I’ll be giving a talk at Dorkbot NYC along with Carol Salmanson and Chris Vecchio on Weds, Nov 2nd at 7pm @Location ONE. Please come out if you ...

I guess if I wanted to sell gas, this might be a good way to get a big audience. Either it’s gas with some BBQ or gas for your BBQ, I’m no...

Waiting in a gas station here, there was a good angle of view which saw this pile of manure (cow and chicken) in front of the McDonalds sign pointing ...

Breaking the Game, is “a series of interdisciplinary workshops and online symposium that bring together competing theorists and practitioners to...

Today we had free so we decided to check out the local shopping on Brunswick street and got a nice tour of RMIT (not “Our” MIT ) by a frie...

Yesterday K and I gave talks at the Meat Market here in Melbourne along with our co-facilitator, Adam Nash. Overall the talks went really well and des...

Today at the lab we had the participants build Drawbots which went really well! Lots of cool mods we made including some “Jackson Pollack”...

So far the lab has been really fun! Today we went on a chalk trip around the city, writing up hidden relationships between space and people occupying ...

Its not often that public signs are made to be that obvious that you understand them right away. This sign that we saw today while touring outside of ...

Low Tech Sensors And Actuators is a research/ art project involving “a suite of low-tech sensors and actuators using electronic children’s...

….One year ago today I went into the hospital. It has been a crazy year for me but thanks to all my friends and family supporting me through thi...

This project, Playing Flickr looks like a pretty close to exact ripoff of a project I worked on called SimpleTEXT from Jan. 2003 to present with Tim R...

My inteview with FUR, the Germany-based gaming artists is up now on GIZMODO! Read up!...

Brainmirror is “an interactive experience where the image of the visitors brain appears mixed with his/her mirror image, using natural head move...

I’ve been listening to YTCracker’s Nerdrap album (which you can download as MP3z from the above link). Its pretty hilarious to think of th...

Ok, this is the best domain name and wedding Blog I’ve ever seen. This wedding is for Carrie McLaren who runs the culture-jamming magazine/blog ...

I just wrote up this Net Art News for Rhizome on the new “Endless Forest” game by Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn. I’ve had a chance...

TECHNORGANIC is a “one-night mini-festival celebrating the autumnal equinox through the uncommon merger of new media art technologies with an em...

Alex just released a Carnivore Library for Processing (Very Cool!) that runs directly in Processing – so there’s no need to connect to an ...

I just finished up an interview with Roger Ibars for GIZMODO – read up here!...

Game Paused is a conference / event celebrating the video game – taking the form of a book, DVD, and exhibition to be held in London, Nov 3-13th...

Not really sure what this thing is but its enormous and looks like it dropped from the sky onto this square. Here are some pics of people looking dumb...

Custom tailoring your home décor has never been easier with personal art from DNA 11. Send in a sample of your DNA and in return you’ll recei...

The Refresh! conference starting Sept 28 at Banff New Media Institute in Canada is an event “. . .on the Histories of Media Art and will discuss...

Yesterday we checked out the USOpen in Queenz – which turned out to be a really fun day of matches. The highlight was watching Venus Williams wi...

I really wish I has as much time on my hands as this guy (Gary Duschl) who made a 46,053 foot long chain of gum wrappers that easily put him into the ...

Following up on crazy stuff afoot in London, apparently the London Zoo has an exhibit of 8 humans on display wearing only fig leaves. Hmm.. a hark bac...

Sorry for the posting lag lately, been doing some writing over at GIZMODO lately including this entry on a laser sight slingshot and this one on a Vol...

I really like this idea… iSoldIt is a brick and mortar store that sells your stuff on eBay! You just drop off your old crap and they photo it, l...

Instructables is a website “for showing what you make and how others can make it. Making things is part of being human. Whether you make bikes, ...

This crazy stampede that happened yesterday in Richmond, Virginia wasn’t even because of the “next big thing” in personal computing&...

