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

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SimpleTEXT 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...

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Weather 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. ...

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BushWacked – 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...

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Web 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...

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WTC

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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In the Cosmos…

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...

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BlueJack Anyone Lately?

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

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Higher Intelligence?

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...

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Play (Video Games)

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...

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Group blog

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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Fever Scanner?

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

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Hardwired Devices

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...

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Distributed Creativity

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 ...

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ComNET: Citizen Action!

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...

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in the DMZ

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...

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Hairy Planet

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...

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8-Bit punk

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...

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Sleepy Day

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-...

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USB Wi-Fi

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...

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PS2 mods

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...

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McDonalds High Fashion!

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 ...

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Eculture for Everyone!

Report from E-Culture Fair http://www.eculturefair.nl October 23-24, 2003 Paradiso, DeBalie, Melkweg Amsterdam, The Netherlands Although adding the l...

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Report from e-Culture Fair

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...

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Public Signage

Report from UBICOMP 2003 The Westin Hotel Seattle, WA, USA Oct 12-15, 2003 By Jonah Brucker-Cohen     Picture of the “Living Sculpture...

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Report from UBICOMP 2003

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...

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On My Way

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...

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Nintendo Hax!

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

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MIDI Scrapyard Challenge!

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...

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PoliceState in effect

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...

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On my way…

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 ...

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Sponsored Civil Disobedience?

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

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Ars almost done!

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...

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Live at Ars!

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 “...

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Is America Safe?

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...

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Back for Ars Bit

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...

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US Open Scanners!

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 ...

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Ace of Bass!

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 ...

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Your best buddy!

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...

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Back in the USA!

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

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BIX Skin

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...

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Color Flash?

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...

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Wear it Well

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...

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Who you chattin with?

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...

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Coin-Op Computer

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

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Anyone Out There?

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

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Grey Game

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

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DATA Merch

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...

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Energy Machines

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...

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Imagine Interface

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...

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The net on your drive

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...

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BirminghamDiscs

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...

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Node London

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...

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No Nodes Needed

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...

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Beats and more

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...

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Blog starts

Video Documentation from Scrapyard Challenge Workshops 2014 Drawbot Workshop, Children’s Museum of Manhattan STEAM Lab, April 14, 2014, NY, NY,...

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Workshops

Video from Jonah Brucker-Cohen’s talk at IGNITE NYC, @ Yahoo Open Hack, October 9, 2009, NYC, NY. Photo from Scrapyard Challenge Workshops talk ...

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Talks / Presentations

  Report from User_Mode Emotion and Intuition in Art and Design Symposium May 9-11, 2003 Tate Modern & London Science Museum, London, UK http...

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Report From User Mode 2003

My aim as an artist is to create work that challenges people's assumptions of what they perceive or take for granted......

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Artist Statement

Report from B.Playful November 28-29, 2002 Sheffield, UK URL: http://www.convergence-arts.com Held in the National Center for Popular Music (a failed ...

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Report from B.Playful 2002

Report from UBICOMP 2002 Goteborg, Sweden September 31 – October 2, 2002 By Jonah Brucker-Cohen (jonah(at)coin-operated.com) Picture of the R...

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Report from Ubicomp 2002

Report from Numer.02 Published on Rhizome.org – 4/23/02 April 19-21, 2002 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France http://www.numer.org By Jonah B...

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Report from Numer 2002

Report from Transmediale.02 Published on Rhizome.org – 3/3/02 Feb 5-24, 2002 Haus De Kulturen de Welt, Berlin, Germany http://www.transmediale...

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Report from Transmediale 2002

Report From Transmediale.04: Fly Utopia!  http://www.transmediale.de Jan 31 – Feb 4, 2004 Haus Der Culturen Der Welt Berlin, Germany In the ba...

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Report from Transmediale 2004