Technological parodies and parodies of technology.

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Mixer/Benefit


On the 16th and the 20th of June, Aaron Meyers and I will be presenting our new project and sure-to-be-worldwide-sensation: The World Series of ‘Tubing.  The occasion is the 12th annual Eyebeam Benefit, and the Eyebeam Mixer, which are kind of rolled up into one big, but separate, party.
I know I’m an Eyebeam whore.  Don’t [...]

June: The Month for Talks


I’ll be speaking at the Figment Lecture Series on Governors Island on the 14th from 4:00 – 4:30, and with Kenseth Armstead and Jon Cohrs at the Open Video Conference at Vanderbilt Hall, NYU, on the 19th.  If you come and yell obscenities at me from the audience, I will buy you a beer afterwords.

Open Studios Pics


The wonderful Christine Butler took a bunch of photos of my stuff at Open Studios last month.  This event led to some random blog action. CNET. Gizmodo.

What you can’t see is the crowd of heathens standing and laughing at me as I was knelt down on my kneeler.
Here’s the full set

Double Negatives Show @ Monkeytown


In my other life, I am a teacher at Hunter College.  For the past 2 semesters I have been teaching a class called Tools & Techniques in the IMA program in the Film & Media department.  This semester, as my students’ final project, they have made a series of videos that we will be showing [...]

Church Music


For Praying@Home, we needed some ambience in the prayer booth, so I grabbed a bunch of MIDI organ music, imported it into GarageBand, and brought that clunky old music into the FUTURE AGE.  Now you can have the album, SWITCHED ON JESUS, by the Institute for Faith-Based Technology, for your own prayer-time listening.
All Hail Jesus’ [...]

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In Progress

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The World Series of ‘Tubing


YouTube War is an augmented reality card game that is played in front of a live audience.

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Crowded


Crowded is an as-yet unreleased radio show/podcast that is made up of segments of audio recorded by Mechanical Turk workers.

The Ecosystem Engine


I am working with an animator on some really beautiful pieces.

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Delete City


There’s no such thing as taking something off the web.




Completed Projects

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Praying@Home


A parody of Christianity’s attempt to validate itself with “scientific” studies about the effectiveness of prayer, creationism, intelligent design, and faith healing.

Finger Olympics


Just like the Olympics, only with fingers

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ABSML


Automatic writing. Fun with words.

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Eyebeam Roadshow 2008


We’re going on tour like rockstars.

Inside the Artist’s Studio


James Chimpton is a robotic monkey who goes head-to-head with some of the worlds top living artists.

BoozBot Beta


Out first attempt at a bartending robot.

Dirt Party 2


This time we were invited to Manchester to install Dirt Party.

Anywhere But Here


This is what happens when you tell people to pretend that they are at a better party than they are actually at.

Invisible Threads


This is a sweatshop in Second Life.

Gearbox


Gearbox is a free-media toolkit I built with the Production Lab and the UK group Mediashed.

Venus Jewelry


E-commerce/shopping cart site from scratch.

YouThreeb


YouThreebe is a tool that allows users to make triptychs out of YouTube videos.

Dirt Party 1


We dig up your secrets on the web in the name of fun.

Earthify


Earthify takes Craigslist posts and maps them onto Google Earth.

Real-time Art


My MS thesis from Georgia Tech.