I'm collaborating with Stefan Agamanolis on a project for the FutureEverything festival. This will be part of the "PlayEverything" section of the conference and it will be an experiment in "Unlimited Connectivity" between Manchester and NYC. More Details soon about our project which you can take ...
This is a modded DrawBot called "Lady BeBe" - a rip off Lady Gaga that was built during our Scrapyard Challenge workshop that Katherine and I ran at the "Revolution: Technology as Change" event at Connecticut College. Overall there were some ...
View Drawbots at Revolution: Technology as Change Conference
Here's the latest edit of the Scrapyard Challenge video, it has footage from Anderson Ranch, workshop we did in Seoul, Korea, and more! Watch Below:
I'm giving a lecture and running a workshop at "Beyond the instrument metaphor: new paradigms for interactive media" at Arizona State University from Feb 19-21st. Other participants include Andrea Polli, Bill Verplank, David Wessel, David Zicarelli, Hans Tutschku, Jaime Oliver, Marc Leman, Mark Danks, Matthias Kriesberg, Miller ...
I'll be in Chicago next week for the College Art Association's 2010 conference. I'm speaking on a panel entitled "New Media/New Terrain: Pioneering a PhD in Creative Research" about artists getting PhDs. Other speakers on the panel include Jessica Walker, Victoria Vesna, and James ...
Here's a video of our Scrapyard Challenge workshop that Reid Bingham put together! Thanks Reid! Also - nice post about our workshop here on the Arch League Blog
I'm speaking about my work tomorrow night at IGNITE! NYC. Info on this event is here! Come on out!
Nice display of some of the drawbots made at our workshop at IMOCA - REFUNCT, Dublin. The opening of the show which runs until September 28th, 2009 at IMOCA Dublin, is tonite! Check it out!
Here's a picture of my project "Alerting Infrastructure!" currently installed at the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art. If you want to activate it, visit this link. Thanks to Ben for the picture and including me in the show!
View Alerting Infrastructure! at Irish Museum of Contemporary Art!
Katherine and I are running 2 Scrapyard Challenge workshops in Ireland in August! The first one is on August 15th at Ormeau Baths Gallery and coincides with their exhibition for ISEA 2009. There might be spaces still available if ...
 After a pretty busy day at Maker Faire, people made some fun instruments during our Scrapyard Challenge Workshop! Above are pictures of an instrument made with Diving Flippers and one of the workshop table! Lots of cool projects were made and this is ...
Katherine and I are heading to San Mateo, California next week to participate in "Maker Faire! The World's Largest DIY Festival!" We will be showcasing our "Scrapyard Challenge" workshops at the faire this year, and it's our first time attending this great event. If you make ...
View Scrapyard Challenge Workshop at Maker Faire, San Mateo!
I'm heading to the FutureSonic Festival in Manchester, UK this coming week. I'm there to give a talk about my work and for the world premiere launch of a new project that I am working on with Mike Bennett. Mike and I worked on BumpList ...
Katherine and I will be participating in this year's MAKER FAIRE, held on May 30-31st at the San Mateo, CA Fair Grounds. More info on our participation at this link. Please Come Out! We'll be setting up a booth and a mini workshop area ...
Harold Schellinx has posted a great video he shot from the Scrapyard Challenge workshop we ran last April at Palais Du Tokyo in Paris, France. Check out the video to see some of the ...
Video Documentation from Scrapyard Challenge Workshops 2011 Scrapyard Challenge Workshop May 7, 2011 Baruch College, New York, NY, USA. Scrapyard Challenge Workshop April 16, 2011 ...
 Here's a picture of the "Filing Cabinet Accordian" that one of our workshop participants built during the MIDI Scrayard Challenge workshop that we ran at Palais De Tokyo in Paris this week. As you open and close the shelves, custom switches constructed from recycled ...
We are running one of our Scrapyard Challenge Workshops at the Palais Du Tokyo, in Paris France on April 23rd! There is some more info about the workshop here. I will also be speaking about my work and the workshops at the UPGRADE! ...
Here are some pictures of my piece, Alerting Infrastructure! installed at the Techformance showcase at the ARCO art fair in Madrid, Spain. The opening went really well, and the princess of Spain actually stopped by our booth at the fair! ...
I'm going to be at the ARCO art fair this week showing my "Alerting Infrastructure!" project. If you can't be there, please help me out and interact with the project by visiting this page. The project will be active starting on the 10th of February! Thanks ...
