Yesterday was the last day at my full-time job at Method, and today I’m starting a two-week workshop at Eyebeam. Interactivos? was initiated two years ago by the Medialab-Prado, which describes the event as “a hybrid between a production workshop, a seminar and a showcase.” Eyebeam has selected nine projects to be realized over the [...]
www.etherealself.com – Requires a web cam. Originally from Rhizome.
I’ve been DVR-ing Frontline recently and had forgotten how consistently good it is. Their two-part series on AIDS (originally aired in 2006 on the 25th anniversary of the first such diagnosed case) is fascinating and conveys all of the intertwined aspects of the disease (medical/biological, historical, political, social, etc.) without losing site of the big [...]
Boredom Research’s prototype for RealSnailMail uses actual living snails (Helix Aspersa, for the snail-savvy) equipped with RFID tags that enable them to be assigned messages from hardware located within their enclosure. Once a message is sent through the RealSnailMail web interface, it is stored on a “server” until one of the snails happens to pass [...]
Steven Johnson’s Outside.in just launched Radar, a tool that aggregates content based on it’s proximity to you. Tell us where you are, and Radar shows you what’s happening around you, at increasing levels of zoom: the 1000-foot scale, the neighborhood scale, the city scale, and “Everywhere Else” in the U.S…. Right now, we’re tracking blog posts, [...]
Although I haven’t really written about it here, I’ve spent the past few months interning one day a week on a project at Eyebeam with Senior Fellow Jeff Crouse. The project, called Delete City, is a WordPress plugin that will help prevent censorship of user-generated content. That’s all I’m going to say about it for [...]