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 ...
Hi all, I'm moving this blog to a different server in the next few weeks and it will be completely redesigned and different, etc... so look for changes soon.. If you want to know what I'm up to, follow me on Twitter here: http://www.twitter.com/coinop29
I'm giving a talk about my work at the Center for Integrated Media at CalArts in Valencia, CA on Thursday, March 18th... Please stop by if you are in the hood!
This is a picture of what my mouse / trackpad does in a day. The spot on the left is the "check mail" button on my email client and the top left is the "File" menu where I go to open files in apps. I guess I'm ...
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
I wrote this short story back in 2000 and never published it anywhere.. I think it's pretty funny, making fun of the whole "Dot-Com" scene.. Here's the story: "I'm an Internet Guy" by Jonah Brucker-Cohen, 2000. I'm an "Internet Guy", I believe in the long boom, the inpenetrable bubble, hot stocks, net ...
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 ...
Students in the class I teach, "New Media Research Studio" at New York University's Steinhardt's Department of Media, Culture, & Communication had the class build a paper version of FaceBook as an assigned in-class activity. The results were pretty chaotic as they would be in normal real life ...
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 ...
Today's my birthday, I turn --! pretty cool! nice to see another year go by and looking forward to this year!
Happy New Year Everyone! This is my first post of 2010! that means this blog has been around for 7 years.. Yikes! Looking forward to a great year!
Hope everyone has a good holidays and new year! Follow me on Twitter, not here as much any more. I've become less into the full blog. I'm on twitter here.
I'm speaking about my work in a panel discussion at the Science, Fiction and the Visual Arts event this December 11th at 2pm. It's at the Daneyal Mahmood Gallery in NYC / Chelsea. Cya there!
View Science, Fiction and the Visual Arts Event at Danayel Mahmood Gallery
I'm showing my project "Alerting Infrastructure!" at Prospectives 09 Digital Arts Exhibition and Festival opening in Reno Nevada from November 12-14th. Some really great projects at the show! Check out the link for more info.
View Alerting Infrastructure! at Prospectives 2009, Reno, Nevada
I'm giving 3 talks in the next few weeks, hope you can make it out to one or all of them! Details: 1. Nov 7 @ Mobile Art and Code Symposium and Workshop, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. 2. Nov 11 @ Digital + Media Lecture Series, Rhode ...
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!
Here's some video of my project, Alerting Infrastructure! installed at the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art....
We are running the next Scrapyard Challenge workshop at the Old American Can Factory in Brooklyn on Saturday, September 26th. For details on how to signup for the workshop, please visit this link! This workshop is in conjunction with the Sentient City ...
View Scrapyard Challenge Workshop at Old American Can Factory
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!
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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 ...
Here's a transcription of an interview I did with Andrea Polli at the FutureSonic Festival in Manchester, UK. I was there launching the THWONK project which you should all be trying out. Read the interview here: JBC Interview
Just made this map of everywhere we have done the Scrapyard Challenge Workshop since 2003. Check it out: View Scrapyard Challenge Workshops in a larger map
"PhiLia 01", Lia, 2009 I just published an article on iPhone Art Apps for Rhizome.org. This is a really interesting genre of artist projects that is just starting up. Above is a screenshot from Austrian artist, Lia's "PhiLia 01", one of the 6 projects profiled in the piece, ...
Ben Gaulon of Recyclism and Katherine and I are running a joint workshop at ISEA 2009 in Dublin, Ireland on August 22nd at the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art. Workshop is 30 EURO (for basic materials, etc..) or 25 EURO for Students - CHEAP! We've put together this ...
View Sign Up for E-Waste / Scrapyard Challenge workshop at ISEA 2009.
I'm on Twitter... Follow me here... i update my feed more than this blog...
Katherine and I are both invited faculty for the GOSH Summit next month at the Banff Centre in Canada. GOSH = Grounding Open Source Hardware - and it should be an interesting place to meet people involved in this growing field as well as work ...
I uploaded some old band posters that I designed from my high school band "CryBaby" (I sang in this band). You can see them here. I also uploaded some pictures from my college band "Howard North", those pictures are here. Thanks to Safari ...
I just got a copy of Edward Shanken's new book, "Art and Electronic Media". Really excellent and comprehensive book about digital culture and the arts. The book features my PoliceState project in a section about the Carnivore project by RSG. Check out the ...
"Wikipedia" by artist Rob Matthews is a brilliant way to materialize the Internet back into old media. The "book" features prints of 5,000 pages of Wikipedia's "Featured Articles". If Rob were to have the entire Wikipedia printed out, he might have to cut down ...
