
Here’s a good way to get rich and famous playing the instrument of your dreams! Free air guitars! [via]...
Read MoreHere’s a good way to get rich and famous playing the instrument of your dreams! Free air guitars! [via]...
Read MoreI saw this in a personal library the other day. It’s probably not a good idea to put these two books next to each other on a shelf....
Read MoreTaking a break from the blog for the holidaze – more to come soon! Hope everyone has a good one!...
Read MoreThis is what happens when you try to be Jack Bauer in the age of dial-up! Hilarious.. thanks Steve for the link…...
Read MoreToday I published my 100th post on the Make Blog since I started writing for them back on Sept 13th, 2007. You can read all of my posts here. Click on...
Read MoreToday coin-operated.com turns 10! 10 years ago today (Dec 12, 1997) I released a 7″ record of one of my old bands on a record label I called ...
Read MoreI exhibited BumpList recently in the “Web 2.0 Generation” exhibition at the Enter 3, 3rd International Festival for Arts, Sciences, and Te...
Read MoreHere’s some video of the Interactive Media Arts Lab show in Brussels this past October where I showed my project, “Alerting Infrastructure...
Read MoreI’m giving a talk via videoconference at MobileFest in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Friday, December 7 (this Friday!). Check out the site for details, t...
Read MoreI’m heading to Barcelona on Tuesday to give a talk about my work at the NOW: Meetings in the Present Continuous event happening at the CCCB. It ...
Read MoreTaking a break for a bit for the holidaze… more to come next week!...
Read MoreI’m currently exhibiting work in a show called BLIP! in Lima, Peru. Also in the show is Mexican artist ,Gilberto Esparza. His “Urban Cance...
Read MoreThis “Cassette Deck Guitar” was built during our Scrapyard Challenge workshop in Lima, Peru. Pretty cool design integrating an old guitar ...
Read MoreNext week I’ll be installing my projects SpeakerPhone and Alerting Infrastructure! at the BLIP! show at the Fundacion Telefonica here in Lima, P...
Read MoreYesterday while driving around Lima, we passed this Norbert Weiner Institute (the grandfather of Cybernetics). Didn’t get a chance to go inside,...
Read MoreThis was a funny restaurant seen around Lima. I got my sandwich with an extra slice of “eBay” and some “YouTube” dressing. Was...
Read MoreWalking around Lima, Peru last night we came across this Internet/Travel Agency! Lightsabers not included with the price of a round trip ticket!...
Read MoreHope everyone out there has a happy “spooky” halloween this year! I think my favorite costume so far this year is this guy’s YouTube...
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Read MoreI just finished up an interview / article on Pete Froslie for Gizmodo. Pete makes really cool projects with old electronics and toys from the 80s. Abo...
Read MoreTaking a break from the blog for a bit! More to come next week!...
Read MoreKatherine Moriwaki and my project “Umbrella_net” is included in the book “New Media Design” by Tricia Austin and Richard Doust...
Read MoreThe “Vanity Ring” project by Markus Kison is an interesting take on social status. The wearer inputs their name into the software which up...
Read MoreHere’s a picture of my Alerting Infrastructure! project currently installed in Brussels at IMAL. If you visit their site, you will add to the co...
Read MoreThis sign was spotted in our neighborhood. Pretty funny reminder not to park in a driveway. Unless it’s an invisible car…....
Read MoreThis DIGG shirt makes you wish you had some friends. Kinda sad that the only way to get more DIGGS on this shirt is to get punched in the stomach, but...
Read MoreMy “Crank The Web” project, a hand-crank browser I built in 2001 that lets you “manually” download any website, goes on displa...
Read MoreTaking a break from the blog for a bit, more to come next week!...
Read MoreMy project, “Alerting Infrastructure!” – a website hit counter that destroys the physical structure the website is associated with &...
Read MoreThis Sinclair Radio Watch by Dagfinn Aksnes (one of our Scrapyard Challenge Workshop participants in Glasgow) is a really cool project that reminds me...
Read MoreWe’re taking our Scrapyard Challenge workshop on the road this weekend to Glasgow, Scotland where we are conducting a day long workshop inside t...
Read MoreHere’s a plug for my sister’s (Nicole Cohen – pictured above) new art show, opening at the Getty Center in Los Angeles next week. ...
Read MoreI’ve been blogging over at the Make Blog recently so that’s why I haven’t been posting so much here. More to come next week from Sco...
Read MoreWe are running two of our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshops in Scotland in a couple weeks. One on the BBC Blast Bus in Glasgow on Sept 22nd and anoth...
