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Just finished documentation on my Forward Compatible project, a parastic physical object for a Wi-Fi or fixed router that monitors network traffic and...

So I got this idea to do a small handheld project with iPaqs because they fit so nicely into the palm of your hand and you can travel around easily wi...

Gravity and Resistance is a new project by Japanese artists Seiko Mikami and Sota Ichikawa that combines a real-time, pressure sensor equipped floor a...

LA-based artist, Brody Condon’s new work “Untitled War”, open this July and pits two medieval warriors in full armor, fighting (to t...

This net cafe in Crete had a unique business plan. The more beer you drink, the more net access you get. As you get more drunk, you stay online longer...

Christophe Bruno’s project Blood For Sale, is a re-take on the famous walk that James Joyce took through Dublin 100 years ago. This time, Bruno ...

No this isn’t a picture from Alcatraz, it’s a pic from where we are staying in Crete on.. yes…vacation! Finally. We’ll be here...

It’s good to know there’s a public database called GeoCoder so that you can look up the way-point of every address in the US. Now I can kn...

I really like the recent idea of using your iTrip as a broadcaster with this external amplifier. Very cool that people are running their own pirate ra...

Kaki and I are heading to the Outside In conference on “Emerging Expressions, Interventions, and Participation in Public Space” taking pla...

Yesterday I noticed my iPod was bulging out of its metal case. Seemed like the metal was warped and didn’t fit on the plastic front anymore. I w...

ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show (held this Sept 17-19 in NYC) has announced its lineup! Lots of really interesting projects from hi-tech to dirt style!...

Intel researcher James Scott has been doing some work with Networked Surfaces, or tabletops that network devices that are placed on top of them. He sa...

The Artist Run Limousine is a mobile art machine by the Vancouver based collective FirstFloor. So far the car has been taken out for numerous projects...

Interesting applet of a multi-hop ad-hoc network by Nelson Minar (ex-MIT ML) who now works at Goooogle. In the above screen shot, Minar explains: R...

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...

Aparna Rao’s The Uncle Phone is a silly augmented object that consists of an elongated telephone designed specifically for her lazy uncle. In he...

The 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. ...

This 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...

Message 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...

Alias star Jennifer Garner wants you to join the CIA. Watch this video, it is totally insane, especially since the CIA endorses this!...

If 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...

This 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...

The 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...

Due to WiFi being so pervasive these days, I always hear this question: “What’s the outgoing mail server?” This happens because you ...

I 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...

Casshern 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...

Google is becoming fodder for tons of projects that play off the search engine’s vast media grabbing capabilities. tooGle is an app that steals ...

How did he do this? The best thing I’ve seen online in a while!...

The Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting (PEAM) takes place this week in Pescara, Italy. Focused on collaboration and exchange rather than competition, ...

While 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 &#...

We 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...

We 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...

The New York Snap Exchange, a project initiated by artist, Andrea Moed (also responsible for the location-based story project, Annotate Space), is an ...

The workshop here in Ghent is going well! Yesterday was a brainstorming session where workshop participants thought up categories of public space (on ...

We 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...

After 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...

Today we went on a PML walk around Riga (short for Psychogeographical Markup Language). Basically the idea is you get a set of instructions – su...

[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 ...

The second day of the RAM5 workshop here in Riga, Latvia has been interesting. Some talks this morning on malleable architectural spaces and software ...

Found out that BumpList won an honorable mention in “NetVision” of Ars Electronica 2004! We are pretty excited about the award and want to...

Kaki 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...

[Left: Drew Hemment opening the conference, Right: Wifi-Hog installed in the exhibition] Day 2 of the Futuresonic festival (see link below) was filled...

Here in Manchester @ FutureSonic festival. Just heard the first day of talks + keynote by Sadie Plant which was mostly an overview of mobile phone tec...

Report from Futuresonic 2004 Mobile Connections April 30 – May 1, 2004 http://www.futureeverything.com Held in the oblong shaped, glass-surfaced...

After 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...

Just arrived in Bilbao last nite, and got to see Richard Stallman give a talk this morning on the “Free Software” movement – from th...

Report From Ciber-Art Bilbao Conference 2004 http://www.ciberart-bilbao.net April 25-29, 2004 Bilbao, Spain By Jonah Brucker-Cohen (jonah(at)co...

So 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...

Just 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...

Interesting article by David Pescovitz in The Feature, called “State of the Artists” about how research and art are crossbreeding. He cove...

Guy Marsden, a British-born artist/engineer based in California, has been creating some interesting art and tech hybrids. His Photogenesis project, in...

Wireless 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...

Here’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...

In 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...

It 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...