I'm showing my project "Alerting Infrastructure!" at the ARCO art fair in Madrid, Spain from February 11th to 16th, 2009. This time the drill will be connected up to the Puertas Des Castillas website for the Murcia Pavillion at ARCO. So you can effect the ...
I'm showing my project "Internet IPO Madness" at Gizmodo's NYC Gallery which opens at the Reed Annex Space tomorrow (Dec 4 through the weekend)! Please stop by to check out the multitude of gadgets and goodies at this show!
Katherine and I are in Seoul, Korea to run our Scrapyard Challenge workshop here in a gallery space in the city! This is the first time we've taken our workshop to Asia so we are pretty excited to see what the participants create this ...
I'm heading to Brazil next week to exhibit a few of my projects in a show for the Art.Mov festival. Projects of mine in the show include "Alerting Infrastructure!", "Forward Compatible", "Wifi-Hog", "Wifi-Liberator", and perhaps a few others. Please stop ...
On November 5th, I'm giving a talk at UC Berkeley in San Francisco as part of their "Design Futures Lecture Series". If you are around def stop by to check it out!
Katherine and I are running our Scrapyard Challenge workshop at the London Science Museum on October 30th. We are excited to be part of a mini-festival happening there that week where other workshops will take place ranging from many different themes involving open source and media ...
This month my project, "Forward Compatible" (a parasitic object that reads outgoing and incoming packets from any wireless router and changes the transfer of packets into audible sounds of a 28.8bps modem from yesteryear in order to ...
"BumpList: An Email Community for the Determined" (my project in collaboration with Mike Bennett), is BACK online after being offline for 4 years! So now is your chance to join the email community that had most people scratching their heads and wondering what happened to email as they knew ...
My project, BumpList: An Email Community for the Determined (in collaboration with Mike Bennett) will be showing at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in a show called "The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now" opening on November 8, 2008. Press release for ...
View BumpList at SFMOMA – "The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now
Tim Redfern and I installed "Inquisitive Devices" at the Conflux Festival in NYC this weekend. "Inquisitive Devices" is a networked sound installation that examines the transition from public to personal broadcasting, and the present day usage of the radio spectrum through the proliferation of ...
Here at Ars Electronica finding power is difficult, so we've managed to get everyone sharing a communal powerstrip (pictured). I guess this is part of the "New Cultural Economy" everyone here is talking about, etc... the cultural economy of power distribution. Today I spoke about free networks ...
I am heading to Ars Electronica this year to speak in the "New Cultural Economy" symposium about open source and networking media art projects on a panel organized by Joi Ito. I'm really looking forward to being back at the festival as ...
Katherine and I are heading to Anderson Ranch Arts Center next week to run our Scrapyard Challenge workshop. The workshop is full and we're really looking forward to meeting everyone and seeing the sights a bit, etc.. Read details on the workshop we are doing ...
Some really great talks from Alessandro Ludovico (of Neural), Jaime Villarreal, and Ivan Twohig at the last DATA event in Dublin. Check out all the talks here.
Katherine Moriwaki and I are commissioned artists for the SOS_4.8 Festival of Sustainability and Art taking place in Murcia, Spain (also performing at this event is the Chemical Brothers, Rufus Wainwright, James, FISCHERSPOONER, and others) the first weekend of May. We'll be there on site creating ...
My Wifi-Liberator project and my Wifi-Hog project will be on display at the "Waves - the Art of the Electromagnetic Society" show opening on May 10th in Dortmund, Germany. This show is a collaboration between Ars Electronica, ...
Art in Mobile (running from March 20th to April 21st) is part of "a yearly project that looks for art in subcultures in collaboration with authorities of these respective subcultures. The results of those collaborations are shown at the gallery Galerie De Meerse - Hoofddorp (Amsterdam), in ...
My project, "InternetRadio" (2001), (video above) that I made back in 2001 in collaboration with James Tu will be on display at the Z33 Gallery in Hasselt, Belgium for the "PLACE@SPACE: (Re) Shaping Everyday Life" exhibition ...
The website for the "Design and the Elastic Mind" show at the Museum of Modern Art is now live. You can see my project, "Wifi-Hog" on the site through this Link. Tons of other cool projects on the site, put together through a Flash-based interface.
SimpleTEXT, our collaborative cell phone performance project is featured in the Sydney Biennale 2008. Check out the website above for more info.
My project, "Wifi-Hog" (pictured above) is included in the show "Design and the Elastic Mind" which opens February 24th, 2008 at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).The exhibition, curated by Paola Antonelli, will focus on designers' ability to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, ...