Read MoreI just finished up a Gizmodo Gallery on Paris-based media artists, Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen (also known as HeHe). HeHe’s work provides intri...
Read MoreThe Offload festival: Systems for Survival, taking place in Bristol, UK this Sept 13-16th, is “the UK’s first network media and systems a...
Read MoreHere’s some information on version 1.0 of “GPS-HOGâ€, a new project I am working on that connects to my former project “Wifi-H...
Read MoreThe Space Hijackers, an artist group based in London, UK (known for their pretty cool “Circle Line Parties” on the London Tube) are having...
Read MoreThomas Edward’s project “Touch” (2007) reminds me of a homeade version of “In Touch” created at the MIT Media Lab’...
Read MoreTim Redfern and I are performing our collaborative cell phone performance project, “SimpleTEXT” on September 11th (Yeh unlucky date) at Wa...
Read MoreTony Dunne at the Royal College of Art just sent me a copy of the new “Design Interactions” catalog for 2007. Pretty impressive collection...
Read MoreAbove is a picture of “Wild Fire Beats!”, an instrument made in our last MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop on Friday in Evanston, IL. This...
Read MoreWe went to the Library of Congress today and checked out the audio tour. In this case you use your own cell phone – just call a local phone numb...
Read MoreWe are running our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop in Chicago on August 10th! Will upload some pics of finished instruments next week!...
Read MoreMy project, PleaseSpam.Us was written about in the French newspaper, La Liberation today. You can read the French to English translation here, or the ...
Read MoreToronto based artist Amos Latteier who I profiled for Gizmodo back in November, 2005 is building a huge kite inspired by Alexander Graham Bell’s...
Read MoreHere’s some information on “PleaseSpam.Us” a new project of mine that critically examines both the mass proliferation of spam on th...
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Read MoreUPDATE – now version 1.1 is ready for download! Here’s some information on version 1.0 of Mr. T1, a project I launched that fits into th...
Read MoreThis is great – now I can save my cash every breath I take. I should have come up with this idea – damn!...
Read MoreHappy 4th of July holiday to people reading in the US!...
Read MoreThis “Drive Tray Guitar” was built by a workshop participant during our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop held at Eyebeam in NYC last week...
Read MoreToday marks 4 years of this blog being up and running. I started this blog back when I was still living in Ireland and now 4 years later after a few &...
Read MoreKatherine and I are running our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop this Saturday, June 30th at Eyebeam here in NYC. Should be a fun day and we are havi...
Read MoreToday we saw this super cool “Bird Cage PC Case Mod” built by a member of the Basurama team in Madrid. Best of all you attach the “p...
Read MoreThe Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA) a community art/tech group I co-founded in 2002 with Darklight founder Nicky Gogan has made a comebac...
Read MoreThe above video documents our Scrapyard Challenge workshop over the last week here in Madrid. It doesn’t show the final performance from the ope...
Read MoreThis “Gyrating” purse was also constructed in a few hours during the “wearables” component of our workshop this week. The snap...
Read MoreThis “Messaging Shirt” (which looks like HAL on your chest) was one of the final projects built during our 5 day workshop here at Intermed...
Read MoreYesterday we took a trip out of town to the Madrid trash sorting center to pick up some more junk electronics, etc. I really liked this sign posted fo...
Read MoreThis modified printer was built by workshoppers today during the MIDI Scrapyard Challenge mini-workshop in this larger “Scrapyard Challenge̶...
Read MoreYesterday we started our “Scrapyard Challenge” workshop at the Matadero, Madrid! Here’s a shot of our workshop space – really ...
Read MoreKatherine Moriwaki and I are running our “DIY Urban Challenge” workshop from our Scrapyard Challenge series of workshops in Madrid next we...
Read MoreThe DarkLight Festival in Dublin (now in its 8th year and run by Nicky Gogan (who I co-founded DATA with in 2002) should be a fun event this year! The...
Read MorePretty crazy bumpersticker I saw on a car the other day. I guess it puts the state of the world today into very clear perspective, but then again, I m...
Read MoreToday was the first day of the NIME conference (New Interfaces for Musical Expression) here in NYC. Above is a picture of one of the demos – a &...
Read MoreTim Redfern and I are performing our collaborative project, “SimpleTEXT” on June 5th (Tomorrow Nite!!) during the Upgrade New York at Eyeb...
Read MoreKatherine Moriwaki and I just finished up leading the latest of our “MIDI Scrapyard Challenge” workshops in Stirling, Scotland for the 6 C...