This error message is a true indicator of how connected and lonely people can simultaneously be. I just hope that it's not becoming a reality yet. (via)
 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 ...
We're at Maker Faire, and spotted this home built R2D2 that worked and sounded just like the original from the movies. Pretty cool! Lots more to come, the Faire starts tomorrow so I'll post some more soon and please stop by our "Scrapyard Challenge" booth at the ...
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!
The report I wrote for Rhizome about FutureSonic 2009 is up on their site! Check it out at this link. Above is a picture I took of Drew Hemment introducing the festival.
 We have just launched THWONK!, a new "Web 4.0" project ( we are skipping Web 3.0 because it's just too big of a project) that lets you customize the rules of online communication! Thwonk is the next generation of our "BumpList" project. If Bumplist is ...
Well I decided to try out Twitter since it will be part of a new project I'm working on. You can "follow" me at this URL. More on this soon and the "new project" in the next day or so...
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 ...
"PoliceState" installed at "Source Code", Eyebeam Center for Art & Technology, May 31 - August 11, 2007, NY, NY. 2012 America's Got No Talent Whitney Museum of American Art: Artport, February 2012, NYC, ...
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! ...
Yesterday we visited the Miraikan museum in Tokyo and checked out the Terminator 4 exhibition. Above is a picture of "Astronomical Toilet Paper" which we saw in the gift shop. Not really sure what the main difference is between this toilet paper and the traditional stuff, but it's ...
I've been neglecting this blog for the last few weeks, mainly because I'm working on the launch of a new project and putting the finishing touches on my degree, etc... So I'll be baaaaaack eventually on here, but for the time being, catch you on the flipside.
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 ...
picture of (Zenith Space Command - 1956) Here's some info on a new project of mine... "Remote Control Remote Control" is a meta-meta consumer electronics device that attempts to uncover the implicit meaning and reason or "need" of these types of devices. The project consists of a secondary remote ...
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 thought I would post a few pictures from President Obama's inauguration that I attended in DC on January 20th! It was a really inspiring experience to be down on the mall with 2 million other people! As you can see by the pics, it was really cold, ...
I took a picture of the cover of one of the strangest Sci-Fi books around, featuring George Bush in a crazy Uncle Sam hat. I don't speak Spanish, so I'm not sure what the book is about, but the cover freaks me out.
I'm not Christian or anything, but just wishing people out there a happy xmas this year... Hopefully the world will be a better place starting Jan 20.
I built this "Video Mixer Lamp" out of parts from an old school mixer that we salvaged from one of our workshops. Turned out pretty cool since I managed to move the internal board to the exterior of the lamp in order to let light pass through the main ...
Wishing everyone a happy holiday season! I'm taking a break from the blog for a bit, but might drop by to post something over the holidays if I see anything worthwhile! Good stuff to come in 2009 so stay tuned to the digital broadcast.. no more analog in 2009...
We saw this sign in Australia a few years ago and it just resurfaced so I had to post it.. I don't know if we got a chance to drink this coffee, but I bet if we did it would have been "T-licious!"..
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!
This giant GUNDAM robot controlled the sound on this modded turntable design by one of the participants of our Scrapyard Challenge workshop here in Seoul, Korea. This was one of several projects that were built during the three day extravaganza here. More to come soon!
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 ...
Just have to get my political 2 cents in and congratulate President-Elect Barack Obama on a stunning victory yesterday! Very cool to have a president who actually cares about his country and solving all of the insane problems we have here at home and abroad. Kind of nuts, but I ...
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!
Tomorrow night I'm giving a talk at Eyebeam for their "Performing Machines" event which is a "public critique and discussion of instrumental hacks (i.e., customized technologies made into musical instruments), in conjunction with Eyebeam‘s "Untethered" exhibition. Live demonstrations will be supplemented by a discucssion of historical and theoretical ...
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 ...
I saw this poster on a tree in my neighborhood today. Pretty amusing that someone would go through the trouble to print this out and stick it on the street. I guess their plants really are that important to them.. Of course, then you have to ask yourself, "Who ...
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 ...
I just finished up my "Report from Ars Electronica 2008" for Rhizome.org. You can read the whole report here.
Tomorrow is the start of the 7th annual Conflux Festival in NYC. I'm showing a new project there in collaboration with Tim Redfern called "Inquisitive Devices" which examines the transition from public to personal broadcasting, and the present day usage of the ...
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 ...
This "Digital Bra" instrument was built by one of our workshop participants here at the Ranch. The device had piezo sensors that were causing feedback from amplified speakers to create pretty interesting sounds.
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