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 ...

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 y...

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 to...

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”...

Students in the class I teach, “New Media Research Studio” at New York University’s Steinhardt’s Department of Media, Culture,...

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 ...

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 ...

Hope everyone has a good thnxgiving! More to come!...

I’m showing my project “Alerting Infrastructure!” at Prospectives 09 Digital Arts Exhibition and Festival opening in Reno Nevada fro...

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 ...

Heading to Dublin next week to defend my PhD! Wish me luck!...

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 si...

Follow the workshops here: http://twitter.com/scrapchall...

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 p...

Just made this map of everywhere we have done the Scrapyard Challenge Workshop since 2003. Check it out: View Scrapyard Challenge Workshops in a large...

“PhiLia 01”, Lia, 2009 I just published an article on iPhone Art Apps for Rhizome.org. This is a really interesting genre of artist projec...

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 Contemp...

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 – a...

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 u...

I just got a copy of Edward Shanken’s new book, “Art and Electronic Media”. Really excellent and comprehensive book about digital cu...

“Wikipedia” by artist Rob Matthews is a brilliant way to materialize the Internet back into old media. The “book” features pri...

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 ye...

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...

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 introd...

  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 l...

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 th...

Yesterday we visited the Miraikan museum in Tokyo and checked out the Terminator 4 exhibition. Above is a picture of “Astronomical Toilet Paper&...

I’m heading to Japan today! If you are around email me to meet up!...

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...

Today’s my birthday! Today I turn 3_______fill in the blank___. Let’s hope this year is a good one! Thanks to everyong for reading Coin-op...

picture of (Zenith Space Command – 1956) Here’s some info on a new project of mine… “Remote Control Remote Control” is a...

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 exper...

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...

Hope everyone has a great 09!...

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 starti...

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 s...

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 ...

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,...

This giant GUNDAM robot controlled the sound on this modded turntable design by one of the participants of our Scrapyard Challenge workshop here in Se...

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 ...

Tomorrow night I’m giving a talk at Eyebeam for their “Performing Machines” event which is a “public critique and discussion o...

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 s...

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 “...

This “Digital Bra” instrument was built by one of our workshop participants here at the Ranch. The device had piezo sensors that were caus...

We saw this sign today outside the Ranch. Pretty funny!...

Apparently some doctors do make house calls. I saw this truck parked outside our building yesterday and had to snap a pic. I guess there are enough si...

Just put up some documentation for our SuperSoaker Car Organ that we built in Miami last week. You can read about it here....

I’m a “guest star” for the “5 in 5” event happening all week at ITP here in NYC. Tomorrow is my day in the event where t...

This was the interface to our project we just completed in Miami. Half of a car with a PCB-like design built on top of it with contact points to trigg...

Today we were out and saw this on a street light post here in Miami. I just hope this isn’t a scam because I really need one of these....

Yesterday the Basurama team collected some car parts for the installation we are doing here in Miami with them… Here are some pics of the headli...

We saw this building here in Miami and I had to take a picture of it. There’s a large tarp on the side of it that makes it look like it was a lo...

This site is an instant “net.art” project from the late 1990s. Enter in any text into the two boxes and click “search”. My fav...

Today is the 5th anniversary of this blog. I started it in July 2003 just to try and document projects that I was interested in that were related to m...

This iDial application for iPhone turns your iPhone into a relic from the past. I really like how it’s so old school that most people born withi...

Taking a break for a while…....

Today we checked out the “Telectroscope” a large, man-made tunnel that connects London, UK to Brooklyn, New York. The tunnel was built by ...

Today, Apple introduced its latest iPhone. I actually like this model more than the last one because it really helps to make the process of getting in...

This t-shirt says it all. It looks like today is Hillary’s last stand, go Obama!...

Yesterday we went to the “Busy Mall” in Queens and checked out the goods. The name was definitely correct on this one....

Here in Brussels we passed this store nearby the workshop space! Pretty cool – tons of good stuff in there like “Chocolate Silicon Chips&#...

Katherine and I are heading to Brussels, Belgium to lead a workshop at the Interactive Media Arts Laboratory (IMAL). The workshop is titled, “Hy...

Katherine and I just got back from Murcia, Spain where we were commissioned artists for the SOS4.8 Festival on Art and Sustainable Design. Plus it was...

I just finished up this interview/article with Dutch maker / artist / hacker Karl Klomp. Karl makes really interesting audio and video mixers / descra...

I just built this iPhone box mod as a project box for one of my projects because I needed a new container for it and didn’t have access to a dri...

The video above is the results of a Drawbots workshop held at St. James National School, Stradbally, Ireland on April 23rd, 2008. Drawbots is a simple...

Taking off for a bit…...

This project that I posted to MAKE is just so crazy / cool that I had to post it again here… Yves Rossy, a former Swiss military pilot, spent 5 ...

I’ve started writing for Neural. Check out my first post here on Chico MacMurtrie’s “Totem Mobile”. Pretty cool project…...

I read this article recently about how it will take you 12 years to actually start “saving” money from a hybrid car. That’s a really...

Dublin-based French artist Ben Gaulon has set up his PrintBall project in Dublin facing a glass window, undoubtably an intense experience to be standi...

This “Beta-To-HDDVD converter” from ThinkGeek will let you treasure your discontinued media formats forever! One of the great April Fools ...

I had to repost this post I wrote for MAKE to my blog, because this project is just too insane. The “International Dance Party“, an instal...

Taking a break from the blog for a bit – more to come next week! Happy March btw....

Here’s some information on a new project of mine. “Google Alert Loop” uses Google’s free “Blogger” software and &#...

Katherine Moriwaki and I are running the week long version of our Scrapyard Challenge workshop this summer at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado. ...

Don’t forget to VOTE today if you are in the US....

My project, PleaseSpam.Us will be on display at the Transmediale 2008 media arts festival in Berlin, Germany from January 30th to February 3rd. The th...

Today’s my birthday. Today I turn 3–! Pretty nuts, another year gone by…....

This gift shop makes no preconceptions about the types of gifts it sells. Just make sure you don’t walk in by mistake or you might end up leavin...

We are showing a video about our Scrapyard Challenge workshops at the “3rd Annual Carnival of e-Creativity & Change-agents Conclave” ...

Breaking from the blog for a bit… check out my posts on the MAKE blog instead!...

Saw this sticker from the American Canabis Society the other day. Pretty funny....

“Spinning beach ball of death” and “Loading PCB” – video, (Gieskes, 2007) I just finished up an interview/article with G...

Just wanted to say happy new year to everyone! Thanks for tuning into Coin-Op and hope everyone has a great 2008!...

Here’s a good way to get rich and famous playing the instrument of your dreams! Free air guitars! [via]...

I 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....