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 ...
Read MoreNo 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...
Read MoreFinally Out
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...
Read MoreGPS Yourself and Your Home
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...
Read MoreAmp It and Broadcast!
Kaki and I are heading to the Outside In conference on “Emerging Expressions, Interventions, and Participation in Public Space” taking pla...
Read MoreOutside In
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...
Read MoreData Heavy iPod?
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!...
Read MoreArtBots Artists Announced!
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...
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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...
Read MoreArt in Style!
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...
Read MoreMulti-Hop Simulations
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 More10 Years of Coin-Op
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...
Read MoreUncle Phone Home
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. ...
Read MoreMicrowave Anxiety
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...
Read MoreInstant Link Sender
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...
Read MoreMessage in a GPS Bottle
Alias star Jennifer Garner wants you to join the CIA. Watch this video, it is totally insane, especially since the CIA endorses this!...
Read MoreJennifer Garner Wants You!
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...
Read MoreGas Prices Before You Pump
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...
Read MoreMinty Tunes
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...
Read MoreHack The Implant
Due to WiFi being so pervasive these days, I always hear this question: “What’s the outgoing mail server?” This happens because you ...
Read MoreMail Yo Mamma
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...
Read MoreNew Reports & Stallman
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...
Read MoreCasshern
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 ...
Read MoreGoogle Stripping
How did he do this? The best thing I’ve seen online in a while!...
Read MoreGetting Dizzy
The Pescara Electronic Artists Meeting (PEAM) takes place this week in Pescara, Italy. Focused on collaboration and exchange rather than competition, ...
Read MorePEAM Ahead
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 ...
Read MoreFlying Machines
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...
Read MoreSimpleTEXT @ Vooruit, Ghent!
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...
Read MoreGhent Phone Home
The New York Snap Exchange, a project initiated by artist, Andrea Moed (also responsible for the location-based story project, Annotate Space), is an ...
Read MoreSnappers
The workshop here in Ghent is going well! Yesterday was a brainstorming session where workshop participants thought up categories of public space (on ...
Read MoreWorkshop Update
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...
Read MoreNothing
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...
Read MoreMade it to Ghent
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...
Read MoreDo the PML!
[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 MoreMore From RAM 5!
The second day of the RAM5 workshop here in Riga, Latvia has been interesting. Some talks this morning on malleable architectural spaces and software ...
Read MoreRAM on!
Found out that BumpList won an honorable mention in “NetVision” of Ars Electronica 2004! We are pretty excited about the award and want to...
Read MoreBumpList @ Ars!
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...
Read MoreArrived in Riga…
[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 MoreThe Sonic is Future
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...
Read MoreThe Future is Sonic
Report from Futuresonic 2004 Mobile Connections April 30 – May 1, 2004 http://www.futureeverything.com Held in the oblong shaped, glass-surfaced...
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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...
Read MoreBack and Forth
Just arrived in Bilbao last nite, and got to see Richard Stallman give a talk this morning on the “Free Software” movement – from th...
Read MoreIn Bilbao
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...
Read MoreReport From Ciber-Art Bilbao Conference 2004
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...
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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...
Read MoreDublin Elevation
Interesting article by David Pescovitz in The Feature, called “State of the Artists” about how research and art are crossbreeding. He cove...
Read MoreIs research where it's at?
Guy Marsden, a British-born artist/engineer based in California, has been creating some interesting art and tech hybrids. His Photogenesis project, in...
Read MoreLights in the Sky!
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...
Read MoreNoCat Nite Lite
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...
Read MoreJust Pause It!
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...
Read MoreCiberArt Bilbao
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...
Read MoreA Fake, What's next?
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 ...
Read MoreEmotive Robots?
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 ...
Read MoreMove to the Music
Usman Haque’s latest project SkyEar is an array of hundreds of helium filled balloons with electromagnetic field (EMF) gaussometers, bright LEDs...
Read MorePut Your Ear to the Sky!
Are cities really shrinking or are suburbs just explanding? Or is technology just making connections between people easier and thus strengthening our ...
Read MoreCities that Shrink
More Geomapping!. GeoWeb is like GeoURL ICBM Address Server, but instead of mapping location of servers, this project is a platform for mapping inform...
Read MoreGeoWeb
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...
Read MoreBlog Updated..
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...
Read MoreCOMMUNECTIVITY WORKSHOP
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...
Read MoreReBlog vs. Blogdex
DEMUR is a cool attempt at combining gaming with location-based audio. Participants wear headphones with a headtracker attached, a backpack with lapto...
Read MoreDemur – location-based gaming
I just checked out Dublin-born, France-based artist Malachi Farrell‘s “Nothing Domestic” installation at Temple Bar Gallery here in ...
Read MoreRobotic Flag Waving
Neighbornode is an ITP student initiated project that attempts to connect up local wireless access points within a neighborhood. From the site: “...
Read MoreWon't you be my neighbor?
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...
