
Coin-Op is 10 years old this month! The first Coin-Op related project was a 7″ record that we released for my old Montreal-based band – Ho...
Read MoreCoin-Op is 10 years old this month! The first Coin-Op related project was a 7″ record that we released for my old Montreal-based band – Ho...
Read MoreAparna Rao’s The Uncle Phone is a silly augmented object that consists of an elongated telephone designed specifically for her lazy uncle. In he...
Read MoreThe feeling you get right after you put something in the microwave and turn on HIGH power, not knowing what will happen to the food or its container. ...
Read MoreThis is a nifty bit of code (tested for Windows IE and Safari on the Mac) that makes any link you are looking at into an instant email message. Just p...
Read MoreMessage in a Bottle is an interesting GPS mapping project by UK-based artist Lalya Curtis. The idea was to release several bottles with simple GPS tra...
Read MoreAlias star Jennifer Garner wants you to join the CIA. Watch this video, it is totally insane, especially since the CIA endorses this!...
Read MoreIf you ever wondered what your local neighborhood gas prices are, maybe GasBuddy can help you out. The site is ” the portal site to more than 17...
Read MoreThis Minty Mp3 Player by Limor Fried won’t keep your breath fresh, but the casing is definitely a winner. There are definitely a lot of fun thin...
Read MoreThe ESPrit? 3G is the world’s first behind the ear (BTE) speech processor with an in-built telecoil designed to make phone use clear, simple and...
Read MoreDue to WiFi being so pervasive these days, I always hear this question: “What’s the outgoing mail server?” This happens because you ...
Read MoreI just uploaded my report from the FutureSonic festival to my festival reports page. There is also my latest report on the CiberArt Bilbao event up th...
Read MoreCasshern is a film that makes the Matrix series look like an undergraduate film edited on Final Cut Pro. The depth of special effects, diverse sets an...
Read MoreGoogle is becoming fodder for tons of projects that play off the search engine’s vast media grabbing capabilities. tooGle is an app that steals ...
Read MoreHow did he do this? The best thing I’ve seen online in a while!...
Read MoreThe Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting (PEAM) takes place this week in Pescara, Italy. Focused on collaboration and exchange rather than competition, ...
Read MoreWhile in Gent, we went to the S.M.A.K. museum where they had on display Antwerp-based artist, Panamarenko’s giant mettalic hovercraft vehicle ...
Read MoreWe performed SimpleTEXT at the Vooruit last nite to a crowd of about 60+ people! Lots of interesting (and silly) messages were sent into the mix to in...
Read MoreWe set up a cup phone on the streets of Ghent today during the workshop to allow people on the street walking by the workshop to say a few words. An a...
Read MoreThe New York Snap Exchange, a project initiated by artist, Andrea Moed (also responsible for the location-based story project, Annotate Space), is an ...
Read MoreThe workshop here in Ghent is going well! Yesterday was a brainstorming session where workshop participants thought up categories of public space (on ...
Read MoreWe saw this sign in Riga. My first guess was that this sign forbids you to do ANYTHING. No playing, no driving, no houses, no trees! Asking around I f...
Read MoreAfter a long week in Riga, I made it Ghent where Amy and I will be leading the Communectivity workshop for the next few days. The object of the worksh...
Read MoreToday we went on a PML walk around Riga (short for Psychogeographical Markup Language). Basically the idea is you get a set of instructions – su...
Read More[passing data in Kaki’s workshop] RAM 5 in Riga rolls on. Today’s opening presentations included some cool work by the Eastwood Real-Time ...
Read MoreThe second day of the RAM5 workshop here in Riga, Latvia has been interesting. Some talks this morning on malleable architectural spaces and software ...
Read MoreFound out that BumpList won an honorable mention in “NetVision” of Ars Electronica 2004! We are pretty excited about the award and want to...
Read MoreKaki and I have arrived in Riga, Latvia for RAM 5. This event focuses on the theme of “Open Source Media Architecture”, centered on open s...
Read More[Left: Drew Hemment opening the conference, Right: Wifi-Hog installed in the exhibition] Day 2 of the Futuresonic festival (see link below) was filled...
Read MoreHere in Manchester @ FutureSonic festival. Just heard the first day of talks + keynote by Sadie Plant which was mostly an overview of mobile phone tec...
Read MoreReport from Futuresonic 2004 Mobile Connections April 30 – May 1, 2004 http://www.futureeverything.com Held in the oblong shaped, glass-surfaced...
Read MoreAfter three days in Bilbao, we are heading to Manchester now for FutureSonic. Kaki will be leading a workshop, and I will be exhibiting and speaking a...
Read MoreJust arrived in Bilbao last nite, and got to see Richard Stallman give a talk this morning on the “Free Software” movement – from th...
