
NY-based artist, Christina Ray’s new show “Visitor Files” is up now in LA. The show examines the experience of moving to a new city ...
Read MoreNY-based artist, Christina Ray’s new show “Visitor Files” is up now in LA. The show examines the experience of moving to a new city ...
Read MoreReliving 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...
Read MoreParisian street artist “Space Invader” has a new show up called “Rubik Space” where he’s created more of his pixelated a...
Read MoreA 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 ...
Read MoreThe Talks we gave at UCLA about our work are available in streaming real media from the UCLA website. Check them out.....
Read MoreThe Playing the Past conference in Florida is happening right now! – looks pretty cool – especially the keynote by Mary Flanagan and the t...
Read MoreUsman Haque’s Floatables project is a mobile shield against all technological signals, waves, radiation, data, etc.. that permeates dense urban ...
Read MoreIf there’s a serious “terrorist threat” to the US (or the world?), apparently President Bush is setting up a kill switch to shut dow...
Read MoreHave 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...
Read MoreKaki 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...
Read MoreSpending more time in doctors office waiting rooms, I snapped a pic of this sign that I think means “no mobile phones or radios” although ...
Read MoreAnother scalding article about Media Lab Europe surfaced in the Irish Times this week. It mentions that the conditions were “hell-like” wo...
Read MoreKaki 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...
Read MoreAfter 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...
Read MoreBeen checking out Google’s Video Search recently.. Seems like a good tool for finding video clips online, but also seems a bit pointless because...
Read MoreKaki 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...
Read MoreWent to Christo’s “The Gates” in Central park this past weekend. It was pretty spectacular to see all of the 7500 gates draped aroun...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreGot 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...
Read MoreToday 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...
Read MoreThanks 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...
Read MoreI 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...
Read MoreWell 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...
Read MoreWell 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...
Read MoreWell 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...
Read MoreSince 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...
Read MoreToday, 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...
Read MoreLast 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...
Read MoreToday was more mellowed out. Met with a new GP today who was very cool and borrowed a video camera so that we could edit the UmbrellaNET video for Dar...
Read MoreDigital Art Afficionado and Guru – Steve Dietz – did a great job of documenting the Villette Numerique which recently happened in Paris. I...
Read MoreToday we checked out the show “Dreaming of the Dragon’s Nation: Contemporary Art From China” which is featured at the Irish Museum o...
Read MoreToday my cousin, Rosa arrived from the US to hang out and help me out with my recovery! Excellent to have more family here! I went to the hospital for...
Read MoreToday was pretty chilled out – walking around Dublin with my mom and Kaki and dropping off some gifts to the nurses at the hospital who took car...
Read MoreWell I’m oficially in recovery now, out of the hospital, taking it easy and trying to get back into normal life. Today my mom and katherine and ...
Read MoreWell I am officially discharged from the hospital now (thank tha lord! – I’m outta there!)… It feels so good to be home for good fin...
Read MoreI’m home for a bit, with Kaki and my sister, Nicole who came here from NYC to help me recover! Awesome to have family here. My recovery is going...
Read MoreWell – I’m back and forth from the hospital now after having a brain hemorhhage and an AVM in my brain…. I’m in full recovery ...
Read MoreLast year at this time I was in Newcastle, Australia at the ElectroFringe festival! This year’s event, titled “Replicate, Automate, Infilt...
Read MoreNICEBOTS are small wooden robots that drive around and learn based on situations and obstacles they encounter. They are part of an open atelier worksh...
Read MoreThe Virus Mapping Tool (pictured) is one of several projects in the newly touring “virus-art” show, “The Aesthetics of Computer Viru...
Read MorePCworld reports (PCWorld??? what the heck) that Ireland is cracking down on Internet scams! Umm, Ireland (where I am currently living) is the worst ...
Read MoreI just uploaded some pictures I took at ArtBots this weekend! Overall it was a great show with lots of cool projects! My pics kind bias my own piece s...
Read MoreThe Villette Numerique media arts festival opens tonite in Paris! Featured in this huge show includes “Listening Post” by Ben Rubin and Ma...
