A labor-saving device for graffiti artists. An assistive tool or telematic proxy for taggers working in harsh environments. Long-needed relief for graffiti artists with RSI. Or simply, pure research into as-yet-untrammeled intersections of automation and architecture. We give you: the ROBOTAGGER, an industrial robot arm programmed with GML, the new “Graffiti Markup Language” created by [...]
From January 28-30 I’ll be co-hosting Contestational Cartographies, a symposium at CMU about critical and technocultural approaches to maps. Guest presenters include experimental geographer, Trevor Paglen; radical cartographer Lize Mogel; tactical media artist Rich Pell; concept architect Pablo Garcia; visualization researcher Chris Harrison; artist Susanne Slavick, ecologist/activist Jessica McPherson, and others. The event is [...]
The TED Conference just posted a 15′33″ online video of my February 2009 presentation today. Happily, the TED organization also permits their videos to be shared and embedded under a Creative Commons licence:
TED kindly provides the same video for download in additional formats as well:Zipped MP4 video file / Podcast MP4 video for iTunes.
The snappy [...]
Dear friends, if you’re in the Pittsburgh area from June 4-6, come enjoy this exhibition I’ve curated as part of the NIME 2009 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. A brochure with more information is available here: nime2009_installations.pdf (3.4Mb).
INTERACTIVE SOUND INSTALLATIONS
An Exhibition at the Ninth Conference on
New Interfaces for Musical Expression
http://www.nime2009.org/directions.php
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
June [...]
I’m delighted to announce the US premiere of Messa di Voce (by Golan Levin, Zachary Lieberman, Jaap Blonk and Joan La Barbara), in a free concert at NYU’s Frederick Loewe Theater on Monday, February 23 at 8pm. If you’re in New York City, please come see it! Complete information can be found here. Tickets are [...]
From March 7-9, I will be directing ART AND CODE, a conference on “Programming Environments for Artists, Young People and the Rest of Us“, held on the campus of Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh. Come join us!
This conference is going to be a remarkable summit of sorts, as it will feature presentations and hands-on workshops by [...]
I am delighted to announce “Code, Form, Space”, a mini-symposium about generative form and digital fabrication, which will be held at Carnegie Mellon University during the week of February 3-7. Nearly all of the events are completely free and open to the public – and include lecture presentations by such distinguished computational artist/designers as C.E.B. [...]
The work isn’t finished until it’s documented, a friend of mine used to say. Thus I’m delighted to announce that a complete performance of “Ursonography” (my live-typography performance with virtuoso sound-poet Jaap Blonk) is now hosted online at Vimeo. This is an authoritative documentation of our February 2007 concert at the STUK center in Leuven, [...]
