan Osman which streamed colors from fruit placed on a table (I as...
Read MoreCrashing In For More
Yesterday at Ars was the DISRUPTION panel I moderated – which went really well! Some very interesting presentations including Joi Ito speaking a...
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We’ve arrived here at Ars Electronica 2004 in Linz, Austria! So far the festival has been very active – lots of presentations, exhibition ...
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Report From Ars Electronica 2004 Linz, Austria Sept 2-7, 2004 By Jonah Brucker-Cohen This year’s Ars Electronica festival was a reflection on th...
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