Read MoreReport From Ciber-Art Bilbao Conference 2004 http://www.ciberart-bilbao.net April 25-29, 2004 Bilbao, Spain By Jonah Brucker-Cohen (jonah(at)co...
Read MoreSo who’s goin to ISEA 2004? With all of the emails about early bird tickets, I’m wondering if lots of people have purchased them or not? T...
Read MoreJust checked out the Dublin version (I took the pic above) of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s Vectoral Elevation here on the streets of the Irish capital...
Read MoreInteresting article by David Pescovitz in The Feature, called “State of the Artists” about how research and art are crossbreeding. He cove...
Read MoreGuy Marsden, a British-born artist/engineer based in California, has been creating some interesting art and tech hybrids. His Photogenesis project, in...
Read MoreWireless Access Points (APs) can take all shapes and sizes. This NoCat Night Light is a cool hack using a lightbulb and a SpeedStream access point wit...
Read MoreHere’s an image of me doing a talk over iChat from Dublin for the PAUSE exhibition (I’m the guy with half of his face cut off), that opene...
Read MoreIn a week, Kaki and I will be heading to the CiberArt Bilbao conference to give talks. My talk is in the “Computational Sociology” tract o...
Read MoreIt turns out this GPS Rifle (info below) thing is a fake (thank you!) – but the fact that someone dreamed it up is getting close to “Runni...
Read MoreI really like art projects that don’t take themselves too seriously. Bill Vorn’s robotic artwork is exactly what I mean: with pieces like ...
Read MoreNYC-based designer, Marc Lin (who I first met in 2001 at International Browserday at Cooper Union), has been up to interesting video tracking + sound ...
Read MoreUsman Haque’s latest project SkyEar is an array of hundreds of helium filled balloons with electromagnetic field (EMF) gaussometers, bright LEDs...
Read MoreAre cities really shrinking or are suburbs just explanding? Or is technology just making connections between people easier and thus strengthening our ...
Read MoreMore Geomapping!. GeoWeb is like GeoURL ICBM Address Server, but instead of mapping location of servers, this project is a platform for mapping inform...
Read MoreI just upgraded from B2 to WordPress today. My new RSS feed is available here. Sorry bout this but it was a long time coming! I think the old url will...
Read MoreI’m co-leading the Communectivity Workshop with Amy Franceschini of Futurefarmers from May 10-14 in Gent, Belgium. The workshop is focused on ha...
Read MoreHere’s an interesting one. R-Echos is like the bastard child of Eyebeam’s ReBlog and Cameron Marlowe’s Blogdex. It’s a hack of...
Read MoreDEMUR is a cool attempt at combining gaming with location-based audio. Participants wear headphones with a headtracker attached, a backpack with lapto...
Read MoreI just checked out Dublin-born, France-based artist Malachi Farrell‘s “Nothing Domestic” installation at Temple Bar Gallery here in ...
Read MoreNeighbornode is an ITP student initiated project that attempts to connect up local wireless access points within a neighborhood. From the site: “...
Read MoreEver wanted to show someone just how sad you are? Well now you can with Sad Souls, a collection of e-cards with slogans like “do you really have...
Read MoreAbout 20 years in the future, I made a call to Processing Tech Support and recorded the conversation. The result is now online at Processing.org. All ...
Read MoreGeomaps of social software networks are sprouting up all over the net. Now there’s GeOrkut, a density map of the Orkut population of users who i...
Read MoreThe Mitsubishi Tora designed by Duncan Phillpotts at the UMEA Institute of Design in Sweden, is a car designed for the aging population: “Tora i...
Read MoreBeen looking a bit more into GPS mapped photography and came across the GeoSnapper, which enables users to upload and distribute accurately geo-refere...
Read MoreJust finished version 2.0 of AudioBored, a public online message board and toolkit that lets people leave messages from any phone (mobile or fixed) th...
Read MoreTS Wireless launched a few years back and was a stand-alone server providing people in public spaces with royalty free ambient music and sound works. ...
Read MoreEbay Longing is a project by LA-based artist Angie Waller that looks at collectible objects from “forbidden” countries such as Iraq, Iran,...
Read MoreJust got back from London where we performed SimpleTEXT @ the ICA! Overall the performance was well received and we played to a full house. Some reall...
Read MoreGoing to London to perform SimpleTEXT at the Institute of Contemporary Art with the Family Filter guys! Please come out and check out the show on Satu...
Read MoreThe Degree Confluence Project is a global image mapping project where people “visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersecti...
Read MoreAfter Chris Hackett of the Madagascar Institute in Brooklyn was hospitalized a few months ago from a freak accident, people wrote get-well cards for h...
Read MoreFor some reason I was watching this trailer for the upcoming movie “The Whole Ten Yards” and I noticed on a stopped frame just how cheap w...
