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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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43 Books in 2010

Last year, in the midst of moving across the country, adjusting to New York, and starting school, I didn’t, unlike my normal habit, read much. In fact I read exactly 13 books. This year, however, things were quite different. I … Continue reading

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Design and Laser Cutting Tests for Sculpture about the First Internet Transmission

After a semester of pre-production work on my Augment project — outlining, storyboarding, writing — I decided it was finally time to build something. I wanted to build one of the scenes in order to further investigate the materials I’ve … Continue reading

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The Rise of the 21st Century City-State

As my scenario planning class, Future of the Infrastructure, starts to move towards its conclusion this semester we’ve divided into four groups each working on imagining a different possible divergent future. I’m in a group working on a scenario titled … Continue reading

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Kinect Experiments: compositing and 3d

So, I’ve gone a little Kinect crazy. Ever since the open source community was able to figure out the USB protocol and start working on a set of drivers and libraries for it (libfreenect) I’ve been following the progress closely … Continue reading

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Artist Statement, Bibliography, and Sibling Work

In both the thesis preparation process and in the context of this recent video piece, I’ve been working on articulating my artistic project and the various influences, references and ideas around it. This post will be a brain dump of … Continue reading

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Tabula Rasa finished

A while back, I mentioned my idea for a video piece to accompany Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa. After exploring a number of technical and aesthetic options for achieving the effect I had in mind, I finally finished this video at … Continue reading

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