I exhibited BumpList recently in the "Web 2.0 Generation" exhibition at the Enter 3, 3rd International Festival for Arts, Sciences, and Technologies at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic. Really interesting exhibition with some really great artists showing ...
Here's some video of the Interactive Media Arts Lab show in Brussels this past October where I showed my project, "Alerting Infrastructure!" As you can see from the video, the drill I was using was ...
View Alerting Infrastructure! footage from IMAL show in Brussels.
I'm giving a talk via videoconference at MobileFest in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Friday, December 7 (this Friday!). Check out the site for details, there might be a stream of the conference, etc...
I'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 should be a really interesting event - I'm speaking on a panel with William Mitchell (MITML), ...
I'm currently exhibiting work in a show called BLIP! in Lima, Peru. Also in the show is Mexican artist ,Gilberto Esparza. His "Urban Cancer" project connects up multiple street lamps to one pole, in order to examine ...
This "Cassette Deck Guitar" was built during our Scrapyard Challenge workshop in Lima, Peru. Pretty cool design integrating an old guitar neck into the body of the stereo component's main case and using conductive thread as strings and contact points on a glove sewn with conductive thread ...
Here's a picture of my Alerting Infrastructure! project currently installed in Brussels at IMAL. If you visit their site, you will add to the collective destruction of their new building. So far the building has recorded "0.006244%" damage.
My "Crank The Web" project, a hand-crank browser I built in 2001 that lets you "manually" download any website, goes on display at the ArtLabs: Connectivity show in Sibiu, Romania in a couple weeks. The website about the show is located here. Other ...
My project, "Alerting Infrastructure!" - a website hit counter that destroys the physical structure the website is associated with - is on display on October 4th at the opening of the new building for the Interactive Media Arts Laboratory in Brussels. Some really ...
We're taking our Scrapyard Challenge workshop on the road this weekend to Glasgow, Scotland where we are conducting a day long workshop inside the BBC Blast Bus! (pictured above) The workshop is on Saturday the 22nd and there are still spaces left! ...
Here's a plug for my sister's (Nicole Cohen - pictured above) new art show, opening at the Getty Center in Los Angeles next week. "Please Be Seated" investigates "the intersection of historical interiors, the social behaviors they conditioned, contemporary popular culture, and fantasy. Cohen's ...
We 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 another at Urban Learning Space on Sept 21st also in Glasgow. You can sign up for the ...
The Offload festival: Systems for Survival, taking place in Bristol, UK this Sept 13-16th, is "the UK’s first network media and systems arts event on nature, sustainability and ecology. The event brings together international, national and local artists and practitioners interested in creating work that ...
Tim Redfern and I are performing our collaborative cell phone performance project, "SimpleTEXT" on September 11th (Yeh unlucky date) at Washington College in Chesterton, Maryland! More info on the show details coming soon! Check out the SimpleTEXT website to stay informed ...
We 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 number and punch in numbers when you get to the different exhibit areas. Pretty cool that they are ...
This "Gyrating" purse was also constructed in a few hours during the "wearables" component of our workshop this week. The snaps consist of switches that trigger spinning elements on the exterior of the purse when it is opened to "alert" people around it. Video to ...
Yesterday 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 for sorting "electronics" trash. An old floppy disk and a CD-ROM disk. Pretty retro and nicely designed. There were ...
This modified printer was built by workshoppers today during the MIDI Scrapyard Challenge mini-workshop in this larger "Scrapyard Challenge" framework workshop we are conducting this week in Madrid. This was the "BattleStar Printer-Galactica" - a huge printer-turned-drum-machine with a "human H-Bridge" - which ...
Yesterday we started our "Scrapyard Challenge" workshop at the Matadero, Madrid! Here's a shot of our workshop space - really nice location and lots of room to build. So far we've had some great beginnings and more to come soon! Collecting some more stuff today ...
Katherine Moriwaki and I are running our "DIY Urban Challenge" workshop from our Scrapyard Challenge series of workshops in Madrid next week for the Intermediae event which is opening at the Matadero, Madrid on June 23rd. This ...
Today 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 "saw controller" that when bent creates different sounds. Today I heard some of the first paper sessions, ...
Tim Redfern and I are performing our collaborative project, "SimpleTEXT" on June 5th (Tomorrow Nite!!) during the Upgrade New York at Eyebeam! I'll be giving a talk about my work at 7:30pm then the show will start at 8pm. It's FREE ...
Katherine Moriwaki and I just finished up leading the latest of our "MIDI Scrapyard Challenge" workshops in Stirling, Scotland for the 6 Cities Design Festival. Above is a picture of the "Player Piano Printer" someone made out of an old printer and some ...
