Monthly Archives: January 2011

LO: October 29, 1969

On October 29, 1969, at 10:30pm grad students and professors at UCLA’s Network Management Center and Stanford’s Augmentation Research Center began the first ever test of the ARPANet, the initial incarnation of today’s Internet. My sculpture, “LO: October 29, 1969”, … Continue reading

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Single Pixel Camera

What is a camera? In the broadest sense, cameras turn the light around them into an image. No matter if the camera is digital or analog, the appearance of that image is determined by the same set of factors: how … Continue reading

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Showing at Ventana244 Gallery

I’m proud to announce that I’m going to be participating in my first gallery show, It Reminds Me, at Ventana244 in Williamsburg. The show opens February 11 at 7:30pm and will up up for the rest of February. I’ll be … Continue reading

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The Incident: Sweded!

Yesterday for the last day of ITP’s 4-in-4, Mike Cohen, David Phillips, Spike McCue, Liza Singer and I sweded The Incident. “Sweded The Incident,” of course, when written out makes about as much sense as “Yahoo Serious Festival”, but let … Continue reading

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What Makes a Programming Language Good

A year and a half ago, I quit being a professional programmer. For the four years or so previous to that, I’d made websites for a living, either for clients or for my own startup. At that time, if you’d … Continue reading

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Rise of the 21st Century City State Final Presentation

Last month, I wrote about my group presentation for my scenario planning class, The Rise of the 21st Century State. Since that post we, of course, finished the presentation and publicly performed it at ITP. In this post, I’ll present … Continue reading

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