Read MoreE-cards for Depression
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 ...
Read MoreProcessing Tech Support
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...
Read MoreNow Orkut Has One…
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...
Read MoreGeriatric Car?
Been looking a bit more into GPS mapped photography and came across the GeoSnapper, which enables users to upload and distribute accurately geo-refere...
Read MoreGeoSnaps!
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...
Read MoreAudioBored: A Public Audio Message Board
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. ...
Read MorePublic Non-Internet Wireless HotSpots
Ebay Longing is a project by LA-based artist Angie Waller that looks at collectible objects from “forbidden” countries such as Iraq, Iran,...
Read MoreEbay Longing
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...
Read MoreSimpleTEXT @ ICA
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...
Read MoreHeading to London…
The Degree Confluence Project is a global image mapping project where people “visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersecti...
Read MoreGlobal Picture Mapping
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...
Read MoreGet Well Hackett!
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...
Read MoreBad Editing?
Cimarrones, a NYC based company recently released, Tag and Scan, a mobile phone application (written in Java) that allows people to digitally tag phys...
Read MoreTag and Scan
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...
Read MoreBack to the Future
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...
Read MoreHouse Gymnastics!
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 ...
Read MoreDATA blog!
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...
Read MoreScary Navy
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...
Read Moresimple.tech
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...
Read MorePlaySphere
PANSE is a project by Paul Thayer (based in Reykjavik, Iceland) that stands for “Public Access Network Sound Engine”. Think of Panse as a ...
Read MorePANSE
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...
Read MoreSuperSize (RIP)
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...
Read Morepassion of christ
Alex Galloway’s new book, “Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization”, is a detailed foray into network culture, internet ...
Read MoreProtocol of Creativity
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...
Read MoreLeap Year?
ServerProject is a “site-specific networked electronic performance comprising four people each working with a laptop computer and various softwa...
Read MoreMusic Networks
Conor O’Boyle, a regular DATA attendee, just released his excellent online flash-based music mixer called “Loop Tracks”. It’s ...
Read MoreJust Loop it!
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...
Read MoreIs it surveillance?
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...
Read MoreAlways look on the CRT side of life!
This show, entitled “Self-Made Objects”, is a showcase in Barcelona, Spain of Roger Ibars’ excellent work. Hacked game controllers c...
Read MoreNintendo Vs. Sony
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...
Read MoreSetup…
This is an exciting project from Jessica Findley (ex-ITP/Sonicribbon/UJI-Making) called “Aeolian Ride”, that will happen in the streets of...
Read MoreAeolian Ride!
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...
Read MoreDATA Fresh!
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...
Read MoreSpeakerPhone Upcoming..
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Read MoreBad Baby!
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 &...
Read MoreFrank All Around You
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...
Read MoreDomain Country
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 ...
Read MoreJust Re-Blog It!
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...
Read MoreHeading Home..
We taught our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop @ Transmediale 04 and it was really great! Over 19 participants and 15 really great instruments were m...
Read MoreMDI Scrapyard Challenge @ Transmediale
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...
Read MoreTransmediale – Day 1
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...
Read MoreTransmediale 04!
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...
Read MoreUSB Ashing..
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. ...
Read MoreCellPhone Guns?
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...
Read MoreToday's Lecture
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 ...
Read MoreGot a Quarter for My Loud Mouth?
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...
Read MoreUS Pain(Station)
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...
Read MoreGone Down…. Coming Back
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...
Read MorePolygon Programmer
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...
Read MoreMighty Robot
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 ...
Read MoreIt’s a Mad Mad Cow
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...
Read MorePublic Desktop
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...
Read MoreBloody Sunday…
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...
Read MoreNew Years Eve…
Very cool new toy for the space invaders 25th anniversary. This controller lets you play classic style – you just put your PS2 controller inside...
Read MorePS2 Table Top!
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...
Read MoreBlueTooth Dragster?
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...
Read Morehappy holidayz
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...
Read MoreClassic but not forgotten!
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 ...
Read MoreITP show
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...
Read MoreHeadin home…
Mockup from John Gerrard’s “Portrait Diptych”. DATA 15 went really well! Check out some pictures on the DATA site. Featured presente...
Read MoreDATA 15: 3D portraits and noise
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 ...
Read MoreStatus Play!
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 ...
Read MoreRopods unite!
Amos Latteier made this “Prosthetic Ass” out of an old chainsaw as an experiment to see what would happen if humans had mechanical additio...
Read MoreSo you need a new ass?
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...
Read MoreCrochet Laptop Bags…
Some shots from the first performance of SimpleTEXT that we did (including myself, Tim Redfern, and Duncan Murphy) in the BALTIC Comtemporary Art Muse...
Read MoreSimpleTEXT Unleashed!
The 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 MoreWeather in our Mist
The 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 MoreBushWacked – 2
Hmm. 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 MoreWeb to LED
Memorials 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 MoreWTC
Simon 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...
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