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...

Some shots from the first performance of SimpleTEXT that we did (including myself, Tim Redfern, and Duncan Murphy) in the BALTIC Comtemporary Art Muse...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

This 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...

I think there’s a danger calling anything intelligent. Not only technology, but also people! In high school my friends would tell me “ther...

Cool show up now at Dublin’s Digital Hub called Exhibit4: Play! They are also sporting a new website (finally!). An interesting 3D gaming projec...

My 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...

Just 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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Roger Ibars, who recently graduated from the RCA’s Interaction Design program, is doing some interesting work. The above project, called “...

DATA is one of the several arts and technology organizations taking part in the Distributed Creativity online forum organized by Eyebeam in NYC. The f...

Cool 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 ...

I 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...

King Kong just got a boob job and now he’s hanging out at amusement parks. What will the kids think of next?...

An 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...

I read this article by Malcolm McLaren on 8-Bit Punk. McLaren, a legend in punk rock from the 70s (who I saw speak once in NYC) seems a bit overwhelme...

Today I stayed in, but then went out to see Intolerable Creulty, the new Coen Bros film. Pretty amusing, esp George Clooney’s character, but the...

No it’s not a USB pendrive for your data. This is the NetGear MA111, a USB WiFi adapter that lets any computer with a USB drive connect to a Wi-...

These are two PlayStation 2 modifications (the one on the left is my entry – a Famicom mod) featured in a show put together by DEAF Ireland. A r...

Even McDonalds is getting into fashion these days with this digital watch that was included in a happy meal in one of their Amsterdam restaurants. Not...

Just got back from an interesting four days at the E-culture Fair in Amsterdam that took place Oct 23-24th. The conference/event consisted of over 50 ...

I just uploaded a lot of pictures and some video of the workshop I taught at ElectroFringe, an electronic art festival that took place earlier this mo...

When I was in Australia a few weeks back I met Richard Kelly Tipping – an Australian artist who creates really great work with signage across Au...

This is the “Living Sculpture”, “The eight-legged Octofungi, a 12-inch-tall sculpture of colored polyurethane, micro glass beads, an...

Heading to UBICOMP today in Seattle to show my project AudioBored! Should be a fun event – expect some live blogs from here where I will wait fo...

This was a hardware Nintendo hack I saw at ElectroFringe that combined a Famicom with the next Nintendo model. The mod included custom built knobs tha...

Walking out to the scenic ex-military base penninsula called the “Gap”, just south of Sydney, I noticed a peculiar sign. Is it just me or ...

This was the MIDI scrapyard challenge workshop I led in Newcastle, Australia today. Some amazing output from it . People built custom midi controllers...

Made it to Newcastle, Australia for ElectroFringe! Here’s a pic of PoliceState in action – set up in the John Paynter Gallery (an old poli...

Getting ready for a two week trip to Australia/LA/Seattle. I’ll be in Australia for ElectroFringe where I will be leading a workshop, masterclas...

When I was in WDC (my home town) a month ago, I noticed there was something new on the license plates since I left. Is this goverment sponsored civil ...

I was just in Amsterdam at the Next 5 Minutes Festival of Tactical Media presenting Wifi-Hog @ the Tactical Tool-Builders Fair in the basement of the ...

Here on the last day at Ars Electronica – currently sitting in on the last conference with Alexei Shulgin, Christiane Paul, Amy Alexander, and o...

I’m here w/kaki at Ars Electronica (above pic is from the conference) – been running around going to see the installations and talks.. a l...

Walking through lower Manhattan a few weeks ago I couldn’t help but notice the Safer America shop a block from the WTC site. One of their “...

Back in Dublin for a bit before I head to Ars Electronica to watch all the kool kids play with toys. Well not exactly, but stay tuned – will blo...

Just got back from the US Open in NYC – where I saw Agassi and Capriati play. One thing I noticed when I went into the main stadium there was th...

Bass-Station is a wifi enabled 80’s Ghettoblaster boombox that lets you connect to it through any wireless card, upload tracks, and be a dj all ...

Whenever I’m on AIM (iChat) I always get sent a million links that I usually look at once and never remember. Then when it’s an important ...

Well I am officially back home for a two week vacation to DC and NYC. When I’m here I will be giving a few talks in NYC – one at Eyebeam a...

BIX is a “communicative display skin” for the Graz Kunsthaus. Basically a fully controllable display made of thousands of flourescent tube...

I’ve heard of color film and color prints, heck, I’ve even heard of color xerox, but Lomo’s cool new Color Splash Flash is a great w...

T-Shirts are pretty cool.. esp ones that reflect on everything from dot bomb to video games. ThinkGeek may have the classics, but I found some more lo...

Friendster is addictive and IM is pretty much pervasive to desktop users. But one thing thats missing in IM is knowing who your friends are chatting w...

I’ve heard of coin-operated web access, in fact I’ve even tried it and watched as my time (and money) slowly depleted before my eyes and w...

I don’t know if anyone reads this blog. I am a bad publicist of this – but then again who knows? Anyone there?...

UK based installation art collective Greyworld have been making interesting sound projects in urban space since the late 80s. Their most recent projec...

Cool new Dublin Art and Technology Association (DATA) merchandise (designed by Amy Franceschini from Futurefarmers.com) is now available at our online...

This is an amazing energy machine called Perpetuum Mobile by Wessel di Wesseli. Watch the quicktimes on this site and you will be pretty confused R...

We were just in Brussels, Belgium at the Imagine Interface workshop over the weekend. It was a really fun three day intensive electronics and prototyp...

Well i’m not sure if it can really fit on one drive like these guys try to do – but what if there was something like SETI@HOME for harddri...

In Birmingham to install my PoliceState project and I was walking around town and I noticed this crazy building – that will eventually be a Self...

Looks like Noderunner is taking off in other places – The london version hit the streets in May 2003 – and seemed to even more intense. Th...

This game called Urban Challenge is a new breed of multi-player game. It fits with the current pervasive gaming trend, but on a much more accessable a...

Nice site from a collective of 8bit junkies called Beat13. Lucy Mclauchlan is responsible for the super illustrations found here. They are going to be...

Just starting out with this blog – it’s meant for research and phd purposes only.. at this point but that will probably change as new stuf...