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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’ [...]

Sunday Night Mix 10

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Open Studios

On May 15th and 16th, I will be showing a few of my projects at the Eyebeam Open Studios.  If you missed Praying@Home at the Mixer, you can see a simplified version of it.  I will also be revealing a new project.

YOU TUBE AND THE ACCIDENTAL VIDEOART

Here’s a nice article in Digimag about the Triptych Party at Postmasters.
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openFrameworks on iPhone

I spent today trying to get an openFrameworks app running on my iPhone, and now that I’ve gone through the headache, you don’t have to!  Getting the app running is the easy part.  Dealing with the provisioning and certificates and all of that shit ended up taking the most time.
I wrote this out kind of [...]

Crowded Rhizome Proposal

Project Description
Crowded is an montage audio program similar to radio shows like This American Life, The Moth, or the productions of Joe Frank.  What makes it unique is that all of the material is is made up of segments of audio requested from and submitted by workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk site in return for [...]