Read MoreI’m showing my Carnivore Client, “PoliceState” as part of the SourceCode show which opens at Eyebeam this Thursday, May 31st. The sh...
Read MoreI like this Web 2.0 Name Generator. I thought all you needed to do for this was to take a proper noun like Mickey Mouse, and make it into one word and...
Read MoreHope everyone has a good holiday weekend here in the US!...
Read MoreWalking around a street fair today in Brooklyn I came across this great & ‘healthy’ item. Now all I need is some chocolate covered Tw...
Read More“Katazukue” (Jones, 2005) I just finished up a Gizmodo Gallery on UK-based product designer / media artist, Crispin Jones. Crispin’s...
Read More(GalleryDrive, Roy & //////////FUR////), 2007) Here’s some more info on “Gallery Drive†a new artwork collaboration between Ni...
Read MoreKatherine Moriwaki and I are running our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop at the 6 Cities Design Festival in Stirling, Scotland on June 2nd. More inf...
Read MoreJust got back from Manchester, UK where I attended some of the FutureSonic festival. Above is a picture of Steve Symons presenting at the first from D...
Read MoreMy project “BumpList: An Email Community For the Determined” (in collaboration with Mike Bennett) is in the show “My Own Private Rea...
Read MoreThis year’s FutureSonic festival (held for its 6th year in Manchester, UK from May 10-12th) examines public space and wireless interventions wit...
Read MoreHere’s some video uploaded by Douglas Edric Stanley of the LabCyberspaces show that my project, Alerting Infrastructure! is installed at until J...
Read MoreTaking a break from the blog right now, more to come soon….. keep feedin…....
Read MoreThis book, “What Computers Can’t Do: The Limits of Artificial Intelligence” written in 1963 by Hubert L. Dreyfus is an interesting d...
Read MoreThis is a pretty cool project from the WWF. It shows the average amount of Carbon Monoxide Emissions from a car over the course of a day. Interesting ...
Read MoreSome pics from our latest MIDI Scrapyard Challenge from the GEL conference, NYC workshop are here. Above is a picture of the “MIDI Toaster”...
Read MoreA picture of the final performance from the MSC at Transmediale 2004 (Berlin, Germany). This was the “Yes/No” Shaking Helmet. We are havin...
Read MoreAmy Franceschini and Michael Swaine’s installation, “Rain Harvester/ Greywater System“, on display now at Gallery 16 in San Francisc...
Read MoreThe Spanish artist group, Joystick‘s project “Thanks to the trash that has given me so much¨ offers another way of seeing the process o...
Read MoreThese “Coffee Wipes” have to be a pretty odd invention, especially since the company that makes them is called BUNN. Hmm, the whole thing ...
Read MoreHere’s a pic of the “MIDI Fan instrument” someone made in our workshop on Saturday at the Viral:Culture event at Columbia College in...
Read MoreHere in Chicago we passed by the door of a prof at Columbia College with this poster on their door. Pretty funny reminder of GW’s incompetence. ...
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Read More(“Grafikdemo”, Roy, 2004) I just finished up a Gizmodo Gallery on Berlin-based media artist, Niklas Roy. Roy’s work is an astonishin...
Read MoreKatherine and I are in a group show called “10 Years Running” opening this Thursday, April 5th from 6-8pm at the Chelsea Art Museum. The s...
Read MoreUrban Interface Berlin is a symposium and exhibition that will happen “between April 15 and May 6, 2007. The project will present artworks in th...
Read MoreIn the NYC yellow-cab taxi I took back from the airport yesterday, I noticed there was a screen with a real-time GPS readout and map of our journey. P...
Read MoreHere are some more pictures from the opening at Laboral! Pretty amazing space and some really cool work on display there! “Lab_Cyberspaces Exhib...
Read MoreI’m showing my Alerting Infrastructure! project: “a web hit counter that destroys a buidling”, at the Laboral Center for Art and Ind...
Read MoreHere’s a low-rez version of a NEW video! we just made about our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshops! Watch it above! This video details a lot mor...
Read MoreThe domain Stupidr.com is for sale! Nice, now anyone can start a custom Web 2.0 site and not have to put the “r” in it, it’s already...
Read MoreDistance Lab and Horizon Scotland are organizing “Going Nova, New Horizons in Physics and Technology” and are running a Drawbots workshop ...
Read MoreFinally it’s out! The long awaited book “Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists” by Ben Fry and Casey R...
Read MoreMartin Bonadeo’s “Mobius Display” (see video above) “confronts the spectator with the impossibility of contemplating all the i...