Last week we made it to the Giant Robot store here in LA on Sawtelle Blvd and then over to GR/EATS the Giant Robot restaurant across the street which ...

One of the original designers of Flash for Macromedia (back when it was codename: “Babaloo”), Murat Konar’s projects bridge the gap ...

I just came across this ad for a “BROKEN PS2” – on sale for only $50! Nice.. I wish I could sell all my broken stuff for that much.....

This DIY air conditioner wins the award for the simplest and funniest way to make an overheated room cool. Just freeze two 2 Liter bottles of water an...

My Report from SIGGRAPH 2005 is up on Rhizome now. Read up!...

On our way back from the airport we saw this picture on the back of a Budget truck. “Wear plenty of de-oderant on the day of the move”. Pr...

Kaki and I are off to LA where we will both be speaking on panels at SIGGRAPH. My panel is on August 4 and is called “How is the Web Growing? In...

Yesterday, we went over to Brooklyn-based artist Mark Esper’s workshop and checked out his homeade “Tornado”. Mark built the tornado...

Just uploaded my Report From Artbots 2005 to my Reports page.(This report was commissioned by Rhizome.org). The report is also available here on Rhizo...

The Potato Powered Web Server experiment is now done, but it was the worlds lowest power web server. This is a nice reminder that even when there̵...

Doug has uploaded his documentation of the Artbots show this past weekend in Dublin! Lots of cool pics up there so check em’ out!...

If you’re driving in Belgium this summer, tune into Radio Forest! From the site: “The content on Radio Forest is made up of music and soun...

I’m not sure if this is for real (confirmed: it is real!), but apparently “Eighty-Year-Old Doris Self is going to London to Re-Claim the t...

This is a great article detailing the “release” of Sony’s new Wireless Television! The greatest technology on the market! Good news ...

It was a great Artbots here in Dublin over the past 3 days. Our workshop attracted over 100 people of the hundreds that came through the event! Tonite...

So far our workshop at artbots has been really fun. Lots of people stopping by to build controllers! The show itself has been great as well and I̵...

Heading to Artbots this week in Dublin, Ireland (my old stompin grounds!), where Kaki and I will be running one of our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge events...

Just saw War of the Worlds and in the end it appears as if there is ever an alien attack, we should just open the fences to all the bird sanctuaries o...

It sucks to be in London this morning – just wanted to send a shout out to anyone reading over there… hope you and everyone you know is sa...

Just uploaded my Report from Wired’s Nextfest 2005 on my reports page. Read up!...

Had a followup angiogram yesterday and the good news is that I’m all clear and really on the way to a good recovery! I don’t have to worry...

hmm. I was looking through some of my old stuff this weekend and I found a copy of the “Disaster Action Coloring Book”. The book features ...

I’ve noticed recently… lots of articles about the iTunes phone from Apple and Motorola. I’m curious if this is really going to happe...

Over in Dublin, DATA Event 21 went off without a hitch! This was the first DATA event I’ve missed – since I moved back to the US this year...

Walking around Chicago yesterday, we came across some interesting homeade signage. This one promises to erase your criminal record for only $25 ! nice...

So far, Wired Nextfest has resembled a trade show more than a “worlds” fair. There have been a few notable projects in the show like the e...

We are heading to Wired NextFest where Kaki is showing her Urban Chameleon project. This year’s event is on Chicago’s Navy Pier which seem...

NewMindSpace is a collection of live-action urban street games that take place in major metropolitan areas such as NYC and Toronto. Another game moves...

Here’s some info on a new project of mine called BumpNet. BumpNet is a wireless network that challenges the existing methods of connectivity amo...

This hack looks like a really nice way to enjoy emulated NES games on a portable. Would be nice to get back into things like this… Roger Ibars d...

I’m not sure how legal this is, but there’s a NYC metrocard for sale on eBay for much less than what its worth. Sounds like a good deal, b...

Apple has some answers to tell after the big “switch” that was announced a few days ago! I’m wondering if Steve Jobs was really trut...