I'm showing my Carnivore Client, "PoliceState" as part of the SourceCode show which opens at Eyebeam this Thursday, May 31st. The show is up until August 11th, so please stop by if you are in town! Should be a fun show ...
Just 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 Dorkbot Manchester where I also gave a talk about my work as well. Overall, Futuresonic seemed ...
My project "BumpList: An Email Community For the Determined" (in collaboration with Mike Bennett) is in the show "My Own Private Reality: Growing Up Online in the 90s and 00s" at the "Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art" in Oldenburg, Germany. The show, ...
Here's some video uploaded by Douglas Edric Stanley of the LabCyberspaces show that my project, Alerting Infrastructure! is installed at until June 30th @ Laboral Center for Art and Creative Industry in Gijon, ...
A picture of the final performance from the MSC at Transmediale 2004 (Berlin, Germany). This was the "Yes/No" Shaking Helmet. We are having a performance of finished instruments from our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop tomorrow night (Thursday, April 19th) at 5:15:pm at SPARK art space located ...
View MIDI Scrapyard Challenge Performance – Tomorrow Nite NYC!
Katherine 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 show is dedicated to professors and students who graduated from Parsons MFA in Design / Technology in the last ...
Urban Interface Berlin is a symposium and exhibition that will happen "between April 15 and May 6, 2007. The project will present artworks in the Berlin districts Mitte, Wedding and Gesundbrunnen. The selected works deal with the changing notion of private and public space which ...
Here are some more pictures from the opening at Laboral! Pretty amazing space and some really cool work on display there! "Lab_Cyberspaces Exhibitions Space" Alerting Infrastructure! - my project installed there! Symposium "Furminator" ...
I'm showing my Alerting Infrastructure! project: "a web hit counter that destroys a buidling", at the Laboral Center for Art and Industrial Creation here in Gijon, Spain! So if you go to this page, you can actually contribute to the destruction ...
Distance Lab and Horizon Scotland are organizing "Going Nova, New Horizons in Physics and Technology" and are running a Drawbots workshop there tomorrow, March 23rd! Drawbots are drawing robots I designed that anyone can build very easily, ...
Katherine 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 at the Viral:Culture Design Symposium at Columbia College, and then again for the GEL ...
I'm showing my Alerting Infrastructure! project (web site hit counter that destroys the structure the site represents) at the Lab Cyberspaces exhibition at Laboral Art and Industrial Creation Centre in Gijon, Spain at the end of the month. It should be an interesting ...
Katherine and I are running our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge Workshop at Machine Project gallery / lab space in Los Angeles this weekend, Sunday, July 9th. If you are interested in attending the workshop, you should email the gallery and let them know. Details on the above ...
Katherine Moriwaki and I are leading one of our Scrapyard Challenge workshops this June @ STEIM in Amsterdam, organized by Virtueel Platform - the organization responsible for the excellent E-Culture Fair which took place back in 2001 ...
Beijing-based, US artist, Rania Ho's "Fatso" project "is an interactive installation consisting of inflatable fat suits and a wrestling ring controlled by motion sensors. Made of rip-stop nylon, powerful leaf blowers and motion detectors, audience members are encouraged to don the fat suits, enter the ...
My project, Wifi-Hog is included in the exhibition, "Reclaim The Spectrum" happening at the "ZEMOS98" festival in Seville from March 14-18. This year's theme is "Mas Alla De La TV" or "Beyond TV" with projects ranging from Michelle Teran's ...
Katherine and I are speaking at Dorkbot Madrid this Saturday night, Feb 11th! If you are in Madrid please stop by!
Thomson and Craighead's Unprepared Piano project consists of "a Yamaha Disklavier grand piano that is connected to a database of music MIDI files appropriated and compiled from all over the web. This library of found data is then “performed†automatically in the gallery with the full ...
"Crime Scene:Installation for 2 Computers" by Morgens Jacobsen examines the laws and cultural insecurities around the trading of copyrighted material on the Internet. From his description... "The digital software products of our time raise fundamental questions of intellectual property and copyright. These questions are ...
On October 26th I will be doing a performance of SimpleTEXT in NYC for the Handheld show a NYU's Kimmel Center. Anyone in the NYC area should come out and bring their wireless devices - laptops, Cellphones, anything that can connect to the Internet! ...
Mark Esper is having an opening this week which looks to be really cool. I've already mentioned his tornado installation here before, but this show should definitely be worth the trip out. "For his fourth solo exhibit at The Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Mark Esper premieres "Second ...
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