Read MoreCimarrones, a NYC based company recently released, Tag and Scan, a mobile phone application (written in Java) that allows people to digitally tag phys...
Read MoreAll of those 80s moments can now be relived with this cool “Back to the Future” action figure set! The best is Michael J. Fox’s R...
Read MoreHouse Gymnastics recently won a Third Place Gallery award in net.art. This is a nice re-appropriation of domestic space and mixes a bit of carnival-es...
Read MoreFinally set up a blog for the DATA group! We are looking for *superusers* who will have posting priveledges to post entries about events, interesting ...
Read MoreI took this picture of a billboard in Chelsea last time I was in NYC. Very scary way to recruit people to the Navy, but I’m not surprised with t...
Read MoreThe Simple.Tech show at Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery at University of Nevada, Reno, is an homage to the low-tech approach of media art creation. I showe...
Read MorePlaySphere is a PS2 modification by Dublin-based artist, Ray Mongey that actually turns a regular PS2 into a giant bowling ball! I really like his aes...
Read MorePANSE is a project by Paul Thayer (based in Reykjavik, Iceland) that stands for “Public Access Network Sound Engine”. Think of Panse as a ...
Read MoreI heard today that McDonald’s is phasing out it’s SuperSize menu! They claim that this movie, “Super Size Me”, about a man who...
Read MoreJust saw this movie last nite… but missed the ending.. So Jesus is reborn with his wounds intact and he gets up and… fill in the blankR...
Read MoreAlex Galloway’s new book, “Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization”, is a detailed foray into network culture, internet ...
Read MoreWell since this year is a leap year – I thought it might be useful to get some background on why leap years exist. One thing I didn’t know...
Read MoreServerProject is a “site-specific networked electronic performance comprising four people each working with a laptop computer and various softwa...
Read MoreConor O’Boyle, a regular DATA attendee, just released his excellent online flash-based music mixer called “Loop Tracks”. It’s ...
Read MoreI found this link to the SPOLUS project a while back but somehow lost it. It involves a live webcam pointed at a bus station in the Czech Republic. Th...
Read MoreLife: A User’s Manual is a public performance by media artist Michelle Teran where she dresses up like a bag lady and carries an antenna made ou...
Read MoreThis show, entitled “Self-Made Objects”, is a showcase in Barcelona, Spain of Roger Ibars’ excellent work. Hacked game controllers c...
Read MoreI’m here in Huddersfield setting up my SpeakerPhone project which is actually turning into a lot more work than I thought.. but I am very excite...
Read MoreThis is an exciting project from Jessica Findley (ex-ITP/Sonicribbon/UJI-Making) called “Aeolian Ride”, that will happen in the streets of...
Read MoreHad an amazing DATA Event 16 on Thursday night! Speakers were Mark Tribe (Rhizome.org/Columbia University) and Mary Flanagan from NYC and Kai-Peter Ba...
Read MoreI’m heading to the UK (Huddersfield to be exact) to install my project SpeakerPhone for the first time outside of Ireland. The show will be in t...
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Read MoreThose crazy kids at Blast Theory are up to more wireless gaming antics. During their residency in Adelaide, Australia the group has come up with the &...
Read MoreRSG’s new project RSG-TLD-1 is a nice database of bizarre registerable domain names. The project basically parses the unix dictionary for domain...
Read MoreThis blog is now syndicated on the Re:Blog site, recently started up by Eyebeam in NYC. The project is a collection of popular feeds from blogs in an ...
Read MoreAfter four days in Berlin @ Transmediale, we are heading home.. I missed the awards ceremony last night, but I did catch the final award presentations...
Read MoreWe taught our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop @ Transmediale 04 and it was really great! Over 19 participants and 15 really great instruments were m...
Read MoreTransmediale is now open! Last night was the opening and today have been some talks, lectures, performances, and screenings. I made it to the Bio-Land...
Read MoreWe’ve made it to Berlin and the Transmediale festival! We’ll be running a workshop on Sunday and I’ll be giving a talk on BumpList o...
Read MoreThis USB Ashtray has to be one of the most ridiculous peripherals I’ve ever seen – not only does it supply a resting “dock” fo...
Read MoreWhat’s with the reports of cell phone guns, ie. hollowed out mobile phones with .22 caliber handguns inside? This is a getting bit out of hand. ...
Read MoreKatherine and I gave talks about our work @ Trinity, to some engineering students who had pretty glazed over faces but we somehow managed to get laugh...
Read MoreThis is the Yuki Charger, a coin-operated mobile phone charger that works with most mobile phones. Simply put in some change, place your phone on the ...
Read MoreI heard it through the grapevine that at the PainStation show at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Fran, they are making people sign waiver f...
Read MoreLike all things in life, some things crash… well computers tend to misbehave more frequently.. This blog was down for a few days because our MLE...