If you have an old Nintendo controller hanging around, this might be the perfect way to mod it. This Nintendo 4-port USB hub will make you the envy of...

AINSO is an internet hosting company where “power is generated using 120 solar panels located on the roof of the data center.” Thus it cre...

Simon Greenwold’s “I Like to Watch” is “a program that watches television. Specifically, it watches COPS on Fox. It is not a v...

Not only do they take up brain space, they take up HD space! Today I got rid of a lot of useless languages on my Mac with this cool OSX app MonoLingua...

I know a few people who would buy one of these – not only for its kitsch appeal, but also because they are addicted to this stuff and dont want ...

Deadline Games’ project, “On The Farm” puts you in the shoes of two kids living on a farm. From the website: “Town dwellers Wi...

Microsoft(ie)’s next generation OS, Longhorn, is getting rid of the “MY” from “My Computer” and “My Ass” in ...

Now on sale, the Dookie iSmell from “CrApple” ! Features “No removable storage. — No chance of upgrading this clunker. â€�...

We were in some junk shops in Athens when I found one of these: Surfman is a wireless “Internet Controller” (yippeee!) thats “lets y...

We are in Athens doing one of our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge (pic above) workshops at the university here. Its been a great experience and the students ...

This San Fran based project is literally “Making You Think” all about how bad our president really “stinks”. Just go to the si...

Since I’ve been back home (the US) I’ve noticed how much paper is consumed on a daily basis and how nothing can be accomplished without it...

They are filming Superman Returns now in Sydney. The scheduled release date for the flick is June 30, 2006 and it’s directed by none other than ...

Good news from the folks at Rhizome, the site is free again for all users to subscribe to email lists and see recent posted content.. if you want to t...

Kaki and I are in Montreal where she is speaking at the HTMELLES festival. It’s nice to be back in my old stomping grounds – things have d...

The Groove tube is “a translucent plastic box that attaches with suction cups to the screen of your television. It has a grid of dividers inside...

Today I put a Creative Commons License on my Drawbot project. This will hopefully save me some time / energy in the future. . . we shall see.....

This project, Google Will Eat Itself looks like a news site hosting feeds about “e-business” opportunities and other news. The kicker is t...

Yesterday I wrote my first Widget for Dashboard in the new OSX, Tigrrr. It’s pretty simple and doesn’t do too much, but it got me interest...

The lines are getting long I better get my tickets now! Yipes.....

My G4 laptop gets so hot I def want to turn it off the whole summer if possible. So when I saw this, I was excited that Apple may have realized the pr...

Some video games just don’t make the cut. They have all the right elements but something just doesn’t seem right and they fail before they...

This ad is all over the subways in NY and people are flipping out about it in blogs as well and apparently cows have guns now so my question is…...

An article I wrote on Wifi-Hog is up on the Locative Media site. This article focuses on the story of the project and the idea behind it, as well as c...

Opening in Tokyo’s Intercommunication Center (ICC) is Open Nature a show curated by Yukiko Shikata and focusing on “the “nature̶...

This informal event called SMAL or “Season of Media Arts London” is a get-together for people to showcase projects “support and stim...

The idea is spreading… This guy turned his car into a roving Wifi Hotspot that broadcasts a signal whereever he drives and allows people to conn...

The Pedestrian Levitation project “puts human movement in a virtual world. The work analyses pedestrians on the crossroad of the Chaussée de ...

The IMC EXPO is going on in NYC now. Reading this quote on the website made me laugh: “If you’re looking to introduce a new technology, pr...

San Fran’s ParkScan program outfits ordinary citizens with wireless PDAs, online maps of local parks, and surveys for them to report on health a...

Not that I play guitar (I’m a drummer), but if I did I might look into being cheesy enough to get one of these JamPod attachments for the iPod t...

This story of a woman killed here in NYC after stepping into the street and getting hit by and ambulance is pretty crazy. Did she not hear the sirens?...