Read MoreRania Ho’s “Modem” video is a great reminder of Internet connectivity from the not-so-distant past! Check out the video above –...
Read MoreKatherine Moriwaki and I are running our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge Workshop a couple times in the next few months. On Saturday April 7th in Chicago, IL...
Read MoreI’m showing my Alerting Infrastructure! project (web site hit counter that destroys the structure the site represents) at the Lab Cyberspaces ex...
Read MoreThis news piece from Canada’s CBC is a great document of the beginning of the “Internet” as a global phenomenon from the early 90s. ...
Read More“Distance Lab” has launched in northern Scotland! This lab was founded by Stefan Agamanolis who ran the “Human Connectedness” ...
Read MoreI finally put up this video for my Forward Compatible project, a parasitic object attached to a Wi-Fi or fixed network router. The device monitors net...
Read MoreThe 56K Modem Emulator “brings the old-skool joys of the dial-up connection to the modern day broadband user. Happiness is a squeaky analog conn...
Read MoreThis site lets you take a test to calculate how “Nerdy” you are! Pretty funny, I ranked a “Low Ranking Nerd. Definitely a nerd but l...
Read MoreI just finished up an interview / article with German artist, Martin Frey for Gizmodo. Read it here!...
Read MoreI finally got around to putting up this video I made a while back – break dancing meets scientific equations! Enjoy!...
Read MoreGerman artist Aram Bartholl did a “World of Warcraft” performance in public space where he had his name follow him over his head. Watch th...
Read MoreHere’s a photo from the opening of the “Cell Phone: Art and the Mobile Phone” show at the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore. I was sh...
Read MoreDue to an overload of activity the last few days, the comment system is broken. Hopefully I’ll get this fixed soon, thanks for your patience....
Read MoreHere’s some information on version 1.0 of “Wifi-Liberator”, a new project I am launching that fits into the larger theme of “p...
Read MoreToday’s my birthday – i turn —-! Another year gone by – pretty nuts.....
Read MoreI just finished up this Gizmodo Gallery on German artist / architect / designer Tobi Schneidler and his networked appliances and living spaces. Read t...
Read MoreAbove is a picture of the “MIDI Hoover” by David Bernard of Glasgow’s Pointless Creations. Bernard was the musical guest last week a...
Read MoreThis t-shirt is a nice way of selling yourself to the corporate crowd while maintaining your anonymity....
Read MoreThese hands were sticking out of the beach here in Uruguay. It’s not clear who the artist was who made them, but they were a pretty impressive t...
Read MoreI’ll be back online sooooooooooooooooooon – hope everyone had a good new years and more to come…. (just wanted to refresh the calend...
Read MoreHope everyone has a great new year! All the best in 2007!...
Read MoreKatherine Moriwaki and I are running our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop twice in Scotland in January 2007 (next month!) in two different locations....
Read MoreWe saw this inflatable bear outside an electronics shop today. Obviously someone who works there liked the SNL video too much and made the bear part o...
Read MoreAfter all of the hoopla about the SNL Digital Short “D*ck In a Box” that aired last Saturday night, we were driving around yesterday and s...
Read MoreHope everyone has a good holiday! Posting on here will be minimal over the holidays as I’ll be running around like everyone else… still ...
Read MoreThis sign was seen on a plant in a Montreal restaurant. I guess the owners were sick of getting amazed people wondering how their “plastic”...
Read MoreHere’s the video of the “Cell Phone A-Life performance” I helped create at Eyebeam last October with Usman Haque and Karmen Franinov...
Read MoreHere’s a pic from the “A-Life” cell phone performance I did last October with Usman Haque and Karmen Franinovic at the Architecture ...
Read MoreThis Nixie tube watch has the best batteries out there. Krusty the clown make’s batteries? I guess there’s nothing in the Simpsons Empire ...
Read MoreI’m reblogging over at Eyebeam the next week as well, and with the holidaze coming up, I won’t be posting here too much until 2007 (althou...
Read MoreWe saw this ad for “Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas” on the roof of a taxi in Manhattan today. Pretty nice unplanned reference between NYC t...
Read MoreThe news about Tower Records filing for bankruptcy is nothing new, but I noticed this sign in their window walking by their store today and it’s...
Read MoreThis USB mini fish tank / glowing aquarium is a pretty cool stocking stuffer for the holidaze. Just make sure the fish aren’t really alive ̵...
Read MoreI’m reblogging this week at Eyebeam’s Reblog – so watch over there and more to come from here soon…....
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