Read MoreNew York 2050 is a project for the collective vision and future scenarios of how NYC will be in 50 years. “NewYork2050 seeks to facilitate a pub...
Read MoreBack to Dubs today to setup and test out UMBRELLA.net which makes its debut in NYC for Spectropolis, a 3 day wireless in the park event at City Hall P...
Read MoreToday ArtBots opened in NYC. I’m here running a workshop where 100 people can build my DrawBot robots (made from markers, plastic cups, and old ...
Read MoreSign up to ride through San Francisco on your bike in inflatable suits at Aeolian Ride, a public performance and bike event by NYC artist, Jessica Fin...
Read MoreCzech media artist Michael Bielicky has been doing some really great work over his long career. I first discovered Bielicky when I was researching my ...
Read MoreMade it to NYC yesterday and had some time to check out the “Passage of Mirage” show at the Chelsea Art Museum (which I hadn’t been ...
Read MoreI just posted my Report from ISEA 2004 today! Read up here and Rhizome! We are off to NYC today to run a DrawBot modding competition at ArtBots: The R...
Read MorePublished on Rhizome.org – 9/13/04 Baltic Sea, Helsinki (Finland), Tallinn (Estonia) August 14-22, 2004 by Jonah Brucker-Cohen Held over a week ...
Read MoreLooks like Mobile Bristol’s Jukola is a direct rip-off (with one or two changes) to Mark Argo and Ahmi Wolfe’s Bass Station project. I can...
Read MoreEver wanted to listen to the hurricanes pummeling the western hemisphere? Well thanks to NY-based artist Andrea Polli’s project, “Atmosphe...
Read MoreJust wanted to give a moment of silence for Sept 11 anniversary....
Read MoreNext time you get lost, you can “feel” your way home. The ActiveBelt, tracks your position with GPS, and directs you to your destination w...
Read MoreYesterday’s keynote by Janet Abrams of the Design Institute was a smack in the face to many UBICOMP attendees when she started asking questions ...
Read MoreWe finally escaped Ars Electronica (just kidding – it was great!) and are now at UBICOMP in Nottingham, UK where we are participating in a works...
Read MoreDemoscene is a new book about the computer hacker revolution of the 1980s. “The demoscene spawned a group of people that have worked in or start...
Read MoreYes, even projects at Ars Electronica crash! (see picture) This is Sur La Table by Khan Osman which streamed colors from fruit placed on a table (I as...
Read MoreYesterday at Ars was the DISRUPTION panel I moderated – which went really well! Some very interesting presentations including Joi Ito speaking a...
Read MoreWe’ve arrived here at Ars Electronica 2004 in Linz, Austria! So far the festival has been very active – lots of presentations, exhibition ...
Read MoreReport From Ars Electronica 2004 Linz, Austria Sept 2-7, 2004 By Jonah Brucker-Cohen This year’s Ars Electronica festival was a reflection on th...
Read MoreMatt Gardiner’s Oribotics are simple robotic sculptures that fold origami shapes and and animate light patterns. Some interesting videos on the ...
Read MoreAs the RNC kicks off in NYC, another mass protest is getting underway across the city. The unemployment line is a symbolic line of people representing...
Read MoreThe UMBRELLA.net website is now updated and looks much better! It features an events page that lists all of the upcoming events where the project will...
Read MoreThe trend in pervasive gaming these days seems to push everything onto the STREETS. If it’s not in your face on the sidewalk, then why do it. Ta...
Read MoreTAYTO chip – the ghetto chip! TAYTO is the only potato chip made in a castle in Northern Ireland and they have the best animated factory tour I ...
Read MoreAbove is a picture from the project “Symphony for Dot-Matrix Printers, done in 1999 by the Montreal based artist group The User and was shown at...
Read MoreHeading to Ars Electronica next week to speak on a panel for the TIMESHIFT symposium. Our topic is “DISRUPTION” and in my talk I’ll ...
Read MoreSo you spend your whole life training for a sporting event, you compete, and wow! you actually win something! So you have a medal ceremony and you cry...