Read MoreThis piece, “650 Polygon John Carmack“, by LA-based game artist, Brody Condon is a nice foray into the world of game art meets physical sp...
Read MoreThere was a space in Brooklyn I used to visit to see bands play called “Mighty Robot”. You never knew quite what you were going to getR...
Read MoreI took this picture last week when I was in DC – I guess people are still confused as to what a cow is. Still I like the idea that in order for ...
Read MoreI just made this project called Public Desktop. It is similar to my Status Play project, which is about adding sociability to the Mac OSX iChat status...
Read MoreI found this old link to an article on BBC about a 3D space built as a way for Bloody Sunday survivors/witnesses in Belfast 30 years ago to remember t...
Read MoreHope everyone has a happy new year and a great 2004! Contest: Leave a note on your NYE plans and the best one will win an all expenses paid trip to 20...
Read MoreVery cool new toy for the space invaders 25th anniversary. This controller lets you play classic style – you just put your PS2 controller inside...
Read MoreNew from Sony/Ericsson, the CAR-100, an RC car controlled from a BlueTooth enabled phone. As for the usefullness of this, I’m still trying to fi...
Read MoreHappy Holidayz – xmas, kwanzaa, hannukah to all! Hope everyone reading this has a good holiday and new year! Thanks for your interest and stay t...
Read MoreThe Macintosh classic II was a computer I got a lot of work accomplished with. Nevermind it’s 4 MB of Ram and 16 Mhz processor, this machine was...
Read MoreIn NYC for a week – checked out the ITP Show which was a fun event with lots of interactive projects up. A really nice project by Patrick Dwyer ...
Read MoreGetting ready to go back to the US on weds…. Will be hitting up NYC and DC while I am there – should be coooold! Will hopefully get a chan...
Read MoreMockup from John Gerrard’s “Portrait Diptych”. DATA 15 went really well! Check out some pictures on the DATA site. Featured presente...
Read MoreI just created a new project for Mac OSX users who use iChat and iChatStatus called Status Play. Please go to the site and try it out! Read below for ...
Read MoreI still think this Ropod (Rotating Polar Display) project is the best thing since sliced bread – and it’s been around since 1994. i first ...
Read MoreAmos Latteier made this “Prosthetic Ass” out of an old chainsaw as an experiment to see what would happen if humans had mechanical additio...
Read MoreSome friends of mine in Vienna are making these cool crochet laptop bags for people on the run who happen to like wool. Check out their site, really n...
Read MoreSome shots from the first performance of SimpleTEXT that we did (including myself, Tim Redfern, and Duncan Murphy) in the BALTIC Comtemporary Art Muse...
Read MoreThe Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern in London is transformed into an environmental wonder by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson with his work, “The W...
Read MoreThe first version of this video was great, the second BushWacked video is not quite as good but definitely worth a look if you haven’t seen it. ...
Read MoreHmm. Not too original concept – LED sign in gallery, enter text from the web. Webcam in gallery pointed at LED sign, visitors to the site can re...
Read MoreMemorials sketches for the World Trade Center site are online. It’s hard to say if I like or dislike them. Memorials are tricky because on one h...
Read MoreSimon Faithfull in the UK is doing some great work. I really like the subtlety of the projects on the site, especially some of the ideas like SpaceCar...
Read MoreThis whole mis-use of Radio Frequency (RF) tools like Wi-Fi and GSM is really great. As far as I’m concerned, the only good use of technology so...
Read MoreI think there’s a danger calling anything intelligent. Not only technology, but also people! In high school my friends would tell me “ther...
Read MoreCool show up now at Dublin’s Digital Hub called Exhibit4: Play! They are also sporting a new website (finally!). An interesting 3D gaming projec...
Read MoreMy research group at MLE just started a blog. We’ll see what happens as time goes by…. should be cool! Hopefully my other research group a...
Read MoreJust saw this in Time Magazine’s 2003 Best Inventions section. Geez, if SARS could scare people into building one of these what will they think ...
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Read MoreRoger Ibars, who recently graduated from the RCA’s Interaction Design program, is doing some interesting work. The above project, called “...
Read MoreDATA is one of the several arts and technology organizations taking part in the Distributed Creativity online forum organized by Eyebeam in NYC. The f...
Read MoreCool project called COMNET from the Fund for the City of New York that has a lot of relevance to local action/ neighborhood projects. The main aim is ...
Read MoreI wish I could go to this next weekend – DMZ event at Limehouse Town Hall in the UK. Sounds like a good mix of everything from public Wi-Fi to w...
Read MoreKing Kong just got a boob job and now he’s hanging out at amusement parks. What will the kids think of next?...
Read MoreAn artist friend of mine in LA is looking for 3D hair (like the one pictured above). That’s right, anyone who’s working on 3D and just wan...
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