I really like art projects that don’t take themselves too seriously. Bill Vorn’s robotic artwork is exactly what I mean: with pieces like ...

NYC-based designer, Marc Lin (who I first met in 2001 at International Browserday at Cooper Union), has been up to interesting video tracking + sound ...

Usman Haque’s latest project SkyEar is an array of hundreds of helium filled balloons with electromagnetic field (EMF) gaussometers, bright LEDs...

Are cities really shrinking or are suburbs just explanding? Or is technology just making connections between people easier and thus strengthening our ...

More Geomapping!. GeoWeb is like GeoURL ICBM Address Server, but instead of mapping location of servers, this project is a platform for mapping inform...

I 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...

I’m co-leading the Communectivity Workshop with Amy Franceschini of Futurefarmers from May 10-14 in Gent, Belgium. The workshop is focused on ha...

Here’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...

DEMUR is a cool attempt at combining gaming with location-based audio. Participants wear headphones with a headtracker attached, a backpack with lapto...

I just checked out Dublin-born, France-based artist Malachi Farrell‘s “Nothing Domestic” installation at Temple Bar Gallery here in ...

Neighbornode is an ITP student initiated project that attempts to connect up local wireless access points within a neighborhood. From the site: “...

Ever 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...

About 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 ...

Geomaps 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...

The Mitsubishi Tora designed by Duncan Phillpotts at the UMEA Institute of Design in Sweden, is a car designed for the aging population: “Tora i...

Been looking a bit more into GPS mapped photography and came across the GeoSnapper, which enables users to upload and distribute accurately geo-refere...

Just 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...

TS 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. ...

Ebay Longing is a project by LA-based artist Angie Waller that looks at collectible objects from “forbidden” countries such as Iraq, Iran,...

Just 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...

Going 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...

The Degree Confluence Project is a global image mapping project where people “visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersecti...

After 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...

For 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...

Cimarrones, a NYC based company recently released, Tag and Scan, a mobile phone application (written in Java) that allows people to digitally tag phys...

All 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...

House 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...

Finally set up a blog for the DATA group! We are looking for *superusers* who will have posting priveledges to post entries about events, interesting ...

I 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...

The 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...

PlaySphere 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...

PANSE is a project by Paul Thayer (based in Reykjavik, Iceland) that stands for “Public Access Network Sound Engine”. Think of Panse as a ...

I heard today that McDonald’s is phasing out it’s SuperSize menu! They claim that this movie, “Super Size Me”, about a man who...

Just 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...

Alex Galloway’s new book, “Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization”, is a detailed foray into network culture, internet ...

Well 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...

ServerProject is a “site-specific networked electronic performance comprising four people each working with a laptop computer and various softwa...

Conor O’Boyle, a regular DATA attendee, just released his excellent online flash-based music mixer called “Loop Tracks”. It’s ...

I 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...

Life: 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...

This show, entitled “Self-Made Objects”, is a showcase in Barcelona, Spain of Roger Ibars’ excellent work. Hacked game controllers c...

I’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...

This is an exciting project from Jessica Findley (ex-ITP/Sonicribbon/UJI-Making) called “Aeolian Ride”, that will happen in the streets of...

Had 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...

I’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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Those 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 &...

RSG’s new project RSG-TLD-1 is a nice database of bizarre registerable domain names. The project basically parses the unix dictionary for domain...

This 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 ...

After four days in Berlin @ Transmediale, we are heading home.. I missed the awards ceremony last night, but I did catch the final award presentations...

We taught our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop @ Transmediale 04 and it was really great! Over 19 participants and 15 really great instruments were m...

Transmediale 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...

We’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...

This USB Ashtray has to be one of the most ridiculous peripherals I’ve ever seen – not only does it supply a resting “dock” fo...

What’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. ...

Katherine 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...

This 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 ...

I 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...

Like 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...

This 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...

There 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...

I 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 ...

I 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...

I 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...

Hope 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...

Very cool new toy for the space invaders 25th anniversary. This controller lets you play classic style – you just put your PS2 controller inside...

New 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...

Happy Holidayz – xmas, kwanzaa, hannukah to all! Hope everyone reading this has a good holiday and new year! Thanks for your interest and stay t...

The 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...

In 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 ...

Getting 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...

Mockup from John Gerrard’s “Portrait Diptych”. DATA 15 went really well! Check out some pictures on the DATA site. Featured presente...

I 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 ...

I still think this Ropod (Rotating Polar Display) project is the best thing since sliced bread – and it’s been around since 1994. i first ...

Amos Latteier made this “Prosthetic Ass” out of an old chainsaw as an experiment to see what would happen if humans had mechanical additio...

Some 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...