Read MoreYou’ve seen it in WIRED magazine and now it’s here at coin-op! Yes the Yellow Arrow project is making waves in NYC, LA, Chi town, and San ...
Read MoreFloating Islands is a sound-light-installation originally deployed on Berlin’s river Spree that consists of 50 vacuum cleaners, plastic bottles ...
Read MoreI bought this candy bar in Helsinki because I wanted to eat something that was called something it represents. Not that I pig out on candy bars all th...
Read More(left: GRILLI Radio Tour, right: “Light Rain” Installation) Made it back from ISEA 2004 with lots to think about! Last nite we participate...
Read MoreThe WavePillow is a pillow that alerts surfers to the type of waves that are present on the beach in the morning. This way they can know whether to no...
Read MoreHere at ISEA 2004 in the exhibition at Kiasma is a project called Bubl Space which supposedly blocks all mobile phone signals around you to give you s...
Read MoreAt the Kiasma show here in Helsinki for ISEA 2004, Pamela Jennings‘s Constructed Narratives project (pictured above at the opening) consists of ...
Read MoreMade it to Helsinki after missing our ferry and only getting about 3 hours of sleep. Over the course of ISEA 2004 I think we’ve gotten about 20 ...
Read MoreInduction House by Aether Architecture “is a 5300 cm-pixel resolution 3d screen mounted in a 300X300X600 cm self-tensioned structure for mapping...
Read MoreHere at ISEA 2004 on the super cool Silja Opera ferry cruise! It’s a huge ship with 3 clubs, 2 jacuzzis, 2 saunas, casino, Wi-Fi access, too muc...
Read MoreToday Kaki and I led the DIY Wearable Challenge workshop here in Tallinn, Estonia at the Estonian Academy of Arts! It went really well with some great...
Read MoreKaki and I head to ISEA today to lead two workshops called DIY Wearable Challenge. Katherine will also be exhibiting her wearable projects, Inside/Out...
Read MoreI just updated my reports page with a new report from DIS 2004 in Boston! Read up!...
Read MoreResearcher Andruid Kearne’s latest entry into the ACM Hypertext Conference has been censored by the conference chairs! ” Kerne created the...
Read MoreThis suit makes you feel old. “The Third Age Suit restricts the mobility of the wearer to give them an appreciation of what it is like for patie...
Read MoreThis month’s Rebublican National Convention (RNC) will see a new kind of activist! With Moport, a site for generating and creating mobile phone ...
Read MoreIM watching is a nice experiment in making a digital record of something you do anyways – which is know when your buddies are on and offline. Si...
Read More1. Interesting graph of Bush’s approval rating vs. the terror alerts that were declared. A steady decline since 9/11. 2. Some press in the New Y...
Read MoreThe London collective, Greyworld, have just completed their latest public display project called The Source. The Source is an eight storey high kineti...
Read MoreMe! I’m here in NYC for a few days hanging out and testing UMBRELLA.net – where it will be shown for the first time during the Spectropoli...
Read MoreHere at the DIS 2004 we were trying to find out how to get on the Wifi network so we began to use the ad-hoc network function of our wireless cards to...
Read MoreToday, in conjunction with the US Department of Art & Technology, I launched my newest project, the Homeland Insecurity Advisory System. The Home...
Read MoreMade it to Boston, where I will be speaking on panel called “Design for Hackability” at the Designing Interactive Systems conference! Toda...
Read MoreReport from DIS 2004 The Cambridge Marriot Boston, MA, USA August 1-4, 2003 By Jonah Brucker-Cohen The 5th bi-annual conference on Designing Interacti...
Read MoreI just (secretly) got a copy of the “banned words” from Dragon Systems’ “Naturally Speaking” speech to text software. It...
Read MoreCool stuff from O’Reilly, a magazine for tech projects called Make. Finally a magazine for wanna-be hackers and tinkerers! From their blurb: ...
Read MoreYesterday, we had 5 computers sharing Wi-Fi from a dial-up connection! Basically we created the worlds slowest wireless internet cafe! Therefore this ...