It’s always sad to see the weekend go, but i guess it just makes you anticipate the next one on the way. We checked out Steven Chow’s Kung...

Tonite, Kaki and I are giving talks at ITP about our work and projects. It will be nice to go back to the school we both graduated from and see what t...

Yesterday we took a lot of old, outdated computer equipment I had in storage, over to the “Recycle Your Electronics” day in Park Slope. Th...

“Cook it up USB style” I really need to do this to my iPod now! Not to mention get these great new products – the iCopulate for your...

This new show on Fox about the vegetative Terry Shiavo makes me wonder whats next for reality TV? It’s about as crazy as Kumawar that lets you &...

Its cool that SMS is finally catching on in the US. The fact that Google has set up a new service that allows people to send SMS to get things like mo...

Reliving the 80s never felt so good to waste time with this 80s Arcade Game site! All the games are here like Moon Patrol, Pac Man, Frogger, even Simo...

A recent article in Slashdot about the new Apple Powerbook motion sensors reminds me of an old project of mine from 2001 called LiveWindow (check out ...

The Talks we gave at UCLA about our work are available in streaming real media from the UCLA website. Check them out.....

The Playing the Past conference in Florida is happening right now! – looks pretty cool – especially the keynote by Mary Flanagan and the t...

Usman Haque’s Floatables project is a mobile shield against all technological signals, waves, radiation, data, etc.. that permeates dense urban ...

Have you ever been close to a wifi network but havent been able to get a consistent signal? This seems to happen to me all the time. With these cool Q...

Kaki and I are are heading west for a few weeks to California – LA and SF. We are giving a few talks while there – one at USC‘s inte...

Spending more time in doctors office waiting rooms, I snapped a pic of this sign that I think means “no mobile phones or radios” although ...

Another scalding article about Media Lab Europe surfaced in the Irish Times this week. It mentions that the conditions were “hell-like” wo...

Kaki and I are talking about our work at Parsons School of Design tonite for the Jihui Salon. You can check out the webcast if you can’t make it...

After leaving Ireland last December, I’m finding out lot of good things I missed when I lived there. Today I found out about this great search e...

Been checking out Google’s Video Search recently.. Seems like a good tool for finding video clips online, but also seems a bit pointless because...

Kaki and I gave a talk today at Eyebeam on our UMBRELLA.net project. The project is still going strong – just on a little bit of a hiatus recent...

Went to Christo’s “The Gates” in Central park this past weekend. It was pretty spectacular to see all of the 7500 gates draped aroun...

The RSS Feed for this blog is different now.. please update the feed in your readers… The link for the new feed is on the bottom left side of th...

Got some more stuff for our new apt today and its starting to feel even more homey by the minute – very nice. I also had a visual field test whi...

Today Kaki and I gave talks about our work at the Queens Museum of Art – for an event called Ciudad Transmobil – which was mainly about mo...

Thanks so much to my old high school friend Ernesto for helping me get this blog back up and running! I’ll be back here for the next year or mor...

I might be moving servers in the next week or so, so this blog could be in jeopardy for a few days and possibly go offline… Don’t worry, i...

Well my talk from Ars Electronica (scroll down for my name) this Aug/Sept is now online so if you missed me in Austria, you can watch it through Windo...

Well I am now out of the hospital for the 2nd time! Recovery is getting faster.. nice! This time aound was a lot better than the last time which prett...

Well I am back in the hospital now after having more strange feelings (twinges) and not being able to sleep. Now I’m in a private room in a diff...

Since I fell ill, I’ve spent a few (unpleasant) hours in hospital emergency rooms waiting for doctors (and probably will spend more hours in the...

Today, on a suggestion from my GP, I went to the pool to try and do some excersizes to build back the muscles I lost while in the Hospital. Walking in...

Last nite I had enough energy (finally!) to go out for a bit, and we went to the opening of the Darklight Digital Film Festival and saw some great hip...