Category: blog

  • Study: Negative Space

    I’ve been a bit obsessed with [tag]John Maeda[/tag]’s book, Maeda@Media. It’s a very visual journey through his works and artistic process. I find his work very minimalist, which is fitting for a man who wrote a book called “Simplicity.” Not only is it minimalist, but essential, in many ways – stripped to the core. At…

  • Interactive Media Class

    I’ve been spending most of my waking hours teaching, recently, which is why you haven’t seen any upcoming shows on this site, or much more on the blog. Usually, I like to pull a Clark Kent and keep my day-job and secret pixelist identity separate, but just this one single time I’ll allow my worlds…

  • Openlab4 – A Night of Free Everything

    Nov. 25, 2007 Here in the European heart of global finance that is London, there are no shortage of closed, corporate-sponsored, invite-only events promoting proprietary products with secret formulas and patented ideas. A refreshing break from this trend is the perennial [tag]Openlab[/tag] series of events, now in its fourth incarnation. Openlab is a loose collective…

  • livepainter free software

    I’ve been playing with this excellent program originally done by Josh Nimoy for an installation with GRL (Graffiti Research Labs). It’s a chunky, colorful, NYC-graffiti-style painting tool that works cross-platform and is open source. I’d been kicking around this idea in my head for awhile about creating a live performance painting tool, which isn’t exactly…

  • Piksel 2007

    Don’t miss the Piksel live webcast of performances and talks. “Piksel is a festival and community for artists and developers working with Free/Libre and Open Source audiovisual software, hardware and art.” There are a few interesting speakers, from Reactivision to London Openlab’s very own Robert Atwood with his opensource Jackbytes software for analyzing audio in…

  • The Future of Sound at the British Library

    Friday, 9 November 2007 The Future of Sound looks a lot like the near past, apparently. Part of a series of LATE night events at the spectacular entrance hall to the British Library in central London, “The Future of Sound’s” goal of “showcasing cutting edge artists in music and audio design” fell a bit flat…

  • video – Immersion 4 Oct 2007 Set 1 with Duskrider

    I really liked this set. The whole night started off with some great, soundtrack-style, moody electronic soundscapes courtesy of Duskrider and I brought some dark, video destroying software to match. Quicktime Divx (640 x 360) ~148MB

  • THA CLICK at E:vent Gallery 5 October 2007

    This isn’t one of my performances, but it’s well worth checking out! If you’re interested in game console hacks, youtube hacks, and/or totally messed up technicolour videos and prints, this exhibition might be of interest to you… Private view: 5 October, 7-11pm E:vent Gallery, 96 Teesdale Street, Bethnal Green, E2 6PU (tube: Bethnal Green) iew…

  • Wii Worlds 4 Player Visuals

    I’ve been working on some new collaborative visuals software for performance, and finally finished the first version of it. Basically, it’s a modified and stripped down version of my main performance patch, Sine-Rave, without the audio analysis and effects.

  • Last Minute Trip to NYC

    Sorry about canceling that last show at the last minute. There was a big opening at the [tag]Pace Wildenstein[/tag] gallery in New York City for a show I’d been working on for a few years, under the artist [tag]Robert Whitman[/tag].