Read More“? fish, plant, rack ? allows the navigational electrical discharges of the virtually blind elephant fish ?gnathonemus petersi? to instruct the ...
Read MoreThis is a great cross between late 90s net.art and early 2000’s office cubicle boredom. Oh and did I mention that this rules....
Read MoreHeading to Boston on Weds to speak at a panel called “Design for Hackability” the Designing Interactive Systems conference! Should be a fu...
Read MoreThanks to some good advice, I just changed this site so that the blog is the front page at coin-operated.com. I hope this works and there will be a fe...
Read MoreRSG and BEIGE‘s newest unusable hack is a new file compression system called Total Asshole Compression (TAC). Drag and drop a file into TAC and ...
Read MoreTomorrow night, we will be performing SimpleTEXT to open the Garage Festival in Straslund, Germany! This is the seventh performance of the project tha...
Read More(Nathaniel Stern presents his work) Last nite we had the 19th installment of DATA! Here is a picture of presenter Nathaniel Stern talking about his wo...
Read MoreTest your courage with this one-way mirror public toilet, a nice piece by LA-based artist Monica Bonvicini. I don’t know if I would use it but I...
Read MoreMy physical hit counter,!Alerting Infrastructure! that destroys an organization’s real-world bulding when people visit its “virtual”...
Read More(image from DorkBot event) Heading to Barcelona today where Kaki and I will be speaking at Dorkbot Barcelona on the 17th! Will add some pics to this p...
Read MoreOut of town for the next week will get back to this when I return! Meanwhile this interview with Frank Chu, leader of the Zegnatronic Rocket Society i...
Read MoreI love it when people find ways around prize giveaways! Jesse Perry’s iTunes Countdown for Mac and PC sticks a counter in the menu bar showing h...
Read MoreIs it just me, or is the new Beastie Boys album wanna-be political?. I don’t remember these doods rapping about politics before, but with lyrics...
Read MoreLots more social BlueTooth apps cropping up. BlueMonger is like Netstumbler for your mobile phone, telling you who is around you but then uploading th...
Read MoreToday is Katherine’s bday! She shares a b-day with Howard Rheingold, Michelle Kwan, Ringo Starr, and lots more people!...
Read MoreMogi, Item Hunt is a GPS game based in Japan that people play through their cellphones and hunt for treasure (gifts, flowers, etc) on a virtual map of...
Read MoreAnne-Marie Schleiner’s new urban gaming project, O.U.T., pits online gaming with urban graffiti on the streets of NYC during the Republican Nati...
Read MoreThe ERGODEX DX1 is a keyboard or game controller you can completely configure on your own. Imagine taking the keys off your keyboard and placing them ...
Read MoreHappy 4th of July holiday to everyone back home! We miss you guys!...
Read MoreThe Location You @ Now is a group show in Beijing, China “based around a theme of physical and displaced presence through scavenged, recovered a...
Read MoreBeen updating work on our UMBRELLA.net project. On thursday we took the PocketPC application on field trials with 3 devices to check radio range and t...
Read MoreUsman Haque’s Sky Ear is back in action after it was cancelled last May due to inclement weather. The first date is next week! “Dates have...
Read MoreKaki’s posts about all of the racism she has experienced in Dublin (esp. today and throughout the past 2 years) shows how messed up this country...
Read MoreJust finished documentation on my Forward Compatible project, a parastic physical object for a Wi-Fi or fixed router that monitors network traffic and...
Read MoreSo 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...
Read MoreGravity and Resistance is a new project by Japanese artists Seiko Mikami and Sota Ichikawa that combines a real-time, pressure sensor equipped floor a...
Read MoreLA-based artist, Brody Condon’s new work “Untitled War”, open this July and pits two medieval warriors in full armor, fighting (to t...
Read MoreThis 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...
Read MoreChristophe 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 MoreIt’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 MoreI 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 MoreKaki and I are heading to the Outside In conference on “Emerging Expressions, Interventions, and Participation in Public Space” taking pla...
Read MoreYesterday 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 MoreArtBots: 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 MoreIntel 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...
Read MoreThe 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 MoreInteresting 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...
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